The Truth Will Be Revealed

A few hours had come and gone since Kenny and Tessa had their talk with one another, and he was now back in Juliet's dorm room. The only problem was, Juliet was the only one there. After leaving Tessa, Kenny did make his run out to his car and to the dining hall, and along the way he hadn't seen even a glimpse of Quinn, Ellie, or Nicole. He assumed at the very least Quinn would be back in the dorm room, but when he arrived, no one. Now here he was, getting ever closer to noon, and not a word from any of them.

Thankfully, Juliet had remained well hung over, having barely gotten out of bed to finally start doing some organization of her room. Even with a low level of worry resting in his stomach, Kenny did his bed to help out. "You get any texts from Quinn or anything?" Kenny asked his cousin as casually as he could.

Juliet let out a low mumble and shrugged, "No, but she's probably out exploring, that was part of our plan...before Nikki and her damn drinks...ugh, Ken, why did you let me drink so much?"

"I drank too, and how's it my bad you through doing shots with Nicole was a good idea?" He teased the brunette before giving his throat a quick clear, "No word from Elle, or Nikki either huh?"

"No?" Juliet tilted her head, "Nicole is more than likely already on her way home with Anna, and Ellie's moving in with Tessa's help. Why are you so concerned with what they are doing?"

"I'm not, I'm not." Kenny rebuffed, doing his best to play it off, "They just all vanished after breakfast, it felt a little weird is all,"

"Yeah, no kidding, Quinn was ready to rip out Ellie's throat all last night, in case you couldn't tell, and Nicole was happy to play around with that chaos. It was a nice night, but I don't blame anyone for wanting to run off as fast as they could. Sometimes, people just can't be together," Juliet sighed, a bittersweet expression forming over her face. However, the brunette shook it off in the next second, "Can you take out that trash for me?"

"Yeah no problem," Kenny agreed before he felt his phone buzz. By the time he even stuck his hand into his pocket it buzzed two more times in quick succession. He squinted his eyes as he looked at the messages before they widened, they were sent from a group chat between all three girls. Nicole's message was first.

• Ellie's dorm room

Next came Quinn's.

• Twenty minutes, on the dot.

And finally was Ellie's.

• If you care about us, don't be late.

Kenny felt his blood run cold, "Oh shit..."

"What was that, Ken?" Juliet chirped back,

"Nothing!" Kenny snatched the back of trash and went right for the door, "Jules I'm going to grab some lunch before I come back up, so I'll see you in a little bit!"

"Oh, okay? Did you want me to --" Juliet attempted to ask only for Kenny to step out of the room and shut the door right behind him, "I guess I'm not going with you. You're being so weird today..." Juliet hummed.

Kenny jogged his way down the hall, catching the elevator and riding it down to the first floor. A quick trip outside led him to the dumpsters where he dumped Juliet's trash, and finally, without a task to semi-focus on, the teen feel into a full panic. "Shit," Kenny began to pace, "Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit. This is it. I'm done. They all talked about it, decided I was a bastard, and are getting rid of me just like Tess did. Good fucking going, fuckstick, you had all these amazing girls in your life, but you were too much of a piece of shit, fucking loser to even keep one. You strung them all along expecting everything to what? Just work out? God, I should have let Will just fucking kill me, I deserved it. I'm such a shit!"

Kenny finished his deprecating rant and grabbed the back of his head, leaning back and taking a few panting breaths. "Okay...okay..." He breathed, calming himself, "This is taking responsibility. Reaping what you sow and all that shit. I can't be a chicken here, they all deserve the respect to at tell me the fuck off. I owe each of them that much." Kenny pursed his lips and pulled out his phone.

• I'll be there.

With the text sent a endless pit formed in Kenny's stomach and he all but slunk back to the dorms.

Kenny reached Ellie's dorm room a minute earlier than requested. His heart was thumping hard, his lips dry, and his hands continued to squeeze anxiously. Pushing through it, he gave a knock on the door, and brace himself for what he was certain was about to be the worst moment of his life.

The door cracked, Kenny waited a few moments, but heard nothing. He tilted his head and very gently put a hand on it, "Hello?" He took a few tentative steps forward, letting himself inside. In a flash to hand suddenly clamped around his wrist. "Whoa!" Kenny was abruptly yanked into the room.

In a flash the door slammed shut behind him and a blindfold was pulled over his eyes; being tightly tied around his head. "Phew, there we go, good work girls." Kenny's ears perked to the sound of Nicole's voice from just behind him.

"Nikki? What's going on? Why am I blindfolded?!" Kenny reached for his covered eyes but felt a sharp smack on his hand,

"No touching!" Quinn barked out and Kenny swiftly brought his hands down, "You're not supposed to see right now."

"I don't understand," Kenny snapped his head either way, attempting to get an understand of where everyone, including himself, was even located.

"Relax, we're going to explain everything," Ellie's soothing voice, added on. Kenny started to open his mouth to ask yet another question but he held back. Instead, the teen closed his mouth gave a small nod, and waited patiently. "Okay, good. Let's start this off by just acknowledging the elephant in the room, as Nicole says, you have spent this whole summer with all three of us."

Kenny dryly swallowed, "You've gone out with us, spent nights with all of us. Apparently you even shared a night with both of them at the same time." Quinn continued and Kenny seemed to slink back ever so slightly, "For lack of a better term, you were basically dating all of us at once."

"And that's fine," Nicole calmly continued, and Kenny face lit with surprise, "When we all started with you, we were all guilty of telling you that none of this was serious. It was all just for fun, a good time. But then emotions got involved and some things changed."

"I know that," Kenny quickly spoke up, "I know I was being unfair to all of you once you started asking me to go steady. I didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings and...and I don't think I wanted things to change either. It scared the shit out of me, but that's no excuse. I'm sorry."

"It can't be helped, truth is Kenny, you just can't make a decision." Ellie blankly pointed out,

"Like at all." Quinn added,

"On even the simple shit." Nicole tacked on,

Quinn giggled, "It's almost impressive."

"Alright, okay, yes thank you all. I know it's a problem..." Kenny muttered back and was at least relieved to hear some short giggles in response, "So what does this mean? You decided for me?"

"In a manner of speaking, yes, we've decided how you're going to finally pick for yourself." Ellie nodded,

"It took us a few hours to cook up a plan that we thought would work," Quinn explained, "Scrapped a few ideas before we landed on this one."

"You see Clark, you may not be able to figure out who you want just by thinking about it. But what you can't hide is your actions. I believe Quinn can attest to that,"

"Oh I can very much attest to that," Quinn warmly added, "You didn't want to pick between me and my sister, but when push came to shove, in the last moment, you picked me."

"And we think that same thing can work here, one of us is your favorite. One of us is the girl you actually want to be with, and the other two you're just too afraid of hurting," Ellie said, her voice holding just a hint of worry, "So we're going to make you show us the truth."

"You're about to have all of us, Ken," Nicole breathed out, "All at the same time, but you're not going to see who you're with. You're just going to feel us, and we'll feel you. And by the end, you'll make your choice, and pick the girl you've wanted." Kenny lips parted and he let out a cracking, broken exhale, "Now, let's get phase one started. We're all quite sick of waiting."