Childhood crush episode 26 – 27

😱Childhood Crush😱
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✍Written by Authoress Kamara
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Episode 26
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💄Beverly💄
“Carl?”. I called softly. “Did something happen?”.

His beautiful eyes looked sad. “That was Mia, Bryan’s sister”.

“Why did she call? It sounded urgent”.

“Bryan is no where to be found”.

“What?!!”. I shrieked.

He frowned. “Where could Bryan have gone to?”.

“When did he go missing?”.

He stood up. “Beverly, let me take you home then I’ll go look for Bryan”.

“No, I’ll go with you”. I said standing up too.

“Beverly ..”.

“Let me help you find him”. I insisted.

He sighed. “Okay fine, lets go”.

I took my things and followed Carl out of the bakery, we went to the car getting in.

Carl started the car immediately and drove off.

“Where do you think he is?”.

“I really don’t know, maybe somewhere”.

“But he couldn’t have gone missing like that”. I told him.

“Yeah I know but Bryan is hærd to understand sometimes”.

I watched him as his hold on the steering wheel tightened.

“We’ll find him”. I reassured him.

“I hope so”. He muttered in response.

For a while, Carl drove around but we didn’t see any sign of Bryan anywhere, both downtown and at the sides.

Carl stopped the car by a curb and hit the steering wheel hærd.

“Carl, stop it”.

“I can’t find my best friend and I have absolutely no idea of where he might be”.

Where could Bryan be?

“Has this happened before?”. I asked curious.

He nodded. “Yeah when Gabriella left him, he had ran after her but this is different”.

“Wait, this happened when Gabriella left?”.

“Thats exactly what I just said”.

I tapped my head frustratingly. “Gosh!! Elsa”.

Carl looked at me. “What?”.

“Elsa went over to his place earlier, she said she needed to find out the truth from Bryan”. I told him.

He ran his hands through his hair. “He remembered”.

“Huh?”.

“Elsa might have said something”.

“She did say something about finding out why Kyle hated Bryan”.

“f×¢k!!”. He cussed. “Brie”.

“Huh?”.

“When Gabriella knew about what he did to Brie, she left him and Bryan became miserable”.

“Where do you think he is?”.

He sighed. “I hope he isn’t doing something stupid”.

“Do you think he will__”.

He cut me off. “Bryan can’t go that extreme”.

He started the car again and started driving.

“Where are you driving to?”.

He didn’t respond instead he drove at full speed. I was surprised when he went past a road. I know this place.

“He’s there”. He mumbled.

He drive on the road faster and slowed down when he was past a church. He parked the car around that area.

He got out of the car and i followed suit, he went ahead to where grasses were, it was like a graveyard, a burial ground.

“Why are we here?”. I asked him.

Carl stopped and I saw what he was looking at, Bryan was crouched in front of one of the slab.

I walked with Carl over to him, i could see Brie Lawson written on the cement slab.

“Dude!!”. Carl called.

Bryan stood up and hugged Carl immediately, i knew he was crying because of the sniffs i heard.

Gosh!! He’s really going through a lot. I thought as I watched him cry. Weird because he always looked tough in school but seeing him now, he looked fragile.

I cleared my throat. “Carl”.

He looked at me. “Yeah?”.

“I have to go now”.

“Let me take you home”. He said pulling away from Bryan.

“No its okay. I’ll just take a cab”.

“Beverly__”.

“Stay with Bryan, he needs you”. I told him.

I gave him a peck on his cheek and walked away thinking of Bryan.

I never knew someone like him would be going through a lot. I mean, whatever he did to that Brie Lawson girl, i’m sure he regretted it and felt sorry.

Why can’t Kyle Vegas just forgive and forget? Look at what Bryan is passing through and I’m sure he doesn’t know that.

I decided to take a glance at them, i looked back and saw Bryan still sobbing quietly while Carl soothed him.

Elsa is going to hear from me when I get home, what did she even tell him that made him that way?

I stopped by the road and flagged down a cab. A cab stopped and I got in.

Finally I reached my place, i rushed to the main door and opened it with my key.

“Beverly”.

