All That's Been Said by Doherty Emma

Author:Doherty, Emma
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Carlington Twins Duet, Book 2
Publisher: Longley Publishing
Published: 2019-11-06T16:00:00+00:00

The day finally draws to an end, and I’m exiting my English class whilst fighting back a yawn. This whole attending school properly thing is way more work than I thought it would be.

I take a right and head down the hallway, and a throat is cleared behind me. I turn to see Matty stood there against some lockers. He doesn’t have his usual swagger; he still looks pale and is clearly nervous.

I stop in front of him.

“About what happened before, whatever you said to Ethan…thank you.”

“You want to bang me so hard my brains come out through my nose?”

He winces as I raise an eyebrow at him.

“There were more, weren’t there? Should I repeat them too?” I could do too, because Ethan wasn’t lying; the comments got more and more nasty as Matty went on. I know because Evie was telling Lila outside my chemistry class loudly enough for everyone in a five-mile radius to hear.

He’s scarlet red, embarrassment seeping out of every pore. I smirk. He should be embarrassed; his words were crude and vulgar.

“I’m so sorry,” he tells me quietly. “I should never have said those things.”

“You think?”

“I deserved the ass-kicking Ethan gave me.”

I tilt my head to the side and look at him, this boy who looks like the perfect all-American teenager: dimples in his cheeks, perfectly neat haircut, navy letterman jacket he never takes off and which I’ve only just realised he wears like armour. A wave of sadness engulfs me when I see the despair in his brown eyes. How horrible to feel like you can’t be yourself.

“I’m really sorry, Izzy.”

“It’s okay, I’m messing with you. Forget about it.”

“Thank you,” he tells me. “For whatever you said to him. I appreciate it, and I don’t want to lose him as a friend.”

“He’s still your friend, Matty, no matter what.”

He swallows hard, and just for a second, I see the emotion behind his eyes, the emotion he tries to keep covered.

He doesn’t say anything for nearly a minute, staring at the ground, and I can almost see the internal battle he’s fighting right now. He knows once he says the words, he can’t take them back. I have a feeling he’s never told anyone this before.

He glances around and sees people ambling past us, on the way to their afternoon activities or heading outside. “Can we go in there?” He gestures to an empty classroom across the hall.

I nod and follow him, noting when he closes the door behind us and slumps down into a desk. It’s strange seeing this confident, friendly boy like this, seeing his mask slip.

“You know, don’t you?”

I press my lips together, taking him in. He looks like he’s ready to cry. “I have an idea.”

He swallows back a sob, and I step towards him and pull a chair up next to him.

“I tried not to be like this,” he utters, his voice shaking. “I tried really hard not to feel like this.”

I want to burst into tears for him. How utterly awful to be so scared of being yourself that you try desperately to change.

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