This may seem like just another summer. Since Addi can recall, she has been going to Cousins with her family to spend the summer with the Fisher. This will be her last one until college, and she is planning to make it count. Live her life the best w...
I'm about to knock on Jere's door. I need to tell him the truth. I can't even look at him in the face without feeling bad about it.
I take a deep breath before knocking on the door, hoping this won't be the end of our friendship.
"Hey Adds," Jere says as he opens the door.
"Hi, can I talk to you? Alone?"
"Sure." He lets me in and I walk straight into the room. I close my eyes before I start talking. "I came to tell you the truth."
"What are you talking about? What truth?"
I hesitate for a moment, feeling like this won't end well. "I..." I cut myself off.
"Adds, talk to me," Jere says, approaching me and taking my face between his hands. "We're best friends. You can tell me anything."
I close my eyes once more, and a tear falls off. "I'm sorry," I say, taking a step away from him.
"About what?"
"Do you remember when you asked me if I already knew the truth? Well... I lied to you. I already knew... I'm sorry."
His confusion turns to sadness. "For how long?" That's all he asks.
"That doesn't matter, Jere."
"Yes, it does matter. For how long have you known, Addison?" He never calls me Addison. I can see that he is trying not to hate me. He is trying to understand why I lied, but I can't explain the truth to him because I still don't know. I have no idea why I didn't tell him.
"Six days." It isn't too much time, but in those six days, I've been talking to him and lying to Jere.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"I don't know," my voice breaks as I tell him that.
"Don't lie to me anymore, just tell me."
"I'm telling you the truth. I don't know why I didn't tell you, okay?"
"He asked you not to tell me?"
"Yeah."
"And apparently, your relationship with Conrad is more important than ours?"
"Don't say those things, please."
"It's the truth, Addison. You chose him over me."
"I didn't choose anyone, Jere. I just did what I thought was best."
"And 'the best' was hiding that my mom has cancer? You think that's the best?"
"Now, Jere, try to understand me."
"I'm trying, really trying. I just don't understand why you didn't tell me," Jere said.
"I... It was hard, I guess. Whenever I saw Susannah, I wanted to hug her and cry..." More tears kept falling down my cheeks. "I didn't want to see you sad. At first, I was in denial. I didn't want to believe that it was true. I was hoping that the next day I would wake up, and everything was just a nightmare. That everything was good again. But it didn't happen, Jere... It didn't. Seeing you and not telling you the truth was hard. I wanted to hug you and tell you everything, but I listened to Con when he told me not to tell you. We wanted you to live this summer as normal as you could. Everything was good in your life, and we didn't want to ruin that."
"You should have told me."
"That wouldn't have changed a thing. Now three of us will be sad because of Susannah, and there was nothing we could do. If telling you would have made Susannah better, I would have run and told you right after Con told me. But that wasn't going to happen. I know I did wrong by not telling you, and I'm sorry. But I was trying to do what was best."
By this time, Jere was crying too. But he didn't look angry or upset. He just looked sad.
"Come here," he told me, opening his arms, and I walked towards him and hugged him. I cried in his arms, and he did the same. We stayed there for so long, but it actually felt like seconds. I didn't know what I would do without this guy. Maybe I'm in love with his brother, but Jere is just as important as Con.
"Do you hate me?" I asked once I was apart from him.
"I could never hate you, Adds."
"So now I'm Adds again?"
"Yeah, I was pretty awkward calling you Addison."
"Sorry again, though."
"There's nothing to forgive. I know why you did it, and thank you for telling me the truth."
"I was terrified of doing it, but I knew it was the right thing to do."
"I love you, Adds. You are my best friend, so from now on, we will tell each other the truth, okay?"
"Okay, and I love you too."
ˏˋ°•*⁀➷ Authors note ˏˋ°•*⁀➷
Just a quick little bonus chapter, because I'm not ready to leave this story behind. I promise I will continue updating this fanfic.
Sorry for taking so long to write this, I wanted to do it yesterday for my Birthday (I know you guys don't care) Anyway, but I couldn't so here it is.
They will be a lot of bonus chapters, or I hope so. But for that, you'll have to wait. Right now, I'm focusing on my new fanfic.
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This is my new Fanfic, it's about Matt, so if you want to you could go and read it.
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And that's it, I hoped you enjoy this bonus.
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