Dancing In The Storm (On Hold)

I didn't know you were into naked guys wearing thongs.

"Because there is nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline,n o matter how many times it is sent away.

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"Fucking wake the fuck up you Gorgerella!!!!" I heard someone shout right beside my ears and winced lightly. I stirred and slowly opened my eyes. The room swayed before my sight while I let my eyes adjust to the light. Frowning I looked around to see an extremely furious looking Nora glaring holes in my head. Oh! So she was the one making my poor abused ears bleed.

"Oh look! Pinky poo decides to wake up!" She says sarcastically. I looked at her with confusion.

Why the hell was she so annoyed?

"Are you high up on sarcasm or something??" I muttered and brought my hands up to massage my spinning head. Why was I feeling drowsy?

"No I am not! In fact the case is that when I fucking come to my best friends house, I see her lying beside her bed unconscious while her hands looks like it's on freaking period!!!!" Nora yells at me. I grimaced. And just then the memories of me cutting my hand, Xavier and mom screaming at me cake rushing back. I looked down.

"I'm sorry." I said quietly. Nora didn't reply for a while, I heard some shuffling around me and then Nora sat down beside me. I looked at her and saw hurt glazing her eyes. I felt remorse tugging at my heart. Keeping myself in her shoes, I would never be able to see Nora making her life even a bigger mess. I knew how she felt.

"Don't do this Hazel. Don't destroy yourself please. You're too beautiful for that. And I can't watch you like this, it hurts me too much. Let me help you." She whispers quietly. Her words made my heart ache. I knew I was being very selfish by doing all this. I nodded my head slowly.

"What happened? Tell me..." worry etched over Nora's face. A smile came up to my lips. I felt so grateful to have at least one person who loved me even after the complicated mess of worthlessness I was.
I began to tell her everything, Reid kissing my forehead, Xavier acting like a jealous bitch on fire and... mom. Thankfully, I made it through all of it without even shedding a tear. Nora patted my back while I was telling her. I saw the fire in her eyes when I told her about Xavier, the pain when I told her the things mom said and also the sparkle when mentioned Reid kissing my forehead.
Finally after I was finished, she tugged me into a very warm hug. I felt myself calming down and I hugged back. She didn't say a word about either one of them. She knew I don't need words, I just needed a comforting presence. We hugged each other for I don't know how long. At some point I felt something wet hit my neck but I didn't move. Nora had the tendency to get emotional whenever something happened to me. It was times like these that I felt so grateful and luckily to have such a friend by my side.

Our rest of the night went pretty well since mom wasn't home. Most certainly, she was out looking for a new person to hook up with. We watched some chick flicks and ate a tub of Ben and Jerry's which Nora got me from a superstore nearby. We were in the middle of the John Tucker must die when my doorbell rang. Nora motioned me to get the door. She was fully absorbed in the movie and ice cream. I rolled my eyes and got up anyway.  I opened the door and gasped. Although I should have been pretty habitual of finding Xavier Tynan at my doorstep, but considering the last talk we had, it still came out as a surprise to me. Xavier was standing before me, he was wearing a black hoodie and had his head down, blocking his entire face from my sight. I looked at him for a while, not knowing what to do. I mean what do you do when a person knocks your door but doesn't look up to see that you already have opened the door. Awkwardly, I coughed. Xavier's head shot up. My eyes widened at the view. He had a bruise forming up on his right cheek that I'm sure was gonna get worse, his upper lip was split up. I smiled forcibly.