Something Better || Daniel Seavey

Chapter 21: Forgive forget?

Daniel's POV:

We are walking towards the nearest Starbucks and see Laurie with Corbyn further behind us.

I seperate myself from the group and get closer to Corbyn and Laurie.

"I had to go to the hospital with two broken ribs, a black eye and a bloody nose." I hear Laurie say to Corbyn.

She is talking about her hard past. I remember everything she went through. She never deserved it.

I can still imagine Laurie walking through the school halls with scars on her face and on her arms.

When she sat crying in a corner wanting to be alone. I remember when we first talked in music class.

"There I got closer to Daniel and we became bestfriends. I opened up to him about my life and what happened and I've never told so much about myself more than to Daniel. I don't think anyone in this world knows me better than he does. I also developped feelings towards him. He then went to participate in American Idol and we lost contact. When he came back we didn't talk or anything." She continues telling Corbyn.

I slightly turn around and see Laurie with tears rolling down her cheeks. I never thought I hurt her this much. I never thought I meant so much to her. I feel so guilty now.

I feel really bad and feel my eyes starting to water.

I walk faster and join the group. I try to pretend I didn't hear anything and act like it.

I see Laurie and Corbyn approach. Laurie has red puffy eyes because of crying. She still looks beautiful. I look away not wanting to feel worse than I already am.

The boys ask her what happened, if she's fine. She responds that's she's okay, that it's nothing. She just smiles. But I know that she's not fine, that she's hurt. And mostly because of me.

We enter the Starbucks and fall in line to order. I'm not hungry or in the mood to order anything.

"What do you guys want? My treat." Laurie says.

"I'm not telling you. I don't want you to pay. I think none of us want." Jonah says.

She sighs. "Fine. But what do you boys want?" She asks again.

They tell the cashier they drinks. "What about you Daniel?" Laurie asks me looking straight into my eyes.

"Nothing. I'm don't feel like taking anything." I smile at her. She looks a me and then back at the cashier and orders my favorite drink.

I am surprised that she still remembers.

She looks back at me with a smile. I smile back. How can you not smile back at her?

We head to the table the other boys are at the corner of the shop next to the window.

We talk about random stuff and get to know each other.

"So you guys plan on releasing new music soon?" Laurie asks as she takes a sip of her drink.

We look at each other. "I don't think so but we might release a new music video for Something Different." Jack answers. She nods.

"What about you? What do you plan on doing with your music?" Jonah asks leaning on the table on his elbows.

She thinks. "Pfff I don't know. I might release some songs, write. I don't know." She continues drinking.

Once we finish, it's 4pm. We walk back to her flat.

Once again the group split in two. But this time I'm with Laurie at the back.

We walk in silence. I decide to break it.

"I'm sorry." I say looking down. She looks at me questionly. "I should have kept my promise and shouldn't have left you down." I say still looking at the floor.

There were some seconds of silence.

"It's fine. I'm sorry for overreacting. I understand that you're too busy to spend time with me." She smiles saddly. My heart breaks everytime I see her like this.

"No. Don't be sorry. It was my fault I let you down. And I'll always make time for you. I care for you. I guess I was scared of my feelings for you." I blurt out.

She looks straight in front of her blankly.

"Please, can you forgive me? Forgive forget?" I plead her. I want everything to be fine between us.

"I'll never forget what I've been throught Daniel, but yes, I forgive you." She smiles at me.

I smile back. "Friends?" I say.

"Best friends." She responds hugging me.

I hug her tighter. I never want to let go.

She broke apart.

"Well we should catch up with the others. We are soon arriving." She says begining to walk again.

I nod.

I feel better now. She doesn't hate me. I have my best friend back.

We go up the elevator to Laurie's apartment and see the boys waiting outside the front door sitting on the floor.

"What took you guys so long?" Zach whines.

I hear Laurie giggle. "Why are you guys waiting outside the door? Alexa should be home." She says as she opens the front door.

"Oh. I haven't thought about it." Zach says scratching the back of his neck.

Laurie opens the front door wide open and in the living room where standing Logan, Alexa and someone else.

That someone else was Thomas.