Violence (Sequel to Have Faith In Me)

26: Forgotten

I glanced back to Zack and his face was deflated, pure disappointment. He was so excited for today and I had just ruined everything.

"I was just going." Blake said, a hint of smug in his voice and something else that I can't quite decipher. "I'm glad you're okay, text me whenever." He muttered as he squeezed past Zack in the doorway and made his way down the street.

I watched him as he slowly but surely disappeared out of sight, and carried on staring in the direction that he disappeared in.

Neither of us said anything. I let my face become even more depressed as I watched little rain droplets paint the pavement dark grey.

I clenched my jaw and forced my eyes to peer up and lock with Zack's.

As soon as I did I had tears in my eyes.

"Zack, I'm so- I just wante- I'm sorry."

"What was he doing here?" He snapped, even he himself flinched at how harsh his words were.

"I went out last night, and I got drunk. He came over to check on me."

"At Blake's house? How the fuck were you even invited?"

"How do you know it was at his house?" I asked sheepishly.

"Jess rang me and told me, well warned me rather, that it was at his place. I told her that you and I wouldn't be attending, that kid has more moves up his sleeve than a magician on steroids. He's bad news, and his parties usually end in tears."

He was furious, his hands moving up to his hair to tug on the roots, and I just wanted to cry seeing him so distressed.

I opened my mouth to tell him that Jess was the one to invite me, but he beat me to it.

"I think I should just leave now."

I felt like I had just been punched and all of the oxygen had been taken out of my respiratory system.

"Zack, wait." I pleaded.

"For what? For you to choose a party over a date? Our first date at that." His voice was laced with sadness and fury.

Tears pricked my eyes and ran down my face freely. "I just forgot about it, it completely slipped my mind." I spat desperately, not caring that I just spat into thin air.

I regretted what I said when his whole posture curved over and his lip trembled.

"I'd rather you chose a party, rather than to just forget about something that may not mean anything to you, but would've meant the world to me."

"Zack..." I trailed off with my voice cracking, but by the time I had finished saying his name, he had turned around and walked off, shutting the door behind him.

I collapsed to the floor and started to sob, pretty sure that Zack could hear me easily halfway down the street.

I mustn't have been sat there long, because Rogue came up beside me and nestled under my arm, forcing me to put my arm around her. Once my hand stopped shielding my face, she began licking my face, taking the tears away and making me smile ever so slightly.

I brought my other hand around her too and tightly hugged her, hanging on for dear life.

I sat back, sniffling. I brought my knees to my chest and wrapped my arms around myself.

I just messed everything up.

How could I be so foolish?

After a while I plucked up the courage to tell myself that I needed help, comfort.

I scrambled for my phone and retreated to the basement, curling up on the old sofa that was full of memories with the boys: movie nights, jam sessions, video games and the list goes on.

After struggling to tap the right buttons on my phone, I rang the one person who had been here and with me from the start of being friends with Zack.

"Kayla?"

But it wasn't the usual chirpy Mikey that I knew, who would greet me with delight, excitement and joy.

His voice was thick, shaking and uncertain.

Michael was crying.

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Hey guys! Ive missed you!

ive been gone for ages, and thats because college started and ive got so much work its horrendous! 

but i am still here! and I was so inspired to update because 5sos did a cover of bmth (one of my favourite bands) and it was actually so amazing, I was really scared to listen to it incase they didn't do it justice but they really did.

They covered drown, which is one of their new softer songs, and they did it justice, and im so proud! 

speaking of bring me the horizon, i got tickets to see them in novemeber! and ive got a fall out boy concert coming up this monday so im so excited, if youre wondering what that noise is thats me bouncing off the walls in excitement

ya girls got a boyfriend too, so thats pretty cool i guess, no longer dwelling on a guy who just used me as a rebound

and I will definitely be writing a new story, going to be a michael sister story, when she's 12/13 years old, message or comment what you want in the book, ive kinda got an idea for it, but it might be a while before I actually start to write it, we shall see

sorry this was a bad update, very short and didn't proof read! I'm super busy with college etc, but will try to keep updating regularly!

love you all xxx