I hugged her. “Good evening, Mum”.

“Hey, Tristan told me you had a date”.

“I’ll tell you all about it later”. I pecked her cheeks. “I have to talk to Elsa”.

“Okay then, she’s in her room”.

I nodded and ran up the stairs, i went to the Elsa’s room and opened the door stepping in. She was on her bed under the covers.

I went over and pulled back the duvet.

She sat up. “Beverly?”.

I crossed my arms. “What did you do?”.

She furrowed her eyebrows. “Huh?”.

“I’m talking about Bryan”.

She flopped back on the bed. “I’m not interested in talking”.

“What the heck did you do to him? He looked broken when I saw him”.

“I only asked him a question”. She replied.

“And that triggered his past”.

“Why are you talking like I did something bad”.

I scoffed. “You did something more than bad? I clearly told you to ignore Kyle”.

“I just need to know what Kyle meant by what he said”.

“If Bryan wants to tell you then he will”.

“Whose side are you on anyways?”. She shouted.

“I’m on Bryan’s side”. I told her.

“I didn’t do anything bad, Beverly. He didn’t even tell me anything”.

“But I told you not to ask him”.

“Sorry I didn’t listen, Mum”. She said sarcastically.

“If you really liked Bryan then you wouldn’t have caused him this much pain”. I fired at her and left her room immediately.
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•Authoress Kamara Library
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😘Elsa😘
I glanced at Bryan again in class, his head was on the desk as usual.

What Beverly said kept on ringing in my ears ‘If you really liked Bryan then you wouldn’t have caused him this much pain’.

Its been two weeks since I have been avoiding Bryan. He’s been trying to talk to me in different classes but I just ignored him.

I do not want to cause him more pain like before so its better he should forget about me. I’ve been hurting too since Beverly refused to talk to me, she thinks I caused everything.

It was obvious that Bryan has not been himself these weeks and it added to the fact that he was always staring at me in class.

I can’t even concentrate in class at all, i heaved a sigh of relief when the bell rang signaling lunch break.

I packed my books then wore my backpack rushing out of class. I decided to go to the library since I need some alone time.

I stopped when I saw Gabriella.

She smirked. “If it isn’t Elsa Reyes”.

“What do you want now?”.

She has been trying to make fun of me ever since she found out that Bryan and I were no longer that close anymore.

“Nothing, just sad for you and of course Bryan”.

I rolled my eyes. “I see you have nothing better to talk about”.

“I just want to remind you that you left him eventually just like I expected”.

“You need to stop prying into my private life”. I told her off.

I walked past her and suddenly someone pushed me into an empty class. I hit the person immediately and he gr0×ned.

“Kyle?”. I asked surprised.

“Elsa, we need to talk. You’ve been avoiding me”. He said.

Oh yeah. Did I mention i avoided both Kyle and Bryan? I really don’t wanna get caught up in their mess.

“There’s nothing we need to talk about”.

“Elsa, I like you”.

“So?”. I asked. “What the heck should I do about that?”.

“Why you are sounding that way?”.

“Just let me be. Kyle”.

“Why are you acting like this anyways? I thought you are not with Bryan”.

“Just because Bryan and I are not in talking terms doesn’t mean I will say yes to you”.

He crossed his arms. “So you are saying you will rather choose Bryan over me?”.

“Yes Kyle, yes. I will always choose Bryan over you because I love him the more”.

He scoffed. “Love? You love that asshole?”.

“Don’t you dare insult him”. I defended Bryan.

“I will because he deserves it being the criminal he is”. He shouted.

“Stop saying that about him, you don’t know the real Bryan”. I told him.

“Well I do know that he’s a rapist”.

I stopped in shock. “What?”.

He chuckled. “So he didn’t tell you? Huh?”.

“What the heck are you saying?”. I asked curious.

“What I am saying is that he raped my girlfriend, Brie, just because she refused his stupid advances”.

I was stunned by what Kyle said? Bryan did that? It was like my head swiveled around. I couldn’t even think anymore as what Kyle said sinked into my mind.

