It's Not All Roses

Chapter 4

Molly was still causing us problems. She was still mad at me, and she was going to keep bothering us until I actually fought back. one morning at the bus stop, she decided to talk trash about me again. I had finally had enough of this. I got up, and went over to her.
"Yo, quit talking shit, our business is our business. no one else's." is exactly what I told her.
"Go to hell, Lucas!" is the reply I got from Molly.
She flipped me off as I walked away. We ended up yelling at each other again on the bus. I was done with that day by the time I got to school. Dominic knew this, and helped me get through the day. No one but him had ever done that for me. It always made me feel better to have him there with me. Eventually Molly just stopped. She stopped talking about me, and stopped coming around us. After I stopped having to deal with her, I felt entirely free. Stacy would still give me death stares, though. I was waiting for the day where she would attack me, but to my surprise, that day never came. Even she stopped bothering after a while.
Dominic and I were doing well. Everything between us was perfect. we hadn't fought once, which felt a bit weird, but I liked it. I liked feeling peace for once. It honestly felt good to be on the same page most of the time, and instead of yelling, we would just talk out all of our issues. I had never had a relationship like this with anyone else. I felt so lucky to have him. This is when I knew for a fact that he was the right person for me. He was the person I felt the happiest with. I didn't want anything else but him. It made my day just to have him by my side. There was no one else that I wanted. He was the one.
Molly had never treated me this good. I knew that she wasn't the right person, yet I kept going back. Why? Why did I put myself through that pain so many times? I don't know. I guess I was just hoping that it would work out, or I just didn't want to be alone. Either way, I'm glad that it's finally over, and I can finally cut her off without any sort of pain. That was a relief. Things were so much better this way, probably for the both of us. We just weren't good for each other in any way.
It's saddening to think that we tried so many times without realizing that we were holding each other back. But hey, that's over, and we can both start fresh again. The past is the past, it's time to start thinking about other things than each other. I shouldn't think about her anymore, it isn't good for me. And so I won't. I won't think about her unless I absolutely need to. unless I'm forced to by someone or something. I want nothing to do with Molly.
More and more of my thoughts about molly transitioned to ones about Dominic. More and more of my time was spent by his side. It felt like a daydream. an absolute daydream. As the days got colder and colder, things started to change. There started to be some disagreements in the friend group. The group began to split up slowly, but I didn't want to pick sides. I kept getting pulled into the middle of arguments, which made me a bit uncomfortable. There was no way that I was going to take a side in those either. I wasn't interested in losing any of them. they all felt like family to me, and losing any of them felt like a bad dream. I started to lose sleep again. I felt mentally and physically exhausted from the work pile-up at school, and the friend drama I was being pulled into. I couldn't take it all at one time, it was too much. I started falling asleep in lunch again, just trying to make myself feel less tired. I didn't like feeling that way at all. I wanted to feel that same feeling of summer again. I just wanted time to reverse. Was that too much to ask? Damn. It felt like time was slipping by at this point, days were going by so fast. probably because I spent most of mine sleeping or on a computer. I knew that wasn't good for me, but it felt better than being in the middle of drama with barely any energy.
I honestly wish they could just work it out on their own, instead of dragging me in. but clearly, that wasn't possible for them. They kept trying to get me to pick sides, but I really didn't want to. I had no interest in dropping one friend for another. Dominic and I had distanced a bit. I could tell something was wrong, but I didn't know what to do about it, so I let the feeling go. One day, my friend Harry sent me a photo. It was a comment that Gianna made on a social site. Gianna was the one that Harry was fighting with. The comment said something about Gianna liking a person she was spending a lot of time with. The one she was spending more time with was none other than Dominic. now, this hurt me. I didn't know if I should have trusted Harry, or trusted Gianna not to do anything. I talked to Gianna about it, but all they said was that Dominic wasn't the one they liked. Something deep down told me not to trust them, but I did anyway. I tried to get myself back to normal after that, but it was a bit of a challenge. I kind of figured it would be.