Shaforostart It - THE SEQUEL (2016)

Chapter Four

"Go!" Ben pushed me to my own front door.

"Okay." I whispered to myself. I pulled out my key and just before I put it in the lock, I heard a laugh. Her laugh. Her bright as the sun, musically, beautiful laugh.

"Fuck off." Her words were muffled by the door.

"Can't. You're stuck with me." And it was him. Him. He was making her laugh. He was making my wife laugh. That bastard. So instead of going in, I ran. I ran all the way back to Ben's house.

"Denis?" He snorted as I panted at the front door.

"Break. Angry. Crying. Bad. Ran." I could hardly breathe. Ben stepped aside and I sat down on the floor, trying to catch my breath. "I'm going to kill him."

"No you aren't, Denis.

"Oh yes I fucking will. I will snap his fucking neck. What does he have that I don't?"

"Your problem is with Leda, and only Leda. Danny didn't even know who she was. And as soon as you accept that, sorting all this out will be much easier, for both of you. But you can't fucking divorce. You and Leda are the best thing to happen to each other. You can't quit when shit gets tough." I glared up at him.

"Couldn't I have said the same to you?"

"Fuck you." Ben said flatly. I sighed and got up slowly, and walked to the front door. "Where are you going?"

"The bar?" Ben grabbed his keys and we got in his car. When we got to our favourite bar in the area, it was full of people. I hadn't realized it was saturday night; We started off with shots.

"Okay. So say she didn't fuck Danny. Say everything was fine. The baby shower, the birth, whatever. Everything was okay with the baby. Something was bound to go horrible later on, right?" I asked, taking another shot.

"Not necessarily. Usually, yes. But I thought you already had your bad relationship thing? The ordeal with James and Leda?"

"Yeah you get two. After we got together that was the only big deal. This is our second it has to be. Which means if we get through this, we're gonna be fucking golden."

"I guess it's good that you're getting it out of the way now then." Ben shrugged. Two more shots.

"And you know, if she never dialed the wrong number and texted me in the first place, then we would have never even met. I wouldn't be in this mess."

"Oh shut up. Leda is the best thing that's ever happened to you. Aside from meeting me, maybe." He smirked. "You know you don't regret it all. Just think about it. One day when we're all old and grey, we're all gonna be sitting around a fire in some cottage somewhere probably, and all our kids made it our for one last big trip before we kick the bucket, you're both gonna be laughing about all this." I sighed, and took another shot.

"I'm not ready to start laughing yet." Another two shots. We each ordered pints and kept talking and drinking for another hour before anything interesting really happened.

"Denis?" I heard a familiar voice. Ben's eyes went wide as he stared behind me.

"Dasha?" I turned to see her standing there, in all her short, beautiful glory. "Oh my god, hey." I laughed as we hugged. "What are you doing in Texas?"

Ben's POV

As soon as they started speaking Russian I tuned out. I didn't understand, and didn't particularly care to - and they weren't exactly going to translate for me. I sighed as I finished the last sip of my beer. "Denis," I tapped his shoulder as I stood. "I'm getting a cab." He nodded and waved me off. I rolled my eyes as I went outside and called a cab. By the time I got home I was so exhausted. I was exhausted from dealing with all of Denis' shit for him, and waiting for Danny or Leda to call me, waiting for things to keep happening so everyone had something fresh to deal with. Waiting for Denis to grow up. "Hey," Ciara hugged me tightly as I came in the door. "Where did you go?"

"Bar with Denis. He's still there. His ex girlfriend was there, so they started speaking Russian and I got bored." Ciara laughed.

"You left Denis, a man who is inches away from a divorce, with his ex girlfriend, a bar?" I nodded and sighed.

"Denis wouldn't cheat on Leda for the world. He kinda knows the feeling."

"Okay..." Ciara sighed, raising her eyebrows. Just then the doorbell went. I sighed yet again, assuming it was Denis.

"You know you don't have to knock!" I called. The woman who opened the door, was not Denis. No. It was Sam. Girl Sam. I pushed myself off the couch and stood quickly.

"Thanks." She smirked. "I didn't think so."

A/N: I'm bringing literally everyone back. Dasha. Sam. No one here is going unmentioned. Who will it be next??? I don't even know. That's a lie. I wrote all of this weeks ago.