"The one and only," she responds with a nervous smile. I continue to stare at her; how can this be? How is she here right now? Oh my God, did she sleep with Ryder? Wait. I look down at her bulging stomach. She's only two months pregnant, and her belly already looks like a basketball. The thought of the baby actually being his instead of Travis's comes to mind. "What are you doing here?" she asks.

I narrow my eyes. "What am I doing here?" I say loudly. "What the hell are you doing here?" Who cares why I am here? Why is she here, at Ryder's house? On his bed, wrapped in a wet towel, she doesn't answer me; she just tugs at the towel pressing it closer to her wet skin. Her black wavy hair continues to drip; each drop of water falls from her ends onto the wooden floor. She dyed her hair, that's why I didn't recognize her at first. Black hair on a ginger, she looks so different. I will say though; it looks sorta good on her. The black hair contrasts nicely with her freckles; the black hair brings out her light green eyes even more.

"Jayda." The confusion leaves my body and then enters the raging monster. I press my lips together hard and then turn around. I keep my arms glued to my side and bawl my fist tightly. Ryder is standing five feet away from me. I look at his hands, which hold a pair of folded clothes, jeans, and a sky blue shirt. My eyes meet his; he looks shocked to see me as he should. I also see the guilt on his face; he knows why I am here.

He takes a step forward, "Jayda I-" My hand flies up and smacks him right across his face, his head swings to the side, I hear Katie gasp from behind me.

My hand stings, I hit him pretty hard, harder than I meant to. He quickly looks back at me; his once soft eyes are filled with wrath. "What the fuck was that for?" he shouts.

"You know what that was for." I spit, I hate when he does this when he acts like he has done nothing wrong.

He throws the clothes on his bed. "I have no fucking idea." he throws his hand in the air.

"Stop lying!" I yell. "You know what you did!"

He pushes his hair back with his hand. He got a hair cut, his sides are low, and the top is full; before he pushed it back, little black pieces fell forward. "I don't know what I did; you're going to have to be more specific," he says.

Of course, I do; he's always doing something; I'm not the only person whose life he ruined; maybe he should keep a tracker on the things he does and who he does it too. "You told everyone," I say, my voice is shaky. "You told them about the cutting and the facility and-"

"I didn't tell anyone," he says, scrunching his eyebrows.

I bring my hand to my shaking head. "No, no, no," I shout. "Stop lying. You're still lying." Warm tears fall from my eyes, tears mixed with anger, sadness, and frustration. Why can't he be honest? Why can't he just come clean? He's lying, I know he is, there is no other way Matt and Ashley could've found out; he is the only one who knows.

His warm hand removes mine from my head. My wet eyes look up into his forest green eyes. "I didn't tell anyone." He says sincerely. "I wouldn't do that," he adds softly.

My eyes continue to stare into his; I pull from him. "Then how did they find out!" I growl.

"Who?"

"Matt and Ashely, your girlfriend and bestfriend. How could they know?"

He shakes his head. "I have no fucking idea."

I take a deep breath. I don't know if I should believe him or not; I can't tell if he is lying or telling the truth. I'll have to figure that out later; right now, I need to focus on Katie and why... how she is here. I turn around and look at Katie; before I open my mouth to speak, I hear the door slam shut. I turn back around and see that Ryder is gone; he left.

I wonder where he is going. Then again, I don't care. I turn back around and look at Katie. "So, are you going to tell what the hell you're doing here?"

Ryder POV

The line, rings, and rings and fucking rings. I remove it from my ear and toss it into the empty passenger seat. Where the hell are they? My foot presses the gas pedal forcefully, my car speeds down the street. I hold the steering wheel tightly, keeping control over the speeding car.

God, I swear when I find Ashley...I'm going to...I'm going, shit, I can't do anything. She's a fucking girl. Well, I guess Matt will have to take an even worse beating because I can't touch her. I'll take my anger out of him since I can't get to her.

I turn the corner onto Matt's street, the car screeches. They have to be at his house, Ashley tweeted a few minutes amount some fucking party there. I don't know if she is there yet, though. Nevermind, I spot Ashley's car in front of Matt's house. I pull right behind it and hop out the car slamming the metal door behind me. Zach is standing on the uneven porch with a red cup in his hand. He stops looking at his phone and notices me. "He's here!" he yells, the front door is open. He's yelling to whoever is inside.

