Hardin's POV.

"I never kiss and tell." Jamie smiles.

"Thank.." I stop speaking when I see a flicker of gold a few feet away.

Her eyes are wide and her bottom lip is trembling. Fuck, she must have heard me. Tessa takes off down the stairs.

"Tessa! Wait!" I yell after her.

For someone as drunk as she is, she is really flying down those steps.

Why must she always run from me?

"Tess!" I shout again, pushing people out of my way.

Finally when I am only a few feet away from her, she does something that nearly brings me to my knees. The blonde asshole from earlier who was checking her out whistles as she rushes by, making her stops in her tracks. She grins and grabs a handful of his shirt.

What the fuck is she doing? Is she going to...

She answers my thoughts by looking back at me before pressing her lips against his.

I blink rapidly in an attempt to make this disappear I blink rapidly. This isn't happening. She wouldn't do that, not Tessa, no matter how pissed off she is.

He is obviously surprised by her sudden affection but he quickly recovers and wraps his arms around her waist. Her mouth opens and she moves one hand to his hair, tugging on it. I can't comprehend what is actually happening right now.

"Hardin! Stop!!!" She screams.

Stop what?

When I blink again, I am on top of the blonde and his lip is busted. I hit him already?

"Please Hardin!" She screams again.

I climb off of him in a hurry before everyone crowds around us.

"What the fuck?" The blonde groans.

I want to kick him in his fucking head but I have been trying to restrain myself. She had to go and fucking do this, making me mess up everything I have been working toward. I head for the door without bothering  to see if she is following me.

"Why did you hit him?" Her voice calls from behind me as I reach my car.

"Why do you think Tessa? Maybe because I just watched you fucking make out with him!" I scream at her.

I almost forgot what it feels like, this adrenaline rush and the familiar sting on my knuckles. I only got one hit in.. I think at least... so it's not so bad, I want more.

"Why do you care? You kissed that girl! Probably more than kissed! How could you?" She begins to cry.

"No! You don't get to fucking cry Tessa. You just kissed someone right in front of me!" My hand connects with the hood of my car.

"You did worse! I heard you tell that girl to stay quiet about you two in Logan' room!"

"You don't even know what you are talking about! I didn't fucking kiss anyone!"

"Yes you did! She said she doesn't kiss and tell!" She screams. waving her arms around like an idiot.

Fuck she is infuriating.

"It's a fucking figure of speech, she meant she wasn't going to tell anyone anything that we talked about or that we were smoking pot!" I shout.

"You were smoking pot?" She gapes.

"No, I wasn't actually but who gives a shit! You just fucking cheated on me!" I tug at my own hair.

"Why did you leave me to hang out with her then tell her not to say anything, it doesn't make any sense!"

"She is Dan's sister! I was telling her not to say anything because I was trying to apologize for what I did to her. I was going to tell you tomorrow when you weren't fucking belligerent! We were all in the room, me, her, Logan, and Nate. They were smoking a joint and when they left I asked her to stay behind because I wanted to try to make shit right with her, for you. I wouldn't fucking cheat on you, you should know that!"

She is speechless. Damn right she is. She is fucking wrong and I am fucking mad.

"Well.." She begins.

"Well what? You are wrong, not me. You didn't give me a chance to explain myself, instead you acted like a child. An impulsive little child!" I scream, punching the hood again. She jumps from the noise but I don't give a shit.

I should just go back inside, find the blonde and finish what I started. Punching my car doesn't give me the same satisfaction.

"I am not a child! I thought you did something with her!" She shouts back at me.

"Well I didn't! After everything I went through to get you to stay with me you think I would cheat on you with a random chick at a party, or hell with anyone?"

"I didn't know what to think." She throws her hands in the air again.

"Well that is on you then. I don't know what the hell else to do to make you see that I love you." I run my fingers through my hair.

She kissed someone, she kissed another guy right in front of me. This feels worse than when she left me, at least I could blame myself then.

"What was I suuposed to think? The way she said it sounded like you guys were doing something else." She says, her warm breath creating a puff of smoke in the cold air.

"You should have just asked me instead of running off like you always do!"

"Well maybe if I wasn't so used to you keeping secrets it wouldn't have been a problem!" She yells.

"You are unbelievable. I honestly can not even look at you right now." I say and mean it.

The image of her kissing him won't stop playing over and over.

"I am sorry for kissing him, it isn't that big of a deal." She sighs.

"You are joking right? Please tell me that you are because if that would have been me who did that you probably wouldn't have spoken to me again! But I forgot since it's princess Tessa it's okay! No harm done!" I mock.

"Princess Tessa? Really Hardin?"

"Yea really! You cheated on me, right in front of me! I brought you here so you would know how much I care about you, I wanted you to know that I don't care what anyone thinks about us. I wanted you to have the best night you could have and then you go and do this shit!"

