“Yeah, I was in the dark, I was falling hard with an open heart

I'm wide awake

How did I read the stars so wrong?

And now it's clear to me that

everything you see ain't always what it seems

Yeah, I was dreaming for so long

I wish I knew then, what I know now

Wouldn't dive in, wouldn't bow down.”

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"I am so proud of how this turned out," Cindy said with a proud sigh. "Why don't you let us tell you how we planned this?"

"By being heartless and cold?" I asked, my voice holding no emotions contradictory to how I was feeling.

You know the kind of feeling you get when you know you have been betrayed? The feeling when your stomach is paining and you feel tremors in your legs. When your heart palpitates and your throat begins to close up. When the entire world seems to have slowed down and you just want to curl up in the corner and cry.

That's how I felt. Just probably a hundred times worse.

But I had a lot more to listen. More to bear. And more to grieve over.

"Oh we were heartless, alright. But you were just plain stupid." Chance chuckled followed by a snort by Cindy as they both mocked at me.

"How could you even think I'd like you." He looked at me from up to down with a disgusted sneer and my eyes welled up with fresh tears as I realized how the eyes that were warm and loving yesterday had turned cold and indifferent now.

What changed? I was still the same. If he could love me then, why can't he love me now?

...or maybe he never even loved me.

"I am not stupid. I was just—"

"Hoping?" He said with a raised eyebrow.

I shut up because he was right. It was my hope that killed me. I had hoped to find true love at last. After Ryder and Xander, I felt like Chance was my happy ending and I believed too much in mates. I gave him all the chances I could. And probably, I was wrong.

"Spineless!" Cindy sneered at me as she clung closer to Chance and he wrapped his arms around her.

A wave of sadness hit me and I tried not to close my eyes tightly and slap myself for hurting because of him. I wish I could just snap the mate bond into half so that atleast I won't feel jealous everytime he was with her anymore.

"I told you Chance is mine," Cindy said, running his finger across his chest as she looked at me with a evil glint in her eyes.

"Before he met you, everyone in the school knew that he is mine. And we were going so strong. Then you came into the picture tried to ruin it all. You were his mate and you thought that you will win him. But that didn't happen. That won't happen. After meeting you at your birthday, he came running to me for help."

I gasped as the information sunk in. He had been planning to do this all along?

"You remember the detention you got the next day? The one in which you saw me and Chance making out?" She said. "That was the exact detention where we formulated most of the plan. It was quite simple to be honest. All he wanted to do was hurt you."

Chance cut her off to speak.

"I wanted to take you to the brink. I wanted you to wholesomely believe that I love you. And then, I wanted to crush your heart. I wanted it to hurt as much as it could. So when I found that you were a virgin. Which was only a few days after meeting you, I knew that was how I was going to do it. I was going to make you give your virginity to me. I was going to fuck you, taste you and take my sweet time with you for a night. I wanted to know how it feels like to be with my mate before crushing your hopes and dreams the next day."

His words hit me like a tsunami and I took a step back in shock as my heart felt like someone was repeatedly punching it. It squeezed to a where I felt like clawing it out of my chest would be better than bearing this pain.

Last night was planned. Everything was planned. Everything was a lie.

Every promise. Every whisper. Every date. Every smile. Every kiss. Every laugh was a lie.

A complete and utter lie.

"Oh." Was all I could say. And I was surprised I was about to say that much considering how closed up my throat felt.

Chance cocked his head to the side and smirked. "Feel like crying, huh? Go ahead. Trust me, I'd been waiting to see that for so long."

I curled my fists and bit my cheek as I tried to stop the tears from flowing down my eyes. Tears never stopped. But that was it. I didn't break down in front of him. I refused to give him that sort of a satisfaction.

He didn't deserve anything. He was a monster.

"Everything was going fine," he started with his story again and I wondered why was I even here.

Oh yeah, I was here so that I could listen to it all at once. I wanted to take all the blows at once so that at least I'd know it was over.

These blows will be my weapons to make myself heartless.

"Everything was going great till that Ryder decided to show up," Chance said with gritted teeth. "I had hurt you enough at first till it was your last straw but I kept giving you hope in between. By pretending to get jealous or by showing sensitivity at times. Plan was to stop it soon and show it like I have changed. I wanted you to believe that I wanted to give us a shot. But then that fucking Ryder showed up and he happened to be your childhood best friend. I wouldn't have let him come had I known that. I fucking hated him."

