My Drug-In Editing

Situation's Getting Old

^From "Walk Away"~ Kelly Clarkson

Ben's POV

I wake up to the sound of a phone buzzing. I knew right away from the frequency in the buzzes that it wasn't my phone. It was Ev's. She never has her phone's sound on, and she loved to assign different buzzes to each of her contacts. I sometimes wonder what mine is. It's in her coat pocket which is on the floor. I stretch down to grab it, hoping to turn it off before it wakes the sleeping beauty in my arms. Once I see who's calling, I nudge Evie.

"Ev, Liam's calling," I whisper.

"Liam?" She mumbles.

"Yes, Liam," I reply, trying hard not to fawn over how cute she sounds, still half-asleep.

"Well, are you going to answer it?" She asks as if I'm an idiot.

"Can I? It's your phone..." I start.

"Benny, I trust you enough to let you answer my phone, especially if it's Liam calling. Now, answer it and I'll be right back. I have to pee." She says, rolling out of bed and walking towards the bathroom. Isn't she charming? I smile at her before answering the phone.

"Hello? Liam?" I ask.

"Is this Ben?" Liam's voice asks, confused, on the other end of the line.

"Yeah... What is it? Evie's in the bathroom." I explain, hoping he wouldn't get mad about it.

"Uh, well... I guess you'd hear about it anyway... Alex and I are gonna get back together?" His voice went higher at the end as if it were a question. I really didn't like the way this was sounding, especially after my dream last night.

"Why?" Was all I could get out, my confusion and slight anger could really use an explanation.

"We were the power gay couple. We always were front and center in all the know going on at school. We were the gossip queens. We had so much together." He explains.

"Is this just about the popularity?" I ask, a little upset at this explanation.

"For him, maybe. I just don't want to get pushed out of the loop, especially not after what happened with Tommi. We decided it was the best way to put this all behind us and get on with our lives." These guys, I don't know what to do about them anymore.

"Uh, well... I don't have much expertise here so I'll tell Ev to call you back sometime today." I offer. It's all I can offer as far as support, help, whatever he wanted at this moment.

"Ugh, fine. I just wanted her opinion. What's your's?" He sounds like he really wants to know what I think.

"I just think you should be careful especially since we don't know what all went down with him and everything that had happened in the past couple months." I say, meaning 'I think he had something to do with Tommi's death' without of course saying it so bluntly.

"Okay. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks, Ben. Tell Evie to call me later." And with that, he hangs up.

Alex's POV

I dropped the note off earlier this morning, like 2:30 am, only to run into a sleepy Liam. He was already outside on his front steps.

"Liam, are you okay?" I ask tentatively.

"What are you doing here?" he responds, sounding rightfully terrified.

"I... Uh, I came to drop this off," I say, handing him my note. He takes it and starts reading. "I'll just be on my way," I say, turning back to my car.

"Wait!" I hear behind me. "This may be stupid but yes. I want us back."

"Really?" I ask. I didn't really expect him to say that, especially not as soon as he did.

"Yes, really. I think we could make this work again." He says with confidence, walking towards me.

"Liam-" I start, but I'm interrupted by Liam's lips. My eyes go crossed trying to see what he was doing before I closed them and started kissing back. It felt comfortable, familiar, lovely.

Later that morning, like 7 am, Liam gets up off of the couch we were now cuddling on. I hear him talking on the phone. I hoped everything was okay, but I wasn't going to push anything.

"Who was that?" I ask as he sits back down.

"I called Evelyn to tell her, but I ended up talking to Ben instead." He replies, nonchalantly. Ben. Oh goodness. Flashbacks from my dream appear. Ben glaring at me, almost knowingly.

"How'd it go?" I ask, trying to make everything seem normal.

"He just said to be careful." He replies.

"Well, you should be," I say in a whisper. I know I should tell him everything, but I kinda want to do what we agreed on- leave it in the past and start new again.

A/N: What do you think of this part? What do you think about Alex?

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