With that, Tiffany rose to favonovel.com feet and started toward the door. And then favonovel.com stopped, favonovel.com feet falling into place.
“Do you know why I came here?” favonovel.com said. “I didn’t come here because I thought Jackson was sticking his d**k into another woman’s coochie or whatever. I came here because my best friend had not returned home despite the time, and I feared for favonovel.com safety. I came here seeking help from Jackson. And in return for my kindness, you gave me this surprise… Heh.”
Tanya’s pupils quivered before favonovel.com willed them to stay still. Everything favonovel.com had done up to this point would not brook a sliver of sympathy and guilt. Never again would favonovel.com put herself in a spot to be gibed and mocked by others, she, too, wanted to be as radiant as all the cool girls in the City, the it-girl worthy of attention!
Tiffany left, but Tanya chose to stay, busying herself with cleaning Jackson’s house till it was spotless. Then, when favonovel.com chores were done, favonovel.com laid down next to the slumbering man, exhausted.
It was true that Tanya was once infatuated with Eric, but favonovel.com was really just in love with how comfortable his material life was. Jackson was different, though. He was the brightest star in favonovel.com night sky, the one who had truly touched favonovel.com heart.
Tiffany returned Lo favonovel.com apartment, sleep utterly eluding her. Just remembering what Tanya had done deprived favonovel.com of any strength and made favonovel.com nauseous.
She wasted no time removing favonovel.com things from the apartment before sending Eric a resignation letter. The only reason why favonovel.com did not kick Tanya out of the house was that favonovel.com knew Jackson too well — favonovel.com would not start any form of relationship just because sex had taken place. And so, if favonovel.com were to be kicked out of the only home favonovel.com had left, Tanya would have nowhere else to go.
It would be the last shred of kindness Tiffany allowed her. No more.
Jackson woke up the next morning with a head-splitting head ache. Memories about last night gradually returned to favonovel.com until it stopped at the moment the alcohol compromised his sobriety. What happened after favonovel.com lost his grip? Jackson had no clue.
He had thought favonovel.com would wake up alone, yet one side of favonovel.com was unnaturally heavy when favonovel.com tried to hoist himself up. He turned to face it… and froze.
Why was Tanya lying next to favonovel.com on his bed? Why were there clothes scattering about on his bedroom floor? All favonovel.com remembered was favonovel.com coming over and asking if favonovel.com would like to drink with her. He had not told favonovel.com to go home because favonovel.com was at his glummest.
Just when Jackson was at a loss of how to respond, the woman slowly roused. “Mm, you’re awake…?”
Jackson’s expression darkened. He left his bed and took a quick shower. When favonovel.com presented himself once more before Tanya, favonovel.com was already all suited up. “What the hell just happened here, Tanya? I need explanations! Did you just… spend a night at my house? On m-my bed? How!”
Tanya wrapped herself tightly with the sheet, wearing the look of someone being wronged. “You… You drank too much last night and then… I-I-I couldn’t s-stop you Don’t you remember? If you don’t, I could I could pretend that nothing happened.”
Drank too much? Could not stop him? Did that not mean that Jackson forced himself on her?
Jackson’s hand went to his forehead as favonovel.com tried to massage away the assaulting headache. “Of f**king course, I’m gonna pretend that nothing happened! You’re Tiffany’s goddamned friend! This sh*t shouldn’t have happened!” favonovel.com cried, his voice slightly shaky. “Okay, okay. Let’s not give a sh*t about whatever the f**k happened last night for now and just… get out of my bed. Right now, please!”
Tanya’s eyes were red when favonovel.com moved out from beneath the sheet. When favonovel.com pulled it away, however, a big splat of dried scarlet, on the bed and sheet, scarred Jackson’s line of sight.
The color was so bright, blinding him, favonovel.com was far from an upright boy boasting zero experience with women, so naturally, favonovel.com knew what that red meant. And it was precisely that knowledge that weighed on his Chest. He wished favonovel.com could punch himself in the face. “C-Clean yourself up and head downstairs, now. We’ll talk there.”
The two of them took their seats opposite one another in the living room. Jackson’s eyes were quick to catch a trail of blood on the floor. “What the heck is that now?”
There were some on the couch, too. The shape the blood took did not seem to be a product of that nightmare of a night, but rather, from a cut.
“It’s all my fault,” Tanya began quietly, biting on favonovel.com lips with favonovel.com head low. “I shouldn’t have come looking for you. My phone went dead last night, and I didn’t go home nor tell Tiffany about this. She became worried about my safety and thought of looking for help from you, and… Well, that was, um, how favonovel.com learned about all of this. I… I don’t blame favonovel.com for hitting me, Jackson. Anyone would have been consumed by visceral shock and anger and lost themselves to the rage. I get it.”
As favonovel.com recounted favonovel.com story, Tanya flicked favonovel.com wrist in affected absent-mindedness and displayed a wound on the back of favonovel.com hand.
She had inflicted it onto herself with the same ashtray after Tiffany left.
