Parallel Worlds

“But I don’t understand… why not?” Alex asked as he cupped Becca’s hands in his, she stared down at the table
“I… I just like where I live. I do love you Alex but I couldn’t move away from my friends, I just feel safe with them” Becca replied looking into his eyes; Alex frowned slightly
“… And you don’t feel safe with me? I thought you trusted me now” his eyes widened in sorrow
“It’s not that I don’t trust you! I’m just not ready to move away from my friends quite yet” Alex’s eyes hardened
“So you happily moved away from your family to stay with your friends in the first place but you wont move away from your friends to stay with me even though you say you love me?”
“Alex it’s not like tha-” Alex got up placing the right amount of money on the table to pay for their lunch before storming outside in a mood. Becca frowned and sighed angrily as she followed after him.
She followed him all the way home not bothering to catch up with him. When he got to the house he walked in, slamming the door in Becca’s face behind him. Becca paused at the closed door and sighed heavily growling a little as she pushed down on the handle hard and stormed into the house after Alex. Her gaze quickly darted to the kitchen as she heard the fridge door close to see Alex opening a bottle of beer
“Alex don’t you dare!” she growled storming over to him, the sound of the two of them storming about attracting Teddy who stuck his head round the corner of the kitchen door to see what all the commotion was. The ‘Minor boys obviously deciding to come back after their day out the house.
Becca grabbed Alex’s arm as he rose the bottle to his lips, digging her nails in. Alex yelped and jumped giving Becca a chance to grab the opened bottle, Teddy entering the room and grabbing Alex to pull him back
“And that’s why they call me ‘Bear’” She said pointing at Alex who looked wide eyed at the bleeding gash on his arm.
She made her way to the sink and turned round to face Alex holding the full bottle of beer over the sink smiling evilly; Alex’s eyes widened
“No!… Y-y-you wouldn’t!” He stuttered; Becca’s smile widened
“Oh but I would” She said tilting the full bottle so that its contents went down the sink. Alex struggled in Teddy’s grip and glared at Becca as she emptied the whole bottle and binned it before leaving the room
“You fucking bitch! You’ll regret that!” he shouted after her
“I wont,” she murmured quietly to herself heading to the living room.

Christina turned her head as she heard people stomping about in the house
“Two minutes I’m just going to see what’s going on inside” she said to Sarah as she stood up slipping her flip flops back on and walking quickly back to the house. She quietly poked her head round the kitchen door to see Teddy talking sternly to Alex mentioning Becca once or twice as Alex was slumped in a chair looking sorry for himself rubbing his arm. Christina stood in the hallway confused; she swore that Becca had text her saying that she had gone out to lunch with Alex. She shook her head dismissively and walked into the living and stopped dead seeing Becca sitting on the sofa filing her nails
“Becca… what have you done?” Becca looked up from filing her nails and smiled
“Nothing, Alex was just being bad so I clawed him” Christina stared at her a few seconds as it registered
“… You didn’t!… Seriously!?” She said laughing. She stopped laughing as she heard a very loud, all too familiar laugh come from the kitchen. It continued as the person walked from the kitchen to the living room.
Ed popped his head round the living room door next to Christina as he continued to laugh
“Is what Alex told me true!? You CLAWED him!?” He said bursting into another fit of laughter; Becca smirked
“Well you never asked me to explain why I get called ‘Bear’” she smiled sweetly
“Well hello to you too. Would be nice to get some notification so I know that you’re back” Christina muttered to Ed to which he apologised and kissed her cheek. Christina exited the room with Ed leaving Becca alone for a moment. A few minutes after, Teddy and Ali shoved Alex into the room after Becca hearing Teddy whisper to him “now go and apologise to her.” They closed the door on him leaving just him and Becca in the room.
Alex sighed and made his way over to the sofa Becca was on and collapsed down on it next to her
“Sorry” he murmured quietly; Becca stayed quiet, “I dunno what got into me, I think my cravings are just fucking with my emotions and making me moody” he sighed; Becca nodded understandingly
“Thanks for stopping me from drinking by the way, I couldn’t have stopped myself, I shouldn’t just assume that alcohol will solve everything” Alex said rubbing Becca’s legs lightly, “… Although that was a bloody waste of alcohol pouring it down the sink” he said making her giggle. Becca shuffled over next to him and snuggled into him as he put his arm around her. She looked down at his arm around her and gently skimmed her fingers over the now healing, deep scratch marks
“Sorry about the claw marks by the way” She chuckled lightly
“It’s okay, you had every right to do that… I just know not to get on your bad side now” He giggled back. Becca smirked as she planted a kiss on his cheek.