“What if I don't want to?” Lance said.
Joey was getting aggrevated so he dragged Lance over to where Lila was.
“Now talk to each other!” Joey pushed Lance closer to Lila since Lance didn’t
look like he intended anytime soon to move closer to her. Joey walked back
to where Christina was waiting for him.
“Lila, you can talk all you want. I’m not speaking to you,” Lance said in
anger. He refused to even look at her. His eyes remained on other couples
dancing behind Lila.
“Lance please.…:” She touched his hand but he pulled it away like her hand
was fire. “Justin is blackmailing me,” Lila said.
“So?”
“Lance, please just listen. Before I met you, me and Joey used to date, and
well Justin has a picture of me and him and it's very revealing. And Justin
said he'd show it to you and make sure you broke up with me. Justin wants
Christina back so bad he said if I didn't pretend to be dating him, he'd
show you it.”
“Oh please, don't expect me to believe that!” he yelled. Lila grabbed something
out of her purse and handed it to Lance. He was shocked when he saw it. “It’s
true?” She nodded and put her hand on Lance's shoulder. He didn’t back away
this time. “I'm gonna kill him!”
Lance headed for where Justin was standing by the punch bowl and punched
him out. Justin stood up after a few minutes with blood on his forehead.
“What was that for?” Justin found this amusing. He laughed. “Oh, because
I stole your girlfriend, right?”
Lance just laughed in his face then put his arm around Lila then threw the
picture at Justin. “Don't you ever try to take advantage of her again, you
got that?”
Justin looked at Lila. “How could you show him? I thought you loved him.
Why would you show him a picture of you with some other guy?” He smirked
and laughed again. Though Lance didn’t understand why Justin was laughing.
Everything was slowly blowing up in his face.
“You think I care if she dated Joey? Cause I don't. Joey loves Christina.
Oh, did that one hurt? GOOD!” Lance smirked, his eyes trailing across the
dance floor where Christina and Joey were dancing. They were dancing very
close, their lips pressed against each others.
“What is going on?” Justin demanded. “I thought Joey came here with Missy.”
He looked to see Missy flirting with some different guy. “And wait a second,
Lila you were just all over me.…” He looked very confused. It was slowly
putting the pieces together. Very slowly.
“To get you back for everything you've done.” Lila’s anger and resentment
showed in her voice. “You hurt so many of my friends, including Christina
who gave you her love and devotion and you cheated on her! And Lance, that
was just cruel what you did to him. It's unbelievable that you hit me.…”
Lance looked at her and frowned. “He hit you?” He got more mad and stepped
closer to Justin about to punch him when Lila grabbed his arm. “What? He
deserves it.”
“He's the violent one, not you.”
Lance smiled, pulled his arm back. He knew she was right.
“Excuse me? I am not violent!” Justin yelled.
“Yes you are,” Lila said. “You hit me to the ground the other day and there
were other instances.”
“Whatever,” Justin said. He got up from the ground and stared at Christina
and Joey who were now talking while dancing to a slow song. “Why did she
have to pick him? He's such a loser.”
Chris stepped in front of Justin. “Don’t call my friend a loser.”
“You’re an even bigger loser,” Justin said.
Chris' mouth dropped and he stuck his tongue out. “Shut up,” he said.
Justin laughed then walked past them and walked over to where Joey and Christina
were dancing.
“Can I cut in?”
Christina looked up into the eyes of the one who managed to break her heart.
“Go away,” she said.
Joey just held Christina tighter. He suddenly had the urge to beat Justin
to a pulp, but held back.
“Get away from my girlfriend,” Justin said.