"Hardin.. I.."

"No! I am not done. You are acting as if this is no big deal! This is a huge deal to me. To see another man's lips on yours.. is ..I can't even explain how sick that makes me."

"I said.."

"Stop interrupting me for once in your god damn life!" I shout.

"You know what.. it's fine. You can go back in there and ask your new boyfriend to give you a ride home." I snap and unlock the car door.

"My new boyfriend? You are being ridiculous."

"Yea.. he is just your type too, looks an awful lot like Noah. Maybe that is why you did it in the first place. You miss him don't you?"

"What? What does Noah have to do with this? And I clearly do not have a type, though maybe I should." She growls, gesturing to me.

"Fuck you." I spit and climb into the car, turning it on and leaving her standing out in the cold.

When I get to the stop sign I can't help but hit the steering wheel over and over. If she doesn't call me within an hour I know she went home with someone else.

Tessa's POV.

Ten minutes later I am still standing on the sidewalk. My legs and arms are numb and I am shivering. He will come back any minute, there is no way he will actually leave me here, alone. Drunk and alone.

When I go to call him I remember that he has my phone. Great.

What the hell was I thinking? I wasn't thinking, that's the problem. We were doing so good and I didn't even try to give him the benefit of the doubt. Instead I kissed someone. The memory makes me want to vomit on the sidewalk.

Why hasn't he came back yet?

I need to go inside, it is way too cold out here and I want another drink, my buzz is starting to wear off and I am not ready to face reality. When I get inside I head directly for the kitchen and pour myself a drink. This is why I shouldn't drink, I have no common sense when I am drunk. It was so fun until that bitch with the shiny hair had to ruin it.

No Tessa, you ruined it. I am reminded by my subconscious.  I am too drunk for her opinion.

I lay my head down on the counter and try to sort through my thoughts. He kept saying that I cheated on him, technically I guess I did but I didn't mean to. I was so mad, so drunk and mad, that I just wanted him to feel what I felt. I immediately assumed the worst of him and made a huge mistake.

"Tessa?" Zed's voice says from behind me.

"Hey." I groan and lift my head up from the cool counter and turn to face him.

""Uhm.. what are you doing?" He half laughs.

"I.. I don't really know actually." I try to smile.

"Oh.. well are you okay?" He asks.

"Yeah.. I am okay." I lie.

"Where is Hardin?"

"He left."

"He left? He left the party?"

"Yeah." I take a drink from my cup.

"Without you?"

"Yep."

"Why?"

"Because I am an idiot." I hoesntly answer."

"I doubt that." He smiles.

"No really, I am this time."

"Do you want to talk about it?"

"No, not really." I sigh.

"Okay.. well I will leave you alone." He says and begins to walk away.

"No, I don't want you to leave me alone I just don't want to talk about it." I try to smile.

Any minute Hardin will come back and pick me up.

"Okay deal. It's not supposed to be so complicated you know?"

"What?" I ask him and follow him to sit at a card table in the kitchen.

"Love, relationships, all that. It doesn't have to be so hard."

"Doesn't it though? Isn't it always like this?" I have no reference except Noah but we never fought like this. We bickered but nothing close to the way Hardin and I fight.

I dump my drink down the sink and grab a glass to fill with water.

"No, well I don't think at least. I have never seen anyone fight the way you two do."

"It's because we are so different, that's all."

"Yeah, I guess you are right. You are really good for him." He smiles.

"He is good for me too, usually." I laugh.

By the time I check the clock again it's been an hour since Hardin left me here. Maybe he isn't coming back after all.

"Would you forgive someone if they kissed someone else?" I finally ask Zed.

"No, I don't think I would but I guess it depends on the details."

"What if they did it right in front of you?"

"Hell no. That is unforgivable." He says with a disgusted expression.

"Oh."

"He did that?"

"No, I did."

"You did?" Zed is clearly surprised.

"Yeah.. I told you I am an idiot."

"Yeah, I hate to say it but you are."

"Yep." I agree.

"Hardin isn't going to take this well." He tells me.

"Do you think he will forgive me?"

"I don't know, he gets pissed when a guy even talks to you. I cant imagine how pissed this would make him."

"Pissed enough to leave me here."

"How are you getting home?" He asks.

"I keep thinking he is going to come back to get me but he's obviously not going to." I bite my lip.

"I can take you home if you want."

"I don't want you to be in the middle of this mess."

"How else will you get home?"

I look around for a familiar face but do not see any.

"Steph and Tristan are probably upstairs.. you know."

"Can you take me now?" I ask.

I don't want to dig myself any deeper but I have no other way to get home. I am beginning to sober up thank goodness and I just want to be home to try to talk to Hardin.

"Yeah, let's go." Zed says and I down the last of my water before following him outside to his car.

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