Slip Into The Tragedy.

Right, real big change here people! [well not really big but you really need to know it]. I changed the year where they stopped being friends from the 3rd grade to the 6th grade. It’ll be more funner that way I think :] and I think that having a fight from the 3rd grade is until Freshman year is way to long. Besides if they were in the 3rd grade they wont even know the meaning of jealousy is :]

So yeah, they fought in the 6th grade, yeah?

Now, ON WITH THE STORY!
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“Lex” I breathed, a relieved smile spread over my face even though tears were still pouring out of my eyes.

“Frank” She gasped again.

I felt her trying to move herself away from me, her eyes full of fear and horror. But with every single muscle that she moved, she winced, because undoubtedly it hurt her a hell lot.

“Shhh, sugar. I’m not going to hurt you anymore.” I cooed, as a stab of despair punched itself to my heart when her eyes met mine. “I promise”

She stopped trying to move. Her eyes were closed for a moment as if she was trying to find out what she’s going to do next.

“Could you help me up? Please?” She asked feebly. I hastily took her right hand and used my free hand to hold her lower back as I maneuvered her into a sitting position. I couldn’t ignore the jolt of electricity that I felt when I touched her. She however was wincing with every movement that she made.

This is my fault.

“What do you want, Frank?” She asked tiredly, looking at me. “You already bullied me for about 4 or 5 years, taunting me almost every single day and beat me up in my own house earlier. What more do you want Frank?”

I sighed, meeting her eyes once more.

“To apologize”
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Alex’s POV

Time lapse – A couple of days after the party, after school, in Starbucks

“Tell me again why you didn’t smack him in the face?” Kevin asked for what it seems to be the billionth time of the day.

I glared at him and sat back on the comfortable sofa in Starbucks, beside me Alicia snickering quietly. Jasper on Kevin’s right shook his head exasperatedly at his brother’s reaction. Kevin was saying why I didn’t punch Frank in the face when he apologize. I told them everything that had happened in the party, and as an extra bonus for them I told them about my parents too. They were so cool about it, and wasn’t sympathizing me at all. I was so grateful for that.

They were slowly turning into my best friends, Jasper and Kevin. I asked them to sit with me and the guys at school and they were getting along extremely fine. Well, except for Frank who glared sometimes at them.

Jasper had allowed me to sit with Alicia and Jasper in one of the tables because I have no costumers to serve from the last hour, and no one was coming into the coffee shop anyway. Even Jasper himself had sat down with us, and we were just hanging out for the past two hours.

“He apologized, Kev” I said dramatically, throwing my head back for extra effect. “I couldn’t just smack someone that just fucking apologized to me!”

“But he’s still an ass” He muttered under his breath

“So what are you going to tell him?” Alicia said, patiently

“I don’t know, Leesh!” I said despairingly, “It’s just all so confusing. At one time he’s like this sweet guy, my total and absolute best friend in the whole fucking world, then he is an asshole that would hurt me and tease me with no end, and now it’s like he’s trying to be the sweet guy again. I’m totally confused! It’s like he’s going to change in every 5 seconds or something”

“But I saw how he’s looking at you in school, Lex” Alicia said matter-of-factly. “He looks like he’s seriously sick or something.”

“Luuuurve sick” Jasper said, while snorting loudly.

I glared at him

“Mikey told me he hasn’t been eating or sleeping properly.” Alicia continued, ignoring Jasper. “I think making up with you is all he really wants”

“Really?” I asked, doubtful

“Of course yeah!” Alicia said, incredulously

I shut my mouth immediately, thinking about what she just said. Then my mind drifted to that moment, when he asked for my forgiveness.

“Apologize?” I asked slowly.

I wasn’t expecting this at all. Actually I don’t even know what to expect from him anymore, but I knew for a fact that he wasn’t going to apologize about anything, especially to me.

“Yes” He mumbled, he then took both my hands in his gently, not to cause any pain to me. “I’m sorry”

I cleared my throat. Sometimes it made me feel stronger or braver, even though that I’m probably shaking right now. My skin blazed under his touch and my heart thudded in a frenzy.

What is it with this boy? What gives him the power to give me all these feeling at once?

“For what?” I managed to whisper slowly. Looking down, my eyes only managed to find our hands together as he traced circles on the back of my hand.

“Everything” He concluded, after what seems to be him thinking about it real hard.

I stayed silent. Egging him to go on inside my mind.

“I never should have hurt you” He spoke again.

Yea well, no shit Sherlock.

“I never should have teased you, never should have ignored you, or give you shit about anything. You were my best friend, the best friend that I would die to have right now. No one ever came close with me like you did. You were there for my first crush, and I was there for yours. I was there when we first listened to the Black Flag and loved it. We were inseparable, I should never have pushed you away.”

“Why did you?” I asked quietly

“I – it’s complicated” He said, letting go of one of my hands and letting his free hand run through his hair stressfully. His other hand still held mine gently.

