Apologizing to the Bad Boy

Chapter One

Dedication to my friend in heaven: Tia I Also the picture that is to the right is of Alice.Vote and comment!!!!

The writing gets better as you go, I'm sorry if the first couple of chapters are shit- just give it a try. Thanks. Also some stuff will be unedit, weird, and frankly bad so just take a deep breath and keep reading because this was written a looong time ago.

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Alice POV

I was once in love with James Caper. He was my best friend and I was his. I did everything with him and he did everything with me. At first I liked him as a friend but then I had these little feelings whenever I was around him. I thought he felt the same way.

Soon other kids started to make fun of us but James always told them off. James wasn’t exactly scaring but he was popular. He always told me that we were just jealous and that I shouldn't worry. So I didn't. 

Then one day everything changed. James started to be mean to me. This was the point in my childhood I didn't understand. I didn't know that back then what I know now. At that age, that's how boys showed their feelings for girls. But I didn't know that then. So I did the only thing I could think of.

I was mean right back at him.

We teased. We pulled pranks on each other. As we got older the comments and the pranks got worse. Much worse.

 By the time I was in high school, our feelings for liking each other were either long gone. We couldn't be in the same room without biting each other heads off. But as you get older, other problems start to enter your life. For me it wasn't as bad, but I never knew what James experience so much more. He would be put through hell and I only added to it. 

James would never tell anyone. He wouldn't ask for help because that's just how he is. He was the oldest man of the house because he's father died a couple years ago. 

He was used to no one truly helping him.

I still remember the day he almost died. I don't think I will ever forget.

It was a Saturday night at around 10 p.m. I had hangout with my friends early on in the day but they had headed home by then. I was still upset about the prank James pulled. He had put shrunk spray into my new Sweet Pea perfume from Bath and Body Works. Lucky for me I haven't had sprayed it yet.

I was thinking about the earlier events when I heard police sirens. I looked out my window and saw them all in front of James’ house. Before I could react to what I was doing, I ran out of my house and marched up to his. I remember police officers trying to stop me but I was on a mission. I was looking for his mom or him. I was worried and scared something bad had happened. I didn't want to be right. 

I then saw James' mom, Grace, kneeling in the grass with her head down. She looked so sad and broken. I ran up to her.

"Grace! What's wrong?" I shouted. The minute I spoke her head shoot up. Her eyes were bloodshot and red. I had only seen her like this on one day. And she looked even worse compared to then.

"James" she choked out before sobbing. I knelt down next to her. A million thoughts crashed my mind. I knew we were enemies but he was once my best friend. I can’t say I ever stop caring for him.

"What happened?" I said trying to comfort her. 

"He-" She tried but staring crying. 

"Grace...................what's wrong!" I so scared, I didn't understand.

"H-e trie-edd to kill-l himself. But l-lucky-y for m-e, I stop himm in tim-e," she started to bawl. This time I let her. I stared at her with my eyes opened wide. I fell next to her and started to cry too.