13 Reasons Why // Hayes Grier \\

•Chapter Two•

Hayes' POV

I can't believe Nash. He just completely embarrassed me in front of Tori. I hope she didn't notice that he winked when she said that.

I glared at Nash and then got in the fridge and got out the jar of pickles. I sat them on the table in front of Tori. I then got in the cupboard and grabbed out two straws. I walk over to Tori and put them in the jar od pickles. I sit next to her at the table. We count to three together. "One, Two, Three, GO!"

Then we both leaned our heads in and took a sip of the pickle juice. We do this almost everytime she comes over to my house. We both pull away from our straws and laugh at ourselves. My phone vibrated in my pocket and I see that its a vine update from Nash. He uploaded a new vine. I looked at him and him and Bree were laughing their asses off. I checked the vine and it was of me and Tori. It was us coutning down from three and sipping the pickle juice. I chuckled and revined it. Then, I read the caption. It said Hayes and his bae <3 lol. I smile to myself and put my phone back in my pocket.

I look up at Tori, and see she's texting someone. "Who ya textin'?" I ask. "Tyler." she says. And my day is ruined with just one word. "Why are you texting him?" I ask. It came out a little more rude than I intended it to. "Um because we're friends now. You know that. Why do you care that I talk to him?" she replied. She was obviously annoyed.

"Because he's a jerk and he's hurt you so many times and you don't deserve that. He doesn't deserve to talk to you after what he did." I said. Now I was mad. Nevermind that. I'm pissed. "I'm not gonna go out with him again. We're just gonna be friends. And I'd appreciate it if you could stay out of my personal life and not tell me who I can and can't be friends with." she said. And now she's pissed too.

"Well maybe if you would make the right decisions for once in your life instead of screwing up all the time I wouldn't have to get pissed and say this stuff to you all the time Tori!" As soon as I said it, I knew I shouldnt have. I should've just kept my mouth shut. But I didn't. And now everything is messed up. I looked up at her for the first time since I just yelled at her. Tears were starting to come out. I opened my mouth and was about to say something, but she ran passed me and went into the bathroom and shut the door.

I look over at Nash and see that he's just looking at me in shock. "Nash...What do I do? Help me please?" I say. "Just go and talk to her. That's the only thing you can do bro." said Nash. I nod and walk over to the bathroom door. It doesnt have a lock on it, so I could just walk right in, but I knock anyway. I dont want to talk to her if she doesnt want to yet. She might need time to calm down. I knocked three times, She didnt say to come in or open the door. I got ready to knock again when I heard sobbing through the door. Great. She's in there crying her eyes out because of me. Thats it. I cant stand out here and do nothing.

I opened the door and saw Tori sitting against the wall parallel to the door.She had her knees pulled up to her chest and she was full on crying. I shut the door behind me and walk over to her and sit beside her. She lifts her head up and looks at me with tears still in her eyes. I give her a look of sympathy.

"I'm so sorry Tori. I didn't mean any of it. I just...I don't want you to get hurt again. Especially by him because he's already hurt you so many times. And I know that that is no reason to act the way I did. I just...I'm sorry." I say. "No Hayes you were right about everything. I do make stupid decisions and screw things up all the time." she said. I couldn't believe she just said that. "No you don't. You just made mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes babe..." I call her babe when I try to make her feel better when she's upset.

She wiped some of her tears away and said "I'm sorry. I probably look like a mess right now." I looked at her. Her mascara is running down her tear soaked cheeks. "No you look beautiful." I say. She blushes and smiles. I stood up and reached my hands out for her to grab. She grabs on to them and I pull her up and I pulled just a little too fast and hard because I ended up pulling her right into my body. She just looked up at me and for a minute we just stood there looking into each others eyes. I was still holding her hands.

I looked down at our hands. Then I moved my hands up to her waist and looked back up at her. She was blushing and a smile began to creep onto her face as she wrapped her arms around my neck. Then it started happening. The moment I've been waiting for for almost two years now, ever since I realized I liked her. We were both leaning in. We were just a few millimeters away from kissing.

"Guys c'mon! We're going to the-" we both backed away from eachother and turned to the doorway and saw Nash standing there wide eyed. "Um I'm sorry..." he said awkwardly. Tori walked out of the room blushing. I said "You should be..." as I walked passed Nash. He just rolled his eyes at me and walked out behind me.

So close. I was so close to kissing Tori finally. And Nash ruined it.