“Tell me, Frank” I demanded softly, letting my eyes fly up to his eyes

They were damp.

“Well it’s a long story, Lex” He said sheepishly

“Does it look like I fucking care?” I said, angrily. “And besides that is the stupidest excuse that you can come up with right now.”

He was silent for a few moments.

“It’s because of Axel” He burst out, unexpectedly.

My eyes widened.

“Axel?!” I cried, shocked

“Yes, him” Frank growled, anger creeping into his eyes. “When he came in all the girls were all over him, but I knew you wouldn’t. I know you too well to think that you’ll be after a guy for only his looks, so I volunteered you as his buddy. I knew that it will annoy you, you never liked showing people around the school, you thought it was a waste of valuable hanging out time. But then you began talking to him, way more than I thought you would. You started to hang around in his house, not mine. And then the last straw was when you picked him as a partner and not me. It was impossible before, we were always partners. I got so hurt”

My mouth was wide open. I didn’t think that his reason for hating me is an issue of jealousy.

“I thought I was going to loose you. I thought that he’s going to steal you away from me. I was right, he did.” Frank continued, painfully. “After I shouted at you, I saw him holding you the way I did, the way I was supposed to be right at that moment. Then Mikey came, he had a murderous look on his face at me. And at that moment, I knew that Axel didn’t only stole my best friend away from me, but also my close friend. The friend that was like a brother to me.”

He paused for a breath. Having told the story so fast, I wasn’t surprised that he needed to stop to take a breath.

“But what has this got to do with me?” I asked. “Why is it that it’s me you hate?”

“I didn’t hate you” Frank murmured, taking both my hands in his again. “I never did. I never could have hated you, and believe me I tried. It’s kind of stupid really. After I shouted at you and stopped talking to you, a part of me knew – or at least, hoped – that you would come back to me somehow. I thought that you would come running back to me, and begged for my forgiveness. But you didn’t. Slowly, you became happier and more cheerful, it hurt me because I wasn’t the cause of it but he is. I couldn’t stand it, I tried to hate you. I shouted at you often, embarrassed you, made friends with people you hate and insulted you at every possible moment. At first I thought it was going to make me feel better, but it didn’t. Hell no, it didn’t it actually made me feel worse.”

I stayed silent, letting my head look back down to the ground. Grasping what he just said to me and absorbing every single word that he just said.

“Please forgive me.” His agonized whisper sounded. I looked up quick enough to see a tear slide down his cheeks.

I felt him squeeze my hands for a moment and saw him nod feebly.

“You don’t need to answer now, Lex” He whispered.

Then he slowly brought his lips to my forehead and kept it there for a second. I had to choke back gasp, his lips felt like fire burning into my skin.

He then stood up and walked out my door without a second glance at me and he just left me there sitting on the floor confused.

Subconsciously I touched my forehead in the exact spot where his lips grazed the skin, and smiled to myself. I have never been happier.

I sighed.

It was true I had never been happier at that moment, but when the thought really sunk in, I became overly stressed. What the fuck am I supposed to say to Frank now? I mean, I know I’m gonna have to forgive him eventually, but I can’t help to think of all the things that he done to me. It hurt me, not only physically but also emotionally. Things that I thought Frank wouldn’t do or say in a million years actually happened, and I couldn’t move past that fact. But on the other hand. I miss him. No matter how close Alicia, Jasper and Kevin to me are now, nobody could ever replace him.

I groaned and put my head on my hands. Alicia patted my back comfortingly.

“Everything is gonna be alright, love” She said in a British accent.

“I know” I mumbled. “By the way, how the fuck did you manage to do a good British accent? The last time I heard you try to do it you pretty much suck!”

We both are obsessed with British accents.

“It takes a lot of practice, m’dear” She said smugly, still in her British accent.

Jasper snorted with laughter.

“Well I think it’s sexy” Kevin mocked seductively to Alicia and put his arm around her shoulders

Alicia glared at him jokingly

“Back up Westwick” She said in a mock bitchy tone

“I’m just sayin” Kevin said trying to sound cool

“You guys are idiots” Jasper muttered, as Alicia and Kevin roared with laughter and high fived.

“Sadly, they are our idiots” I said, also shaking my head

“CORNY BITCH!” Kevin and Alicia shouted at me

“Yea but she’s our corny bitch” Alicia said to Kevin, smiling her stupid smile

“Hell yea!” Kevin and Jasper cried

“Hey, don’t I get a say in this?” I cried grumpily

“Nope” Kevin said hyperactively and kissed me loudly on my cheek

I huffed in mock annoyance. They all laughed again while Kevin put his arm around me and Alicia ruffled my hair. Jasper on the other side of the table winked jokingly at me and I winked sarcastically back.

So this is what having a group of friends that doesn’t include your brothers feel like. I can totally get used to this.