Hiraeth

13

Leo

I walk into the bar and see Haven flirting with a random guy.

God. This girl.

"You just always have to flirt with every man in the room don't you" I say walking up to her

She turns to looks at me and smiles before throwing her hands over my shoulders and pulling me in for a hug. It's been a while since we have hugged. Almost 2 years.

"What can I say? I can't help it if the men throw themselves on me!" She exclaims. She is by far the biggest flirt I have ever met. Even though we have not seen each other in so long, she makes it seem like I only saw her last week.

"So how come you never called me or anything once I got back from Italy" She says

"Um..." I struggle to find words "I just assumed you would be busy"

"Really?" She says knowing that is a lie. "Too busy to hang out with the guy who has been there for me since I can remember?"

"Listen Haven..." I start to say

"Save it. I don't want to hear your excuses. But from now on you can't keep ignoring me. We have too much history together to just end our friendship like that. The years after dad died were really hard for me and you weren't there for me. You really hurt me Leo." She says before lightening the mood, "Now I'm not going to hold it against you but don't ever even so much as think about abandoning me again, because you will never hear the end of it. From me, from my mom, from your mom.."

"Okay, okay. I promise I won't" I say to her while rolling my eyes.

Haven is one of the few people I truly care for. She has been with me through so much and I feel bad that I wasn't able to be there for her when she needed me. I love her and honestly would die for her. She is like a sister to me. I'm glad she is letting it go though, because I'm not sure how I would make it up to her.

"So are you going to tell me what is going on between you and Sage" She asks

"You just love to know everything don't you" I say. The one thing I love about Haven is that she never holds a grudge. She may be upset but she never holds it against you and just continues on like nothing ever happened. "I don't know. We kissed."

"Yea... I already know that." She says rolling her eyes "And I already told her that you worked for Etolie and that Jennifer is your mom. I mean tell me how you feel about her"

"I don't know. I used to push her away and be an ass to her but ever since she found me that one night I can't help but be relaxed around her. I don't know why or how to explain it. She just makes me feel different" I say

"Yup I heard about that. You want to tell me why you were in a fight?" She asks "I thought we were past that"

Before Haven and her mom moved away, I was constantly getting into fights. Almost everyday I was coming back home with a bloody hand from the fights, and Haven was always there to clean me up. When she moved away she made me promise that I wouldn't get into any more fights because she couldn't lose another person she loved in her life. I promised her I wouldn't, and I hadn't, until a few days ago.

"Haven I couldn't helped it. I know I promised you I wouldn't fight after you left and I didn't. That night was the first time since you left. I couldn't help it." I say. I know this topic is hard for her because she thinks one day I am not going to be the winner and I will end up severely hurt.

"Just tell me what happened" She says

"I was coming home from the bar when I saw a man beating a woman. You know with everything that I have been through I couldn't just walk past that and not doing anything about it." I say