Broken

Chapter 2

•Laurance's pov•
I was at home cleaning up a few things before everyone came over. After cleaning the downstairs, I went up to my room. My wall was filled with pictures and articles leading to one another with red yarn. My desk was piled with stacks of papers.
I let out a groan. My dad and sister knew not to go in my room, so they had no idea about this.. no one did. I walk over to my desk, starting to put the articles into a drawer. One read, 'Death on Geyser Street. Was it a murder?'. I frown, shoving it into a drawer.
My parents passed away a long time ago. It may have been long ago, but I still was hurt. I knew someone out there killed them and I wasn't giving up until I found out who.. Although, my grades were suffering because of it.
I walk over to my wall, pulling down one of those projection screens. It covered the articles and all that. I looked at my floor, picking up the extra stuff that had fallen on the floor.
I let out a sigh of relief, examining my work. I hear a knock at the door–I know it isn't Travis, because he's always takes the longest..
After going down to the door and opening it, I see it's Alexia. She waves, "Hey, Laurance." She smiles.
"Hey." I smiled back. "Come on in." I back from the door, making space for her to come in.
She walks in, hugging me. "Am I the first one here?" Alexia looks up at me.
I give a small nod. "Ye—"
"Ding dong?" Mythera stood at the open door, waving.
Travis came up behind her, smirking. "Hey!" He tazed each of her sides.
Mythera jumped. "Eep!" She growled, glaring at Travis.
Travis laughs. "So, what movie are we watching?" He walked in, along with Mythera.
"Up to you guys." I say, swinging Alexia over my shoulder, smirking.
"Laurance!!" Alexia pouts, flicking my back.
"I have illegal—I mean totally legal apps we can use to display on the screen." Travis clears his throat, heading towards the living room.
"Totally legal." Mythera rolls her eyes, following after him.
I sigh, shaking my head. "If we get arrested I'm blaming Travis."
   Alexia hits my shoulder. "You gonna put me down?" She pouts.
   "Are pigs going to fly?" I stuck out my tongue, walking over to the living room.
   "..they will if Mythera uses a potion on them.." Alexia grumbles.
   "What about a potion and me?" Mythera looks up at us. Her and Travis were already on the couch.
   "Nothing.~" Alexia coughs. "I wanna be put down.." she whines.
   I roll my eyes. "Finee." I sit on the sofa, swinging her down on my lap. "Happy?"
   "..sure." Alexia lays her head back onto my shoulder. "So what movie?" She looks towards Travis and Mythera.
   Travis scrolled on his phone. "Bingo!" He grinned.
   "Oh god.." Mythera read over his shoulder. "Don't you dare."
   "Horror is a great genre." Travis turned on the tv, a movie starting to play. "Trust me."
   We all stared at the tv for a moment. "This is in Spanish.." I facepalm.
   "Whoops.. wrong one?" Travis finds another movie.
   "Spanish again." I snort. "Travis, maybe you should find a different movie.."
   Travis forwards the movie. They started talking English. "Of course just that one part wasn't English.." He bursts out laughing.
   "You two are idiots." Alexia shakes her head.
   "No surprise there." Mythera mumbles.

   We had movie nights every week. Sometimes different days if some of us were busy.

    "Did you guys hear about the party Gene was hosting?" Alexia asks. She always got excited about parties.
   "We aren't going." Mythera lays her head on her hand.
   "Pleeeaaassseee!!" Alexia begs. "Everyone's going!!"
   I laugh, "You say that every time.."
   "Come on, guys.." Alexia pouts.
   I sigh. "I guess I'm in." I shrug.
   Travis looks towards Mythera, as if awaiting approval. "Fine.." Mythera murmurs.
  "I'm in, too." Travis smiles. I kind of felt bad for the guy. He'd been chasing after Mythera for ages. The day he finally had to courage to tell her? Kaden asks her out.
   "Yay!!" Alexia squeals, clapping. "It's tomorrow night. Don't ditch me like that one time.."
   "Whaaat? Psh.. I never.." Mythera coughs, "ditched you.."
   "Sure." Alexia frowns. "Either way! It's going to be awesome!!" She winks.
   "Mhm.. totally." Mythera lays her head on her arms.
    •The next day, at the party•
   "There's alcohol.. ugh, why am I not surprised?" Mythera grumbles. Both Alexia and Mythera were dressed in cocktail dresses. They looked smoking hot, to put it bluntly.
    "Come on, loosen up a little!" Alexia hands Mythera a red cup. She chugs one herself.
   "..I'm gonna soo~ regret this." Mythera rolls her eyes, drinking out of it.
   Alexia looks towards Travis and I, handing us cups. "Come on!!~"
   Travis shrugs, chugging it. He could sure keep alcohol..
   "I have to.. uh.. drive.." I cough, narrowing my eyes.
  "Laurance, we walked her." Alexia blinks. "Don't be so boring!"
  I groan. "Fine." I drink out of it, to make her happy. She could be so pushy sometimes, but it was cute.
   Gene walked over to us. "Heyyy, glad you could make it. Enjoying it so far?" He smirks.
   Alexia nods. "Mhm! You sure know how to throw a party." She laughs.
  "I know how to do much much more." Gene winks. "Here, follow me." He grabs Alexia's hand, pulling her away.
  My eyes widen. "Wait, what is he doing?"
  "Gene things..?" Travis shrugs. "Who knows?" He looks towards Mythera. "Wanna dance?"
   Mythera blinks. "Sureee?" Travis takes her hand, pulling her into a crowd of dancing people.
   I leaned against the wall, crossing my arms. After ten or so minutes I got bored and went to look for a bathroom. That's when I saw Gene and Alexia.. making out. I blink. "Uhhh.."
   Gene pulls away, looking toward me. He had his causal grin on. "Sorry, I didn't mean to steal her for so long."
   Alexia was blood red. "..." She coughs.
  "Right." I roll my eyes. "Alexia, maybe you should—"
   "I'm fine." You could tell she was drunk. Since she was such a small girl, one drink could do a lot.
   Gene waves to me. "Bye?"
   I growl, turning and storming off. Even if she was drunk, I still let it get to me. My eyes went red. That's when I realized just how much.. I actually loved her.
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