“I—I uh I didn’t hear anything.” Fabian lied.
The two boys watched as the medic and police showed up and took Claudia away, she had broken her leg and Fabian had seen it all. He knew it was no accident, he knew she had been pushed, she had been bullied.
“Fabian, you have to tell the police what you saw.” Jace insisted.
“I have nothing to say, I don’t know anything.” Fabian refused, and Jace was perplexed.
“What do you mean you don’t know anything, you were there, you saw everything that happened and you can help the police know what really happened to that girl,” Jace explained.
“I have a lot on the line, my scholarship— everything. I can’t risk being under suspicion of anything by the police.” Fabian scoffed.
“Are you serious?” Jace wondered taken aback.
“There’s more than one story going on here, and I can’t risk mine ending the wrong way.” Fabian dismissed.
“Listen if you won’t tell the police then I will, this isn’t right—” Jace prompted about to make his way over to the cops but Fabian grabbed hold of his arm.
“If you speak a word to the police, then I will tell everyone about what I saw between you and Kennedy earlier.” Fabian threatened and Jace’s stomach dropped.
“Y-you’ll what?” He muttered.
“You heard me, an eye for an eye,” Fabian warned.
“Makes the whole world blind.” Jace clarified shaking his head in disappointment before walking away.
A year ago, a day before the crash
KEOMI'S POV
I lay bare beside Fabien between my sheets in the summer heat, I had waited for this for a long time, for him to make love to me. But I knew that what he felt during our little spontaneous moment of passion was not love, but desperation and a need to take the company of a body other than his own. I watched him watching me, as he gazed up at the ceiling of my little dorm room. He was beautiful to me, I wish all the girls he chased after could see that.
"This," Fabien said, trailing his finger along my side, "Cannot happen again, do you understand me?"
"It's not like I forced you inside of me Fabes." I shrugged gathering the sheets so he could not see my body, I was starting to feel like he didn't deserve to.
"Indeed," he figured with that boyish grin that could melt me into honey, "But it was careless on both our parts and it can't afford to ever happen again. It won’t end well, we have to prioritise our friendship over everything,"
"Fine." I spat bitterly sitting up in bed, "If I was just your rebound you can leave now, don't let the door hit you on the way out."
"I wouldn't just leave you Keomi, you're my best friend and I do love you." Fabien soothed running his free hand through my hair,lovehe called it, but not the kind I felt, "I don't plan on making this a big deal."
"And at what cost,best friend?" I asked and he smiled, undressing me once more with his gaze alone, "you taught me better than anyone that there is nothing free in this world, so name your price?"
"Une simple faveur." He purred looking at me in a way that made it nearly impossible to say no, but I kept my wits about me.
“Depends on what this simple faveur is, do clarify." I requested,
"I need to talk to Jace and tell him that I didn’t mean what I said before about snitching about him and Kennedy, I was just mad." Fabien confessed, "Then again he must've known Elle was only using me to get to him and he let it happen,& I'm so sick of him always getting his way."
“River didn’t know, come on,” I told him. “Jace has been off lately, he’s being flakey and seems panicky all the time too.”
“Exactly…I think it’s because of what I said before.” Fabian expressed.
“I don’t know why you won’t just tell me what you saw happen between him and River.” I groaned. “It can’t be that big of a secret.”
“Oh, you have no idea…” Fabian sighed. “Just promise me you’ll talk to him.”
This was typical of Fabien Lyon, he just never knew how to accept defeat, he didn't know that when it comes to affairs of the heart there isn't much one can do to change the fates. I hated that he drooled over girls like Elle who will never even see how amazing he is, and will never appreciate it. Why couldn’t he see that I'd been here all along and that I was the only one for him? Perhaps this simple favour of his, if I agreed to do it, would finally make him realise that I was willing to do anything for him and that I'm the girl he needs to set his eyes on. I was right in front of him and he didn’t see me, even after he was just inside me, he didn’t fucking see me.
