216–1 Am A Cheater
“I think we should focus on” Oswin pouted, trying to help us, but Thiago was not in a state to listen to any of us.
“I told that girl I am a Lycan, who from now any point can go tell that monster about me.” Thiago shouted, “For you!” he grunted, “I am not invalidating your feelings. But one of you should have come to me. One of you should have at least come to confront me, like now. It was just convenient that you get rid of that monster who is not trustworthy. It was just not easy to keep a Lycan in the team of good guys, wasn‘t it?” he clenched his jaw until he raised his face and stared at Lazlo and me.
I was sobbing miserably. I didn‘t want him to end this. I didn‘t want him to leave me.
“Did you, did you move on from me?” that question left his lips in a whisper. What‘s worse is that he was not even giving us any excuse to make us mad. Unlike Maynard, he was using words that wouldn‘t hurt my ego, but he himself was hurting.
“Did you two—” he tilted his face, tears appearing and disappearing in his eyes. I know why he thought I would do such a thing. I did the same with Maynard, but I wasn‘t going to do it with Thiago. It just happened.
Our silence exposed us.
“Oh!” Thiago lowered his face, his eyebrows knitted, showing extreme shock. “OH!” he gasped. His hand flew to his heart and my heart lost a beat.
“Thiago, are you ok–” I wanted to get near him, but he pulled back from me and leaned on the wall. He looked like he was in a lot of pain,
“Thiago! You need to sit down.” Oswin was caught in the middle of this mess. He was constantly attempting to make things better.
“Look at her!” Thiago pointed at me, but his eyes looked into Oswin‘s eyes, “I loved that girl,” he murmured miserably.
“I love you too,” I whispered. “It was a misunderstanding.” I closed my eyes as I sobbed silently.
“A sweet misunderstanding to find an excuse to kill that Lycan monster.” He shook his head as if he didn‘t believe me.
“Thiago! Let‘s go into the woods. You are not feeling well.” Lazlo stepped ahead
when he noticed a little weird movement in his little finger. It was as if his Lycan was fighting to come out.
“No!” Thiago hugged himself, “Not with you. Not with you two,” he shook his head to himself, “I wouldn‘t want you two around this monster again,” he grunted, clenching his jaw.
“I will take him with me,” Oswin said, holding Thiago‘s hand to drag him out of the room. I was watching Thiago being pulled out, and I couldn‘t do anything. I was so guilty that I dreaded walking near him. The way Thiago stared into my eyes before walking out of that door sliced my heart open.
“What have we done?” I got on my knees and sobbed in my hands, “we had everything and I ruined it. He is not wrong. What was our plan? Why didn‘t we confront him like we did today? Were we really looking for an excuse to just accuse someone?” I was shaking just thinking about how Thiago must be feeling.
“We were–scared,” Lazlo walked back to his bed and flopped down, “We— were liste–ning to Zander,” he suddenly brought his name up, and I removed my hands from my face.
“But hey, we saw him. We had proof in front of us,” I get what Lazlo was trying to do. That guilt of betraying Thiago was even killing me inside.
“That doesn‘t change the fact that we never spoke to him about it. We never gave him a chance and when it was convenient for us, we confronted him. It seems to
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