Tears of an Angel (Cancelled)

14: Breaking

January 31 5.15 PM

Nathan:

 I lunged at Jace. Moments later we were on the ground beating the living shit out of each other. Anya burst in and the guys followed behind her. She shook her head and walked right back out of the room. Vinnie and Wes tore us off of each other. I looked at Jace; his nose was bleeding, his lip was split and he had a bruise forming on his cheek bone. Both of our knuckles were split.

 “Seriously?” Vinnie asked. “Do you know what you do to Anya when this shit happens? It tears her apart. Damn. Do you two even care about her?” he was shaking with rage and Sam put a hand on his shoulder. I looked at Jace. Jace looked at me. Jace tore out of Vinnie’s grip and stormed out of the basement.

 Jace:

  I found Anya crying in her room. I sat beside her on the floor and pulled her onto my lap. “I’m so sorry, Anya.” I whispered. “I’m so sorry for always fighting with Nathan, and not seeing what it does to you. I hope this didn’t ruin us.”

 She looked up at me with tears in her eyes. I saw something in her eyes; hope? She kissed me softly.

“It’s okay.” She croaked out. I rubbed my thumb over here tears, making them disappear. I kissed her forehead delicately. I wrapped her in my arms and rocked her back and forth. “Can you promise me you won’t try to hurt each other?” she barely whispered. Slowly, I shook my head.

“I don’t know,” I whispered.

“Promise me,” she said, her voice cracking. My heart broke hearing her like this.

“I don’t know if I can keep that promise, Nathan really doesn’t--,” she cut me off.

“No! I’m tired of hearing the same excuse every time you guys fight! Did you not listen to a damn word I said a few hours ago?” she asked angrily as she pulled away from me.

“I-I did though, dear,” I sputtered. Her eyes flamed with anger along with her cheeks.

“Obviously you didn’t!” she shouted. My blood began to boil. My fists balled up and I restrained from hitting her. She’s a girl. She’s a girl. She’s a girl. She continued screaming at me and I quickly tuned her out, focusing on my own thoughts. “Are you even listening to me anymore, Jace!” she shouted. I looked up from the ground to see her standing with her hands on her hips, glaring down at me angrily. I looked at her dumbly, confused. She let out a growl of frustration and stormed out of her own room. I was ruining a relationship with the perfect girl all because I can’t get along with my brother-her best friend. It’s stupid, it’s selfish. I could be making her happy and all I’m doing is putting her through hell. If only she could see what was wrong with me, help me fix myself. If only she knew about my anger management and the demon within me, the one that lashes out on the ones closets to me. I try to fight it but I seem to loose, always. I won’t this way, I won’t let him ruin this for us.

Anya:

I stormed down stairs, pissed not even beginning to describe what I was feeling. I passed by the bathroom to see Nathan cleaning up a cut under his eye and examining his bruised jaw while Vinnie cleaning blood off his back-the wound opened. I sick feeling swirled in my stomach and I stormed pass into Steven’s room. I opened his window and saw the sturdy tree. I grabbed a strong branch and pulled myself onto the limb. I could see the top of the snow covered house now. I climbed a bit higher in the tree before reaching my leg out and setting it on the roof. I shivered, my bare feet meeting the snow. Once I was on the roof I found a nice place to sit, it faced the west and I could see the sun falling in the sky, I sat.

This is what I do when I’m in a bad mood. I go on the roof of my house or when I can’t I run to the construction site down the street and sit inside the almost finished house-all it really needs are the finishing touches like tile, carpet, and stuff. I laid down, letting my hair sprawl out onto the snow. My cheek touched the cold ice and I huffed out a breath. The outside world usual made me feel better, I don’t know why. The fresh air, the sound of the creatures’ noises, the wind against your skin; I love it all.