Maya: Hey, do you want to come over? Naira’s gone out for a while.
Jaime: Sure. Where’s she gone off to?
Maya: She went out with Vic, so she shouldn’t be back for a while.
Jaime: What are they doing?
Maya: I don’t know. Probably something fun.

Naira’s POV

I let out a loud sigh as I looked over Maya’s shoulder, “why the fuck does he care about what I’m doing? He has no right to freak out about me hanging out with another guy when he’s been doing this to us.”

“Because you and Vic have been getting very close lately,” Maya turned to look at me, wiggling her eyebrows in a suggestive manner, “not that I think it’s ok, though.”

“I like the guy, so what?” I rolled my eyes. It was really weird; Jaime had always acted like this around us, but we never even realised. It should have been so obvious, shouldn’t it? He was more afraid of either of us finding out than one of the guys knowing about what was going on.

“Oooooh,” Maya whistled, smirking at me as if she knew something I didn’t, “Naira has a crush!”

“I do not!” I gasped as I took a step away from her. I was just about to break up with somebody, there was no way I already got feelings for somebody else. Sure, I wasn’t falling for Jaime yet, but that didn’t mean I thought of Vic like that!

“You literally just said you like him, though!” She exclaimed, trying to force me to spill a secret I wasn’t even keeping, because there was no secret.

“Exactly. I said like, not a crush. There’s a big difference, Maya,” I groaned. It was like I was back in highschool: thinking somebody was nice would immediately mean you wanted to date them, while it really wasn’t true.

“You’ll be such a cute couple. Oh my god! And you’ll have beautiful babies and live in a nice big house so you can grow old together! I’ve so gotta make it happen! You guys will be so cute and happy together!” Maya gushed as she was basically planning out my whole future with one of her best friends. I liked Vic, but did I like him enough for any of that to even start happening?

“Let’s first deal with Jaime, ok? Then I’ll continue to tell you that I do not have a crush on him.”

“Maybe you don’t have a crush on him, but maybe Vic is crushing on you!” she skipped towards her position, leaving me standing alone in the living room.

“Maya!” I shouted after her only to not get a response. All I could do what let out an annoyed huff and start walking the opposite direction where I was going to have to wait until Jaime came.

Well, ok then. Now I was left to figure it out all by myself. I never really thought of anything going on between me and Vic, and I never really thought he’d look at me that way. Did he? I definitely didn’t know, but Maya made it seem like there was a possibility. Oh well, it didn’t matter yet anyway. It wasn’t like I was ready to jump into a new relationship straight after ending one, even if I liked Vic like that, which I did not. Simple as that.

Or not. My thoughts had taken long enough for Jaime to get to the house and walk in straight away. Maya had made sure to tell him to just come in and not knock on the door. If it didn’t happen like that, the plan would already fail before it had fully started. This better work, or it would only be embarrassing.

“Babe!” Jaime shouted out, calling out to Maya, but now it was time to see if I was able to act at all. I took a deep breath, telling myself it was all ok and that this was funny. Nothing would go wrong if I believed in myself. This was the first time I came up with a plan for revenge, I was not going to mess this up.

I walked into the living room casually, as if he called out for me and said the one line I was already terrified of saying, “what?”

Maya and I coincidentally walked out and said the same thing at the same time. It was what we wanted to do, but we also knew it would be nearly impossible, but it turned out we managed to do it how we originally wanted to. Jaime froze up at the sound of both of our voices answering him. He was starting to panic (or course trying to hide it), trying to figure out what to say or do.

I could just think of every possibility going through his mind at that moment. Maybe he could react the way he wanted, saying that he didn’t know I was here. But that would give him away to me; I’d know he didn’t call out babe to me, but instead to Maya; I’d know what was going on and I’d call him out on it. He could say hi to both of us, but that would just be weird. There just wasn’t enough time for him to figure it all out.

Maya decided it was better if she’d start a conversation if Jaime wasn’t going to do it, “oh, hey, Naira. I didn’t know you were still here.”

“Vic and I canceled our plans. Is that a problem?” I asked, already acting like I knew something suspicious was going on. Well, I technically knew something was going on, but now I had to make is seem like I didn’t know exactly what it was.

“I thought you were gone, so I asked Jaime to come over and keep me some company,” she shrugged like it was no big deal, but we both knew it was going to be the complete opposite.

I turned to Jaime and raised an eyebrow at him, “wait, so you knew I wasn’t here?”