I walk up the steps and straight pass him; Ashley is sitting on the couch with a red cup also in her hand. She's looking at her phone, she saw my call. The house is empty. I guess no one has arrived yet, which is a good thing; I wouldn't want to do this in front of everyone. Then again, I wouldn't give a shit if people were around or not.

"Ashley!" I shout. She doesn't even acknowledge me; she clearly heard me; she heard Zach yell that I was here. Her ignoring me is making my blood boil. I walk over to the couch and smack the beer-filled cup out of her hand.

"What the fuck?" She yells. I got her attention now.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" I ask, getting straight to the point.

"I don't know what you talking about." shes says the same thing I said when Jayda accused me of telling her secret. The only thing different is that I really had no idea whats he was talking about. But Ashley knows exactly what I'm talking about. She has the slyest smirk on her face.

"This is not a fucking game!"

I hear the stairs creak; someone is coming down. Hands grab my shoulders. "Bro, you made it." I take Matt by his shirt and push him back into the wall hard. "Get the hell off of me!" He tries to press me forward, but I just push him back into the wall.

"Was it your fucking idea?" I narrow my eyes. His jaw clenches; he also has that sneaky smile plastered on his face. I hate when people take me as a fucking joke, I'm not about to sit here and keep asking them questions, which I already know the answer too. I let go of his shirt, step back, and punch him. His head goes to the side, he grabs his knees and hunches over, taking in the impact of my fist against his face.

"Ryder!" Ashely yells.

Matt stands back up tall, chest out; he's used to this, I know. His father has beaten him ever since he was little; if he cried or even acted like it hurt, he would get beat even more. The stance he is right now, I'm sure, is the stance he gives his father after taking hits to his jaw and ribs.

I look at Ashley. "We had a fucking agreement, I cut off all ties with Jayda, and you would leave her the hell alone." That's the deal we made after I fucked her in my car outside of school. We always have sex when we are mad; I don't know why sometimes I think I do it just to shut her the hell up. Though she still isn't quiet, she yells and screams every time I penetrate her.

Anyways, after, I told her I would stay away from Jayda and continue to play this fucking high school kingdom game with her. Only if she left Jayda alone. That's why I told Jayda to stay away from me; I knew she would be confused and upset. I was hoping she would be so upset that she wouldn't ever want to talk to me again. Would she have really stayed away from me?

"Yeah, well, I wanted to go out with a bang, I saw an opportunity I couldn't pass up." Ashley tilts her head to the side and smiles. "I mean, I did you a favor." she pauses. "Now that you know shes psycho, you have to stay away from her," she says. "You hanging with her now is like being around the weird-ass social anxiety freaks that drop their heads when we walk past and act like they can't fucking talk." She laughs, and so do other people. I look over to the doorway. I didn't even notice them standing there Zach, Eric, and Trevor.

"I don't give a shit about any of that." I move closer to her. "We had a fucking arrangement, do you want me to tell everyone what I know about you...your little secret." Her face flushes at my words. The fear in her eyes is vivid as she plays through her head me telling everyone her big secret. Her life will then come crashing down if everyone knew the truth about their perfect little blonde cheerleader.

She presses her lips together in anger, and the straightens up. "You wouldn't. Remember, I know yours too." She shoots back, hitting me where it hurts. The biggest regret of my life she knows, fuck. She smiles at me as she realizes that I am thinking about what everyone would think if they found out. Though I don't give a shit about how they feel, fuck the only person whose opinion I fucking care about is Jayda. I hate that she has this freaking hold over me, a hold which I am not used to people having over me. "How did you find out?" I ask, moving on. I'm genuinely curious about how they found out I am the only person that knew, well, Jayda's parents and me. Does Caleb know? Did she tell him?

"How do you think?' Matt walks from behind me and stands beside Ashley. Of course, it makes sense. It's in her records. He probably just searched it up on his dad's computer.

"You knew, didn't you?" Ashley asks. I look at her but don't respond. "You knew the truth about the bitch, and yet you said nothing."

"Don't fucking call her that!"

Matt snorts. "Told you, he's pussy whipped. I guess he did fuck her."

I ball my fist tightly and step closer; before I have a chance to do something, Ashley moves in the middle. "Just get the fuck out," she says.

"Excuse me?" Who the fuck is she talking too?

"You're confusing the shit out of people; everyone is forgetting their fucking place at school; You are ruining everything, and I won't have you ruin what I built," she growls.

