26

I knew there were a thousand words waiting to pour out the lips of that figure away. That figure belonging to my friend.

You've messed up real bad, Cara. Perhaps, that was exactly what she thought. Cause, heaven knows I thought the same.

There was no hiding it now.

Yet, not a word had been emitted from her since I dropped those words. Those words that were sure to have turned her baffled.

It was just a minute or two, before that utterance would sink in, and I would come to behold that reaction I so sought for.

"It kind of happened"

My words were slow, picked one after the other, while the eyes of the girl remained blank at me, that look of bewilderment crossing her gaze.

"We were spending hours together"

"Always confined to my office"

"One thing led to another, the next thing I knew—We were locking lips, and….engaged with each other"

I watched her lips pull apart, seemingly wanting to make an utterance, but she had shut them back immediately, confused gaze shifting around my form.

"W-What are you talking about?"

The sigh left my lips, heart heavy, still, I uttered the words yet again.

"I've had a thing going with Logan for quite a while now"

"The one who started a fight at the club. That very one"

"He's the same reason I've come to you now"

"What were you thinking Cara?!" I heard the voice of my friend tumble into my ears.

That outpour which I had long awaited, I came to behold. It was just what I expected after my foretelling, to see her bearing it all out, rather than keeping to the silence, and sure leaving me torn.

"Sleeping with a Seventeen year old, what the fuck!"

"It just happened, Zoe" I called at once.

"I didn't mean for any of it to come about"

"He was only a broken young man, who was hurting and sought solace in the first person that came his way" I let out.

"No!" She snapped at once.

"He's gotten so obsessed with you, all because you entertained it. You entertained him!"

"Do you know what would happen if this is to get out? You'd be facing years in prison, your image would be ruined. Your degree would lose its stand. It would ruin you, Cara"

"Lord!"

"That is why I'm seeking you now, Zoe. Logan has grown so attached, he wouldn't go a day without coming to me. Just yesterday, he almost started a rabble with one of his friends whom he found leaving my office. I'm afraid he sees me now as his property, Zoe!"

"What really do I do?"

"What you need to do is stay off him, bury all of this"

"How do I do that, when I'm meant to see him each passing day"

"Cut the counseling sessions you've got going with him

"Put an end to it" She followed.