After she stormed out of my window, we didn't talk much. She kept her face towards the window in class and stay with her friends at lunch.
It bothered me so much at first, how she dropped me like I was nothing. Like what we had was nothing.
But slowly I got used to the loneliness after a while, but something always happens.
It was a Friday in December, in the week before winter break, when she sat down in front of me like we were fine.
"What do you think you're doing?" I asked quietly as she began to pick at the shitty food in her tray.
"Sitting. With you. For lunch."
"We haven't talked in weeks, Luna." I spoke through gritted teeth.
"Yeah, sorry about that. I wasn't feeling well, but I'm better now."
"That's not an excuse."
"It's not an excuse but an explanation. I'm sorry, Ember."
I really couldn't stay mad at her forever but I had to know the truth.
She came over after school and told me everything as we both smoked cigarettes on my back porch.
"Drugs. Pills and stuff."
"Why?"
"I'm not happy." That hurt.
"Oh." I took a drag of the cigarette and let the smoke flow out of my mouth.
"I didn't mean it like that, Em..." She grabbed my hand. "I've been trying to get clean and I didn't want to hurt you."
"Ignoring me hurt me." I snapped. "All of this hurt me, Luna. I was happy with you and you decide to just stop all that for some fucking pills."
"I had shit to do."
"Was it more important than me?"
She hesitated and took another drag. "No, never. I just couldn't."
"Fine." I dropped my cigarette butt to the ground and stomped it out. "Let's go." She followed me inside and then onto the couch.
"I'm really sorry. I won't do it again. I don't want to hurt you." She sealed her promise with a kiss.
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Fading Out (completed!!!)
Teen FictionIt wasn't just the parties or the drugs, or the girl in love with her that changed Luna. She began to change the minute the addiction began. She began to fade away day by day, drink by drink. She faded out like the moon she was named after, with an...
