Betrayed

Chapter 7

The next morning was completely hectic. We all woke up around eight in the morning because it was my nephew’s baptism. I had bought him a christening pendant made of real gold and I was to be his godmother while my brother was the godfather.

I took a quick shower and slipped into my pale yellow sun dress. I didn’t have time to straighten my hair so I lathered it up with some moose and scrunched it into curls. After applying some basic make up I checked on everyone else. We all were set to go and we had to fly to the church to be on time. As we pulled up to the church we noticed everyone was pretty much already there. We walked up the steps and ran into my parents, aunts, grandmothers and Cara and Mike.

Cara had been warned not to wear anything slutty so she was in a pair of black gaucho pants and a button up pink blouse while Mike was wearing his black suit with a gray shirt. He looked all fancy and dressed up which I wasn’t used to because he always wore basketball shorts and t-shirts.

He gave me a quick hug as soon as he saw me and told Cara, “My dates here now so I’ll see you later.” She rolled her eyes and I giggled a little.

We all filed into the church pews. Aidan, my sister, my brother in law, my parents, brother and I in the first since we were immediate family and everyone else in the pew behind us.

We went through the ceremony with the priest blessing all the little babies there. If you’ve ever been to a catholic church you know there’s a part of the mass when everyone shakes the people’s hands around them. Families, especially couples, kiss either on the cheek or lips during this part. As I kissed my families cheeks and turned to shake hands with my other relatives I saw Mike and Cara share a short and simple kiss.

Then Cara leaned in and kissed my cheek when it was Mike’s turn I went to hug him briefly and kiss him on the cheek but he turned just in time to press his lips gently to mine. It wasn’t what all of you are expecting, no fireworks, no lights, no songs playing in the background. I was in too much of shock to feel or think much of anything. The kid had kissed me in front of my whole family. I could still feel the slight weight of his lips on mine. I started to blush slightly as I turned back around and noticed everyone had seen. Cara punched Mike in the side and my dad gave me a worried look.

After the mass was over we all went outside and gathered around our cars. Mike, Cara, my grandmother and I were talking to the side of the parking lot.

“So Tif, you coming back to the house with me?” Mike asked and shocked the hell out of everyone.

“What exactly is going on?” My grandmother obviously wasn’t in on this whole new situation and looked on oddly.

“Mike’s got this new obsession with Tiffany and is stalking her. He wants to go out with her and she won’t.” My grandmother gave Mike a dirty look and walked away. Cara shot daggers at Mike.

“Well my mom is taking my car so I have to ride with you Mike. Tif you coming with us?”

“Um no thanks, I’m going to head back with Christiane and Mike, thanks.” I quickly walked away from them and towards my sister at her car.

“Did Mike seriously kiss you in church or did I imagine that?” I laughed, god how I wished she’d imagined it. I was so embarrassed and didn’t know if Cara was pissed at me or not. She seemed to genuinely blame Mike alone for it, so I was thankful for that.

“Yeah, I hug the kid and he thinks it’s an open invitation. God help me, I think I’m in over my head CO. Help me.”

“Too late hun, you’re over and now you got to live with what you started.”

“I started?!?!!?!? You and Cara are the ones that encouraged this and forced me to go out with him in the first place!”

“Yeah when I thought it was a joke, but now he really likes you Tif, and you’re going to end up getting into a huge fight with Cara over this. Not to mention the fact that I’m pretty sure you’re not at all as interested as he is.”

“It’s not that, it’s just he’s my friend, I never really thought of him as anything else. It’s so confusing and complicated now.”

We all headed back to the house and everyone began eating and laughing. The boys decided to play whiffle ball in the back. We all went out and were watching. Mike kept jogging up to me and calling me sweetie. It was beginning to get on Cara’s nerves, and she wasn’t the only one. I couldn’t stand him calling me sweetie. I hated pet names.

As it got later people started leaving and it was mainly the younger generations left. My sister had invited her friends Cat and Nicole. Since Nicole was Nate’s brother she began asking me how everything was. I told her it was pretty much in the past. I didn’t want to go there and get involved.

“What’s going on with you and Mike? I thought he was Cara’s boyfriend but it looks like to me he’s yours.”

“It’s a joke. He asked me out and Cara thought it was ideal since she could go out with some other guy then. If I was keeping Mike busy he would never find out about her new toy. The problem is we all thought Mike was kidding but now he seems to be getting into this whole dating things.”

They laughed and told me it was Cara’s own fault and to go get em’. At around ten everyone had left but Cara and Mike. Cara was sitting on the couch doing some of her homework while I was in the kitchen making brownies. All of a sudden I felt someone wrap their arms around my middle.

“Hey sweetie. Cooking for me?” It was Mike and he had a devilish look on his face.

“No, I’m cooking for everyone. What are you doing, Cara’s in the other room.” I pushed his hands off my middle and turned back towards the brownies.

He slowly leaned his head down to my ear and pushed my hair aside.
“She can’t hear us. What do you say about that kiss now?” I guess he didn’t count the kiss in the church since he pretty much forced it on me, now he wanted me to willingly kiss him. God save me I just wanted to shut him up so I turned my head and leaned up into his mouth.

His lips were warm and I could taste the blunt he had smoked a little while earlier. Did I mention I was high, this could explain why I was making such a crazy mistake with Cara in the next room. He wrapped his arms around me and leaned into the kiss a little more. He nipped at my bottom lip asking for permission and II slowly began to slide my lips open letting him in when it hit. She was in the next room, he was HER boyfriend, well ex but they lived together, I was being stupid. I didn’t even want to kiss him, it was to shut him up. I quickly pulled back.

“There now go see your girlfriend I’m sure she missed you.” I walked into the bathroom and shut the door.

I didn’t know if I should laugh or cry. I hadn’t ever been in the middle of a situation like this in my whole life and I never wanted to be. It was too scary, she may be a whore and he may be a nice guy but she was my cousin and she believed us to be best friends. The sad part is she had done it to me before. She had dated Jack after we had broken up. The worst part was Jack was my first boyfriend my first kiss and it had stung so bad. Now I sort of felt like I was getting payback for it all. But I knew it wasn’t the right thing to do, I had morals unlike her. I ended up joining everyone in the living room and we all sat around for what seemed like hours. It was weird but I just couldn’t shake the feeling that something bad was going to happen and I would be at the center of it.