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• BEHIND THE MASK    CHAPTER EIGHT

  What the hell have i done!I woke up with regret my emotions were mixed and i couldn't think clearly i was confused with all these new feelings. I felt different and u had Max's cologne all over my body. I couldn't restrain myself the tempatation was too much to handle what was i supposed to do?"I was drunk and wasted last night and that's partly my fault. Glancing at my other side Max was long gone his spot was empty. A gray piece of paper was neatly folded on the dresser. I hurridely grab the piece of writing.LAST NIGHT WAS THE BEST NIGHT OF MY LIFE I HOPE TO SEE YOU AGAIN P.S MY NUMBER(9187625435262)He left me his number. I slept with a man oh no my mother is going to kill me if she ever finds out about this one night stand. Susan was right all along i just didn't want to accept that it was true. I thought it was the alcohol affecting me, but it turns out am actually attracted to men and am having a breakdown.

• BEHIND THE MASK    CHAPTER SEVEN

  Someone is shaking my shoulder gently.My eyes flicker open as i wipe the sweat off my forehead and calm myself down."Are you okay?" his smooth husky voice asks, as he soothes my fears away."Yeah am fine" i pant.He sits up staring at me thoughtfully, as we sit in the darkness looking at one another."Did you have a nightmare? he asks cyriously.I stare at the ceiling and chuckle."Sort of my mother had hooked me up with a spoiled brat.""Susana?" he asks teasing.I sit up and stare at him shocked."How did you know her name?"He laughs."You talk in your sleep your girlfriend seems interesting you kept yelling at her" he says coolly."Susan isn't my girlfriend our relationshio is arranged only for business benefits" i say sternly.He shrugs carelessly.

• BEHIND THE MASK    CHAPTER SIX

  My vision is burry when i head upstairs i can't make out a single face in this room their voices plus the loud music sounds like the buzzing of mouquitoes. And it's annoying me like hell. The muisc is loudly roaring in my ears as i stagger up the stairs unaware of my cuurent surroundings. The hall seems endless as i stumble and bump into people. And they are pissed as they throw insults at me."Sorry" i lazily mumble. As i walk further away from the loud funk techno music is slowly dying and the hall is getting more quite. There are multiple bedrooms and i can't decide which one to enter. I stumble into one of the room's and a girl screams and covers her bare breasts."Get out!" she yells angrily. And i chuckle and close the door."Well that was appealing" i mutter caustically. That girl might have been covering herself, but she looks like a blob in my eyes sorry, but blame the alcohol it's influencing my senses. I sigh deeply and

• BEHIND THE MASK    CHAPTER FIVE

  A week later Susan texted me and suggested that we meet at a local cafe. We briefly greeted each other the moment was very awkward and intense. She kept shifting in her seat uncomfortably."How is Drake doing?" i ask mockingly.Her face goes pale and she blushes scarlet."Ryder am sorry i-"You don't need to give me any explanation Susan your face shows it all. besides he was blown protective over you."She sighs deeply."We can end it here Susan am not also interested in you" i say coolly and she nodes.She then cocks a brow at me."You're making it obvious Ryder you're not into women are you?" she taunts.I chuckle lightly."Shut up Susan."She grins at me."That wasn't an actual answer, but don't worry your little secret is safe with me" she says softly and sips her latte.

• BEHIND THE MASK    CHAPTER FOUR

  My friends Harry and Jake walked towards me during lunch."You look wasted Ryder what happened to you?" Harry asked curiously while cocking a brow at me."I had a few drinks and got laid."They stared at me in shock."You cheated on Susan with a random chick or you are so screwed Ryder" Jake says in a mocking tone."Emily isn't just a random chick" i say angrily.They shrug and accept defeat."Anyway there's a party going to take place the three of us are invite" Harry says coolly and smirks."So are you coming? Jake asks waiting for my response. I stay silent thinking of what to say the pressure of rejecting it is too much there all waiting for me say something about the invitation.When i recall my mother's words i ball my hands into fists under the table."No son of mine will return wasted and drunk do you hear me Ryder!" she yells angrily.And i smirk inside."I think i'll go it might

• BEHIND THE MASK    CHAPTER THREE

  I lost my identity without even realizing it i didn't know who i was, but i was the man behind the mask pretending to be my parents perfect son. I couldn't understand anything at all maybe i was just a living corpse wondering the earth without a purpose. I was my parents beloved pet and there was nothing i could do about it. I feel like my only aim was to listen to my parents orders and be their human slave, but something inside me was building."Anger."I needed to keep up my parent's reputation and impress the crowd i wouldn't want to taint their name or they would certainly ruin me not in a harmful way, but financially. I was Ryder woods the son of multi billionaires i couldn't embarrass them portray a bad image for them. I couldn't stay cooped up in my room the entire day in the evening i decided to go to the pub to get a drink.I just needed clear my head and wake up from this shitty nightmare of a life. An hour later i arrived at the drunk city pub i pulle