THE BOY NEXT DOOR✓ EPISODE 117

I'm still awake when my alarm goes off on Monday morning. I didn't close my eyes the entire night and surprisingly, I'm not sleepy. I'm not thinking and I can't feel anything. I'm just numb. Sighing, I roll over in bed and pull the duvet tighter around me. I stare blankly at the ceiling. I stupidly check my phone for any calls or texts from Kain but of course there is none. First of all, my phone is on full volume and second, he broke his phone last night so he won't be calling me anytime soon. Time passes and I'm still on the same spot. That's exactly the same place my Mom finds me two hours later. She walks in without knocking, obviously fuming but her expression changes to surprise then confusion when she sees my face. "Bella." She breathes while rushing to my side. "Are you okay?" I nod. There's no way I'm letting her know about Kain. She will skin me alive. She clearly warned me about kissing those boys before we left for the cabin. "You don't look okay to me." She says while running her knuckles down the side of my face. "You look like a ghost. You are so pale and cold. I'm calling a doctor." That gets me to react. "Mom, please don't do it. I'm okay." "Then why didn't you go to school? I came to find you because Ryan told me he's been waiting for more than an hour." "Can I ditch school just for today?" I ask quietly and she frowns. "You've never missed school Bella. Not even once. If you don't tell me what's up with you right now, I'm calling a doctor." I take her hand in mine and squeeze it affectionately. If only I listened to her from the word go, I would not be nursing a heartbreak right now. She was right all along. I should have stayed away from boys. Kain didn't heartbreak me on purpose but if I had stayed away from him, I would never have gotten attached to him. I would be in school right now taking my class. "I think I'm coming up with the flu or something." I lie smoothly and she raises an eyebrow. "Who is the boy?" I freeze for a minute. "What boy?" "The one that broke your heart. Is it Kain?" "How did you know?" I ask with wide eyes. "You just confirmed." Oh shit. I just sold myself out. "Mom...." "It's him, isn't it?" She asks angrily. "But how...." "Trust me I can tell. I was once in college so you can't lie to me. What happened?" I don't want to get Kain into trouble. This is my shit, not his. He treated me so well when we went camping. I am the untrustworthy one. "Mom can we please talk about this later?" "No, we are talking about it now. It's either you tell me what happened, or I'll go to their house and find out." I don't want Rebecca to know what happened. I have no idea how Gianna explained Kain's whereabouts but I don't want my Mom storming there demanding to see Kain. "Nothing much happened. We were keeping a sensitive secret from him and he was pissed off so he left." "What kind of secret?" "That he is brothers with George." "Jade's boyfriend, right?" I'm surprised that she remembers that so I just nod.