Jasper seemed dumbfounded for a moment, taken aback by this conclusion. He was unsure what had drawn Kane to it, and eventually he shook his head and snorted. "You don't know what you're talking about."

"You liked him. At least at one point you did."

Jasper seemed to grow angry. "You know nothing."

"And he did things to you that you'd be embarrassed about if anyone found out."

"I'm warning you Kane, you better stop talking right now."

Kane raised his eyebrows. "That incident that happened that nobody talks about and was swept under the rug, that's why you guys had to end your relationship, wasn't it..."

Jasper slammed his fist beside Kane's face against the wall behind him. Instantly, his knuckles dented the wall and almost caused a whole, and he let his arm fall to his side before wiping the tears on his cheeks and exhaling a long sigh. Both their breaths were heavy but it was in a dissonance, as if each had their own torments and one could coud not comfort the other.

Jasper sent his fingers through his curls for a second, his nails gliding along his own scalp before he quietly said, "We're done."

"We're not done, you still like me."

"With what you're doing now, I'm getting close to hating you," Jasper snapped, feeling his heart begin to beat even louder. "Leave it alone."

Kane widened his arms in exasperation. "Why can't you just admit the truth!"

"Fine!" Jasper shoved him backwards, feeling his throat begin to dry as he shouted, "I was in love with him too once. And he loved me back."

There was a silence that filled the room, one that was heavy, the air too thick for either of them to breathe and Kane thought he would collapse. There was always bad blood insinuated between Jay and Jasper, but Kane had never imagined this was what it had stemmed from; they once were in love. Jay never mentioned this to him before, and the longer he thought of it, the more angry started pointing itself towards Jay.

Jasper sighed, noticing the way Kane stepped backwards, glancing elsewhere and shaking his hands as if in hopes to calm himself. Until he eventually shook his head, "That's not true, that's bullshit."

"Kane—"

"And why would you lie to me like this?"

"I have no reason to lie to you about this."

Kane's eyes narrowed even further and he crossed his arms. There was no way these two had been in love. Jasper was a loner, nobody even blinking an eye towards him or even noticing when he was absent. Jasper was a football jock, a hero of the school known for his athletic skills, always having girls by his side—how could it had happened? The worse was not that it had happened, it was that both of them lied to him since he had arrived.

"You lied to me...you both lied to me."

"Neither of us lied to you," Jasper said, wiping his last few tears and glancing towards the wooden floors. "It was just...a memory from the past that neither of us wanted to relive."

Kane stayed silent, attempting to slow his heart down and calm his breathing. This sudden revelation had unsettled him and he no longer knew what to believe. But he had never imagined this would have been apart of what they were hiding.

But there was one burning question that engraved in his mind and he couldn't stop himself from asking, "Do you still love him?"

Jasper eyed elsewhere, exhaling a long breath. All the memories of that time began flooding his mind and a small smile tugged the corner of his lip. The last time he was ever intimate with Jay was at their football party at the end of his junior year, last year. Jay had never been great around crowds but many were drawn to him the moment he showed his pool skills.

He would destroy all of them, beat them without any mercy, but when it was Jasper, he would be way too nervous that his hands would shake and his angles would be off. His shots would miss the holes, even his vision distorted the colours he was seeing when Jasper leaned forward and purposely placed a peck on the thin skin of his neck.

That night, when everyone had left, Jasper had reached his arms around Jay's waist and lifted him up to the pool table, grabbing the hem of his shirt and pulling it over his head. Jay had been wanting this the whole night, wishing the party was over and that they could spend their time together, alone.

However, that night, Jasper hadn't left the front door locked. Even worse, he had been dating Ally for a little while, and when she returned because she was too exhausted to drive home and decided to spend the night instead, neither of them had heard the footsteps as she came downstairs. She could hear both their moans from the arcade room, and the glassed doors revealed enough for her to scream.

It was all his fault; it was because he left the front door unlocked that everything came crashing down and what happened next happened.

Jasper shook his head. "No, I'm not in love with Jay anymore."