BLANK SPACE | MILEVEN

TWENTY-TWO

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
MR. PERFECTLY FINE

that sentence was enough for el's heart to break.

"what...?" she was beyond heartbroken.

she didn't care that mike had a girlfriend. honestly good for him, she didn't think he'd be able to get one.

but the fact he didn't tell her and made it seem like he was seeing el made her heart break like glass shards.

"ya," the blonde replied, chewing on her gum violently. "so, mike. she's prettier than i ever imagined. no wonder you got with her!"

el furrowed her eyebrows "wait wha-"

"rebecca, stop!" mike shouted

"why should i?" she questioned still looking at el with a stoned looked face.

all el wanted to do in that moment was cry. and to call robin and steve and let them know what was going on, they'd be here at he rescue. she should just call them right now, and she tried, but she couldn't move, she was frozen.

"el," mike turned to her, hands out trying to touch her arm but she pushed it away.

"please don't cry, this is all just some big misunderstanding!" he begged

she didn't listen, her tears began to pour out, non stop. thank goodness the store was empty.

"el, honey, please." this time he tried to grab her cheeks but once again she pushed his hands way.

"i should've known, why you've been acting this way."

"el listen to me please! i'm not even-"

"NO!" she yelled, but her eyes widened realizing she maybe shouldn't yell in a public area, "no," she said more calmly.

"i-i-" she looked around, trying to find the words to say but she couldn't. she didn't know what to do, or what to say.

so she did what she thought was best. she ran out of the door and continued to run up until she got to the parking lot, she didn't even heard mike calling for her, though she knows he did.

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mike did in fact yell for her, so much his throat hurt so bad. he tried to run after her but rebecca held onto his hand, making sure he didn't.

mike on the other hand felt horrible. "what's wrong with you rebecca!?"

"what? i had to let her know that she was trespassing on my property." she grinned.

"property!? i'm not your property! i haven't been your 'property' for months! i knew i should've never came in here." he sighed, his hands dramatically going up and down as he spoke.

"mike, i haven't gotten help since i last saw you, but i miss you and i need you. that girl can't get in the way!

mikes eyes widened, "shes never done anything to you! she's only ever been nice to me and..." he cleared his throat.

"did you even ever get the help you needed?"

"i know you said i needed help but you're all i need, i miss you too much to be mad anymore!"

"well that explains a lot! leave me and el alone!"

"so her name really is el..."

"you leave both me and her alone." and then he walked out, and everything he saw was blurry. but he was still able to see people giving him weird looks. wait...was he...crying?

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el had now walked herself home, both of her brothers were home and were concerned when she walked through the door with dry tear stains all over her face:

"what happened?"

"who did this to you"

"do we need to call dad?"

"are you fine?"

"was it that one dude?"

"stop!" she cried.

"i'm fine it's just.. my friend had a girlfriend."

"what's so bad about that?" jonathan asked

will smacked his hand and have him a look "you idiot she likes him and he gave her mixed signals!"

"oh...oh! are you good?"

"do i look good?" she unfolded her arms to show herself off.

"no you don't, go get some food or something, do some girl stuff."

"okay..."

she walked upstairs and once she got to her room she called robin.

"hey el- what happened? are you okay?" her worried face really showed how concerned she was for el.

she tried to talk but it resulted in her crying even more.

"no..." realization dawned on her

"what's his name and ad-"

"robin!" el yelled.

"what happened? what did he do to you? oh my gosh did he ta-"

el didn't say anything this time, just stared and blinked. over and over and over again. robin eventually took the hint, "sorry, you can speak now"

el then explains everything to robin, she obviously was crying all over again.

robin tried to speak but began glitching , next thing you know the name "mike" came up on her phone with the words "accept call" and "decline" she's never pushed the decline button faster in her life, if there was a world record for that she would win.

"robin? are you still there?"

"here, but i'm heading to bed now, if you need anything you call me or steve, he has that bat, remember." el couldn't help but giggle at that, she always saw steve and robin as her cool older over protective siblings.

"i will, goodnight." el blew robin kiss, " sweet dreams"

"goodnight" robin caught the kiss and then blew el a kiss back " sweet dreams to you too."and then the call ended.

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el always did one thing when she was sad, mad, and even happy.

she listened to music.

music is one of her favorite things, it helps her focus, it helps with a lot. no matter how she's feeling and how she is music is there.

many songs went by and then mr. perfectly fine started playing.

she at first thought of how much she now somewhat relates to this song.

el was now getting ready to head over to bed until she got the bright idea to change mikes contact name to "mr. perfectly fine"

though it won't do much, it'll help her... in a way.

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