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hear.
     
    “Bennett, please just talk
to me. Not like this, let’s go home and talk. Please!” He had me wrapped in his
arms so tightly; I couldn’t squirm out of their hold. I tried to push against
his chest but nothing happened. “Bennett you have to talk to me,” he whispered.
     
    I was about to give in when
I heard his voice. “I believe she asked you to let her go.” His
voice was powerful and in a second Gray’s arms dropped to his sides with his
hands balled into fists. I knew what was about to happen. I positioned myself
between the two of them and tried to calm Gray down.
     
    “Who the Hell are you?” Gray
puffed.
     
    “I’m the guy whose house you’re
in. I’m also the guy who is going to have to hurt you, if you try to man handle
her again.”
     
    “ What the Fu-, oh I
remember you. You’re the guy who ran into her at school. I knew you were going
to be trouble. This has nothing to do with you, so butt the fuck out.” Gray
reached for my hand but I was instantly pulled behind Raylon’s muscular frame.
     
    “I told you not to touch
her.” Raylon poked his finger into Gray’s chest.
     
    “STOP BOTH OF YOU!” I
screamed as loud as my lungs would allow. I put a hand on each of their chests
trying to separate them. “Raylon you need to back off. You don’t understand
enough to get in the middle of this.” I looked up at him with a sympathetic
look in my eyes, hoping he would see that I was sorry that I had to choose. “As
for you,” I pushed Gray towards the front door, “you don’t get to come up in
here with another girl around your arm, and then try to protect me. It doesn’t
work that way Gray. You can’t want all of me one minute and then only some of
me another. It’s not fair.” I looked into his eyes and I could see that my
words were breaking his heart.
    He hung his head before he
finally spoke back. “I was upset Bennett. I wanted to bring you here with me
but you blew me off, all day. I thought we had an amazing night together. I
was so excited to get done with testing this morning and get back to you. I had
a whole day planned out. Then you just brushed me off, like nothing happened. I
know you feel it Bennett. I’m not stupid, I can see it in your face.” His hands
clutched onto the sides of my face as he stared into my eyes.
     
    “Nothing was going to happen
with Bobby Jo, I swear it. I was just trying to make it so every waking
thought, in my God damned head wasn’t consumed with you.” He threw his hands up
in the air exasperated. “Fuck Bennett, what am I supposed to do?” His hands
fell to his sides in defeat.
     
    I reached for his shoulder
to turn him towards me, but he evaded my touch and started walking towards the
stairs. “Tell Vince I’m going home. I’ll get a hold of you tomorrow. Good night
Button.” He was down the stairs before I could even catch my breath enough to
speak. Why did things have to be so complicated between us?
     
    I made my way back in to
find Hannah, when Raylon stopped me in the small hallway leading to the common
room. “Are you okay?” He sounded truly concerned, but I just didn’t have the
patience to deal with this kind of situation tonight.
     
     “I’m fine, but I need
to find Hannah. I’m sorry.”
     
    I moved around him and
Hannah was standing waiting for me by the first bedroom on the right. “You
ready to go Calamity Jane?” She was joking, but I couldn’t help but swallow
back the lump starting to form in my throat.
     
     “Just get me out of
here, please?” She wrapped her arm around my shoulders and pushed our way to
the front door. I didn’t look back to see if Raylon was looking my way.
Honestly, I didn’t care.
     
    The car ride was eerily
silent. I couldn’t process what had happened through my drunken haze to have a
coherent thought. Hannah knew not to push it; she just kept the radio up enough
for some background noise. A little bit later we pulled into my driveway and I
couldn’t