His face turned pale. I could tell he was terrified of me figuring it out, and he knew exactly that that was what was going to happen any time soon. He ran a hand through his hair in distress, still trying to find an escape route so nobody would find. I would have felt guilty for purposely doing this to him, but, to be honest, I couldn’t care less now. He had played with mine and Maya’s feelings, so now it was time to play with his. It definitely made us horrible people, but neither of us really cared at that moment. This was to make him realise how bad he fucked up, and we weren’t going to go too far, we didn’t want to ruin his life, only play with him.

“I should probably go…” Jaime trailed off, already starting to make his way back to the front door. But we couldn’t have him leave just when the fun part was starting to happen.

I snapped my fingers and pointed at him, “I don’t think so.” He immediately stopped moving and went back to his position from before. It was pretty funny to see him act like such a scared and lost puppy. I actually thought he would do anything just for me to not say what I was thinking out loud. So, I just decided to go right for it.

I looked at Maya as well, my eyes flickering between them, “so when were you going to tell me?”

“Tell you what?” Maya tried to show her confusion as well as she could, but I knew just how fake it all was.

“That you’ve been helping him cheat on me!” I said loud and clear. Jaime visibly flinched, afraid of what was going to happen next. And boy, did he have to be afraid. Shit was about to go down.

“Umm, excuse me. I never did such thing!” She shouted back, trying her best to recreate the fury she had when we actually fought. It was really starting to become believable, even for me. She continued to get ‘mad’ at me, “Jaime and I have been seeing each other for a while. Last time I checked, you weren’t even interested in him.”

I knew this was all fake and that Maya and I had planned it all out, but I was so afraid of saying the wrong thing. Maybe I would set her off, and we’d actually start fighting again. I didn’t want that. I knew I wasn’t going to care what Maya said, no matter what. But I really didn’t want to actually hurt her just to get back at a guy.

“Since when did I not show any interest in him?” I decided that that was the safe way to go now. Just wait a bit until the whole thing escalated, you know.

“Since the beginning! You were uncomfortable with everything he did around you! It was so obvious, so don’t tell me that it isn’t true,” Maya pointed out, Jaime jumping at the tone of her voice.

“Sorry to tell you, but it’s not true! I’m just not good with meeting new people. So, shut the fuck up. You don’t know me!”

“O-okay, girls, let’s calm down and talk like civil people,” Jaime carefully interrupted, standing in the middle of us. He was shaking slightly, terrified of what Maya and I would do to each other. This was the moment he was going to have to explain everything so Maya and I would stop being mad each other. But we couldn’t have that happen. We could not allow him to try and fix it all.

“Shut the fuck up, Jaime!” I yelled at him, knowing I had to make this now go way further than what seemed realistic, “This isn’t about you! This is about Maya thinking she can just act like you’re her boyfriend, while you aren’t.”

“Newsflash! He fucking is, you’re the one that’s got this whole thing wrong,” Maya retorted, “I don’t care how much you think he likes you if you’ve guys only had a one night stand, I can’t do anything about that. But, how dare you, just come up to him like that! It’s so obvious you are just saying all this bullshit and that he really doesn’t even give a fuck about you. Just get out of this house and leave us be, you bitch!”

“Fine by me!” I screamed and turned around to go to the stairs, “See if I care. I’ll have a much better life without you; without living with some lying slut who thinks she’s the best thing around!”

Did that go too far? I felt like it did, but when I took a quick glance back, it didn’t seem like Maya cared at all, which was good. I could not let this lead to an actual fight, that would be very screwed up. Vic, Mike, and Tony would probably not even believe that we’d be actually mad at each other, since they knew about the plan. It would just lead to a whole new mess.

I rushed up the stairs and slammed the door to my bedroom. My suitcases were already ready to be brought downstairs. No, my stuff wasn’t actually in them. We just put a couple of books in each of my suitcases to make them heavy and make the whole thing more realistic in case Jaime tried to pick one of them up. I wasn’t going to put my actual belongings in them after just having taken them all out again. We just made sure that nothing would give it away to Jaime. It would be very awkward if we would find out that he was just playing along.

As soon as my door was closed, it was Maya’s cue to rush upstairs and hide in her room. That way Jaime would be left downstairs to think of everything he had done. You know, to make him feel even more guilty. Just letting him see us fight was not enough, he actually had to feel terrible about it.

