Too Late | m.c [completed]

Chapter 15-The Serious Words

The same knocking pattern errupts from Luke's front door and I know who it is. Before I got up to go let her in, Luke stands to his feets and mumbles, "I'll get it"

I could hear the whole conversation from upstairs. "Hey, Luke"

"Hey, Hanna. I'll go get Mikey for you"

"Okay"

And then feet were heard from the stairs and Luke came in not long after. "Hanna's here. She's waiting for you" Luke said with a smile and went back to his beanbag chair to continue his game of Call of Duty: Blackops 2. He likes to play the zombie mode.

Once I see her, I see her at the dining room table. But when I get closer to her I know something is wrong because she had tears streaming down her cheeks, her eyes were red and her face was flushed. She looked completely drained, as if she ran out of tears.

"What's wrong, Hanna?" was my first question as I sat next to her. "I just need to talk to you, okay?" she sniffled and wiped her eyes with her sweater sleeve.

"Okay...go on" I look in her eyes with a smile but she just looks away. "I-I don't w-want to get m-my heart br-broken like Ashton d-did" she stuttered. I just stare at her with this look of shock.

"I don't want to-to get h-hurt" she wiped her eyes again. "Hanna, I would never do anything to hurt your feelings or hurt you at all. I love you, okay?" that puts a small smile on her face.

When she didn't answer for a little while, I speak again. "So what did Ashton do to you?" I gulp, hoping the answer wasn't horrible. "He-He never spoke to me. And when he did he was so mean to me. When I had enough of it, I broke up with him"

"I'm gonna go beat Ashton up" I say as I slowly get up but she places a hand on my arm which makes me melt in her arms. I sat back down without hesitation and looked at her with a pleading pout. "Don't" she says sternly.

I debate on it. Whether to listen to her not and go ahead and beat him up. "Fine" I finally say. "I won't"

"Promise me that you won't. I just don't want any drama" she motioned her hands in the air. "Okay. I promise I won't beat up Ashton"

***

Later on that day, Hanna, Luke and I decided to go to the mall to watch a movie.

While we were laughing over something Luke said, I spotted Ashton with a girl. "Come on" I motion for them to follow me. They did.

"Oh hey, jerk" I greet with a sarcastic smile. "What?" Ashton asks with a confused glare. "You know what you did" I say sternly, dropping the smile. "What did I do?" he glances over to Luke, Hanna and then me lastly.

"You never spoke to Hanna, you were a jerk to her. You were basically the worst boyfriend ever to her" his jaw clenches.

"Stop, Michael" Hanna puts a hand on my arm but it doesn't work this time. I didn't back down, even though I should have. "Did he seriously do those things to you?" the girl that was with Ashton asked Hanna. "Y-Yeah" she stuttered. "Wow. I can't believe you Ashton" the girl shook her head and walked away. "Wait!" of course he called out to her and such but he came back, furious. "Are you kidding me? Like, come on kid" and before I knew what was happening, he swung his fist at me and hit my jaw.

Once I regained my balance, I swung a punch at Ashton. Hanna gasped and was held by Luke. He walked her over to somewhere else.

Ashton swung some more punches at me and I did too. I was about to punch him again when a security guard broke it up. "You two are coming with me" the tall man says sternly and drags us out of the mall, Hanna and Luke on our tails. "Don't come back" the man says and goes back in.

Hanna rushed over to me and helped me up. "You broke my promise" is all she said. But before I could say that I was so sorry for that, that it happened on instinct or that he started it, Ashton interrupted. "Be careful, now" he says as he starts to walk away.

"Why?" I snap.

"You'll see"