Hailey sipped her beer. “Oh, okay, he got it that night we got ours done.”
A variety of chimes, and beeps, echoed over the beach. Hailey, Cooper and Mason’s phones chirped. Hailey read hers, squeezed her eyes shut then turned to look at Mason.
I stood up, and so did everyone else. “What the hell is going on?”
Mason spoke up first. “Nothing, we’ll go handle it. Stay here with Hailey.” Cooper and Mason walked off towards the house, leaving me standing there with Hailey.
“Hails, what’s happened?” If someone didn’t tell me what was going on, I might really lose it.
“Just let Mase and Coop handle it. They’ll come back in a few minutes and everything will be okay,” she said.
She would not look me in the eyes. Something had to be wrong. We had only been here for all of twenty minutes. What could have happened that fast?
Then I remembered that Dominic was here. Oh God, he must have seen me on Hunter’s bike. I didn’t wait for Hailey to explain before taking off after Mason and Cooper.
I made it inside and searched for them, but I couldn’t see past all the party guests. I finally caught sight of the back of Cooper’s shirt heading up the stairs.
I pushed my way through the crowd and made it halfway up the steps before I heard the yelling. Shit, this was not good.
Mason saw me first. He held up a finger telling me to hold on. I stopped and waited for a second. A girl was crying. I edged closer.
“FUCK!”
Dominic’s voice?
I froze in place. Mason snapped at me.
“Stay there!”
“What did you think would happen, Dominic?” The girl spoke again.
“Not this. We were fucking careful. This isn’t happening.” Dominic shouted. There was a loud bang as if he punched something.
“Watch it, Dom.” Hunter warned.
“Yeah, I’m about to watch my girl walk out of my life for fucking good this time.”
Oh God, what did he do?
“You should have thought about that before you knocked me up, jackass,” the girl said.
Wait.
What?
She’s knocked up? I’m about to walk out of Dominic’s life?
Then it all hit me like a ton of bricks. I blinked away a wave of dizziness and reached out for Cooper. He grabbed me before I tripped backwards down the stairs.
Dominic, Brittany, Hunter, Mason, and Cooper stood in the hallway. I met each of their stares.
“Baby, oh God, baby,” Dominic said, walking towards me.
I put my hand up. “Stop, don’t you dare come near me.” I snorted. Brittany sat on the floor, mascara and tears spotting her face. “Your roommate’s girlfriend, huh?”
Brittany laughed bitterly. “So that’s what he told you.”
“Shut up!” Dominic screamed at her.
“Baby, I can explain…”
“There’s nothing to explain.”
I couldn’t handle everyone staring at me. I had to get out of there.
“Mase, give me your keys,” I said.
He reached in his front pocket and handed them to me.
“NO! Baby, wait….”
“Let her go, Dom.” Cooper said.
I ran down the steps, pushed my way back through the crowd to the front door and right to Mason’s car at the end of the driveway. Hailey chased after me but I didn’t stop.
CHAPTER TWELVE
I didn’t go home right away. I couldn’t; they would be looking for me there. Normally I would have run to Hunter to vent, but not this time. I drove down Atlantic Avenue to the parking lot for the beach. I locked up the car, walked down to the ocean, and sat down in the sand, trying to process everything that had just happened.
Dominic cheated on me. He got Brittany pregnant. Brittany, his roommate’s girlfriend, or at least that was what he had told me. He said he loved me and would never hurt me. Ha! I was stupid for believing him. I knew better. All the signs were there, but I chose to ignore them.
I was hurting, but I think what surprised me the most was the fact that he was stupid enough to get her pregnant. He came here on a full scholarship to play football. He barely had time for me. How would he have time to help raise a baby? Idiot!
He was not my problem anymore. He had made his bed and now he could lay in it.
Just when I thought things were going great with us, this had to happen. I had not seen Brittany since the day I had run out of the dorms, she had been outside crying. I bet she was on her way up to see Dominic. I thought back