The Wounded Love novel Chapter 31

"What did he say to you?" I could see the wheels in his head spinning, as he came up with a plan of revenge. Dante seemed to get mad easily. Thankfully it was never at me.

"Just the way he was acting that day you choked him out, which by the way was pretty awesome. Too bad you didn't actually choke him out. Angela would've been at his funeral rather than being here, beating the shit out of me."

Dante's eyes widened. "A pretty dark thought for such a nice girl."

"I'm not nice. Don't mistake me for a nice girl. Nice girls wouldn't want to hurt their cousin, they don't yell at their own mothers every single time they see each other."

"Come on."

"Come where." As soon as I asked that I started to laugh, because it just sounded funny. Dante was confused for a second, but then chuckled.

"I guess you really aren't a nice girl." I shook my head no. He sighed. "What I meant was that you should come with me up to your room."

"I see you in a whole new light." He said as I limped out of the bathroom, clinging onto his arm. It seemed like everyone was staring.

"What do you mean?"

"Well I thought you were innocent but after that ," He shook his head. "You've revealed your true colors. I like you better than I already did. Your coming close to beating out coffee."

"The spoon thing is still holding me back, isn't it?"

"Si."

We came to the conclusion that I was just bruised. Angela didn't do any real damage. She did however tell her mother what happened who then told my mother.

Dante stayed in my room with me. We didn't really do much other than talk and the conversation mostly consisted of him trying to find out how corrupted I really was. His reactions to the things I would say were kind of funny. I didn't tell him that I learned a lot of it from Jade.

Everything was going really good up until mommy called.

I answered the phone by accident and it was too late for me to hang up. "Oh Skyla, are you okay?" She asked in a panic, surprising me.

"Yeah I guess so."

"I heard what Angela did to you. That girl is all over the map right now. She wants to find someone to blame and you have to admit, you're the obvious person."

"I know." I guess in a way it was my fault because he still loved me. I didn't do anything to make him love me though.

"I wanted to apologize for the other night. I guess by me saying that could have contributed to all of this."

I shrugged my shoulders. "What do you want me to call you?"

"I don't know but friend doesn't seem to fit."

"Well when you think of a fitted word let me know."

Mother came upstairs quicker than I thought. The look she had on her face when she saw Dante made everyone feel awkward. It was half between, a this boy is with my daughter? And wow look at that boy...

"Hello I'm Anne." She hesitantly extended her hand to my friend. Dante shook it. I wanted to die.

"Dante." He introduced.

Mother's eyes widened as he said his name then her eyes shifted to me. She's heard that name before. "It's very nice to meet you, Dante." She wanted to make up for everything so she didn't say much else. Mother put the bowl of food on the counter and asked him, "Would you like any?"

"Um, no thanks I'm fine." This was so weird. Everyone was quite. "I actually have an appointment that I need to be at." Dante stood up from the couch. "I'll see you tomorrow." He kissed me on the forehead. "It was nice meeting you, Anne." They shook hands one more time before he left.

She handed me a bowl of macaroni and then took Dante's seat on the couch. Mother wouldn't eat anything unless it was a salad. "So that's him?"