😱Childhood Crush😱
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✍Written by Authoress Kamara
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Episode 27
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😘Elsa😘
“What the heck are you saying?”. I asked curious.

“What I am saying is that he raped my girlfriend, Brie, just because she refused his stupid advances”.

I was stunned by what Kyle said? Bryan did that? It was like my head swiveled around. I couldn’t even think anymore as what Kyle said sinked into my mind.

“Thats a lie”. I interjected.

Bryan can never do that, although he did mention a certain girl named Brie but no, no, no. The Bryan Stark I know can never do something like that.

“A lie? You don’t believe me then ask him yourself”. Kyle said.

Its a lie, its all a lie. Elsa, Kyle is just saying that so as to diffuse your emotions for Bryan.

I clutched to my backpack tightly as I ran out of the class ignoring Kyle’s calls. I went ahead to the Cafeteria.

I stopped as my eyes scanned the cafeteria looking for Beverly. I sighted her with Carl at one end.

I went over to her. “Beverly, we need to talk”.

She looked at me. “Elsa, is something wrong? You look shaken”.

Of course I look shaken, i just heard some stupid horrifying truth about the guy i’ve come to love. On the in,side of me, i felt broken as to what I heard.

“Lets go, Beverly”. I said firmly.

“But ..”.

“Beverly”.

She stood up reluctantly and I dragged her out of the cafeteria looking for an empty class. We reached one and I pushed her in with me.

She crossed her arms. “What is it?”.

“How long have you known?”. I asked nervously.

She furrowed her eyebrows. “Known what?”.

“That Brie stuff, about Bryan raping her”. I told her tearfully.

“Elsa”.

“Why didn’t you tell me?”.

Her face changed. “Elsa, before you judge him, give him a chance to explain”.

I sniffed as tears rolled my cheeks, Beverly quickly came forward and hugged me.

“Please don’t tell me its true”. I whispered.

She patted my back. “Elsa, just calm down”.

I sobbed weakly on Beverly’s shoulder as I hugged her tightly.

“He told you, right?”.

I pulled away to see Carl. “What?”.

“Kyle, he must have been the one who told you”.

I cleaned my tears. “He did tell me but__”.

“You need to listen to Bryan first”. Beverly interrupted me.

“I can’t”. I whispered lowly.

“Please, he needs you right now. He needs someone by his side”.

I looked at Carl. “Where is he?”.

“At the garden”. He replied lowly.

I rushed out of the class running towards the school garden. I need to see him, i stepped in and sighted him on one of the benches with light stand.

I walked towards him. “Bryan?”.

He looked up and saw me, his eyes were red and swollen with dark circles under them probably from crying and he looked a mess.

“You came”. He said.

I stood there watching him.

“I thought you didn’t want to speak with me”.

“I never said that”. I told him.

“You insinuated it after all you avoided me for two whole weeks”.

“I didn’t want to get caught up in all this mess between you and him”.

“So why are you here now?”.

I sat next to him quietly.

He chuckled sadly. “He told you”.

I didn’t say anything.

“I know you must hate me by now”. He spoke up.

I fiddled with my fingers. “I don’t hate you”.

He rested on the bench. “You don’t have to lie”.

“How did it happened?”. I ask softly.

“Kyle must have told you”.

“I wanna hear your side of the story”.

He shrugged. “Does it matter? You would leave me anyway”.

“Bryan …”. I trailed off.

“No one wants to be with someone like me”. He added.

“Bryan, what you did was in the past and should be forgotten in the past”. I told him.

“What I did was horrible and I regret it badly”. He continued.

“Everyone has their past they don’t wanna remember”. I mumbled

“I don’t want you to pity me, Elsa”.

I stared at him. “Pity? I understand what you are going through”.

“You can never understand because you have never been in that position before, raping someone is something that never be forgiven and what I did was__”.

“I am a victim of rape”. I said interrupting him.

He paused. “What?”.

“I have a horrible past too, really horrible”.

“What are you talking about?”. He asked looking confused.

I sniffed. “When girls talk about their first k×ss, their first s×× and how sparks fly, i cry in,side of me when I remember that my Dad took my first everything”.

