She hit her head against the wall, hoping that some sense would come of all this. Both of them were looking at her, and Hannah said, “She’s banging her head on the wall.” She watched Hannah, as she answered, “Dakota said to tell you to stop. He doesn’t want to have you bandaged up before the wedding.”
She fell over and lay on the bed, her life was spiraling completely and totally out of control, and she didn’t know what to expect next. She closed her eyes and groaned. “I’m going to Hades for this.”
Hannah made a face at her, then Cally looked at Savannah and said, “I don’t deserve him. And you betrayed me.”
Savannah didn’t seem to care as she snapped back, “You shouldn’t have been talking to Seth in the first place.”
“You just don’t like him,” she shot back.
Her sister looked at her like she couldn’t believe they were even talking about this. “You’re marrying Dakota in three days, and you think I should like him?”
All right, her sister had a point; why would they be arguing over a guy that she wanted nothing to do with? Especially when the guy she wanted was on the phone with his sister who was sitting next to her on the bed. She looked up to Hannah and asked, “What is he telling you?” Hannah shook her head, trying to brush Cally off, and she said it again slower and more deadly. “What is he telling you?”
Hannah started chewing her bottom lip for a few minutes before saying, “He wanted to know if you were sorry for what you did.”
“So he wanted to know if I was crying. Yes, I feel horrible. You don’t need your sister to tell you that,” she whined loud enough for him to hear her.
Hannah laughed. “He also wanted to know if I thought you still wanted your ex.”
Cally looked at Hannah questioningly. “I told him no. I told you no. How many times do I have to say it?”
She wasn’t even going to try to figure out what else he was asking his sister, because that family always seemed too deep in each other’s thoughts and lives. She was an open book, and if he wanted to ask her, he would. She just lay there and listened to his sister’s half of the conversation. “Okay, I’ll find out.” A pause, and then, “Why don’t you ask her?” Another pause, and then, “I’m not doing this. Here, he wants to talk to you.”
She took the phone. “Yes?”
He laughed. “That little rat. My mom wanted to know what song we were going to play at the ceremony.”
She closed her eyes. “She’s not your mailman, you can ask me this yourself.”
“And what song do you want played?” he asked again.
“I don’t know. I’ll figure it out and bring it Friday.”
“You’re not going to tell me?” he asked, surprised.
Well, that would be a good spin on things, now wouldn’t it? “No, I’m not. You hid everything from me, so you can wait until Friday to find out what song I pick.”
“That’s not fair,” he started to protest.
“Not fair? You told me that you knew my ex-boyfriend had convinced me to breakup with you. But you still asked me to marry you. You had a secret planning session on when, where, and how we were going to get married with your family and mine without telling me anything. You went behind my back and made plans with my mother so we could get married. You even planned out where I was going to live after our wedding, all without telling me anything. And you think I’m not being fair?” she shot back.
“This is something we should decide together,” he argued.
But her head started shaking on its own. “No, I’m going to pick it, and you are going to have to trust me. I’ve been really, really forgiving with everything you’ve done, but I’m going to make a stand on this. You can either trust me or not.” Oh, yes, that was an ultimatum, and she wasn’t going to back down, not after everything she had been through, and Zeus help what else he’d planned.
It didn’t take him long to say, “I’ll trust you and I’ll see you Friday. I need to go. I love you.”
She wasn’t sure if she had just been played, but she had a feeling she had. “I love you too.” She hung up the phone and looked to Savannah, not sure what there was to say. “Okay, that didn’t go like I expected.”
“What did you expect?” Savannah asked.
She didn’t know what she was expecting, but it wasn’t that. “For my sister not to have betrayed me and for Dakota to be angry or something.”
“He at least made sure you were serious,” Savannah offered.
“No, he asked her if I had actually cheated on him,” she accused. She looked at Hannah and asked, “Why did you tell him I didn’t?”
Hannah shrugged. “Because you didn’t. And you love him.”
“I’m officially losing it,” she mumbled.
“Why?”
She stared up at the ceiling. “Because I’m marrying an angel, and I belong in Hades for all the sins I’ve committed.”
“No, you don’t,” Hannah argued back, “and he’s not an angel.”
“Yes, he is, he a freakin’ angel sent from Mount Olympus to test me, and I’m failing miserably,” she whined.
The phone rang, and out of habit, she threw it to Savannah. She wasn’t one to answer the phone anymore. “Hello.” Her sister paused. “No, she’s not here.” Cally rolled her eyes. “I don’t know. I’m not her keeper,” Savannah huffed. “I’ll tell her.” Then she hung up and said, “Seth called again.”
“Yep, and I’m still not home. Maybe you should tell him I moved out,” she joked.
Not a minute later, she heard a knock on the front door. Savannah looked out, expecting it to be Jay, and her mouth fell open when she looked at Cally. “He’s here.”
All she could think was, Help me.
Savannah walked out and opened the door. Cally couldn’t move or breath, and she listened to every word they said.
Savannah said, “She’s not here.”
“She’s in her room,” Seth accused.
“And she has a friend over. So, she’s not here,” Savannah countered.
“It’ll just take a minute. Come on,” he begged.
“Go home. She’ll call you when she wants to.”
His protest was getting old. “I’m not leaving until I talk to her.”
Cally looked to Hannah and whispered, “We have to do this or he’ll never leave. And I really don’t want to wake my parents up.”
She grabbed Hannah’s hand and pulled her out to the living room. She was shaking, but she knew he had to hear it from her. “I don’t want to see you or talk to you or anything. Go home and leave me alone.”
He pushed past Savannah. “Why? What has he done to you?”
“Nothing, you know I’m with Dakota, and there can never be anything between us. So drop it,” she stated coldly.
He looked to Hannah and asked. “Who is she?”
Cally