Remission

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-Picture of Dale-

Chapter 28:

I rang the doorbell hoping that Dale was waiting for me and he would come open the door for me instead of James. I waited patiently to see who I would be greeted by.WELL, THIS IS IT!

To my surprise it was James who came and opened the door. When I saw him my heart dropped and I wanted to jump right into his arms, but of course I couldn't do that because I was still supposed to be upset with him.

"It's actually you." James tried to give me a hug, but I pushed him away and walked past him. "Deedee can we please talk it's been almost a month and you won't even let me explain."

"Because I don't want to hear anything, James." I said with my back towards him.

"I swear you're so stubborn." James was annoyed. He was right, I am stubborn, but he didn't have to say I was.

"And calling me stubborn is going to get me to talk to you right?" I finally looked at him because he had no right to call me stubborn at all, even if I was acting like it at the moment.

"Deedee just please I'm begging you." James looked like he was about to cry, but I could tell he was holding back the tears from falling.

"Just no." I whispered. I couldn't looked at him, I had felt bad that I wouldn't listen, but I'm sure anyone in my situation would do the same.

"Pl—you know what never mind." James sighed and just stood there.

"Yes please just leave her alone James." Dale said from behind James and I quickly turned around.

"Dale I missed you so much." I walked around James and went to give Dale a hug.

"I missed you too." Dale gave me a kiss on my forehead just like when we were little.

"I swear I'm really happy to see you right now." I gave Dale another hug and then I heard James sigh from behind us and he walked past and went into his room.

"Do you need help bringing all of your bags to the room?" Dale grabbed my bags from me anyways before I could answer him and headed over to my room.

"Thanks, Dale." I followed him into the room and everything was exactly as I had left it.

"So how have you been?" Dale asked taking a seat on the bed looking straight up at me with his eyebrows raised.

"I've been ok I guess Dale. Dewey and Kristina too good care of me, like always. I needed to come back to you I couldn't stay there forever."

I mean if I had the choice too, I probably would've because come on that's just the person who I am. I try to run and hide from all of my problems because it just seems like the easiest thing to do. It may not be healthy but I really don't care, if I want to change I will at my own time.

"I'm happy you came back." Dale said with a smile.

"Yea don't mention it." I threw myself on the bed just wanting to sleep like always since that's all I really do now.

"I'm sorry Deedee." Dale said looking up at the ceiling.

"What are you sorry for? You didn't do anything." I was confused as to what Dale was talking about.

"Because I invited her to that Halloween party knowing that she liked James. If only I wasn't so oblivious to how you really felt about him I wouldn't of have even told her about the party." Dale explained to me why he was sorry.

"It's still not your fault though Dale." I rubbed his back.

"But sis all the signs were there that you had a thing for James and I completely ignored it. I guess I really didn't want to believe it at the time." Dale sounded sad and I hated it when he felt that way because then I get sad right along with him.

"But I told you I didn't like him, so it's my fault please don't blame yourself for this because it was my choice to trust James and he broke it." I held back tears from falling out of my eyes.

"Can you at least talk to him please?" Dale silently begged.

"Why would I do that?" My eyes opened wide in shock.

"So he can explain to you that he doesn't have a thing for her, but who she really is to him." Dale said to me.

"Why can't you just tell me since apparently you know so much about her and James history?" I was impatient.

"Because this is not something I should be telling you, it's James life story, not mine. The only thing I can say is that James met her when he was going through a really hard time and they connected, but trust me James doesn't see her as a girlfriend." Dale tried to explain to me.

"I'm pretty sure James' story can't be as dark as ours, and James may not see her as a girlfriend but she definitely sees him as a boyfriend." If I could find any reason to not talk to James I would.

"You'll be surprised sis as to what happened to James. Trust me, you don't have to worry about Rebecca." I tensed up at the sound of her name, Dale was doing perfect just saying her but he finally slipped up and mentioned her name. "Dammit sorry, I ain't mean to say her name."

"Its fine, but I guess I'll give it a shot and talk to James since apparently he has this other side of him I have no idea about. But he's going to have to wait until tomorrow because I just need to rest and decide how I'll talk to him." I said with a slight smile on my face.

"That's my girl, but I'll let you sleep because tomorrow is Thanksgiving and we have such a big day ahead of us." Dale got up from the bed and headed out the room.

"Dale?" I called out to him and he stopped to stare at me raising his eyebrows. "I love you."

"I love you more sis." He smiled happily and walked out of the room.

I laid down and just stared at the blank TV screen and wondered what it is Dale was talking about, that James had gone through. I wonder if it's the same story that James never got to telling me whenever it was brought up. I feel kind of bad because I have no idea about James childhood and he probably could have it bad or worse than me. How would I know if he never talks about it? But then how could he if he was just always too worried about me and what I've been through. Damn I feel so selfish for never asking about James' life when all he did was show he cared about me, god dammit how could I have been so rude and avoiding him all this time when he really did take the time to be there for me when I really needed him. I really hope he can forgive me.

A/N well this is finally an update. I rewrote this chapter like three times because I wanted to make sure it was ok, which I think it is now, but I don't know. Who's ready for to hear about James childhood? Should Deedee and James get back together? There're so many questions I want to ask, but I don't have time. Oh and check out the introduction of my new story Chasing Gray and tell me what you think about it ! Ok I'm out

~Love Vee ❤️