Laugh Often (Boyxboy)

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"You what?!?" Emma shrieked halfway back towards the car, she had  stopped, and turned back around to face me. I had held my hands up in  protest and backed up a few spaces. She advanced towards me again.

  "You punched Kyle?!  And who had to pull you off?!" She scoffed, and ripped my hands out of  my pocket, scowling at the bruises and bleeding.

  "I cannot believe you  did that." She said, more softly, and letting my hands fall back. I let  them swing, the cool air felt nice.

  "He insulted Dea-, uh  me." I told her, shrugging. I was about to tell her that he insulted Dean, but that seemed a little too couple type thing to do, and we were  not even friends, nor did I want to be.

   The last thing I  needed was to befriend Dean, & have all the girls noticeably over  me, or pressured into making out with one. 

  "Hello? Earth to Jake! Are you listening to me?" Emma waved a hand in front of my face, and I came back to reality.

  "Yeah, sorry. What did  you say?" I asked casually, heading around her towards the car. I  headed over to the drivers side, and felt the door click unlocked. She  get into the passenger door without complaint.

  "I cannot believe I'm letting you drive." She explained after we were already cruising down the road.

  "You're really angry,  shouldn't let you drive in those conditions." I shrugged, smirking. Emma scowled at me, and didn't answer.

  "What did you say before? When I clued out?" I asked, and she ignored me, huffing.

  "Em, just answer me  this, and I'll leave you alone until you relax. I don't know why you  didn't like so much that I punched him, he had it coming." I explained,  and she turned her body towards me.

  "I didn't like it,  because you're not usually violent! I don't know what's wrong with you  lately. You're cranky all the time, you're throwing punches at people!  And you're extremely witty!" She yelled, and turned away from me again.

  She had a point, I  wasn't usually violent, I never had anger problems, where I couldn't  control my anger, and I was usually never cranky, at least, never with  her. She always made me too happy to be mad with her. Including right  now.

"Em, you don't  understand. He was insulting him!" I screamed back, and then gasped. She  had turned towards me again, slowly. Her scowl turned into a full  fledged grin. I groaned, and tried to ignore her beaming at me.

  "What?" She whispered,  still beaming. But this time, I ignored her. Driving steadly down the  highway. Not much longer now. I would drop her, and this car off, and  get into my own car. I don't know where I would go, but as long as she  wasn't lecturing me, I was fine.

  "Jake, who was he  insulting? Obviously not you, like you had told me." She pressed, and I  closed my eyes, before opening them again quickly, remembering I was on  the road.

  "Em, can we not talk about this right now?" I asked quietly, and she pondered that for a minute.

  "If you really don't  want to, we won't. I think you're hiding something from me, Jake. I  respect your privacy, but I really thought you would tell me something  this big." She whispered, and was silent the rest of the way home.

  As I pulled into the  driveway, she was quick at getting out, "Em, can we-" She was gone. I  sighed, and let myself out of the car, pocketing her keys, I don't think  she'd talk to me right now.

  That was it, from now on. I was staying away from Dean!

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  That was one of the worst fights we've ever been in..