strings• Fack ☆

Nineteen

Recap: "Finn. I want one thing." He whispered softly, giving me a small smile. I nodded. "I want you to tell me the truth."

( i suggest re-reading the past two chapters if you think you could get confused :) )

also this is kinda a long chapter, so buckle up

Finn

We all sat down at a tree, slightly away from the edge. Jack and i were holding each other, me avoiding eye contact with everyone and staring at Jack's thumb as it caressed my hand. Wyatt sighed and shared a nervous glance with Sophia who nodded for him to speak.

"At first, it was just me and Noah. It had been just us all the way up to 8th grade." i perked my head up slightly to listen to what Wyatt was saying, but looked down again after our eyes met. "Millie, Sophia, and Sadie had always been their own trio of estrogen." Wyatt let out a light laugh, but stopped when Sophia lifted her eyebrow at him and gave him a warning look. "Gaten and Caleb were partners in crime, they balanced each other out with their completely different personalities."

"But then it all changed. Our three small groups slowly morphed together, a wonderfully rowdy coalition." Wyatt continued, recalling what happened fairly well.
"W-what about Finn?" Jack asked, looking down at me and frowning.

Before Wyatt could respond, my raspy voice filled the awkward pause of silence. "Noah's the one who brought me into the group. i met him at one of my concerts." Wyatt knitted his brows and nodded, "Finn and i became friends fairly fast, despite some of my minor moments of friendship jealously."

i scoff slightly at that and shake my head. "You and Noah were some of my first genuine friends." i say, looking up from the ground and staring directly at Wyatt. There's an unspoken tension that has been broken. "i know." Wyatt says sadly, sighing. "Then why did you act like I'm the one who made everything go to shit." i retort back quickly, saying this through gritted teeth. i know i shouldn't be getting angry, but talking about it and knowing Wyatt and i saw what happened two different ways is upsetting.

"Finn." Sophia says firmly, placing her hand on mine. i can see she is sorry in her eyes and i want to be able to say i still trust her. "You're not completely innocent either, Sophia." i snap again, no longer angry, but sad. i slide my hand away and intertwine it with Jack's again. "You may have let my band continue playing at your parties and you may have not slandered my name all over the godamn place like Wyatt, but you still left me alone."

"Noah didn't tell us what really happened at first. For a time, we still thought you were the one who beat him up." Sophia says slowly, playing with her fingers. "Then why was Wyatt still mad at me even after Noah told you guys the truth?" i let out an exasperated sigh and looked between Wyatt and Sophia. "Can someone give me an answer to that?"

"i wanted a real reason to hate you." Wyatt says quietly, staring at the ground between Jack and i. "What?" i don't know what i expected him to say, but it certainly wasn't that. "i was always jealous that you would steal Noah away from me. i didn't wanna believe Noah when he told us what really happened between you two because i wanted to give myself a real reason to hate you. i wanted to justify my feelings as not just anger towards you for "stealing" my friend. i knew you had never hurt Noah, but i thought that if i still believed you did, i could be rightfully mad at you. i wanted to find something that could allow me to hate you." Wyatt shakes his head, his face growing red in embarrassment.