10. Past and future

Forrest's POV

"Do you think Theo is hurting her or something?" Fabian asked, still unconvinced by what she said. I wasn't convinced, either.

"I don't think. I know. He pretended to be a good man with her, but we know he is not the man he was with Rhianna."

I knew it wasn't just my wishful thinking that she finally saw Theo for what he was. I had seen the pain in her eyes and I knew it was more than just me shouting at her and being a jerk to her.

When she stumbled into me in the hallway, everything in me begged to wrap my arms around her and pull her into my embrace and never let go. It made me angry that I could never do that, never touch her like that, because she belonged to someone else, that she loved someone else. So I did what I always did. I snapped at her like a f*cking jerk. It was not an excuse for being a jerk all the time, but I didn't know how else to do that. I was a desperate fool.

"You are. We are, and even though we were being an a*s to her... we did it because we h