Why Do You Care About Me? - A Reese Wilkerson Fanfiction

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Emma's mum dropped me off right outside my house, even though she had to drive further, and I insisted that there was no need. Emma didn't deserve her.

"Hi Georgia!" Finn squealed as soon as I closed the door behind me. He ran up to me and hugged my legs.

The tears I'd been choking back already started streaming down my face.

"Hi Finn." I whispered, leaning down to hug him. His pale face topped with his platinum blonde hair peered up at me.

"What happened?" His smile faded as he noticed my tears (thank God I was wearing waterproof mascara).

"It's fine. It's just the rain." I said as I brushed my tears away with the back of my hand. I didn't want to worry and confuse him with my complex friendship problems. "Thanks though man. I know you're always there for me." I smiled.

"Yeah." He grinned proudly.

I went to my room and completely teared up all over again.

I  changed out of my damp clothes and went into the kitchen to find something sugary to drown my sorrow in, when there was a knock on the door.

I went to open it, since none of my siblings even moved a muscle.

It was Reese, drenched in rain. Yet again, I felt tears burning in my eyes. I kinda forgot about him today. Without saying anything, I hugged him tightly.

"Whoa. What happened?" He asked, surprised. 

I let go of him and didn't say anything. 

"Georgia, who is it?" Caleb yelled from the couch.

"Oh, just this boy I'm tutoring!" I lied. Reese gave me a confuzzled expression.

"Wha-" I covered his mouth with my hand and lead him to my room. "Why did you say that?" He demanded as soon as the door closed behind us. I didn't know what to say. The tears I'd managed to hold back so far were still burning my eyes dangerously.

"I-I don't know." I whispered. It was enough for the tears to finally start rolling down my face. I felt so pathetic.

"Hey. It's okay." He wrapped his arm around me. "Wanna talk about it?" 

"Do you really want to hear about it?" I laughed through my tears.

"Yeah." He grinned. We sat town on my bed. Once I'd stopped crying, I told him everything that happened today. I hadn't really wanted to bother him with my stupid social life, but he'd insisted.

I'd never really had anyone to talk about these things with. I couldn't trust any girl at school since they were all fake as fuck and my problems would have spread through the whole school in less than a day. And my siblings had better things to do than listen to me whine about how shitty my friends were.

But Reese was actually there for me. He wanted me to be okay. 

We started digging deeper into my nearly decade old friendship, and turns out that a friendship I'd thought had been perfect until a few months ago, was never really. There had always been things wrong, I'd just always denied that they were there. No. I'd just always been too afraid to say anything, and just hoped that problems would go away on their own. 

I remembered a time at the end of Elementary school when Emma thought she was so much better than everyone, including me.

"Do you think I'd beat Mariah McDonagh in a fight?" She asked once when we were on a windy afternoon walk.