"A grape flavored kiss.... A boy on your lips...."
Eddie doesn't know what to do when he finally meets Gareth's other best friend. Gareth talks both of them up to each other yet it takes almost a decade to meet...
Do they actually know each other?
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Eddie POV: It has been three excruciating weeks. Wayne had let me know the funeral for Ellie's grandmother was still being planned and that Sherry was with Ellie more than anyone else. He also mentioned several times that I should call her or go see her.He was frustrated that I hadn't reached out, but quite honestly if I did it would disrespect the space she had been asking for.
I didn't want to hear her voice on the phone, I didn't want to casually check in, if I was to go back over there I wanted it to mean something, some kind of progress. I wanted to hold her in my arms and profess all the right words and feelings she deserves. I couldn't just talk to her. I couldn't. What I could do was get high or work on Hellfire business.
The whole group noticed at school, the difference in the dynamic was apparent. I still went to school and I would see her in class, she had moved seats in the classes we shared. This bothered me as now Chrissy moved closer to me, she would pass me notes, begging for us to talk about the kiss, basically begging for me to let her do things again.
Every-time a note ended up on my desk I felt my eyes wander to Ellie, she would look over then bite her lip, it was still scabbed over from when she tore it open that evening. It meant that she kept reopening it, probably from whatever crying she was doing. I wanted to be there while she cried.. I should have always been there. Now here I was in the classroom, I wanted to see any emotional change in her, but these notes were not what I had imagined. I would watch her squirm and then inevitably look away. Gareth wouldn't acknowledge Chrissy, he had asked her to back off, but she told him it wasn't his business.
That was a fight, she had jumped on him in an attempt to claw his eyes, Mattie had grabbed her hair and they all ended up in the principal's office. None of them wanted to explain what was going on, so Gareth got suspended for two days, Chrissy got detention and Mattie got counseling. It was a mixed bag due to all of their records.
I had been noticing a lot of changes with Ellie. She looked tired. She barely ate, at least from what you could tell. She had dark circles and from what Gareth said she spent most evenings with Steve crying. It made me very uneasy that he had swooped in, but what did I expect when I let her go and I left her so vulnerable.
Ellie was estranged at school with others to, she talked with Suzie, Gareth and Robin. Sometimes she would acknowledge the other kids, but most of the time she was quiet. Gareth assured me it was because she was spending so much time with Tiff and Steve.
I hated seeing her like this. I would always feel myself almost ready to say something, but stop... on good days we would greet each other, but it wasn't more than a "good morning"; one time I accidentally called her sweetheart and the look in her eyes was pure torture, the despair was so intense. You quickly shook your head, you were not going to apologize, but you definitely would make sure it didn't happen again till she was ready.
At lunch she sat with Robin or she would go eat outside. She didn't attempt to be the "Friends" she had asked to be. Maybe that was asking for too much. You didn't know because neither of you were going to initiate the first real contact. I guess you both had that in common, you were very stubborn.