He immediately pulled me into a hug, my tears fell remembering everything. The things that I’ve been trying to hide all my life.

He wrapped his hands around me as he comforted me but that didn’t help as I only cried the more.

“Elsa”. He whispered.

We stayed like that for a while before I pulled away.

“This makes me feel more guilty because__”.

I cut him off. “You were caught under bad circumstances”.

“But that doesn’t still cover up the fact that I did something that horrible”.

I held his hands. “You have a gaping hole in your heart that seems void and you keep blaming yourself for everything”.

“I keep blaming myself because I caused everything”. He said tearfully.

“The only way you can remove this guilt is to share what choking you up with someone”.

He shook his head negatively. “I don’t know, Elsa. You might hate me and I don’t want to take that risk”.

I squeezed his palm softly. “I won’t, just trust me. I’ll understand”.

“And you won’t judge me?”. He asked uncertain.

“My happy life was perfect until I turned ten, my Dad started touching me intimately every chance he got, he touched every part of my body mostly my private parts”.

I hugged my knees to my chest as tears rolled down my eyes.

“Elsa, please don’t”. Bryan whispered.

“I just want to share this with someone because this has been choking me up ever since”.

“Did you tell someone about it when he started?”. He asked curious.

“I told my Mum and i could remember how she looked shocked and surprised”.

“Did she believe you?”.

I shrugged. “I didn’t really know yet at that time but that day, i heard my Mum and Dad both arguing in their room”.

“Tristan?”.

I sniffed. “He was just seven at that time”.

He drew me closer to him. “It must have been really bad for you”.

“It was worse than bad because I had no one to talk to not even Beverly because the situation was awkward”.

He held my palm and car×ssed it which gave me the urge to continue.

“It became worse when he came to my room when I was fourteen, I felt someone touching me so I woke up seeing my Dad staring at me lustfully”.

I cleaned my tears as I continued talking.

“As I realized what he was about to do, i pushed him away immediately but he held me back pulling me close to him”.

Tears gathered in my eyes but I was too weak to cry.

“I tried to resist him but it didn’t work, i used every method available instead he ended up taking my v-rginity that night”.

I looked at Bryan and saw how hærd he was trying to hold back his tears which made me broke down in tears.

He held me close to him and patted my back as I sobbed in his chest.

“Elsa please stop crying, you are hurting me”.

I couldn’t help as i hugged him tighter, he held me like that for a while.

“And thats my story”. I said sadly.

He pulled away. “You never looked like someone going through things like that”.

“I never showed it because I didn’t want pity from anyone”.

“Where is he now?”.

I knew he was referring to my Dad.

“After that night, I told my Mum everything that happened so she annulled her marriage with Dad taking Tristan and I to Las Vegas leaving my Dad but he followed us claiming he wants custody of me”.

Bryan clenched his fists. “That bastard”.

“So my Mum filed a court case against him charging him for rape and child abuse both physically and emotionally”. I told him. “But my Mum made Tristan and I stay back in SpringCity till the whole issue is dissolved”.

“Has the Court convicted him yet?”.

I shook my head negatively. “Nope, he’s still there but my Mum has a good lawyer”.

He raised my palm to his l-ips k×ssing it softly. “I’m sorry you had to go through that”.

I nodded sadly.

“Brie always embarrassed me every chance she got rubbing it in my face that she can never date someone like me because I’m a sore loser at least thats what she always said”. He said suddenly.

I intertwined our fingers as he talked.

“But that didn’t hurt me, what pained me the most was that my best friend turned against me just because of her”. He continued. “Kyle did anything she told him to do, he even broke our friendsh¡p just because of Brie”.

“I mean, i get it that Brie chose him over me but did he have to rub it all up in my face?”. He sniffed. “I stopped being friends with Kyle so as to avoid seeing his face along with Brie but that didn’t work because Brie would always taunt me every little chance she got”.

“What happened?”. I ask lowly.

“It was a party night, Brie did it again. I wanted to dissolve my anger so I took a few shots and consumed alcohol drinks a lot that night. I went up the stairs to a room so as to rest since I was developing headaches”.

