High School Mayhem

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Chapter 74: Ice Cream
~Dove~

"Dove," Dante's voice calls out as the door closes behind him, "I brought ice cream."

I sit up on my bed and stare at him expectantly. "Why?"

"You just went through a breakup, I googled it and it said you need ice cream." He tosses it to me and I catch it with ease. "Now, feel better about this."

"One, you're about two days late. Two, I'm fine." I roll my eyes.

"Don't lie, eat."

"I don't want to eat your stupid breakup ice cream!" I throw it at him and it pops open. Luckily, it's frozen or it would have been all over my carpet. Dante picks it up.

"Because you don't want to accept it? Accept the fact that you're hurting?" He sits next to me.

"What?!" I snarl.

"You're hiding but, poor little sister of mine, I see right through you." Dante sighs. Dante sticks the spoon that I didn't throw in the ice cream. He hands it to me. "We have twin superpowers, we can really tell what's going on with each other. I know you're not saying how you feel."

"Twin superpowers? Do you even know how dumb you sound right now?" I snort folding my arms.

"Breakups are hard, I've had my fair share of breakups too."

"Pfft." I let out a laugh as I shake my head. "Like you actually cared. I can't remember a time where you were hurting because of a girl."

He sighs and slings an arm over me. "Sis, because I love you, I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. Breakups hurt me too, I just deal with them differently than most people."

"Yeah, by flirting with another girl soon after?"

"Yeah." I turn to him surprised that's the actual way. He just shrugs. "I told you, that's just my own way of coping."

"That doesn't make it rig--"

"Yeah, well, this is about you right now."

I turn away again and stare at my wall. I can't believe Dante is actually here talking to me about this right now. I just might go insane. First, Zane just blurts out how he wants to break up and he thinks I don't care when I really... I really do, and now, Dante is being sympathetic to me?

What's next?

We sit in silence before Dante says, "Eat the ice cream, Dove, then... call Gene." My head jerks toward him. "He's worried too, he may not be here but he called as soon as he heard. He said you weren't answering his calls."

"Of course I'm not." I roll my eyes. "I'll eat the dumb ice cream, only because this is my favorite flavor and I'm not letting it go to waste. I don't need it otherwise because like I said, I'm fine."

"Fine. If you say so. I'll be in my room, call me if you need anything because I'm a really good older brother who's helping you through your official first breakup." Can he stop saying the word breakup?

"You're older by three minutes." I groan.

"Still older." He beams and walks out of the room.

I begin eating the ice cream because I suddenly get overwhelmed with it all.

Zane broke up with me.

He thinks I don't care that we'll rarely see each other if I get accepted in Redbird University.
He thinks I don't care about what we had.
He thinks I'm over it.

And I don't know what to think about that. I don't know what to feel about that.

I'm supposed to go after what I want to do in life, right?

All the emotions floating through sets pressure on me, I stab my spoon into my ice cream.

Ice cream is supposed to help with breakups? I doubt that's true. I gotta stay sharp.

I march over to the punching bag and I stare at it for a second. Anger boils in me from everything Zane to me the day we broke up.

"WHAT IS WITH YOU AND FIGHTING?! CALM DOWN FOR A SECOND!"
I'll never calm down.

I punch the bag.

"YOU'RE TAKING IT TOO FAR!"
You're the one who blew it out of proportion.

I punch the bag a few more times.

"Yeah, but you can deal with not seeing me, right?"
That was never that I wanted.

Tears sting my eyes and I punch it a bunch more times this time my punches are even harder.

"Maybe we should break up."
THAT ISN'T WHAT I WANTED EITHER!

I continue socking the bag before it flies off of its bolts on the ceiling and crashes into the wall.

"I DIDN'T WANT IT TO HAPPEN AT ALL!" I scream out loud.

"Dove?" A voice calls out and I stop in my tracks. "I was making a surprise visit to see how you were holding up." He starts to come closer. "I guess you aren't."

I swish around and stare Gene straight in the eyes. "I'm holding up just fine. What isn't holding up is that cheap punching bag." I huff causing a piece of my hair to fly out of my face. I slide it back into its place.

"Are you sure? This is your first breakup--" I bolt past him, purposely bumping into his shoulder. I stop in the doorway and stare into the hallway.

"Don't worry about it. Why don't go back to hanging out with your Shadow Knight friends?" I scoff as dash out of the house.