Beware • Joseph Quinn

'I'm Sorry'

*Friday*

Joe Keery's pov-

    "I'm just saying, maybe you should go talk to her. Maybe tell her the real reason why you lied" Maya suggested, talking about Lana. I was sitting on the couch in Maya's trailer waiting to get called to set, it was currently 12:00 pm but I wasn't needed until 5:00 pm. "Maybe I should apologise but tell her that I'm in love with her? No way" Maya nods her head "alright well if you do go talk to her I would be careful, she's……having a hard time" I shake my head "What? What'd you mean?" I question her, "well Joseph's got a 'date' tonight" I scoff "well that great, I- I guess-" I go on "but it's not with her" Maya cuts me off, I let out a exhale  "oh, who is it with then" I look at maya "some dancer, her names Andrea" My eyes widen at the name, "Andrea Mills?" I ask her, she shrugs "I dunno, all Lana told me is that she's a dancer and her name is Andrea" I put my head in my hands, "I'm gonna go find Lana" I get up and walk out of the trailer. 

Maya follows me "I haven't seen her today, come to think of it" she tells me while we walk side by side. We walk down the trailers, Maya goes up the steps to Joseph's trailer "hey" I call out to her, she looks back at me with a 'what' expression on her face "What are you doing?" I ask her "well you never know where she could be" I shake my head knowing that she's not gonna be in there. I grab Maya's arm before she opens the door "c'mon" I pull her away and we start walking again. We stop in front of Noah's trailer, we go up the steps and open the door "Hey how you doin?" I say making Noah jump, he was in the middle of changing his shirt. Maya hits my arm "Ow" Maya shakes her head in disappointment "Sorry to scare you but we wanted to know where Lana is" he looked at us both and shrugged "I'm sorry, but I haven't seen her today" We both nodded in response "thank you Noah, have fun……..changing" he laughs nervously "thanks, I guess." We walk out of his trailer and visit everyone else's trailers, No one has seen her. When we visited Finn he suggested we ask Matt and Ross, he was right, surely they had seen her somewhere. So we look around to find one of the duffer brothers, finally we see Matt, "Hey Matt" Maya calls out, he turns around to see up running up to him "oh hey guys, whats up?" Me and Maya looked at each other then we looked back at Matt "well, we were wondering where Lana was, do you know?" I asked him, he thought for a second "oh, yeah she didn't come in today, she told us she wasn't feeling good so she couldn't come in today" I nod "thank you" Matt smiled at us and nodded "You're very welcome!" we both walked away, we looked at each other "You said the date was tonight?" I asked Maya, "yep, I think you need to go to her apartment and talk to her, make amends and comfort her as her best friend" I nod my head. 

Lana's pov-

    I sat in my bed looking at the ceiling, I couldn't bring myself to get up and go to work, so I called the brothers and told them I wasn't feeling well. Which clearly I was lying as to where I can't feel anything at all. Well I can feel my legs and arms and body parts just not my feelings. I slowly get up and get out of bed, I make my way to my apartment kitchen, my apartment is dark and somber, the silence was loud, almost too loud. I opened the fridge, the light from the fridge lightened up the room a bit. I couldn't find anything pleasing, so I opened up the freezer and found mine and Joseph's ice cream that we bought last weekend. I grab my cookie dough ice cream "this'll have to do" I said to myself as I closed the freezer. I sit down with my tub of ice cream and a spoon then turn on the tv to the movie 'Five Feet Apart'. I never watch sad movies but it felt appropriate.

    The movie was almost finished as I was almost finished with my tub of Ice cream, I heard my phone go off. I picked it up and looked at who was calling me, the screen said 'Joseph' I let out a sigh and lock my phone ignoring the call, I didn't want to talk to him cause he's just gonna ask where I am and why I'm not at work and then he's gonna go off about his stupid date tonight. My phone went off again but this time it was a text message

Joseph: Are you ok? Your not at work and your not answering my calls

Me: Yes I'm ok, just not feeling well, that's all

Joseph: Alright, do you need anything, I can come over before or after my date

There it is, the 'date' 

Me: no, have fun on your date

Joseph: …..are you sure you're ok?

Me: yes, why wouldn't I be?

Joseph: idk, it's just you seem a bit off 

Me: well I'm alright

Joseph: Ok, well I'll talk to you later 

Me: mkay

I put my phone down. I put my ice cream bowl on the table and laid on the couch, I had music playing in the background, specifically 'Mulholland Drive' by Aryia. I laid there staring at the ceiling 'So let go of my hand and you'll know, the things we hold onto will show' tears start forming in my eyes 'Us that they never were ours. this is what tears me apart' the song continues, I heard a knock at the door. I suck up my tears, the door opens and Joe comes in, he closes the door behind him. He turns on a light "what are you doing here? and turn off the light" Joe comes over to the living room, he reaches for the remote and pauses my music "Hey! I was listening to that" Joe shakes his head "it's just making you sad" he sits down beside me on the couch "look, I'm really sorry for lying about Joseph. It's not gonna happen again, I promise." I look at Joe "it's okay, I'm not as mad at you anymore. I understand if you were jealous" I explained to him "Also, I heard about the whole Joseph and Andrea thing, I'm sorry. He'll come around. And if he can't realize that what's in front of him is one of the most beautiful, best people he's ever met then that's his fault" I smile and laugh a bit "thank you, Joe" he laughs and pulls me in for a hug. "ya know when you get a girlfriend, she is gonna love you" I look up at him "I don't think I'll get one anytime soon" he laughs at what he just said "and why not?" I smile, he pauses for a second "Lets just say i'm saving myself for someone else" I nodded in response leaving it at that. We hung out for the rest of the day until he got called onto set. 

A/N: this is short but in the next chapter we meet andrea, and thats gonna be a lot for Lana and Joseph so I wanted to save that for the next chapter, this chapter was so dramatic and weird, but at least we got an apology from Joe. Also 'Mulholland drive by aryia is very good so I would reccomend you listen to the song.