Taken- One Direction Fan Fiction

Chapter 11

Avery POV
“Just do it.” I said to myself. I was in my room, pacing back and forth over the beautiful tan carpet, “You have known him for years, it’s just a call” I looked down at the phone in my hand, the familiar number on the screen, all I had to do was push call. One push of a button and I could be free, two and I could be tied down again. But was that really such a bad thing? To have somebody to love, and somebody to love you? That wasn’t bad at all, what was bad was after all that when one of you stops loving the other and you get your heart broken. That was the bad part. Maybe Harry wouldn’t hurt me though, maybe he would be a perfectly lovely gentleman. Maybe I would be the one to break his heart, maybe I already had. I shook my head, stop, stop thinking about him, just call Derek, just like you would have done without knowing Harry. I felt my finger push down on the touch screen, calling.
“Aves! Hey babe, how are you? Did you just land? What’s going on? Are you good? I miss you! What’s it like there? Do you miss me too? Is your family nice? How was disney? I haven’t talked to you in what seems like forever, God I miss you!”
“Derek, Derek, Slow down!” I said laughing, that was the Derek I remembered, my best friend Derek, not my boyfriend Derek. Funny and charming, and care free. We were best friends before we got together. Our parents went to college together and were best friends so naturally they were thrilled that we got on so well. “I miss you too,” I really did miss him, this Derek, the one I felt like I could talk to forever about nothing or everything, before either of us got feeling for each other, before everything, when it was just us.

“Sorry, how are you? How is it?” he said laughing a little, not his annoying I want to impress my friends laugh but his real laugh, I almost forgot what it sounded like, it was light and pure, and rough, and beautiful.

 “everything is really great here, it is so beautiful, D. My family is so nice, and this house is enormous and so beautiful, I can’t believe this is real.”

“You just called me D”

“huh?”

“You haven’t called me D in a long time” I used to always call Derek, D and he used to call me A, after we got together we pretty much stopped with that, well I did. Mostly because it wasn’t the same as when we were just friends, it was less fun and carefree, and I just stopped calling him that after a while.

“ Oh, yeah, sorry”

“No, it’s cool I always liked when you called me that” there was a long pause before he finally said something, “I really miss you Aves”

“I miss you too Derek”

“No, not like that, well yeah like that but, I miss how we used to be when we were friends,”

“We are still friends”

“I know but it’s just different now,”

“Yeah, I guess”

“ Oh, please Avery. I know you better than anybody else, I know you never wanted to be in this relationship.” His tone was serious, but he didn’t sound mad, more hurt.

“If I didn’t want to be in this relationship why would I have said yes when you asked me out?” I knew the answer it was because I didn’t want to ruin our friendship and I thought if I said no it would, little did I know saying yes would actually cause more damage.

“I don’t know, all I know is that I have been waiting and hoping for a year that eventually you will feel the same way about me that I feel about you, but you don’t, I can tell. Ever since we started dating you changed, you’re not the happy go lucky Avery I knew, you always seem to be uncomfortable, and irritated, and I know that relationships aren’t really your thing and I guess I just thought you would make an exception or at least have the guts to tell me that you didn’t want to be with me, but you never did so I just figured it was a phase but it’s not, you don’t like me like that, and I guess that’s okay, because even though I am in love with you I would rather be your friend than nothing,”