- two years before collage.-
𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭.
𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐞.
𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬, 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐡𝐚.
𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝, 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞, 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐈𝐧 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐯𝐢𝐛𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐫𝐤.
𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐡𝐚 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐟 𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫.
"𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞." 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐡𝐚. "𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰." 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤. "𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡." 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝. "𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫." 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐬.
"𝐃𝐮𝐝𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐞𝐫." 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬. "𝐁𝐫𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐡𝐚 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫." 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡. "𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐡, 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰. 𝐈'𝐦 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐚." 𝐇𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐝.
𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐚𝐰 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐡𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐲, 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝.
"𝐇𝐞𝐲, 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐦𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐞?" 𝐇𝐞 𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐫, 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐡𝐚 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐞𝐫.
"𝐈𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥." 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐡𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡. "𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚 𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞." 𝐀𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐡𝐚 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝, 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬. "𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫." 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝.
"𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧? 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐈 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦." 𝐀𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐡𝐚 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐩𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲. 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐦 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧. 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐡𝐚. "𝐅𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐢𝐭." 𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟.
𝐇𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐮𝐩 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐤𝐞𝐲𝐬. "𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠?"𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐝. "𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤." 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐨𝐭.
𝐇𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫, 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐜𝐚𝐫. 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐫. 𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐯𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐯𝐚𝐧 𝐚 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲.
"𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐝𝐮𝐝𝐞." 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐦. "𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦." "𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭." 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬.
"𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭."
"𝐎𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬, 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐡𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐝."
𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤. 𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐫. 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤. "𝐅𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐟𝐟, 𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬." 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞.
𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐫. 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲. "𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐧𝐨𝐰?" 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐝, 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧.
𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐜𝐚𝐫, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐛𝐢𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮.
- today, Christmas-
Waking up next to Matt was wonderful, it's was the first time you ever felt it, and you felt like you were safe, in the first time In your life, you could feel him holding you all night.
When you woke up, you felt like Matt is already awake, and he were. "Good morning." He said and you smiled at him. "How did you slept?" He asked and touched your cheek.
"Fine, you?" You opened your eyes. "Tried to sleep how much as I could." He said. "Something happened?" You asked him. "Just you, you was suffering from pain.. you didn't stopped moving." He said and you laughed.
"Yeah, she moving a lot." You said and looked at your belly. "You deserve a rest sometimes." He said and laughed. "Say it to her." You said and Matt looked at your belly, he got closed to it and just talked to her. "Hey little baby, because I'm your mom current boyfriend, let her some rest sometimes." He said.
"Okay, let's get up, matt and not talk to a girl who doesn't exist, yet." You said and get up from his bed. You were some Christmas hoodie and some jeans on you. Doing your make up and getting out of the room.
Matt was already downstairs, he was with Chris and nick and you joined them. "Good morning." You said as you walked into the kitchen. "Good morning." Chris said back.
"So how was your night here, y/n?" Chris asked you again. "Actually fine." You said back to him. "And.. I thought of it.. chris." You said and just sat next to Matt. "I'll talk to alanha."
"Oh wow." He said and sipped his drink. "That's actually amazing." He adds. "Are you sure?" Matt asked you. "Yeah, she deserves an explanation, and you too nick." You said and nick smiled at you. "It's fine, I got over it, just don't let alanha down again." He said.
"And talk to her about you and Matt." Chris adds. "What do you mean?" Matt asked. "Dude.. are you sure you guys just friends?" He laughs. "Yeah, aren't you gonna be a dad?" Nick adds and made Chris chuckle.
"No, we just had a one kiss." You said and Matt looked at you. "Yeah, one kiss, fine." Chris said. "Fuck off, I promised it's the truth." Matt shouts. "Yeah, cause you both slept last night was really only one kiss."
"I had some pain in my stomach, so Matt helped me with this, shut up chris." You said and rolled your eyes. "We don't care, just let her know." Nick said and chris nodded.
Matt was so scary from that, not because it's can change a lot of things, because if she will find out Matt have fallen in love with you. Will be the worse thing ever.
-
Already was afternoon, alanha was on the triplets house, she was with nick most of the time because Matt was with you and Chris was out with Nate and some friends.
When you saw nick walking out of the living room, you knew it's was your time to go and talk to her. "Hey, are you okay?" Matt asked you'd "yeah, just.." you sigh and closed your eyes. "Need talk to her." You complete the sentence. "Oh." Matt said and sigh.
"Go talk to her then." He said and smiled. "You're going to be okay with this?" You asked. "Always, do it." He said and got up. "I will be the most happy person ever." He adds.
"Okay, I'll do it." You said and took a deep breath. "I'll wait you here, if something will go wrong." He said and kissed your lips quickly.
You walked into the living room and took a deep breath before sitting next to alanha. "Hey." You said and she nodded at you without looking. And silence, again.
"Can we talk?" You asked finally. "Me and you?" She asked. You nodded. "Uh, yeah." She said and closed her phone. "What do you wanna talk about.." she asked.
