Months went by as Billy would go to school, he kinda missed having Anastasia sitting right beside him, Anastasia would drop by as she would see how Max was doing or pick her up to do with her and Jane. Billy was working a night shift for a party that they had. A lot more people came and it was busy. Anastasia was sitting on the porch as she watched people wear all of the fancy clothing. Swinging, Billy was walking around as Anastasia kept to herself. Not even looking at him while he walked towards her. Going up the stairs he pulled out a smoke.
"Max looked nice for the Snow Ball."
They haven't spoken in weeks. "Good. She'll have a great time."
Lighting his cig up he placed it in his mouth. "I hope so."
Anastasia wanted to talk to him so badly tell him how sorry she was that she messed up, but she had too, there was more to the story than she could tell. Keeping this all to herself her sad brown eyes looked elsewhere. Slowly the people headed downstairs for a big meeting things are going to plan. They just stayed with each other not wanting to be alone. Billy, well is Billy not sure on how to say sorry, they both just knew that they were going to hurt each other.
Billy sat with her on the swing. "Have you heard about Mr. Beaker?"
Anastasia shook her head. "What happened?"
His finger tips grabbed hold of the cig as he blew out the smoky air. "He and Mrs. Sheir has a fling with each other and was caught by three students."
"What no way?!?"
Nodding his head with a little smile. "It was all over school before one of them had to leave. The teachers doesn't even know which one of them are leaving."
"How sad about Mrs. Sheir I had her as a teacher, so nice and kind." As Anastasia thought about it. "Billy, you are not pulling my leg are you?"
He chuckles. "Me? Pulling your leg?" Then he laughs a little. "Now why would I do that?'
"Because Billy, I know that is what you like to do. Please tell me that this is true or not."
Placing his hand on her lap. "Nah, all false."
That made Anastasia laugh, she gently tapped his hand. "Billy that wasn't very nice."
With that charming beautiful smile that she loves he turns to look at her. "I guess I'm never good with saying sorry first other than with... them." He pointed down to his house.
Taking a moment to gather her words. "I am sorry for lying to you. I hope that one day, it doesn't have to be today or tomorrow.. Even whenever you feel like it, you will forgive me." For someone to say that they are sorry first, he didn't know why it touched him. One more thing she had to say and she would leave it alone. "And you are not a screw up. To me you are more than that. One day I hope you too will see that too."
"And yet, you still like me? Even though I'm an ass, and I hurt people, I hurt them when they don't even mean too."
Shrugging her shoulders. "We are all asses in the end, to answer your question yes I do still like you. You may not like me like I like you and that is okay. I came to terms with it a long time ago. You can always fix your anger. "
Licking his lips as he put his cig right back in his mouth. Blowing some more air out. "How do you do that?"
"Do what Billy?"
"Like someone that doesn't like you back?"
"You make sure that you hide your feelings and you stay away from them, not all the time, just some of the time. Because you guts want to tell them everything and anything. So you keep pushing. It's like anger, you push and push until you pop."
"That sucks."
"Yeah.. but you learn to deal with it. Luckily you don't ever have to go through that Billy."
"How do you know that I like someone and they don't like me?"
"Because girls fall to your feet."
They both laughed so hard. They went for a walk by the pool side and then, popping noises started to happen. One popping noise was so close that it got Anastasia, Billy dragging her body away from the shooting. Pressure on her wound as Toni comes over to make sure that they are both okay. Toni picked her up and told Billy to come right behind him.
