The Stranger In The Hallway (Septiplier)

[Chapter 11]

- Coffee Shop Blunders -

- Mark's pov-

Walking down the street to the coffee shop just made me wanna turn back more and more. I was pretty much gonna go face my fears.

Daniel.

I just wished I could be back around the arms of my punk of a boy friend.

I walked through the door instantly being hit with the aroma of coffee. I inhaled through my the smell. I kept thinking to myslef how Jack would probably be thinking about coffee right now.

I scanned the seemingly empty coffee shop untill I spotted him. He sat in a table alone, with two coffee cups by him. He glanced up at my when I approached him and he shot me a half smile. I pulled out a chair and sat.

Silence filled the room as I looked away from him. Nervousness soon became my best friend as I was enveloped by it.

"I got you coffee. Just the way you like it." Daniel said breaking the seemingly dreadfull silence between us.

"No thanks." I politely declined.

"Listen Mark. I'm glad you came."

"What did y-you want?" I say my nervousness now getting the best of me.

"I just wanna talk."

"About?"

"About us Mark."

"There is no us."

"But there was."

"Yeah, there was. But that we stopped being us the moment you cheated."

"The moment I cheated?!?! Mark. look at what YOU did. You caused this."

"How the he'll did I cause this. I never told you to go throw yourself at other guys!"

"Then what am I supposed to do Mark? You made it very clear you were done with me. You fucked with my emotions! You discarded me like, like I was trash!"

"I never-"

"No huh?" Daniel said hushing down a little. "You never did anything, it was always me who gets in trouble. You made me feel alone."

"I never cheated Daniel! You did that! You did that twice..... Your the reason we aren't together anymore. I'm not gonna let you rope me back again."

"I'm not trying to rope you back again trust me. I'm gonna be in town for awhile, I just wanna make sure were alright. I didn't want to run into you in the streets and have things be bad between us."

"Just Fuck off alright? Leave me and my boyfriend alone. I am perfectly fine without you."

With that I marched out of the coffee shop and continued to tell myself that I was gonna be fine.

I power walked to Jack's dorm room a mess. I tried to re compose myself to avoid falling apart at the first sight of Jack. He had this way of making my knees go weak. Just one look from him made me wanna rest my head on his shoulder and tell him all my troubles and have him stroke my hair and tell me it will all be fine.

He would tell me I don't have to battle my inner demons alone. He would help me and we would love happily ever after right?

But yet here I remained. He still didn't know. I still didn't tell him.

What would I even tell him? Hey Jack, my ex boyfriend is back. He want to fix things with me. I don't know what he wants actually. I walked to back to Jack's place feeling like a monster. Like if I just murdered someone.

I knocked a couple times on his door before.

Jack smiled at me and embraced me.

"Hey! You didn't answer my text." He said before placing his lips on mines for a quick kiss.

My face frowned.

"Oh, sorry I guess I haven't been looking at my phone...."

"What? You not look at your phone? Who are you and what have you done with my Mark!" Jack said giggling.

"Do I smell Pizza?" I asked after my nose got hit with the aroma of it.

"Oh yeah! It just got here. Ryan and I were about to play The Last Gaurdian. Well I was gonna play and Ryan was just gonna kind of watch and add obnoxious side comments."

"Oh, I guess I should go then, I don't really wanna intrude."

"What?!?! No!!! You have to stay! I don't think you've even met Ryan! As your boyfriend you must obey me and stay!"

I snickered before realizing I had to meet his best friend. My heart pretty much drop at the mention of him. I really don't wanna come off bad as a first impression. This is probably the guy that will say the word and Jack will dump me instantly.

I sat in the couch across from Ryan and he waved at me.

"Oh, Hellooooo." Ryan said shooting me a smile.

"Hi!" I said standing up and shaking his hand awkwardly.

Thank whatever God is out there that Jack sat down in the middle couch between us and continued playing the game.

The next hour was spent with me getting more comfortable around Ryan and us joking around. I'm pretty sure Jack was happy to see us getting along.

Sadly Ryan had to leave as he had clases early tomorrow and so did I.

I decided to bum around Jack's place awhile since I really dreaded to go back to my cold empty dorm room.

One of my favorite things about Jack is his ability to light up a room. He made everything seem homely and not at all empty. He had this way of just making for good company.

Thats added to an endless list of things I love about Jack.

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Sorry about this shortish chapter. I really wanna write the best I possibly can without repeating myself or describing a rock for like 300 words.

Here take this cookie.

I'm gonna really try and lay out this story. My goal is to get over at least 20 chapters without having it unnecessarily go on forever. I just see a lot of good fanfics with like 90 chapters and I kinda want that but idk.

I guess I'm trying my best.

The next chapter will come out whenever I can update I guess.

Vote and stuff I guess.

Peace.