Beautiful Broken Rules (Broken, Series #1)(92)

“It’s just a bump in the road. All is well now, I promise.”

Quinn walked in and slammed a plate of bacon and eggs on the coffee table in front of me. I was starving, since I hadn’t eaten in a day and a half.

“Thanks, Quinn,” I mumbled.

“ALL IS NOT WELL, EMERSON!” she yelled at me when I reached for the plate.

“Sure it is. I’m better now, I promise. Those are just bad days for me and you know that. Now I’ll go back to normal. I think I’m finally feeling better about opening up more to Jaxon.” I started eating my breakfast and then I remembered that phone call from Mr. Gordon yesterday, before I drank myself into a mini coma. “Shit, I forgot…”

“What?” Cole asked.

“I found out my parents weren’t having an affair six years ago.”

“Em, people think tequila tells them things all the time. I’m sorry, but everything is still the same with your parents,” Quinn still sounded agitated with me.

“I’m being serious, Quinn, stop making me feel childish. A lawyer called me yesterday, saying six years ago, my parents were in his office transferring a trust fund that they set up for me to have when I turned twenty-one. He said they were arguing the whole time, and my dad was mad that he had to give my mom a ride there. He didn’t know that my parents had died.”

I heard Quinn gasp and bring her hand up to her mouth. Tears instantly filled her eyes. “Why didn’t you tell me this was going on?”

“Quinn, as much as you want me to talk about this stuff, it’s been too hard. I just had my world rocked yesterday. Everything I thought about what happened was a lie. My parents weren’t having an affair. My dad wasn’t cheating on Ellie. Every wall I built up was because of what I thought they had done. I have no idea what to do now. All I know is that I just want to find Jaxon and tell him how sorry I am for the way I acted, and how much I care about him. I’m such an idiot for continuing to let this get to me like that.”

Quinn and Cole just gave me a sad look. “Emmy, Jax was really hurt by what you did…”

“I know, but now I’m going to apologize,” I said, looking at both of them.

“I don’t know if it will work this time. He looked entirely defeated the other night.”

“We’ll be fine, Quinn, stop being so dramatic. Once I talk to him, he’ll understand what happened.”

“I agree with Em, you just need to find him and apologize. He really loves you.”

“I really love him.” The second the words popped out of my mouth my hand shot up to cover it and my eyes widened to see if they had actually heard that.

They had, because they were both staring at me like I’d just admitted that I would be giving them a million dollars later.

“WHAT? This is so great, Em! You have to tell him. He’ll definitely take you back then,” Quinn shouted.

“Take me back? You say that like we broke up,” I frowned at her.

“Em, I’m telling you, he was really upset with you and then, when he found out you left with Devon… I’ve never seen him so wounded,” she answered.

I looked to Cole to see if this was true and he nodded his head. “Shit. Well, I’ll think of something really good. He’ll forgive me, he loves me,” I smiled and got up to go back to my room.

I decided I needed something really good to get his attention and let him know that I loved him and I was sorry, besides just walking up to him and saying it. I opened up my laptop and started creating a mixed CD for him. He loves music. He sings along with every song on the radio. He used to work in a radio station last semester for his internship and my best memory of all is when he danced with me at his mom’s house to that country song.