Sweet Secret by Karina Castillo (Bekacastle) (recommended books to read .txt) 📕

“What are you doing here?” I asked Joe as I looked down at his hand, which was holding the blonde girl.

“Me and Syana came to eat something, what are you doing here? They are together?” Joe pointed at us in a nervous manner.

Are you jealous, perfect Joe?

"Oh, I see," Joe relieved. “You're waiting for Alessia, aren't you Derricks? And while you're waiting, you're with Rebecca helping her through one of her "situations."”

 “That's true?” I turned to Denzel angrily.

“You know we have something, Rebecca, it's too much to ask.” This was too unbelievable. Come on, “Rebecca, don't get…”

Denzel took my arm but Joe pushed him away from me.

"Leave my girlfriend alone." The blonde girl was chewing her gum as she rolled her eyes and walked away understanding the reference. “Stay away from her, Derricks, that's what you should have done from the start.”
"Don't tell me what I should or shouldn't do," Derricks muttered, pushing him away, looking at me through Joe's shoulder, then snorting. “Rebecca is no longer with you, idiot.”

"Let's see who the idiot is." Joe broke away from him and came toward me. “Come on, Bec, make a decision. Are you going to allow him to sleep with another while you get excited about him?”

Neither was a real bloody answer.
"Could you take me home, Joe?" I glared at Denzel. “I want to leave before your date arrives.”

"Please, Rebecca." Denzel stepped in my way. “With him you will not be safe, believe me.”

"I won't be safe with you either, Denzel." I pushed him aside and followed Joe to his car.

Of course I didn't agree to go with him, and I wasn't sure I wanted to go with someone who had already betrayed me once, but it was cold and I was hungry and I needed to go home.

I got into the gray Aveo and buckled in while Joe started the engine.

“You like? It's my new car.” I crossed my arms and got distracted looking at the landscape. If you ignore it, it's better. “I know you don't want to talk to me, but at the very least, I need you to tell me if you're okay.”

“Do you think I'm okay? My mother goes out with a guy who doesn't look bad, but because of her he separated from his wife and now my mother thinks she can fuck at the table where I eat every day. He's turned our house into a hotel, and Denzel…”

"You don't have to worry about that idiot," he said, gripping the steering wheel with his hands and continuing. “I heard you got suspended, that means you won't be seeing him for a few days. Why don't you spend that time with me?”

"You betrayed me, Joe," I reminded him, my voice breaking. “Do you think I'll ever trust you like that again?”

"I just think maybe being together isn't such a bad idea after all."
"Is this a joke, Joe? I took my arms off my chest. “There's no way I'm going back with you, our thing never worked out.”

"Why did you cheat on me with Denzel?” he stated ironically. “I can forgive you for that, Rebecca. Even deep down I still like you a lot, why don't you just use me to make him jealous?”

That makes Derricks jealous.

“Nope.” He parked the car in front of my house. “I'll be fine on my own, thanks for bringing me home, Joe.”

I got out of the car, and then prepared to face my mother.
“You are a great cook!” I rolled my eyes as I listened to my mother. 

Surely she had brought her boyfriend home again.

I headed towards the kitchen and what I found was too peculiar and unexpected. There was a guy in a chef's cloth mixing the ingredients for a cheesecake. My mother, apart from being shameless, already liked minors.
"Rebecca," my mother blew out like she'd seen a ghost. “I thought you left with Denzel Derricks, why did you come back so soon?”

My mother had become nervous, that was a sign to suspect that she was doing something strange without my presence, but not something exactly bad because of what I was seeing...

Is this what you used to do when I went to study?

"Actually, Joe was the one who brought me here." I answered curtly, the black boy with greenish eyes began to take off the tablecloth..

"Don't bother, Red.” My mother told him. “This is my daughter Rebecca, and this is Reed Derricks” I was startled to hear that family name…

“Denzel's brother?” hesitate. For God's sake, not his brother, please, for God's sake, for God's sake, not another Derricks please.

"I'm your cousin, Tyler's son," he corrected. “I was working for a car company in California, but I'm here for the holidays. What do you say to me, Rebecca? It shows that you are curious about things around you.”

Yes, it was definitely a Derricks. They always used to take you out of your comfort zone.
“I was suspended until the head of my university decides if I'm fit to stay there, that is, if they don't publish another embarrassing excerpt from my diary first.” He chuckled.

He was just as handsome and cocky as Denzel Derricks.

"What are you doing here, Reed Derricks?" My mother gave me a threatening look. 

I know, I know, no bad behavior in front of strangers, was the motto of the house.

“Invite the Derrickses to dinner with us tonight” and every night from now on, mother. It's what you've been doing.

"And you're a great cook." I took a seat. “What will you do to us tonight? My mother and I are very used to having Chinese food for dinner.”

“I believe that the love for food is not defined by the type of culture, but by its taste.” answered “I will cook chicken breasts, vegetables, rice and a cake for dessert. A lot like Chinese food, isn't it, Rebecca?”

Yeah, he definitely had the quirky, sexy Derricks accent.

I just hope this dinner isn't a disaster.