"Me?" I groaned exasperated.
A nod, "I wasn't drinking, of course, I wasn't even going to stay that for too long, but I stayed long enough to see it all happening. Hayes was talking about how he could have made you bend your knee to him, and kiss the floor he stepped on, given how madly in love you had been for you, if it weren't for Cole being so possessive. That even if you weren't his type, you were pretty hot, and he should have been smarter to make use of your willing body while he had the chance, in your private classes, away from everyone."
"He said what?" I hissed horrified and offended.
She swallowed, "Exactly. Cole wasn't there to hear him, but Rhyot was close enough to, and he yelled at him, telling him to take it back or he would beat the living shite out of him. Nobody understood what the hell he meant by that, since you never seemed close to one another, and when Hayes mocked him and his words, saying that it was true and that you would have been a willing slut for him if he said so, Rhyot was on him in the same instant. He nearly murdered Hayes that night, Ruby."
"Had it not been for Niklaus, his Asian friend, who grabbed hold of Rhyot and separated them, he could have killed Hayes. But now..." she cocked her eyebrows at me, "I get why he reacted that way, because you were never in love with Hayes, as Hayes and everyone thought, given the confusion of your confession, you simply mistook the twins, and you were actually in love with Rhyot. That fight made people start thinking that Rhyot had something with you, because he clearly wasn't as cold towards you as we thought."
"When your brother was back in campus, he went to Rhyot and started a fight, that ended with him getting beaten up by the older Crowther twin. Cole had gone to him to make him pay for how he had nearly killed Hayes, and after beating him up, Rhyot told him that he should worry more about you than his brother, because he had no idea how Hayes was trashing your name behind his back. That later caused a fight between Cole and Hayes, where Cole accused him of being with you, and he said he had never even touched a string of your hair."
"They only did the talking after throwing fists, though. Then, they both went to confront Rhyot, when someone said that Rhyot had taken Hayes' place in your private classes when Hayes would skip them, acting as if he was his younger twin, which none of them knew. That made Cole mad out of his mind, because he began to think Rhyot had actually messed with you and blamed Hayes for it. It was useless, Rhyot beat them both up, this time with Niklaus having his back, but Rhyot didn't confirm or deny anything, he only said it was none of their bloody business."
"To throw fuel on the fire, Niklaus butt in and told Cole what Hayes had said about you in the bonfire, which made Cole and him fight, and Hayes start picking a fight with Niklaus. That kept happening everytime they were in the same bloody place and away from the supervisors. Cole and Hayes spent 11 months without speaking to each other, in which Hayes kept asking for his forgiveness for trashing your name, and after nearly a year, Cole bend to him. Later," she tilted her head to the side, "we learned that Hayes was actually gay, and had been in love with Cole, since elementary school."
"That happened on the end of senior year, it's as far as I know about Cole and Hayes, since I cut contact with the two of them and Jameson after all the shite I witnessed, and of how they had acted about you. I was never one to agree with Rhyot, I didn't like him, for the record, but he was right, Hayes was a jerk, and well... being a jerk seems to be something they have in common. Rhyot shouldn't have made you think he was Hayes, no matter the bloody reason, because there must be one to why he did that. Even so, he fucked up with you, and I'm sorry about all of this, Ruby, genuinely."
I don't think I've ever been so shocked in my life, "Hayes is gay?"
"Right?" She giggled anxiously. "That explained why he ejaculated in 6 seconds every time he was with a girl," she mocked and I gasped, and when she gave me a naughty look, I knew what she was going to ask. "You're the only girl I know to have been with Rhyot, was he... different from his twin in bed? As in, did he last long?"
Jesus, I never thought I would talk about this, "He took... a lot longer than 6 seconds," I chuckled embarrassedly. "Hours, more precisely. He also prioritized making me... get there."
Her jaw dropped, "You orgasmed on your 1st time?"
"Yeah," I pressed my lips together. "He was... intense."
"Girl, you made Rhett on the school?" She whispered.
I cackled at the question, "On the locker room."
Her jaw dropped, "The male locker room?"
"Mmhm," I nodded. "I was leaving the school, passing by the gymnasium one last time, then he grabbed me by my arm out of nowhere and dragged me into the locker room, he was wet from the shower and just in shorts. He locked the door, and before I could even question what the hell he was doing, he kissed me, and I just... kissed him back. We were both... angry, so it was even more intense than my first time in the Crowther villa, and he was even more savage."
She leaned closer, interested, "Was it raw?"
I gasped, "Yes? Yes, it was. I did get pregnant from this little locker room adventure. That was in June 18th, I was ovulating," sigh, "I didn't know it, though, I just realized it when my period didn't come in the end of June, or afterwards, then came the symptoms when I was here in the UK, I thought I was sick, mum thought something else and made me tell her that I had sex twice with one of the Crowther twins. I took a test, it came positive, then I saw her doctor and she confirmed I was pregnant, that was in August 20th, I was already nine weeks pregnant. On March 27th of 2016, at 01:25 am, on a Sunday, my son was born, healthy, 12 days before my birthday on April 8th."
"Your paternal family and Cole..."
"They don't know. No one in the US knows. I panicked because I was scared, I was 15, Leah, I didn't know what the hell I was doing, I was a kid about to have a kid. I had cut ties with dad and Cole and the others, so, I decided to keep it away from them, mum agreed with me."
"But," she paused, "why didn't you reach out to the Crowther?"
I scoffed, "Leah, they're dangerous."
"Because they are... troublemakers?"
"No, because, they are part of the mafia of Massachusetts," the second my words settled in, she froze, eyes widening. "Mum told me, she said that the Crowther were probably, the most dangerous family of New England, their power went beyond what we believed just by seeing how successful their business empire is. That scared me, if I didn't want to contact them before, that killed all the remaining desire to do so. I couldn't risk my life or my son's, so, I did what was best for him, that's what I'm still doing, that's why I've been living low-key, away the radar, far from the spotlights that follow my mum in here."
"When my smart son was old enough to question why he didn't have a dad like the other kids in school, why I was alone rasing him, I didn't want to lie to him, but I couldn't tell him the whole truth. So, I told him that back in senior high, I fell in love with a guy older than me from my class, and by the time I graduated from highschool, I was pregnant of him. But his dad, wanted nothing with me, and we went on in different paths, and for fear of his dad's family doing something to me, because they were extremely dangerous, I stayed in the UK, away from them, and keeping him safe with me."