Sweethearts (MaleReader x K/DA Ahri)

Chapter 2

I wake as if it's an emergency as if sirens were about to ring and a very angry sergeant was ready to make me run across the damned camp. My heart beats fast and there is a buzzing in my brain and together they make me just want to hurl and then turn over and go back to sleep.

Now my brain is as flat as a battery, I should just try and rest to get some sleep before I get a migraine. I sigh, resting my head back on the pillow. Not able to fall asleep I resort to running through my memories to get an idea of how things might turn out.

Alex and I have been friends pretty much our entire lives. His mom and dad were very good friends with my dad so they always flocked together, and considering his dad and my dad worked the same job it felt only natural.

Born in a shitty beat-up little town with not enough money to even fix their roads but enough to put in fibre lines. 

When we moved here we were enrolled in a very prestigious school. I don't know how we managed to get in, I guess you can mount it up to not having much to other than studying and harassing other people on the streets.

I had no issues with it, Alex is like a brother to me so we didn't need friends. It wasn't hard to make any either. Coming in as freshmen, our sights were set on impressing others and not to be considered as lowly as the townsfolk who would rather eat mud.

To our surprise it was completely different from our expectations, everyone was incredibly nice. Not to mention the girls. It was pretty easy for both of us when we decided who we were crushing on the hardest.

It had to be the queens of our freshmen year and every year after that. Ahri and Evelynn.

Relieved that we didn't both set our sights on the same girl, we then jumped to it. Pulling out all the stops, from moments where what I guess at the time I considered as flirting... if I think about it now I only cringe hoping that the memory will just disappear.

Getting into the friend group was easy; Me, Alex, Evelynn, Ahri, Jacky, Sarah, and Lex.

Getting into their hearts was a completely different challenge. Apart from being overly cheesy and flirty, it all amounted to the most awkward scenarios that we could laugh about in the future and moments where we were genuinely happy.

Ahri fell for me, I don't really know if she fell harder than I did but it happened. Alex on the other hand didn't have much luck. Although securing an unbreakable friendship with Eve since this day, that was the height of it.

Four years. We've been together for the entirety of high school. I think a lot about back then, a part of me obviously still misses and loves her but right now it is just so far away.

On our last year... that is when mom died. Things changed. A lot of things changed. Dad gave up on living back then, I had to help Trace with everything and I was just desperately trying to not wanting to beat the shit out of him.

I wish I did, maybe then things would have turned out differently.

I grew angry and impatient. Anyone else that wasn't close friends only annoyed me, to the point where I constantly got into fights. I started it and I did it frequently - I was on my last warning so I had to stop, the best thing I could think of doing was just ignoring everything.

Talks about my aggression started to fly from everyone's mouths. They started coming to my close friends telling them of nasty deeds that I committed. Ones I did commit and others that people only imagined me doing.

To the point where Ahri sat down with me to speak about everything. Naturally, she was offended when I told her about everything that happened because I kept it from her. I coped with it. Now with her help we tried to make it past this hurdle and when the year drew to a close - 

- something snapped, I can't remember what he said. Jacky came to me, he said something about Ahri and at the moment beating the shit out of him felt good, I don't remember what he said... but it was deserved.

Later that very day - Ahri came to suggest that we should take a break and just cool down and after everything is settled we pick it back up where we left off. I didn't hear the last part at the time, I realized it after it was too late and lashed out at her, almost certain that her action originated from the opinion of others.

Later that night, Eve kicked the shit out of me. After that I got kicked out, I was on the last straw and the Headmaster wouldn't listen to my pleas. Dad didn't give a shit this time and his reaction was to send me to the army. 

I didn't get to finish my exams and left without any goodbyes. I didn't ask Alex to do it for me either... that would only be an insult to them.

But that is just how those memories go... I won't deny that I wasn't in the wrong. I moved on from it, let us just hope that they did too. I just hope she can forgive me.

"You up?" Trace asks as she walks into the room, "You need to get a job-"

I lift myself from the bed, frowning at her, "What? I just woke up... I haven't even been here for a full day."

"Yeah well, you look like you are about to sleep in the whole day," I roll my eyes and then just lie back down, "Also Alex will be swinging by to take you to the club, and then you should get something to wear for tonight."

I groan, "Yeah-yeah."

"Also, I am going out for the rest of the day."

Shoeing her away, "Just be back before tomorrow, I'm not going to struggle to get your ass to school."

She doesn't reply, looking in the direction she stood she has already left. I then climb out of the bed and roam around the small apartment. 

We don't need anything too glamourous. Two bedrooms and one bathroom with a kitchen and a living room connected to each other. I should actually thank Alex for renting this since I announced that I am taking my leave from the army to take care of Trace.

I am glad to have a good friend like him, without him it would have been horrid. I will work on repaying him, but first making enough money to sustain ourselves.

I grab my phone and then call Alex, "Hey, when will you be here?"

"In about an hour or so," he says, "Are we going to go to the nightclub first or would you like to play dress-up first?"

"Nightclub. They want to see me in two hours from now and I doubt they want to wait forever."

He then states, "Sounds good."

Hanging up, I then toss my phone on the counter. Heading straight for the kitchen I turn on the kettle then turn to the bathroom to wash up.

With how things are going, not taking into consideration anything else but our situation, it is quite favourable. I already have a job lined up for me and if it doesn't work out there are pretty good options out there.

Trace's tuition is already paid for so I don't have to worry about it up until she wants to enrol in college. This apartment is rather costly but considering what I should make from my salary and what funds I have left from serving the army there shouldn't be anything to worry about, not for a very long time.

Other than what comes next.