He gave me an icy glare which sent shivers of dread down my spine.

"But don't think I was jealous. Oh, not at all. I would never get jealous because of you because I don't fucking care. I hated him because he seemed to make you happy. And I didn't want that. Everytime I hurt you or tried to play with your feelings, he seemed to save you and that was pissing me off. I won't have been able to execute the plan in his presence. So I decided to do the next best thing. I used Katherine."

My neck snapped up at the mention of Katherine and my body went into protective mode. I won't let him hurt her.

"She is so naive. Probably even more than you. All I had to do was give her a puppy look and teary eyes with some sappy words to make her think that I really do care for you. Silly her. She really wanted a happy ending for you so she decided to help me. Wrong decision, eh?" He laughed again, bitterly and rubbed his hands together.

"Once you agreed to go on a date with me, everything was smooth sailing. The next goal was to get Ryder out of the way so we decided to use Cindy. Our original plan was to make him have a fling with her and then she was to accuse him for molestation but that wasn't necessary because he turned out to be her mate."

Cindy looked at me, "So lucky, weren't we? Even moon goddess was with us. Once I found that he is my mate, I was joyous. The entire deal became so much easier. I was his weakness and he was crazy for me."

"It wasnt difficult to create a right between you two then," he finished her sentence as I looked at them with wide eyes.

Chance always knew that they were mates? He had wanted to create a rift in our friendship? He had wanted to take my most precious friendship away from me just for his entertainment?

How low had these two fallen?

"You...you knew?" I spluttered, my heart and mind refusing to accept the information as they began to close off. I leaned towards the door for support as my legs felt like they'd give away.

This is too much. Way too much.

Chance snorted. "You really are a slow one aren't you?"

"Everything was pre-planned. That day when I accused you of cheating, Andrew had come to the house too, and everyone saw it. But did I mention him? No. Because he wasn't a threat.

Cindy never had to tell me about Ryder entering your room at night. Because you know what? I have a camera installed outside your room which gave me information of when and where you are so I could plan effectively. It was all so that you two fight. But you ended up fighting with me. Which pissed me off to no extent."

Chance gritted his teeth while Cindy spoke for him.

"So we went for Plan B, that was trapping you in that situation in the washroom. One of Chance's men were in your classroom when you told Ryder you were going to talk to me. So I hid. I wanted you to go somewhere we could trap you and the best place was the washroom. And when you were least expecting it, I turned your and created a scene that made Ryder mad and at you, and you two FINALLY fought. We had successfully created a rift between the best of friends."

Chance and Cindy looked so proud and triumphant that it made me feel sick in the stomach at how evil they are.

"Why do you think I decided to turn up right at the moment when Ryder was angry when I had been gone for so long for 'pack business'? Who do you think paid that guy to tell the Alpha that Cindy was over something Ryder never did?" Chance asked, not really asking me.

"Planning baby, it's all planning."

"We're so good at this," Cindy said, looking up at Chance as he smirked down at her.

"We sure are."

"What is the funniest is how desperate Ryder was." Cindy chuckled, mocking the love of my best friend. "All it took was one night..."

My head snapped up so fast that I was surprised that I didn't get a whiplash.

"You slept with him?" I asked, my voice filled with accusion and my heart filled with sympathy and melancholy for him.

"Yeah, so?" She said, coolly.

My fists curled as I felt the urge to punch her again.

"You bitch!" I spat, my tone filled with hatred and disgust. "He was a virgin!"

"Weren't you too?" Cindy asked as she finally detached herself from Chance and stood right in front of me.

I stopped breathing and my heart seemed to have skipped a beat as I realized that they had done the same with Ryder. It was game they had played on both of us.

"Did I tell you that I'd steal Chance from you and you won't be able to do anything?" Cindy smirked viciously at me. "But the thing is that, sweetie. I never had to steal him. He was always with me."

Her words were the last straw as I decided to get the hell out of here.

"You two are sick." I whispered as I turned on my heels as stormed out of the office to go to my room where I could finally cry in peace and solitude.

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