And it actually worked. Not much after the sound of Maya’s door closing echoing through the house, Jaime was trying to speak to us from downstairs, “guys! Please. Just don’t be mad at each other. I did this all, it’s all on me, don’t blame each other. I caused it all and it was a terrible mistake. Just don’t let this ruin your friendship, if anything, let it ruin your friendship with me.”

So, that happened a lot quicker than I expected. I was supposed to come back downstairs as soon as that happened. Was it too soon to come downstairs with packed suitcases now? But then again, when being mad you just throw everything in, not bother about the organisation. Well, I couldn’t let him come upstairs, it would all work out so much better if he stayed downstairs.

I opened my door and picked up two heavy suitcases. It probably wouldn’t even faze Jaime that I already finished packing, his mind wasn’t exactly focused on that now. As I opened my door in an angry fashion, making sure it was very loud, Maya quickly peaked out of her room to see how everything was going.

“Sorry I called you a slut,” I whispered very quickly to her.

“Sorry I called you a bitch,” she smiled back, nodding at me to go.

I marched towards the stairs and charged down them, running right past Jaime to put my suitcases at the front door. Since he didn’t say anything and only watched me, I went to go back upstairs to collect the last suitcase we had prepared. Luckily, he grabbed my wrist before I could walk away. I quickly shook his grip off, actually really not wanting him to touch me. Although this was all fake, I was still very annoyed with him.

“Naira, wait,” he looked me in the eyes, showing me how sad he was, “let me explain.”

“Explain what? There’s nothing to explain, it’s all Maya’s fault,” I insisted.

“No, it’s not, it’s all my fault. I’m the one who did all this. I started dating both of you at the same time, thinking I would figure it out, but I didn’t. Instead I was selfish and continued, not caring about how this could affect you guys. Just don’t be mad at Maya.” Jaime pleaded, begging for me to rethink the whole thing. If only this was how I actually found out, then none of this would ever have happened.

Now was the time to break it to him, though; to let him know Maya and I knew for quite some time already. We didn’t have to mention the actual fight, because we were long past that, but I just wanted to see how Jaime would react to that. So, I waited for Maya to sneak down the stairs without making a noise.

When I saw her standing on the last step, I started talking again, “Oh, no, I’m not mad at Maya.”

“What?” Jaime raised an eyebrow at me, not sure with what was going on, “was that sarcastic? Or…?”

“Hey, Jaime!” Maya shouted as she stood just a couple steps behind him. Jaime turned around in surprise, still not understand what the hell was actually happening. But he didn’t have time to think it out. Maya raised her fist and punched him right in the nose, causing him to bend over and grab his nose.

“Good one,” I grinned and high fived Maya. I could tell that she had been wanting to do that for quite some time now. She didn’t even care what my plan was, as long as she got to punch Jaime in the face. Who was I to reject that? I would love to see it, but would never do that myself.

“Ok, I deserved that,” Jaime groaned as he stood up, still holding his nose, which was bleeding. He turned to me and gave me a small nod, “you can punch me as well, go ahead.”

I shook my head while squinting my eyes just a bit, “no, I don’t do that.”

“Ok, good, because this is really painful already--”

I walked up to him and kneed him right in the balls, “I said I didn’t punch, that doesn’t mean I won’t fuck you up.”

He let out a loud groan of pain, letting his nose go to grab his crotch instead, while he fell to his knees. I would feel sympathy for him, except I really didn’t feel up for it. He didn’t deserve me feeling bad for him. He brought it all onto himself, there was nothing I could do about it.

“Are you really that stupid, Jaime?” Maya crouched in front of him, making intimidating eye contact with him, “were you really going to let it escalate to something like this? What would you have done if this really happened?”

And that was how Maya and I simultaneously broke up with the guy that played us both.

Notes

So, IMPORTANT NOTE HERE, if you ready Nicky's story The Diary, you'll already know that she's on a vacation right now (if not, you might want to check it out for more detail). I'll also be gone in a week, but only for two weeks. This lead to the decision to just put the story on hold for three weeks until we get back to writing it. Just trust me when I say that vacations can lead to the best ideas ever.

So, I hope this chapter is satisfactory enough. It doesn't have a cliffhanger, so there's that. And they got their revenge, so you don't have to wait for that anymore either. There will still be so much coming up next. I seriously can't wait to get to the next part, it's so exciting! I hope you guys will like what happens next.

- aweirdkindofyellow