Healing closed wounds

Part 45 - my partner in crime

~ IVANS POV ~

I park near an empty park so I can talk to Lis. I have many things to tell her and there are many things she needs to tell me.

"I need to talk to Lis first." I say before getting out of the car. "What about us?" Nolan asks annoyed. "I'm her sister!" He yells.

By now we're all outside of the car. "Guys stop arguing!" Hazel yells at all of us.

I look beside her to see Lis. She looks drained. My heart sinks just looking at her.

"What the hell was that?" Nolan looks between Lis and I.

Lis speaks up before I can. "I'm sorry." She says. "I should've stayed away from you the second she threatened me." She looks up the meet my eyes.

"I knew this would happen and I didn't do anything to stop it." A single tear falls down her cheek.

"Aly stop blaming yourself!" Nolan yells at her this time. "I'm sick of you torturing yourself! Everything that has happened to you is not your fault!" Lis flinches at that.

"Nolan don't yell at her." Hazel says softly. Nolan sighs as he leans against my car.

"Lis, Nolans right. It's not your fault. But please tell me what you mean when you say she threatened you." I try to meet her eyes but she keeps her eyes glued to the floor.

"First Graham found out.." she pauses. "About.." we all nod knowing what she means.

"He wouldn't leave me alone about it.. and then Victoria found out and threatened me at the spring formal. She said if I didn't leave you alone she would do something bad and leak the photo of my bruises..." I clench my jaw and fist, fighting the urge to hit something.

"And you didn't tell us?" Hazel asks softly. "Aly.." she tries to comfort her but she pushes away.

"I should've known Victoria would do something." I cruse under my breath. Victoria has never left me alone after I met her.

"What did they mean when they said you wanted to forget me?" This time lis is looking at me. Her eyes digging into mine. Hungry for an answer.

I swallow before speaking. "Ever since we stopped talking I couldn't get you out of my head.." I think back to how stupid I was. I let my hatred blind my love for her.

"You were my best friend lis. No matter what I did you would always be the first person I thought of." I look back into her eyes.

"Why would you want to forget me then?" She asks hurt. My heart breaks from her hurt voice.

"Because I lost the one person I truly loved!" I admit before thinking. It's too late to take back now so I stand taller.

Nolan and Hazel looks at me in shock.

"Don't act surprised." I scuff at Nolan.

"I couldn't deal with the fact that I lost my best friend. So I tried everything to push the feeling away." Now I can't even face Lis. I look down at my feet.

"I was 10 and stupid." All I can do is laugh at the stupidity. "As I got older the feeling kept growing with me. I just got angrier. I let my hatred blind me." I say still looking at my feet.