The Story Of Us

Chapter Nine

This chapter is dedicated to chasity_victoria and girlscoutcookies. Thank you for voting! <3

  After eating the lasagna everyone was talking, well everyone but Dylan. He has been silent ever since we played truth or dare. As Oliver and Tori continue with their conversation I nudge Dylan with my foot.

  He looks up at me from the other side of the table. Oliver and Dylan are on the other side of the table sitting next to eachother. While Tori and I are on the opposite side of the table.

  "Are you okay?"

  He runs a hand through his hair, "Yeah I'm fine, just thinking. Are you okay?"

  I smile at him, "Of course silly, hence the reason why I asked you the question."

  "Ah, sorry. I just out of it at the moment. Oh yeah! I forgot to text my dad to tell him I'm staying over. Well if you're okay with it still..."

  Nows the only opportunity to get rid of him. I open my mouth to tell him he can leave but then shit it when nothing comes out. I know my head wants him to leave and never look back, after everything we've been through. But my heart wants him to stay. Forever. So he can never leave me again.

  I block out all of my thoughts. I close my eyes for a second and open them up. Giving him a small smile, I respond back to him.

  "How else are you going to make me forgive you?"

  He gives me a lopsided grin, "Then I will stay."

  I didn't notice that Oliver and Tori left while we were talking. They didn't even tell us they were leaving.

  "So now what?"

  I shrug my shoulders at him. After not talking to him for so long it's just... Awkward. 

  "How about we talk about how we were the three years in the past? Since those are pretty much the years we weren't together;" he suggested.

"Then I will let you go first. Since it was your idea."

"To put it simple, my life was hell. I didn't want to leave you, it just...happened. The day I told you I didn't want to be friends, well let's just say that's the worst thing that happened to me."

  "Then why did you-"

  "I wasn't done yet. Let me finish. I was going through a lot that month, if you remember my mood changed. I'm not trying to give you excuses to what I told you. The reason I didn't tell you after everything happened was because I was scared. I heard everyone talk about how they lose their friends during high school, if I made up with you and in the end we aren't friends anymore I wouldn't be able to do anything."

  He sighs and runs fingers through his hair. Which I remember from the years of friendship he only does this when he's nervous.

  "Then why change this year? What made you change your mind?"

  "Seeing you. Hearing you talk to someone else with such a carefree tone like you used to with me. I couldn't handle it. I needed you."

  I look directly in his eyes and play with the hem of my shirt. Then I decide to speak up.

  "Honestly, it was hell for me also. If not worse. I lost you without even realizing it. I blamed myself. I thought I wasn't good enough to be friends with you. I was terrified. I lost you. Then I met Victoria. She helped me escape the dark times I was in. You really destroyed me."