𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐎, fezco

16.

EPISODE 2 SPOILERS AHEAD.

THE truth was, Juno did go and see Nate in the hospital. Fez and Ash didn't know, Maddy and Cassie didn't know, nobody knew apart from Nate and Juno.

He was asleep when she got there, she always thought he looked so peaceful when he was asleep. Even when they had sleepovers, he didn't have the angry Nate Jacobs expression.

"Wake up." She mumbled, poking his arm a little. "Nate, wake up." She said a little louder and he didn't wake up. "Wake up Nate." She said, her voice normal now. "Wake up!" She raised her voice a little bit and punched his arm, hard.

His eyes shot open and he looked to see a distraught looking Juno sitting next to his bed with her knees against her chest. "I fucking hate you Nate Jacobs. Fucking hate you."

He scoffed a little, or he was trying to speak but Juno couldn't tell the difference. "You came here. To tell me you hate me? Thats low, even for you." He spluttered out and Juno's eyes welled up.

"You gaslit me Nate, you fucking ruined me. And here I am, crying next to your bedside because I'm worried about you." Juno wiped her eyes, looking sadly down at Nate.

He looked up at her, chuckling sadistically. "Gaslighting? Is that a new phrase your little friends taught you? You know nobody will ever love you like I love you Juno. Accept it."

She shook her head, looking down at him. "You're a narcissist Nate. You don't love me, you don't love the idea of me. You love thinking you own me. You love thinking that I'm always going to come back to you and the sad thing is I always do. Because from day one of meeting you, it's like you were grooming me to always come back to you." Her voice broke at the end. "And I'm sick of feeling like I depend on you Nate." Her sobs became more obvious.

"You're being dramatic Juno. You're so sensitive, you've always been sensitive. Why do you always paint me out to be a bad person, because I'm not. I was always there for you, through everything and now everything is my fault? You need to toughen up."

But she realised she was being over dramatic. "I'm sorry Nate. I guess I'm just upset. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be so sensitive. I just worry about you all the damn time." She mumbled, fiddling with a loose string on her sweater.

"Good, I hate it when you act crazy like that." He let out a breath of air and Juno realised what he was doing. "You know, I only hit you that time because I didn't know what else do to, I only do it because I love you."

Juno was screaming at Nate for something. She didn't remember what, but it turned into a 'i hate this about you' screaming match.

"Your hair, i fucking hate your hair. You don't comb it anymore, you fucking smell all the time I don't know how anyone deals with it!" Nate exclaimed, his hands coming up in the air, near Juno's face making her flinch back.

"I'm a depressed teenager Nate, not everything is happy and rainbows. I'm on a fucking molly drop, I'm gonna be depressed and I'm gonna wanna not eat and not drink anything. Shut the fuck up! What about you, when you fucking yell at me for breathing too loudly, or you fucking yell at me when my food isn't nutritionally balanced enough. Everything is an argument with you!" She yelled, hands flailing everywhere.

"You're a fucking psychopath!" She yelled.

There was a loud thud as Juno hit the floor. Her cheek stung and her face was red, a tiny bit of blood coming out of her nose as she looked at Nate fearfully.

"Did you just — i need to go." She stood up quickly, grabbing her clothes. But Nate grabbed her wrist.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry." He apologised profusely, his head was on Juno's as he sobbed. "I love you I'm sorry I didn't mean it I'm sorry. I love you." He rambled over and over again.

He was gaslighting her again.

"I'm not acting fucking crazy Nate. You know what, I'm not too sensitive, I'm not dramatic. But you know what i do know, I know that your little secret. That one about your daddy is gonna stay with me forever. And if you hurt Maddy again, or if you try and gaslight me again, I'll tell everyone what kind of person he is. And what he does to little fucking kids." She spat, bringing her fist down harshly onto Nate's abdomen, making him cry out in pain as she walked out silently.