"I wanted to say.. that. I'm sorry. For everything that happened between us." You said and she looked at you confused. "And for that I made you feel the worst and we couldn't move on from this." You adds.
"I don't get it, you coming to say that you sorry for what happened, after two years?" She asked shocked. "Yeah.." you whispered. "Oh god, is this about Matt?" She asked.
"N- no." You said and felt the sadness in your heart, you missed her, and you knew you hurt her, and she also hurt you. "I know I was wrong for doing it, and I'm sorry, and I miss you. So Much." You said, softly.
"No, you hurt me so much, you ruined me, for nothing. For you to have the things I wanted." She shouts back. "I know." You said. "But you hurt me pretty hard too." You adds.
"How, I couldn't go to school without getting bully for loving a man who doesn't love me back, and you who let it all happen and didn't stopped it, or letting Chris going into trouble." She said and you knew how fucked up you were. "And he was a friend of yours."
"I know I fucked up, and I do talked with the triplets about it, but. You hurt me too, alanha. And I know it's wasn't like that; but you cost me a lot of troubles too." You said back.
"How?"
"The car."
Alanha took a deep breath before start laughing. You was so confused, why is she laughing? "I'm sorry, what so funny?" You said and she shook her head. "The car?" She asked.
"Yeah, I got a new car for my senior year, and you ruined it, I wrote 'stop fuck guys, whore.' And you didn't took the blame for it." You said and she still laughed. "No, I wasn't the one who ruined your car, y/n." She said.
"Why are you lying!" You said. "I'm not! I was at the building, you don't know who did it?" She asked you and you shock your head. "They didn't told you?" She asked, who is they? And what they didn't told you.
"Who?"
"The triplet, they didn't told you."
You felt like your heart beating so fast, there's so many things you didn't knew, and no one talked about it with you, like never.
"It's why everyone was so shocked that you and Matt friends." She said and laughed again. "Yeah, I thought it's because we weren't that close at high school." You replied.
"No, it's because Matt was the one who did it." You felt your heart break when you heard it, you remember what you went through when it happened, the fights with your parents, they everyone called you a hoe in the school, and Matt didn't told you, anything.
"And by the way, he was right, you kinda of get pregnant." She said and got back to her phone, leaving tou shock and breakdown. Matt told you he didn't tell anyone.
"How do you know?"
"Matt told me" she said fast and didn't looked at you. You got up and walked out of the living room. "Go shout your friend!" She shouts. "My boyfriend." You said back and walked out of the living room upstairs.
Feeling the breath in your chest and the tears in your eyes, you felt your heart break when you walked in the hallway. When you opened Matt's door and saw him standing there, you felt the knife.
"Hey.." he said quietly. "How you doing?" He asked again. "Don't even bother trying to talk about how I'm feeling." You shouts. "What?" He raise his eyebrows. "Why didn't you told me about the car." You got close to him.
"What car?" He asked, laughing. "The car, you ruined my car in the prom." You said and Matt smile just faded, he forgot about it. "You let me blame alanha, when you know you was the one who did it." You yelled at him.
"I forget I've done it, I promise you!" He yelled back. "Matt, I was suffering from every when you did it." He saw the tears in your eyes. "What are you talking about." He asked.
"My dad took my money for it, my mom took me to doctors everytime to make sure I'm not pregnant in high school, my dad took out my door outside of her place, I didn't have my private. And I couldn't go out because everyone made jokes about me, and you saw it!" You said and he closed his eyes and sigh.
"You let me go through hell, and you didn't even thought telling me when we start living together." You adds. "I did it for alanha." He said. "And what now?" You asked him.
"What do you mean." He asked again, you crying in front of him, and he didn't even knew what happened, but he knew that it's will he lose you soon or later.
"Why did you told her about the pregnancy." You said and he sigh. "I thought you want me to let her know." He replied. "No Matt, it's not yours, you can't let anyone know, I can get kicked out of the house and the collage, and I have no one to talk to or live with."
Matt felt so guilty for everything he did, even when he didn't find it as a problem, he just knew that if you was hurt, then he will.
"I'm sorry, for everything." He said and tried to warp his arms around you. "You know what, Matt?" You said and finally looked up at him. "I don't need any help, I can be a single mom." You said, what hurt Matt like a knife in his chest. "So you saying' you don't need me?" He asked you, broken.
"Yeah, I'll be fine.." you whispered. "I'll go back to New York, and I'll find a new dorm." You said and sigh. "Dont leave, I'll never talked again but please let me just see you." He said and you sigh. "I'll think of it."
You said and put your things inside you bag and walked out of his room.
Matt walked out after you, and you just looked back at him and left the house, Matt was broken, until he found his person, he lost it, in a less then a week.
"I told you." Alanha said. "Don't fall in love with her." She said to him.
"Too fucking late."