I car×ssed his palm as he talked.

“Brie came to the room that I was and made fun of me, it was like as if she just hated my guts and wanted to watch me suffer”. He told me. “She ranted on and on about how I couldn’t control a few drinks”.

I stared at him silently as I heard him talk.

“I was about to leave the room for her when she k×ssed me unexpectedly so I k×ssed her back but I went too far, i didn’t know if it was because of my dizziness or the fact that I was plain stupid”.

“I could hear her s¢ræms and pleas as she begged me to stop but I didn’t listen instead flashing memories of her making my life miserable made me continue”. He told me. “I totally regret what I did because I ruined her life that very night”.

“Eventually everyone got to know what I did so they distanced theirselves from me, only Carl stayed with me. One day, Brie’s parents filed charges against me so I was arrested and i was suppose to go to Juvenile home since I was young to go to Jail”.

Tears rolled down his cheeks slowly.

“What I did broke my Mum so bad that she had a heart attack when the Cops came, she was taken to the hospital but it was too late as she died on her way”.

I gasped as he said that.

“My Dad went furious with me, not only because of what happened to my Mum, I ruined the image of his company”. He cried freely. “My Dad disowned me”.

“What?”.

“I still bear his surname but my Dad never acknowledged that he had a son from that day onward. He’s overseas now and still communicates with Mia and Tori but not me. The last time he talked to me was at my Mum’s burial four years ago when he lashed out his anger on me”.

“Bryan”. I called softly.

“For four years, he hadn’t talked to me but I get that because i caused the death of his beloved wife”. He wiped his cheeks swiftly. “Tori developed panic attacks ever since my Mum died but the worse was when Kyle came over to our house saying how I caused everything including my Mum’s death”.

“As if that wasn’t enough, Brie commited suicide because of the taunts she received in class”. He continued. “Strangely, no one felt sorry for what I did to her, they all said that she deserved it being the bitch she was”.

“And she took her life?”.

He nodded sadly. “She committed suicide, she jumped from the top of the school building”.

I hugged him not wanting him to say anything anymore but he still continued.

“I was lucky for Brie’s parents to have dropped their charges against me so I didn’t go to Juvenile home but Kyle hated me because of that always saying it was all my fault, he would always remind me that I did something that horrible”.

“Did you try to talk to him?”.

“I apologized and tried to talk to him like a million times but he shut me out”. Bryan replied. “He clearly told me to my face that he would make sure that all the girls I will ever love would be totally embarrassed”.

“And he did it?”.

“Starting from Maddie, he made her move far away from me, he did all of that to all my girlfriends but he did the worst to Gabriella”.

“I feel sorry for her”.

“I don’t”.

I was taken aback. “You don’t?”.

“Most of my girlfriends, Maddie, Jade, Anna, they all left me because of what Kyle did to them but Gabriella left me because of what she heard about me”. He said. “I tried to tell her the whole truth but she shunned me”.

“She made me a complete mess all because I loved her badly, i felt dejected when she went ahead to date Kyle but I tried to warn her”. He continued. “She didn’t listen to me, the worst came when Kyle made mockery of her by uploading a s×× video of her”.

“She must have felt bad”. I muttered.

“She came to me crying but I didn’t want any of that so I walked away from her, i stopped interacting with girls until the day I met you”.

I looked at him. “Huh?”.

“When you came into Arts class that morning, i liked you at first instance so I told myself that no matter what. If eventually I win your love that I would never let Kyle get to you”. He told me truthfully.

My eyes glistened with tears at I stared at him, as I stared at his broken self. He lost everything, the first girl he fell in love with, his best friend, his Mum and his Dad who totally left him.

I love you so much, Bryan and I’m sorry for everything that has happened to you. And I’m glad that you got to open up to me, i won’t judge you for what you did although you can take part in the blame but still, you were caught under bad circumstances.

I saw more than what Kyle said about him, i saw a broken and shaken guy trying to hide his fears, insecurities and sufferings.

I threw my hands around him, he drew closer to me as he wrapped his hands around me pulling me into a warm hug.
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TBC
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