Jokers

19

Leo's pov:

I handed the handkerchief to Chase and guided him to the sofa, Aiden however was still hacking away at the chair, he was crushing the arms of the chair with his feet, the rage was evident in his face. 

For Fucks Sake. 

I grabbed him by the shoulders and sat him down on the armchair he had previously sat in. It only got him even more furious. I sighed. I looked down at him. 

"Listen to me," I urged him to "this is the only time I'm ever going to say this to you. Im extremly sorry for my next action." 

Chase seemed to clock what was happening and immediately sprung up, which only caused his nose bleed to spill everywhere. Idiot. 

"Leo, if you gonna do what I think you are then I don't think it'll work on the lunatic, if anything he's gonna kill you."  He tried to warn me, as he furiously wiped at his nose, cursing as more blood appeared. 

Pfft, as if anyone could kill me.

Anyways, I looked back down at Aiden, his eyes were filled with rage. I slapped him across the face. I don't mean a little slap as well, one of those bitch slaps that make people stagger back a little. I hope this worked, I had done this multiple times to Paris and he had managed to come back from whatever world he was in, so I hoped this would work. 

It did not. 

Whatever monster that possessed Aiden whenever he got into these little tantrums looked like it thrived of more violence. Well, fuck. 

He exploded. Literally. He was screaming every profanity known to man and, just like his nickname, he was a mad dog. A wild dog, gone crazy. It was insane, I'd never seen Aiden this mad before.Anything that was in his way was chucked to the side, his sights were only set on me. God this was a serious bother. 

As I was avoiding all of these brutal attacks I looked to Chase for any help, you could practically see the 'I told you so' so evident on his face. He just smirked back at me. Bastard. 

How on earth do you calm a mad dog down? 

His speed was concerningly inhumane, and he very nearly managed to land a solid punch on my side, Oh fuckkk. 

Just as I was fighting for my life, the dining room doors swung wide open making a loud sound, that startled all of us. Aiden even, once more paused

The girl stood, still, evidently confused at the scene played before her. She looked from Chase to me and Aiden. To chase again, and raised her eyebrow when she saw his bloodied nose. She looked back at Aiden and I. 

Aiden had frozen. He stood completely still, his eyes were wide open, as if he'd seen a ghost. All rage seemed to have evaporated from him.

Aria's pov: 

The scene before me was a catastrophe. I liked it. 

Chase was sat on the sofa, clutching a bloodied handkerchief. He wasn't really paying much attention to the fight that was happening behind him, only to his nose. Leo however had his hands in a blocking position, i have no idea what you call it, but it was one of those positions where he bought his hand close to his face to block on coming punches or what not. 

"Whats going on here?" I tried to hide a smile, the room was tip. 

"Well, my nose is bleeding." Chase was the one to speak first. 

"No shit. I mean its not like I cant see that, I'm talking about this." I picked a piece of broken....i have no idea what it was, and examined it "Is this a piece of chair?" I finally came to the conclusion that this was perhaps a chair? 

"What the hell are you even here for?" Leo said annoyedly. 

I rolled my eyes at him "Well, your High-" 

I was interrupted. 

"Aria?" A voice spoke out. 

I was glad to see that I wasn't the only one who looked towards the person who called my name out, Leo also turned to look at him, even Chase started to pay more attention.  

I swear my heart fell out of my chest. It fucking dropped. 

He had the same pale blue eyes, but unlike the last time i'd seen him they no longer were the same tired, weary ones, filled with transparent tears. No. They were bright, sharp and steady. More importantly they were focused on me. He watched me carefully, almost as if he was looking through me. 

His messy, golden hair had changed a little. The familiar mess of gold and almost white now had soft light brown streaks. I guess he couldn't be called sunshine boy. So perhaps that was different.

He looked so different yet just the same. 

"Hello Aiden, Its been a while." I smiled at him.

"ARIA!" he shouted, running up to me and pulling me into his arms. 

He hugged me tightly, almost like he couldn't believe himself. Hell. Neither could I. I couldn't believe i'd see sunshine boy ever again. 

 Aiden broke the hug and looked at me, his eyes searching mine "It's really you isn't it?" 

"Of course its fucking me. Who the fuck else would it be???" I rolled my eyes. 

He smiled, laughed, he looked delirious. "I was just checking...You really haven't changed, Ria." 

He was the second person to say this to me now, after Chase. 

"Is that a good thing or a bad thing, because if that's a bad thing, then fuck you." I asked suspiciously. 

He ruffled my hair "Don't worry, its a good thing." 

"Your messing up my hair. Stupid." I complained trying to smoothen it out. 

"Payback." He reminded me. 

"Oh my fucking god. That was 4 years ago! i simply cannot believe you are that petty to remember that." I had forgotten how petty Aiden was. 

"So, uhm, do you maybe wanna explain what the fuck is going on here?" Chase interrupted

He looked at both of us, almost interrogatingly.

"I don't have to explain shit to you." Aiden easily replied. 

Oh he had changed. He had definitely changed. Old Aiden wasn't like this. At all. Old Aiden was timid. Old Aiden was shy. This Aiden, he wasn't any of those, neither timid nor shy.

"Maybe you don't, but she does." Chase, said looking directly at me. His golden eyes, seemed angry I couldn't understand why. 

More importantly, I couldn't understand why I had to explain shit to him either. I didn't even fucking know him. Except. He knew me, I had to remind myself. He apparently knew me. I still couldn't figure out how, or more importantly who he was, but there was one thing i knew for sure.

 He was definitely familiar. There were times where i had seen little bits of a person I once knew, the only matter was piecing together who this person was. 

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