Fever dream • JJ Maybank

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JJS POV

"You solve it with Haley?" John B asks as he sits in front of me in a couch in the chateau's living room, Pope was lying next to us

"I broke up with her" I says "what did you do this time?" Pope questions "nothing!" I defends before John B raises his eyebrow "I didn't I swear" I says "so... what happened?" John B asks

"Okay, so you know at summer Haley used to do drugs and now-" I starts "what?" John B asks "oh yeah you missed a few things" Pope says "how did you guys didn't tell me?" He asks "Haley hates when we mention it" I answer "okay, continue" John B says

"Anyways, me, Pope and Kie worked so hard to get her sober and now she's using again" I explains "so... you broke up with her?" Pope questions "that doesn't sound good, I know it okay?" I defends

"That's rough" John B speaks "and I thought my problems were big" he adds

"So please, tell me, what do I do?" I desperately asks "I don't know man" John B answers "that's all you got for me?" I asks as I runs hands through my hair "I am sorry it shocks me too" he says

"We'll think about this tomorrow, I am tired" Pope says "yeah, alright" I says watching Haley sitting on a hammock outside, talking to Kie

I think Haley and her got into an argument, because Haley walks away seems pretty upset. I watches Kie walking inside the Chateau towards me

"Were you watching us?" Kie asks noticing my gaze was following Haley "No- I was just..." I mumbles ״just stalking?" She asks

"I saw you were talking to Haley" I changed the subject "no shit" she says "so?" I asks "she's using again, isn't she?" She asks

"Did she tell you?" I asks and she shakes her head "she's just not that good at hiding it" she answers and I nods, agreeing "don't you judge me for breaking up with her?" I asks

"It's unfair situation, I get it. but you gotta fix it. Breaking up wasn't a solution and it won't solve a thing" she says "come on you know how she can be while she's using" I says "but I expected from you more" she says

"It's rich of you to say" I says rolling my eyes "excuse me?" She says "from the beginning you didn't want to help her" I says "I did, I was just scared of the whole thing" she explains

"we can't fight right now, we need to figure out how we could help her" she adds "how?" I asks "I don't know" she shrugs

"I don't get it. She was sober for weeks" I says "she's in pain" Kie says "but-" I tries to speaks but she cuts me off "there is not explanation that I can give you, you'd have to talk to her in order to understand" she says

"I don't know how. I used to know how to reach out to her, and now I don't" I explains "just talk to her, dude" she says "she's not the same though" I shrugs "but she's still Haley" she says "but she's resisting to get help" I says

"But she's still Haley" she repeats "what is that even supposed to mean?" I asks "she's not gone, she's in there, behind all the drugs and shit" she says before I look through the window again, seeing her back at the hummock

"I don't want to break up with her" I speaks after a few seconds of silence "I know" she says "I do lover her" I says "tell that to her, when she'll be calmed down" she says