Secret Agent, Counterspy (?????????) | Rewritten From Chapter 51+

Chapter 13- Scrapbook

"Kieran. Kieran, please, just listen to this. I think it's kind of important." Clyde said soothingly.

"What is it?" Kieran retorted back, wanting to murder Clyde.

Talk about best friends that didn't really trust each other.

Clyde didn't know how to say it. It was like every time he tried bringing a subject about his sister- any subject- he would just freeze and die inside.

"I didn't know how to say it earlier but..."

"But what!"

"Vanessa doesn't actually like you."

There, Clyde said it.

Kieran glared at him, mortified, before becoming even more annoyed, claiming Clyde was just envious because Maria Grace didn't like him back.

"I'm not jealous, Kieran. Vanessa really doesn't like you," Clyde told him.

"Okay, I kinda need more detail on this because I'm seriously not convinced right now."

Clyde could have gone on about this forever, but he didn't, obviously.

"Kieran. My friend. As Vanessa's lucky brother, I know everything about her, such as who she likes, hates, and doesn't like though not necessarily hate. You're one of the people she hates. She only likes you because you're my best friend."

Kieran felt hurt, anger rising up inside of him. He wanted to scream at Clyde again.

"Also, she doesn't like you like that. She told me everything. Usually when a boy likes her, which has been like 50 people over the past week, she just lies saying she likes some of them back, but doesn't actually mean it. Like you."

Kieran was infuriated right now. His face was turning red and he wanted to vent or let off steam.

"Vanessa had a boyfriend two years ago. But then he died, he committed suicide because of her. Don't ask why. It's too personal and she doesn't want me to tell anyone. She's not looking for a relationship. Like I said, she only likes you because you're my closest friend. If you weren't then she wouldn't like you at all. She's not into you." He didn't blame her, he wanted to add, but didn't. "I'm sorry."

Kieran felt like crying, as well as dying.
The one girl he truly liked was a jerk.

"I swear Clyde, if you're lying about this..."

"I'm not," Clyde interrupted hastily. "Besides, I've got proof."

It was like Clyde was fully prepared for this conversation because he went on his phone and showed Kieran a voice recording, and told him that it was from Vanessa.

Kieran put Clyde's phone close to his ear and listened.

"Oh Kieran? He's such an idiot. I hate him soooo much. Every time he sees me he's always freezing like a statue or something, and staring at me dementedly. He should really see the stupid look on his face when he does that! I'm only using him because he's smart. I was thinking of using him to help me with my homework as well... And cheat in tests afterwards."

End of voice recording, Kieran was fully crying by now.

"That doesn't sound like her, sounds like you actually, Clyde," Kieran whispered.

"No. It was her, believe it or not. It's because she lost her voice. When she loses her voice, Vanessa sounds like me. You wouldn't know because she's never lost her voice in front of you before."

Kieran, who had stopped crying, had fully had it by now.

"Can you send that voice message to me? I would like to give Vanessa a taste of her own medicine."

"I already have. Check your phone."

Kieran didn't. And didn't reply either.

"You okay?"

Kieran shook his head.

"I mean. I've already had enough atrocious things happen to me in my life, and now my 'girlfriend' doesn't even like me? Could my life possibly get any worse?"

"So what are you going to do about it?" Clyde wondered enthusiastically, totally avoiding Kieran's rhetorical question.

"Oh I know exactly what I'm going to do about it," Kieran hissed back. "I'm never talking to you, or Vanessa, ever again! And I mean it this time."

Then Kieran slammed the locker one more time in aggravation before walking away.

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Moral of chapter: Don't always believe "truths" and don't always fall for "lies". People's true colours show when you're no longer beneficial to their life.