Does she hear how she sounds right now? "You really are a stupid bitch, you know that?" She narrows her eyes at me. "You really think I give a fuck about this shit." she doesn't say anything because she knows the answer; she knows I could care less about all of this. This shit was always her game; I was just a pawn in it. "This shit isn't forever." I remind her. Sometimes I think she thinks we'll be in high school for the rest of our lives. But we aren't, of course, this school shit ends eventually. "I mean, what was your fucking purpose. You spent four years building this shit, making people conform to your rules, just in the end, to have walk away from the kingdom you built."

"You built it too." she reminds me. "I don't know why the fuck you're standing her acting all righteousness and shit, you're not a good fucking person. You're not the good guy." she pauses. "You're the ruthless one, think about all the shit we have done to people, we meaning mainly you."

"She's right," Zach chimes in. "Half of the shit we did was your idea, Ryder," he stops talking and then says, "We all know high school ends, so why don't we enjoy the time we have left? All this shit is getting way too serious; we do the shit we do for fun. How about we just leave Jayda alone now, Ash," he suggests.

She doesn't even look at him; her eyes are still on me. "No.," she says.

I knew she would say that I shake my head and turn around. "If you walk away, you can't come back, ever, that's it."

I let out a small laugh; they really think this shit will stay together without me. She said it, I am the ruthless one, I'm the one people fear the most, without me there nothing. I turn back around to all of them. "Once I'm gone, there will be nothing to come back too. A kingdom can't stand without its king."

...

I pull open the pool house door; Jayda is still here; she is sitting in one of the chairs; Katie ceases her talking. By now, Im sure she filled her in on everything as to why she is here. Jayda looks up at me; she doesn't look as angry as before; she seems calmer. I don't think she is mad at me anymore. At least not as mad as before. I wasn't expecting her to smack me earlier; I really got hit for something I didn't even do. Though I probably deserved it for some of the shit I did to her.

"Where did you go?" Katie asks me.

"Uhh, I had to take care of somethings," I tell her without getting into detail.

Jayda's phone rings. She pulls it out of her pocket and stands up from the chair. "Excuse me." She walks past me and out the door.

My eyes scan her thick body as she walks past me. I need to sit down. I walk more into the room and over to the other chair.

"So, where the hell where you really?" The annoying ass girl asks.

I ignore her question again and ask her, "What did you tell her?" I was gone for about an hour or two, who knows what the hell they talked about.

"I just told her about Travis, and me running away and me being pregnant--"

"And?" I cut her off.

She pushes her hair behind her ear. "Don't worry, I didn't tell her," she says low, answering what I really wanted to know.

"She can never find out!" I say sternly.

She nods her head. "I know, I know," she says fast. "She's doing good... like really good," she says passionately. My body warms at hearing how Jayda is doing. I'm happy for her. It's a weird feeling, but it doesn't feel bad. "Thank God for Caleb," Katie adds, What the fuck? That pleasant feeling I had seconds ago is now gone. My face frowns. "Calm down, calm down." She sees that I am about to blow and press her for answers. "Let's get back to what's important at hand. Don't say shit to her about the--."

I cut her off, "I know, I know. I would never tell her."

"Good, as I said before, she's doing better, if she ever finds out, It will be the thing to kill her,"

(Wow, I hope you guys feel bad for hating on Ryder for the last few chapters... I couldn't have him tell her secret that would be unforgivable!!! He really showed character development, he's starting to think of others before himself, I love it... did yall peep the Game of Thrones Reference? lol Also, why is there so many secrets??? UGH! Oh and guys this is like a bonus chapter for you guys so you still have two more chapters, I just felt like this chapter was so important to have, so meditate on this until next Friday... final two chapters of this book will be next week! Yall may be mad at me for two reasons next week one will be a sad type mad and the other one will be a shock/happy mad, you'll see next week. OH AND GUYS I WATCHED THE 100 CAUSE IT CAME ON NETFLIX LIKE TWO DAYS AGO, THE ENDING WAS TERRIBLE JASON DID US DIRTY, IT MADE NO SENSE WHAT SO EVER THE BEST PART WAS THE "FAKE" LEXA AND THAT'S IT, BUT BESIDES THAT IT WAS TERRIBLE LIKE IN A WAY YOU CAN SAY EVERYONE DIED IM NOT EVEN ABOUT TO GO INTO DETAIL ABOUT THE BELLAMY SITUATION LETS JUST SAY I BELIEVED HIM FROM THE START, okay that's it just wanted to share that lol)