Until I Met You

Special chapter. Ethan's

pov.

I always hated rich people. Especially their kids. I grew up in a neighborhood where some rich brats liked to show off their new toys and awesome lifestyle to make me feel unworthy because I lived in a home of servants. Those kids didn't have to do anything to get what they wanted while I had to continue wearing the same old clothes for five years.

So when I got a chance to become Jake's friend, I did. Not because I liked him but because I got to look rich among them. I liked his luxurious lifestyle. I liked the way everyone gave him attention and to the people who hung around him. To me. All the hot girls were always around us. Feeding our ego.

Everything changed when I saw her. Grace.

I was the first to see her when she entered our college. I wanted to just talk to her but that chance slipped from my hand because I stood with my so-called friends. And I couldn't look uncool by going up to a girl. Our group just messed around with hot girls that had big ass and boobs.

But I did get a chance in the cafeteria when we all began to dare each other to kiss a girl. I saw her walking in the cafeteria with her friend and sitting down. I thought I'd finally get my chance. When it was destroyed by Mason. That fucker asked Jake to kiss her. My blood boiled at it. But when she threw her coffee on his shirt, I almost laughed out loud. But I held it in. She was my type of girl. Feisty and someone who hated rich brats.

Later, when her friend left her to ride with us on the day when she attended our concert, I thought that I would get a chance to talk to her but instead I found out something else. After she ran away, I chose to drive Jake's car. While they both slept, I took a turn on the road and saw her taking a lift from a guy that I thought somehow recognized. When I dig harder, I found out that he was one of the bodyguards to work in the prostitution building and Grace knew him because she was working there herself, as a sex worker. At first, I was disgusted. Someone who worked in this field? But I forced myself to accept her the way she was. Even though she literally let everyone use her body. I accepted her.

That's when I got an idea. I thought if Jake knew what she was then he would certainly make her life hell. When I would come to her rescue and save her, and she'll think of me as her savior. As her hero.

But Jake turned out to be totally different from what I was expecting him to be. He made her his girlfriend. That shitty piece of crap. Snatching away everything from me. Because he can. Because he was rich. But this time, I was not going to back up. That bitch was mine and only mine.

So this time, I traced her number without her knowledge. I told Ben where she was and how to not injure her seriously. How I would come in time to save her, and she'll be mine when she calls me. I would be there in an instant. But instead of calling me, she called him, Jake. Who stole my role from me. But God was in my favor because I was the one to get rid of Ben otherwise he would have opened his mouth and spilled everything I had asked him to do. After dropping Grace to her house, I went back to the place and told Mason that I'll handle everything. And I did. I made sure he never spoke again.

I turned out to be lucky a few times. I did get a chance to meet her and create a bond with her. Our conversation in the bookstore made me feel like I had created a place for me in her heart. We even talked near the lake where she told me that she wanted to buy it. Hell. I would have bought it for her, if I had money like Jake.

If I was born rich like him.

Later, I met her when she fought with Jake in college's swimming pool. She was there in her bathing suit, tempting me to take her then and there, but she was upset, so I held myself back. I controlled myself, just for her. I followed her, kept track of her activities and when I found out that she was volunteering for a pet shop, I booked myself for volunteering as well. I didn't miss my chance and spent the day with her. Everything was going until her phone buzzed, and she left me. Me. For Jake. For that son of a bitch.

Finally, I thought I would just have her, once and for all. And I did get a chance. At the party. I don't know why but Jake was mad at her, and she came to take him back home. Because he was intoxicated. Maybe, she didn't know how much alcohol tolerance Jake had. Otherwise, she wouldn't have so worried about him. When he dismissed her rudely, I took that opportunity. I paid a guy to bump into her and drug her drink. And take her into a room where I could have my way with her. And he did.

He drugged her and brought her to a room where I could make love to her. I was going to do it. I was so closed to her that day when I watched her stirring but right then, Jake came barging inside the room and spoiled everything that I had planned. He became her hero once again and saved her.

I changed my tactics again and dug into her history. I found out about her complaints against her foster parents. And I got another idea that might have worked in my favor. I called her foster parents and told her where she was living and to come, have her break with his rich boyfriend, so that she could stay with them. I thought that this would definitely work but once again, everything was ruined by Mrs. Davis. She got Grace out of the situation and both of those rascals idiotic parents gave Me shit about it. My plan failed, again.

I am not the one to give up. So I called her to my house in the name of having Jake in my house. She did come to my house but unfortunately for me, so did Jake. And that day, I thought that my cover was going to blow up when Grace confronted me about why I told her Jake was home when he wasn't, but Mason saved me. He came to my house, holding snacks with a plan of having a party. It made Jake and Grace think that I was throwing a surprise party thus I pranked them into coming to my house. It was nothing but a stroke of luck that I was saved. I didn't know that she won the case from her foster parents until Jake announced it in the whole party. That was when I lost my temper and disappeared from that party so that no one can witness my tantrum.

I calmed myself and thought of another way to destroy their relationship. When Jake wasn't looking, I took his phone and saved a girl's number with the name of 'Hot one'.

Jake told me about his date with Grace. Hence, that day I followed them inside the restaurant and took a seat far from them. Not so far that I could not even see them. When Jake stood up to go to the washroom, I sent a message from another phone, that I saved the name in Jake's phone number. The reaction was exactly what I was expecting to see. Grace left him there, crying.

But, again....

I don't know how they got back together. So I threw my last plan into use. I messaged Noah, telling him to show a video that I was sending his way, to everyone during the concert. That Jake wanted to get rid of Grace and needed his help in it. He agreed like I knew he would, but that backfired me as well. Everyone knew about me then. The bad person, Ethan.

But I don't regret a single thing.

Or do I?