Bullied By Why Don't We {Slow Updates}

Everything.Nothing.

Jonah's POV

"Hey bro. Sophia invited me to go to the mall with her and Diana. How about you come with?" Jack Suggests.
"Nah. I'm not sure Diana wants me around." I respond.
"Dude. C'mon. Of course she does!"
"Nah. I'm sitting this one out."
"Nope. Not letting you. Now get in the car we're leaving now." Jack orders.

I stay seated on the couch. Jack puts his hands on his hips. I give in and groan as I get up from the comfy couch and head to the car. When Jack has his hands on his hips you know he's not taking no for an answer.
We're both in the car and we go to pick up Sophia first. She walks to the car and stops when she sees me. Then she opens the back door and gets in.

"Hey Jack...Hey Jonah." She Says. I turn and wave hello to her. She has a worried expression on her face. We pull up to Diana's house and Sophia gets out to wait for her. Diana walks out and she looks beautiful. The two girls get in the back seat of the car.
"Hey guys." Says Diana.
"Hope you don't mind that they're tagging along." Says Sophia.
"No. The more the merrier." Diana responds.

It seemed kinda forced. The rest of the ride was painfully quiet. Finally we got to the mall. Jack drops the girls off at the entrance while he looks for a parking spot. I stay with him for precautionary measures.

"Just talk to her." Says Jack.
"Let it go." I snap back. I am not used to not being in control. Jack finds a spot and we head into the mall.

"Anyone wanna eat?" Asks Jack.
"Is that even a question?" Sophia and Diana say at the same time.
We decided to eat at chipotle.
"No one tells Zach we were here without him." Advices Jack.
"Oh yea. He'd lose it." I add.

"Where do you guys wanna shop?" Asks Sophia.
"Vans. I need new ones pronto." Says Diana.
"Yea. I could use some new vans too." I add. Really I do kinda want to talk to her. It's not a big deal though.

"I want to go to game stop!" Shouts Jack.
"Oh! Lush is next to that! I want a bath bomb!" Chimes in Sophia.
"How about Diana and Jonah go to vans. Then we go to gamestop and all meet at lush." Suggested Jack. I know what's he's doing. If that wasn't already my plan I would have slapped him for doing that.

"Umm...Jack-" starts Sophia.
"That's cool with me." Says Diana cutting off Sophia.
"Cool." Says Jack.
We split up. We all decided to meet at Lush in half an hour.
Diana and I head over to Vans. It's quiet. Silent. In an off way.

"You seem quiet." I say on our way to vans.
"I could say the same about you." Diana replies.
"What's on your mind?" I ask. Something isn't right.
"Nothing. Everything. It's doesn't matter." She simply says. I can tell it does. We may not be close anymore but when we were I could always tell when she was lying. If I still have those powers, I'm right about this being one of those times. I need to know what's going on.

"C'mon. We're talking." I say and grab her arm and pulls her towards a bench. We sit down and she sighs.

"I don't know where my head is at and I barley know myself right now. I feel like nothing is real. Like I'm hopelessly lost and I'm screaming for help but no one can hear me. I feel empty inside, like I'm stuck somewhere with no way out. And I just plaster a fake smile on my face and hope someone can hear my muted cry for help." She says. I realize that tears were falling from her face. A wave a guilt flows over me. I need to fix this. Somehow.

"Hey. Look it's okay. Come with me." I say wiping away the tears on her face and leading her to a secret location. I can see the surprise on her face when she realizes that we are on the roof of the mall.

"Why are we here?" She asks confused.
"I can hear you Diana. I see you. I can help you, if you'll let me help you. But you need to talk to me." I say. Cupping her cheek in my hand. How can anyone hurt her. How did I?

"I don't even know who I am. Or if this is even real. I just...You know I have anxiety. And I can't help but think that I'll come up to you and you'll just be cruel to me again. That I'll get hurt again. I think I'm happy...but I'm not. I'm a mess and I don't know why. I just, want to be genuinely happy. Force once in my life. To have a purpose. To feel loved. Really loved." She says starting off to the sky.

I made her think she wasn't capable of love? I just want to punch myself for being such an idiot and hurting her the way I did.
"Diana..." I start.

"You weren't my only problem. You were one of many. You, of all people, know that. I just don't know anything. I feel useless. Like I don't matter."

So this isn't about me, it's about-oh god. I wrap my arms around her.
"I just, more than anything, want to be genuinely happy with myself and my life. And I don't know how to do that."
I don't want to see her hurt like this. I was supposed to be there. I was supposed to protect her and I wasn't there to do that. I just added on to the pain she already had. I'm a terrible person.

I put my sweatshirt on Diana's shoulders. I rub her back and it seems to calms her down. Tears are still falling from her eyes but I continue to wipe them away.

"How?" I manage to say looking into her beautiful and hurt eyes.
"How what?" She questions.
"How has anyone ever been capable of hurting you?" I say.

"What time is it?" She asks, I guess remembering we had to meet up with Jack and Sophia.
"Don't worry. I texted them so that they wouldn't expect us." I answer trying to put her back into ease.

She rests her head on my shoulder.
"I'll make things better. I promise." I say stroking my hair. Her eyes shut. I stay as still as I can. I just want this moment to last forever. Maybe it can...once I fix things for her.
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NEW CHAPTER!!!!! I rewrote the other chapter in Jonah's POV!!! What do you guys think? Eh? I really like what I did with this chapter. Also there's more stuff going on with Diana. Yea...no happily ever after at the moment. Diana is in for a rough one. I can't wait to write the next chapters! Hope y'all like this chapter! Love you guys!!! THANK YOU FOR 41K reads ahhh ILY ALL SM!!! New chapter soon!