DRIFTED |Harry Styles|

CHAPTER 42

MEL'S P.O.V.

"You what?" I shouted at Ana, who had just confessed her diabolical plan in the matter of minutes.

"I-I'm so sorry, Mel, I don't know w-what I was thinking, but I was just so angry." She tried to justify, but I wasn't having any of it. I just couldn't believe that my best friend would do something like that, would betray me like that.

"Angry? What did I ever do to you?" I yelled again. I was completely aware that the last thing I needed now was to stress - doctor's orders - but I couldn't just let her walk away without explaining me properly why she tried to make a move on Harry. My Harry.

"Y-you told Liam that I'm seeing Jack and he broke up with me, he was so angry and disappointed and that just made me angry... at you." She explained, eyes glistening and a worried expression taking over her features.

"You do realise that this is the shittiest excuse ever made, right?" I looked at her in disgust. Nothing about anything that she just told me could justify her reckless acts.

"I know and I'm really sorry, I don't know what I was thinking, all that was inside of my head was my want for revenge and I shouldn't have let that take control of my actions. Please, forgive me, Mel." She pleaded, with watery eyes and a saddened look.

"I... I can't, Ana, I'm sorry, this is just... too much. You know how much he means to me. How could you do this? You were the one who cheated on Liam, him breaking up with you was not my fault." I honestly tried to see where she was coming from, but I would never do that to a friend, she was way out of limit when she did that.

"I know, but please, Mel!" She begged, taking my hands in hers and sitting on the hospital bed in front of me. "Y-you are the only person in my life now, I-I can't afford to lose you too." She almost whispered, looking down at our hands on her lap.

"It's just..." I stopped and tried to think of a better way of saying it. "Why did you do you do all of this?" I asked and she looked at me with her brows furrowed.

"First, you tried to break Harry and I up without even having the decency of telling me that you had... a thing... with him and that you were still very much into him, then you go for my ex-boyfriend that you knew I had trouble getting over while seeing Liam, who, might I add, is one of the best person I've ever met and now this?" I didn't even try to hide my disappointment.

"You hurt everyone around you, Ana... I-I don't want that anymore." I said sternly and she looked as if she was about to burst out in tears.

"A-are you breaking our friendship up?" She whispered in shock.

"I don't know, Ana. All I know is that I need some space... from you." She listened while staring at her empty hands, now that I had freed mine from hers.

A small nod was what assured me that she was, indeed, listening. It hurt me just as much to say those things and ask for distance, but I was tired of being in the middle of all that drama that came with her. Ana was the train and everyone around her was tied to the track. She could be too much to handle sometimes.

"O-okay, just please try to forgive me, please, Mel, you're still my best friend a-and I never wanted to hurt you like this." She sniffled and I saw tears rolling down her cheeks and falling onto her blouse, staining the fabric a darker color.

"I'll try, but you have to understand how difficult this is for me. I was in a coma, Ana, and you took that as your cue to make a move on my boyfriend. This is just so... messed up." Again, she just nodded, before getting up from the bed.