Dark room

The beginning

I didn't want trouble with Eliot, but then he fucked up my camera.
"IT DOESNT EVEN MATTER IF I DONT HAVE PHYSICAL PROOF! MJ WOULD BELIEVE WHATEVER I TELL HER, AND IM TELLING HER WHAT I SAW!"

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My name is y/n, I live in Colorado with my best friend MJ. Her name is Maddi Jane and she lives with me. We met in daycare 10 years ago when we were both 5. We became best friends when we found out we had the same birthday. I had green cupcakes, and MJ had blue. One day her parents just didn't show up to pick her up. I told my parents that I refused to leave until her parents came. They never did. Her parents were in traffic when a fatal car collision took out the 4 cars behind it. Her parents were car #3. MJ came to live with me shortly after. It's been 10 years and we're still as close as sisters.

Eliot was MJ's idiot boyfriend of 3 years. They met in 6th grade and when he said those stupid fuckboy words "we should chill sometime." she was hooked. The infamous fuckboy is cocaine to MJ. The only guys she's ever into always end up being the morrons I want to keep her away from. Im like a protective order sister, I'm 4 hours and 6 minutes older than MJ so I like to poke at her for being older.

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MJ is sick with H1N1, and I had a photography assignment to do so I thought I might as well grab some soup for her on my journey out and about. I walked from my house to the SafeWay a couple of minutes away from MJs house. I saw Eliot walking out and I didn't want to be seen. To avoid any sarcastic remarks made by the king of imbecilus, I dodged and hid behind a damp tree with a cart parked in front if it. I saw he was holding two coffees from the small Starbucks inside the store. "Crap," I mumbled "He must have just gotten something to bring over to MJ." But then he turned the corner in the opposite direction of MJs house. "Well that's odd." I thought. Was she faking being sick and was actually out with him? Was he just really tired? Where was he going? "Wait... What do I care?" I said as I ducked out from behind my brilliant hiding spot. But being the careless mess I am I followed him. I tracked up the snowy hills following his footprints. The wind started picking up so I snapped a few pictures before heading to Maddi's. I zoomed in and out, trying to find the right frame. Eventually the wind swept the remaining boot tracks away. It was getting really cold, but I pursued trekking in my combat boots. Wandering under the tall pine trees lead me to a small camp ground. I thought I was completely lost until I heard a familiar laughter. I could practicly feel the fakeness in the sound. I knew I was close Eliot. Did MJ sneak all the way out here just to hide being with Eliot from me? But then I heard more laughter. It wasn't MJ, I can tell you that. I would know, from the thousands of times I've tickled her to the point of frustration. I got closer and closer. I saw flickering from the small fire pit, then I saw the silhouettes of Eliot holding someone who was not my best friend. I pulled out my camera, I had to get proof that Maddi could see. If only I had thought about what I was really doing. Maybe it would have occurred to me that the flash was on, or that cameras make sound when the aperture opens and closes. Eliot's head whipped around to where the flash came from. His eyes were locked on mine. He looked scared at first, then he knew he was in trouble. The scared look melted to anger in a split second. I could tell he was about to yell, so before I got a smack down I ran. It didn't take me long to remember how lost I was. I had absolutely no idea where I was running, and after a while I forgot why I was running at all. I stopped and climbed into a blue spruce tree. Its needles poked the living daylights out of me, but I was hidden. I could hear the crisp winter leaves snap one by one as Eliot got inches closer.
"Y/N! Y/N!" He screamed as if he was truly afraid MJ would find out what he was doing in the middle of the woods. The screaming stopped and I couldn't hear any movement. "finally." I said as I hopped down. I proceeded to pick pine needles out of my knit sweater, but it seemed as if they were sewn in themselves. They were so stuck, in my hair, tights, and maroon sweater. I started to giggle at the thought of proving Eliot to be the imbecile I tried my hardest to back off of Maddi. I suppose I was a bit distracted to notice that Eliot had found me, and was slowly creeping up to my side.
"What have I gotten myself into?" my lungs felt frostbitten, dry but frozen. I hurt a lot.
" A whole lot of trouble." I heard his voice behind me. My spine straightened as the hairs on the back of my neck went erect.
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hen eliot tried to persuade me to not show his "mistake" to my bestfriend. I almost gave him a fat lip from trying to cheat on yet another girl to cover his tracks.

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"y/n, now you know that's not a good idea right? "
" And why is that, Eliot."
"Well you see, " He said, I knew some sarcastic shit was about to spill out of his thin lips. " I told Maddi that I thought you would do something like that, because I know you have a little problem with my dating her. And she told me she was worried you would make things up about me to get her to breakup with me. " Right then I saw his devilish side smirk.