A Better Best Friend

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Millie is such a personality I love her. Not only is she pretty, and she has a British accent, she also is really fun and great to have a conversation with. We've been hanging out in my basement just watching the office and talking about boys. All of the sudden the doorbell went off. We all looked each other and yelled,

"PIZZA!" We ran up stairs and opened the door only to realize it wasn't Pizza. It was Jack and Finn.

"Hey, did somebody order a stripper?" Finn asked in a cartoon voice.

"Or two strippers?" Jack said in a flamboyant tone.

"Oh my god! Finny what are you doing here?!" Millie yelled jumping into his arms.

"Like I just said, to strip." He said still in his cartoon voice. He wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her. I looked at jack with a blank face waiting for him to do something. He looked at me and made a Jim face (Office reference). That made me mad and I turned around and went back inside. Everyone followed me, Jack was still behind all of them. I went towards the basement and opened the door, then I realized that Jack was going upstairs. Millie and Finn walked passed me and went downstairs she was clinging to his arm and yapping his ear off. Sophia followed them downstairs, but Emily went into the kitchen and got herself some water. I went upstairs after Jack, he went into my room so naturally I did too.

"Jack." I said standing in the doorway. He laid down on my bed.

"Hey Lys." He said putting his hands behind his head. Why is he so smug? He's so cute and cuddly over there. Why am I not more upset about this? It's pissing me off!

"Why did you ignore me down there? And why didn't you come with me to the basement? And why did you and Finn come here?" I asked making myself even more flustered.

"I came here because me and Finn missed our girls, and it was convenient that you two happened to be in the same place. I didn't say anything at the door because I was gonna come up here since I knew you'd follow me." He said. He look up at the ceiling and closed his eyes.

"What? How did you-" he cut me off.

"Baby I know you. You've been my best friend my whole life, I've had more time to get to know you than I have to get anyone else." He said soothingly. "Come over here, I just wanna lay way you." He said looking at me with a tired look in his eyes.

"Hey are you okay?" I said. I know that look, and that's the look Jack gets when he's sad and I feel so bad when Jack gets sad. I speed walked over to him and sat down. He sat up and out his arm around my shoulder.

"My, my uh." He got that tone of voice to where I could tell that he was definitely trying not to cry, I looked up at him and saw that he had a heavy frown and his eyes were red.

"Jack, baby what's wrong?" I asked leaning on him.

"My grandma had a heart attack and now she's in the hospital. My mom said she's in really bad shape, I was-" He stopped as his voice began to break. "I was supposed to visit her but I couldn't, I don't want to see her in the condition she is now. I didn't come because I missed you I became because I need you." He began to hysterically cry. "I need you Elyssa." He kept crying and I hugged him and kissed his cheek.

"Jack, I know you don't want to see her in her condition but I guarantee one of her only wishes is to see you. I hate to say this, but if she was to die right now would you want to be able to say you helped her be just a little more at peace or would you want to always regret not being able to see her again." I said trying to motivate him.

"I just, I was blind sided by this. She's my favorite family member I really love my grandma." He said. He started crying into my shoulder.

"Jack I swear everything is gonna be okay." I said it almost instinctively I don't even know why.

"How do you know that?!" He yelled at the top of his lungs. I got up and shut the door, but I saw everyone looking upstairs from the basement door.

"I know that because I love you Jack. Your grandma loves you. No matter what happens we'll both be here for you, whether it's in spirit or in person we're both here and we both love you." I said I kissed him and wiped his eyes with my thumbs. "I love you Jack." I said quietly.

"I love you too. Thank you." He said. He laid back down. "Can you just lay with me for a little bit." He asked.

"Of course I can." I laid with him. He continued to cry less and less overtime until he was out like a light. "Jack?" I asked shaking him a little. "Jack?" He didn't move. So if I got up slowly turned the light off and went downstairs. Sophia and Emily were on the couches, but I didn't see Finn and Millie. Emily looked back when one of the stairs squeaked.

"Hey! What exactly was happening up there?" She asked.

"Personal stuff, I don't know if he wants me to tell or not." I said shrugging my shoulders as I made it down the steps. "Where are the other two?" I asked.

"They have been in the bathroom, for about 15 minutes." Sophia said. We all looked over towards the bathroom. I walked over and banged on the door.

"Hey, how about you two hurry it up in there." I yelled.

Note-So sad