Oh, Marcel!

"Oh, Marcel! I've missed you so much!"

~Ember~

It's been two months today.

Two months with Jimmy.

Two months without Marcel.

Sure I've seen him around school, but he makes no effort to even talk to me at all. Smiling at him when he does look only causes him to look down and scurry away.

"Em, have you finished your english part yet?" Veronica asks poking my shoulder.

"Almost done." I mutter and my gaze turns from Marcel to her.

"Okaaay." She says and I hear a beep come from her phone. She turns away and giggles.

The bell rings and everyone silently exits the classroom, Marcel being the last to leave.

The first couple of days after he saw Jimmy and I kissing, I would wait and try to talk to him. He would just turn his back and walk away.

After a few days, I gave up trying and just let him walk away. Jimmy said when they worked together for English he was very quiet, only asking a few questions here and there about the project.

"Hey, babe. Can you have lunch with me today?" Jimmy asked reaching for my hand. We had decided that since Marcel knew, everyone might as well.

"Yeah, the girls won't mind." I said and limply grabbed his hand.

Jimmy normally left school during his lunch hour and ate at a fast food place or something. He didn't have any friends because of Johnny. Luckily Johnny had left him alone, but Marcel wasn't as lucky. A few times I saw him badgering Marcel and when Jimmy was with me, he would yell at Johnny to knock it off. Johnny would just smirk at him and walk away. I think it was because he knew Jimmy was a match for his strength now. Marcel would nod at Jimmy and hurry away. He would never, ever look at me.

"Where do you want to go today?" Jimmy squeezed my hand.

"McDonald's has that new Pumkin Spice latte that I wanted."

"Haha, you and you're addiction to pumpkin things." He leaned down and pecked me lightly on the cheek.

"Sorry! It's the spirit of Halloween! Its only 10 more days!" I said smiling up at him. He looked cute today. His dark hair had a quiff and his green eyes stood out against the blue and green flannel I had bought him.

We went to my locker and I shoved my things in and then we headed off to McDonalds. It had gotten quite cold out since we were going deeper into fall. I wrapped my sweater around me tighter.

"You cold, babe?" Jimmy says reaching towards the back. He kept a couple of blankets and pillows back there. He tossed me a fuzzy blue blanket and I cloaked myself with it.

"Thanks." I said smiling at what a great boyfriend he was. He was always there for me, and doing whatever I wanted. Jimmy really was any girls dream boyfriend.

After all, I had called him crying when Marcel's nanny lady slammed the door in my face. He rushed right over and held me in his strong arms while I cried into his chest. I still think about that day from time to time, but life is starting to go back to normal, it's just I feel like a piece of me is still missing.

That's when I would take out Marcel's glasses and just run my fingers over the frames. The lenses had my fingerprints all over them when I would hold them against my chest crying. It was at night that everything would hit me hard.

Sure I still had a best friend and that was Emily. But she was no Marcel. I didn't tell her things that I told him.

"Sweetie, I'm going to get you fries and your latte right?" Jimmy says breaking my thoughts.

"Yeah, yeah. Thanks, babe." I say and stare out the car window. It was so dull out today. Almost as if it was going to rain or something. I let myself kind of space out.

Jimmy scares me when he opens the door.

"Sorry." He says.

"It's okay." I take the food from him and he gets in.

"Wanna eat here or..?"

"Let's go to the park and we can snuggle and eat in the back of the car?" My smile brightens his face and he heads to the park.

We pull in our usual cozy spot and I climb to the back. He hits my butt on the way back and I giggle and shake it in his face. Once I get to the back and sit down he comes back and nearly lands on top of me. We both crack up and he sits up normally.

"You know, I really like having you as a girlfriend. You're honestly the best friend anyone could ask for too." His face looks sad for a moment. "I just wish Marcel would see that."

I love that he cares about how I feel about Marcel. He knows that he was my bestfriend first.

"Babe, don't worry about Marcel. He'll be okay." I say and take his face in my hands. I place a soft kiss on the corner of his lips. Then another on the other side and finally full on the lips. I can feel him smiling as he wraps his arms around me and deepens the kiss.

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~Marcel~

I chewed on my sandwich in the library while I flipped the pages of a book. It was quite interesting about a girl and a boy. They were best friends, until something broke them apart and they didn't speak for years.

It was kind of like what happened in my life. Except Mrs. Slovak told me I should never talk to Ember again. I had no choice but to listen to her. She was right, wasn't she?

Marcel why can't you think for yourself anymore?

I don't know what happened to me, but in the past two months that I haven't talked to Ember, I've really changed. Changed back into the Marcel from freshman year. I didn't go to the gym anymore. Didn't even mind wearing these clothes that Mrs.Slovak laid out for me every morning.

Basically I just went to school and came home. Rarely if ever did I drive my car. And if I did, it was normally to go to get gas or groceries. Besides, it wasn't like my parents were home to nag me about being a couch potato.

They hadn't been home since they left for London. Occasionally my mom would call, but other than that, nothing.

The warning bell rang signaling that I better leave. I put away my garabage and left the library waving to Mrs. Renn as I walked out into the hallway.

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"I'm home!" I called into the house and shut the door behind me.

"Oh, Marcel! I've missed you so much!"

My mother comes running around the corner and wraps me in her thin arms. I hug back, but I'm stunned.

"Mom, what are you doing home? Where's Mrs.Slovak?" I ask as she pulls away.

"Oh I let her go! I gave her my car as payment. She just got in and drove away." She chuckles and goes to sit on the couch.

"You let her go?" I'm too shocked to sit down.

"Yes." She pats the seat beside her. "Come sit. I've got so much to tell you!"