Devil's backbone (Eddie munson au)

Part 10

1 month later

Walking into the cafeteria, I spot Eddie and his group of friends, walking up i to them place a kiss to his cheek at he leans back looking up at me.
"Hey babe." He says wrapping an arm around my legs.

"Hey sarah." His friends say hello.
"So I'm not going to need a ride today. I'm going dress shopping with Anna." I explain to him the plan me and Anna had made in second period.

"Dress shopping?" He asks.
"Ya for prom." I say but he looks like a deer in the headlights.
"What?" I ask him and he starts to fidget in his seat.
"I wasn't planning on going." He says.
"Why not? we will have fun." I ask lightly poking his shoulder.
"Absolutely not." He says firmly

"Why are you so against it?" I say a little confused and kind of hurt that he doesn't want to go even with me.

"I would do almost anything for you but even you can't get me to go to a shitty high school prom. I'm not spending my evening listening to crappy music, standing around in a tux no thank you." Eddie rolls his eyes.

"It's a high school right of passage" I plead.

"Seeing now I'm not passing it's not a right of passage, the Guilt trip won't work." His voice firm and slightly elevated, he was getting annoyed.

"It's one night, I don't want to go alone. And your my boyfriend. I want to spend the night with you." I plead with him, lowering my voice not wanting to do this in front of his friends.

"I'm not changing my mind. I'm done talking about it. Conversation over." He gets up and walks away from the cafeteria table leaving me with his friends who were all avoiding eye contact. I am stunned. He has never gotten upset like that around me before, or at me. I wanted to cry, instead I stood up leaving the table of his friends.

Me and Anna still ended up going to the store.
Even if Eddie was refusing to go, it wasn't going to stop me. I would just go by myself, no matter how sad the thought made me.

I must have been brooding in silence for a bit to long because Anna tapped my shoulder to get my attention.
"You sure your up for this? We can go home?"
"No I'm fine. Still need a dress even if I'm not going with my boyfriend." I say rolling my eyes.

"You know it's not even that he doesn't want to go. I could careless about that. But to storm off and not even talk threw an argument!" I say throwing my hands up in defeat.

"Yea that's pretty shitty." Anna nodded being supportive all while holding up different dresses under my chin.
"I didn't think this would be such a big deal. But it was like a flip of a switch. I thought we were causally talking about it then he gets mad and walks off. Leaving me standing there stunned. And embarrassed in front of his friends." I say reliving the moment, embarrassed again I put my hands to my face.

"It was a little tiff. You two will get over it. I bet he already left you a voicemail apologizing."

"Ooo this one!" She says turning around holding up a short strapless all black number with a sweet heart neckline and tiered skirt. She pushes me into the fitting room then turns to look for one her self.
The black one fit like a dream and was a reasonable price. After we were done checking out while we walked to the car I hear a familiar rumble accompanied by squealing breaks. Across the street Eddie pulls up to thatcher tire and gets out of the van. We make eye contact and he looks down at the dress in my hands, shutting his door with force and walking away. I have a feeling Anna would be wrong, there was no voicemail waiting for me.

And I was right by Sunday Evening I still hadn't heard from him. So many times that weekend I wanted to pick up the phone and call him, but I figured he didn't want to talk to me, so I would give him space. But I was also half expecting a phone call. If that was a good or bad idea I don't know. So I was laying in my bed Staring at the ceiling, Wishing I was with him instead of laying her feeling sorry for myself.

My bedroom door flies open and Anna walks into my room.
"I'm here to cheer you up!" She says throwing a bag of chocolate on my bed.
"Talk..." she says opening a candy bar and handing it to me. I just shrug a shoulder and slink further into my bed.

"He hates ABBA right?" She says standing up pulling a tape from her back pocket.
"Yea..." I say unsure where she is going with this. I actually am not a fan of them either, why she brought her moms tape I wasn't sure.

"I say we blast his most hated band. And scream it till our voices go hoarse." She hits play and I roll over groaning, knowing what Eddie's reaction would be if he heard it. A small smile playing on my lips as I felt Anna jump on the bed belting out the first verse. Bending over she sings in my ear.

"Come on. You know it. You've been in the car with my mom plenty of times." She pokes me and pulls me to standing on the bed with her, pushing a hair brush into my hands.

"I've been angry and sad about things that you do
I can't count all the times that I've told you we're through
And when you go, when you slam the door I think you know that you won't be away too long,
You know that I'm not that strong" I belt out hardly holding back laughter when she jumps and dances around on my bed.

A shrill ring of my phone pierced the air so jumping down from bed, I pick it up. Putting my hand to the opposite ear so I can hear over the music and Anna obnoxiously loud singing.
"Hello?" There was no answer on the other end and after a minute I could hear some one hang up their end. My heart broke, part of me had hoped it was Eddie.

Eddie

I had spent all weekend locked up in my room, staring at the ceiling, feeling so stupid. Wondering why I had walked away from her. I had picked up the phone half a dozen time. Every time I try i see the hurt in her eyes when I saw her downtown. I mentally berate my self for acting like a stubborn child. She is a girl of course she would have wanted to go to a dance with her boyfriend.

Grabbing the phone I dial her number before I lose my nerve again. It only rang three times before she picked up, in the background I could hear that god awful band she had teased me with weeks ago And in the background some one belting about being heartbroken. But her voice came threw with some force so it could be heard over the music.
I couldn't find any words, she was happy and having fun? Doubt starting to creep in again I hang up the phone.

When Monday morning came around walking into English, she was sitting on the opposite side of the room from her normal spot. I go to walk up to her yet my feet won't move and again my voice is silent. How am I going to fix this. I say letting my head slip and bang on to the desk.