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“I’m not wrong,” Amory says.
Her ignorance and insistence pisses Blake off and she walks over to Amory’s blanket pile and pulls the cover off from over her head.
“Hey,” Amory objects, “what the hell?”
“No,” Blake says, “I’m sick and tired of your bullshit. You’re going to listen to me before you continue your bullshit. Then, if you still want to lay around in your ignorance, fine, but you’re gonna listen to me first.”
Amory growls and tries to pull the blanket away from Blake, but Blake holds strong and doesn’t let her.
“Stop it,” Blake demands, “just listen to me.”
Amory gives up on trying to take the blanket back and crosses her arms over her chest. She looks down at the ground and doesn’t say anything to Blake, but Blake takes it. She needs to talk to her, even if she’s acting like a brick wall.
“Look,” Blake says, “I’m sorry for what I did with Natalie.”
“Oh, are you?” Amory asks, sarcasm and anger dripping from her voice.
“Yes,” Blake says, “it’s clear that it messed you up, especially since you’re now accusing me of cheating on a girlfriend that I don’t have. But I didn’t cheat on anyone because I’m not dating anyone. I haven’t had a girlfriend in over a year, and I told Jenna about you after things started with us, so it’s not like she didn’t know or wasn’t okay with it.”
Blake pauses for a moment and coughs again. She chalks it up to allergies. She doesn’t know why else she would be coughing like this.
“Jenna and I are just friends,” Blake continues. “We were doing a friends-with-benefits thing, but we ended that because of you. I should have ended it before starting things with you. I should have been more up front with you about it and I am sorry for that.”
“I don’t believe you,” Amory says, her beautiful face still angry.
Blake sighs. “Of course you don’t. Because you’re so stubborn and stuck in your ways. You won’t even believe the truth because that’s what I’m telling you.”
“How am I supposed to believe it’s the truth,” Amory says, “when you’ve lied to me and hurt me before?”
Blake doesn’t know what to say, how to get it through to Amory that she’s not lying or trying to hurt her. “I never really even lied to you in the past, either,” Blake says. “What I did clearly hurt you, but I didn’t lie. I didn’t know you were dating Natalie and I told you everything I knew. You know that.”
Amory frowns, but then she crosses her arms and huffs.
Blake just sighs and does the only thing she knows to do. She kisses Amory, bites her lip, and pushes her down on the floor, sitting on top of her.
“What the hell?” Amory asks.
“I haven’t felt this way about someone else in years,” Blake says, “haven’t cared for someone this much in forever. I really care about you, Amory, and I’m not lying to you. I’m telling you the truth because I’m hoping that you feel the same way as me.”
She looks Amory in the eyes and is surprised to see tears there, telling her not to give up hope.
“I—” Amory sniffles, “I care about you, too,” she admits, “but I can’t trust you. Not like this.”
Blake sighs and decides that there’s nothing left she can do. Amory’s trust was broken a long time ago, and there’s nothing Blake can do to fix it. Amory has to do that, and it doesn’t look like she’s ready.
“Okay,” Blake says with a sigh before she starts coughing again. She leans into her elbow to keep Amory from getting sprayed with her cough.
Amory sits up in alarm, almost knocking Blake to the floor.
“Are you okay?” she asks, alarmed and concerned.
In other circumstances, Blake would be comforted by her concern, but Amory’s made it clear that she’s not ready to forgive her, not for sleeping with Natalie or for sleeping with Jenna even though she’s changed and didn’t cheat.
“I’m fine,” Blake says.
“No, you’re not,” Amory argues. “You need to lie down. I’ll grab you some water.”
She leads Blake to the bed and goes to the kitchen where she grabs a bottle of water and takes it to Blake. She hands Blake the bottle with the cap already off.
