***TWO DAYS LATER***
***TAYLOR POV***
"What Taylor?" He answered the phone.
"Don't you 'what Taylor' me!" I barked back, "Sam has been sitting on the porch just wrapped in a blanket for two days now! She needs you, so get here!"
"Do you really think that's a good idea?"
"She loves you and I think anything will help her right now."
"But what's he going to think?"
"I don't give a rat's ass about him right now! Get here!" I snapped at him and hung up the call.
A few long minutes later there was a knock at the door.
"What am I even doing here?" He said, "She said she wants to be alone."
"You care about her don't you?"
"Of course I care about her."
"Then go!"
***SAMS POV***
I heard the door open behind me. I sat up, expecting to see Taylor.
"Matt." I said "What are you doing here?"
He took in a slight breathing pause, "I'm here to talk."
"Y-you want to talk?"
He shook his head no, "I'm want to listen."
I straightened up in my chair. I never expected Matt to be the one coming to me after what happened just days ago.
"Were you cheating on me?" He asked with his head down.
"You know I never wanted to hurt you, I just-" I started to babble on, raising myself closer to him.
"Just," Matt interrupted me, "answer the question."
I started to slouch back down, "No, I wasn't." I said, "Not technically."
"What does that mean?"
"I kissed him once. It was only once, I swear." I started the have panic in my voice, "I knew it was wrong and I wasn't planning it. I told him we couldn't but it just happened... I'm sorry."
"How long did you wait to tell me?"
"I told you the very next day."
Matt's face had a look of shock, which almost hurt me to think he was so surprised that I would tell him right away.
"So," Matt cleared his throat, "this just happened?"
I nodded my head, "I don't know what happened."
"I do."
I looked at him.
"You love him." He said.
I didn't say anything.
Matt continued, "I've always known it, I just acted like I didn't. It's obvious that he's the one you want to be with... Hayes is the one you should be with."
I couldn't hold back, I jumped up from the chair and fell on to Matt, holding him in a big hug. He squeezed me back, I felt the warmth of his hug and the flush of joy to know that my best friend was back.
I held him close and whispered to him, "Thank you."
There was nothing I needed more at that very moment then just a hug and the reassurance that Matt would still be in my life. To k ow that he had faith in me. I was so terrified that he would think I went behind his back, but I never would.
Matt moved back from hugging me, "Why are you still crying?"
I wiped away a single tear, "I'm not." I said, "I'm happy."
"You should go to Hayes." He told me.
I nodded my head, getting up from my mess of blankets I had been buried in for days. As I started to walk back into my room, I turned around the face Matt,
"Thank you, Matt. For everything."
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Starting Over
FanfictionIt's been two years and now high school is over. Sam goes away for school, leaving Hayes heart broken. In the time she's gone Hayes is tearing at the seams and quickly falls apart. But when she comes to a new college to meet Hayes as her new classm...