The Long and Winding Road { Dreamwastaken x reader ff }

Chapter 28

"ITS BECAUSE I LIKE YOU!" Clay shouted.

I went silent, my face went blank. He what.....what did he just say...what?

Nothing was said, there was nothing.

"SAY SOMETHING! GIVE ME A RESPONSE! SAY SOMETHING!" He came up closer to me.

I stood there silent, I looked at him then at the ground. I don't know how to take this.

"PLEASE! JUST GIVE ME AN ANSWER!" He shook me by my shoulders.

I couldn't say anything. It wasn't that I couldn't think of anything to say, I had a million things running through my head. It was that I physically couldn't say anything. Nothing could come out of my mouth.

"Please, tell me something....anything," He started pleading, almost begging, as his grip on my shoulders loosened.

I slowly looked up to him. I saw that his eyes were watering up. Why is he crying?

This was suppose to be something romantic, something that you would see in a teenage movie, but this, this is just.....pathetic.

"Clay..." I looked at him.

I saw a small beam of hope in his eyes as soon as his name came out of my mouth.

"Why?" I muttered out, I looked back down.

His hope quickly died, "W-what?" He scoffed as he wiped his tear that was just about to fall on his sleeve, "Did you just ask me why?"

I looked up at him, "Why?" I mumbled again.

He let go of my shoulders, his hands falling to his side. "I-I," He stuttered.

"You disappear for 2 weeks, you don't text me back, you don't call me back, you can't even have the decency to see me, the decency to look at me face to face....and now you drop this bomb on me?" My eyes started to water just like his.

"Y/n-"

"What kind of reaction did you expect? Did you expect me to run up to you hugging? Did you expect me to say the same thing back?"

"Y/n."

"What." I stated, done with his bullshit.

"Just say you don't like me back," His voice went dead. "Just say my feelings are one sided, just say no." He turned, walking away.

As he walked away I started screaming, the further he got away, the louder. "WHAT DID YOU EXPECT! DID WE DO THIS ALL FOR NOTHING? WE BUILT THIS WHOLE THING UP AND YOU'RE DESTROYING IT!"

He ignored me and kept on going, he's giving me the same treatment I've given him.

"CLAY!!!" I screamed, my lungs started getting sore from my screeching.

He stopped walking and turned back to me, not able to take anymore of my bullshit, "I'M NOT DESTROYING IT! YOU ARE! STOP IT WITH YOU'RE BITCHY ATTITUDE! I'M NOT AFRAID TO CALL YOU OUT WHEN YOU'RE BEING A BITCH!"

I scoffed, "YOU CHASE AFTER ME AND AS SOON AS YOU DON'T LIKE THE ANSWER I GIVE YOU, YOU LEAVE!"

"THAT'S HOW A CONVERSATION WORKS! IF YOU STARTED INSULTING ME OF COURSE I'M GONNA LEAVE! GROW UP!" It looked like vein popped out because of how mad he's gotten.

"OH PLEASE! WHATEVER THIS IS, COULD'VE ENDED LIKE TWO MONTHS AGO BUT YOU WANTED TO KEEP ON GOING!"

"YEAH BECAUSE I DIDN'T THINK YOU'D BE THIS MUCH OF A FUCKING BITCH! GOD! YOU DON'T THINK OF ANYONE BUT YOURSELF HUH! YOU THINK THAT YOU'RE PERFECT! YOU LOOK DOWN ON EVERYONE IF IT MEANS THAT YOU SEE YOURSELF AS THE BEST! YOU CAN'T TAKE CRITICISM! WHY? BECAUSE YOU'RE A SELFISH BITCH!" He turned back around and walked back like he was before.

"OH FUCK OFF! YOUR HUGE FUCKING EGO IS THE ONLY THING KEEPING YOU ALIVE! YOU'LL DO ANYTHING TO GET A GOOD LAUGH BECAUSE YOU'RE AN ATTENTION SEEKING WHORE! YOU CRAVE VALIDATION SO FUCKING MUCH THAT YOU'LL GIVE YOUR LIMBS AWAY IF THAT MEANS YOU GET IT! YOU CRAWL AFTER ANY CHANCE OF ATTENTION AND VALIDATION YOU CAN GET! YOU DON'T CARE HOW YOU GET IT AS LONG AS YOU FUCKING HAVE IT!"

I gave up on trying to win this fight against him. I started looking like some crazy drunk person screaming alone in the streets.

I took a deep breath, my cheeks were soaked in my tears.

This was like that time, that time at the bridge, 2014. We were so young back then. But why was this one worse?