Baby, I love your way.(Wesley Stromberg)

You've always got my back

ANDREA'S POV

We arrived at the pancake place,which ironically was called 'The Pancake Place'.

"I'm so hungry" Wesley said which interupted my thoughts as we walked towards the front door.

As soon as we walked in, Wesley started looking around as if he was expecting someone. I guess he was looking for Stephanie, which made no sense, because firstly Stephanie hated pancakes so I highly doubt she would be here.

"How about I order and you find us a seat". Wesley suggested while he walked towards the long line.

I agreed and told him to get me what he was getting.

I started to gaze around the sitting area, trying to find the best place to sit. I decided to choose a two seated table, close enough for the California sun to slightly shine on us. I thought that this would benefit us, because the room was kind of chilly from the air con.

I sat down and took out my phone just to see if I had messages from the past hour.

Nope....nothing.

I decided to phone Stephanie,just incase she was over with her blow out and is willing to stop acting like a run away convict. But straight to voice mail....

Wesley came to our table with our food and sat down opposite me.

"Who were you talking to?" Wesley asked,while he poured a huge amount of syryp on his pancake.

"I just tried to call Stephanie, but...."

"But she never answered" Wesley said, finishing my sentance.

""yeah" I said, looking down at my blank screen on my phone.

"Well don't worry, we will find her, but first eat before we do, dude" Wesley said, trying to be positive but deep down I can see that he is only putting on a brave face for my sake.

Isn't he just amazing? Uh snap out of it Andrea..

We ate in silence,enjoying the food and taking in the Calafornia atmosphere.

Until Wesley looked a little un easy as he scrolled through his phone.

"Listen, I'll be right back" was all Wesley said as he walked out the door. I never questioned it but I was definitely curious. A part of me wanted to run after him but the other half told me to let him have his space.

I was just about to finish until someone sat in Wesley seat. I looked up to see it was James.

"James!?" I said, with mixed emotions.

Hey was all he said as he moved away Wesley's finished plate to one side.

We sat there in silence, not keeping much eye contact. I knew I had to say something, but I didnt know what. What was there really to say anyway?

"How did you know I was here?" I asked, as it was the only thing I could come up with and for one, I really did want to know.

"Your new Bff said you would be here." James said, with such hatred in his voice.

I rolled my eyes and immediately began to leave until he stopped me by grabbing my arm.

"Wait. I'm sorry" He said convincingly.

I turned around and folded my arms,as I waited for his real explanation of being here in the first place.

" What do you really want James?" I said,sounding a little more assertive than I hoped for.

"What I want to say is that even though I am mad at this whole situation, I don't want us to fight especially over that dick." James said,but this time more sensitive than before.

I returned back into my seat so that he could continue with what he wanted to say.

"Its just, I have been so excited since I heard that you moved back for your summer vacation, but we havent even hung out together like we used to. Even though I have told you so many times to make plans but no, you always seem to be with Wesley and his band. Am I not could enough anymore?" He continued.

"You are, it's just that I moved back like three days ago and I just wanted to get updated with my family's life and Wesley is a new addition and all I wanted was to develop friendships. I know now that I have left you out in the process, but all you needed to do was tell me how you felt. Instead you made a whole scene at the barbeque, that was unnecessary James. It broke my heart when you shouted at me the way that you did." I said begining to voice my defense.

"I know,but I was just so angry and I guess I should of tried to hold my anger but I couldn't, I mean my bestfriend was getting close to my worst enemy. How was I suppose to deal with that?"

"Firstly, you could of understood that I had nothing to do with your hatred against Wesley I said,feeling so frustrated.

"I know and I feel bad about it, thats why I wanted to make things right between us." James said,as he moved his chair closer towards me. "forgive me?"

"I have forgiven you a long time James, I was just waiting for you to realise that I would never choose someone that I met recently over someone I've known for years. I said, as I lightly touched his muscular shoulder.

He smiled and opened up his arms for a hug. I hugged him with no hesitation and enjoyed the feeling that I had my good old friend back.

"So plans saturday night?" I said, after our embrace.

"Arcade games at 7, I will pick you up" James said with the biggest smile that I haven't seen for a while.

"For sure"

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WESLEY'S POV

I got James message that he was here to speak to Andrea. I was already done with my pancakes when he messaged me so I decided to wait in the car so that they could have their time.

I played my Sublime CD while I waited for them to be done. I let the CD run through while I waited and I was already on track 5. I sat and sang along to one of my favourite songs from Sublime called Garden grove.

I just hope that James and Andrea work things out because it is my fault that they are fighting in the first place.

For a slight second I looked at the front entrance of the buliding and to my surprise ,I saw Andrea and James walking out hooked arm in arm. They then went their separate ways and Andrea walked straight towards my car.

I opened the passenger side car door and waited for her to get in.

When she reached the car,she smiled at me and gave me a thumbs up. She got in the car and grabbed me for an unpredictable hug. I'm not going to lie, I loved every minute of it,but I also wanted to know why she was giving me a hug.

"Thank you so much Wes" was all she said,as she hugged me even tighter.

"For?" I asked,not sure if I knew why she was thanking me.

"For telling James where we were, I know you did that so we could resolve our fight. So thank you so much" Andrea said,still hugging me.

"Like I said, anything for you" I said.

We were still hugging eachother, still in eachothers arms. You would think that we would feel awkward but surprisingly we didn't.

Until we both heard a huge knock coming from my bumper. We split apart immediately,as we got a huge fright from the loud sound.

I looked straight at my bumper and saw a huge dent, I immediatly saw a figure standing there, someone with a rock in their hand.

"Stephanie!" Andrea said as she made her way out the car. When she did,Stephanie started to run. My instinct told me to grab Andrea back in the car and chase after Stephanie.

And that is exactly what I did.