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Chapter 23

Marks pov
"Sean, babe!" I yelled into the kitchen

"What!" He called back

"Please tell me you're not makeing a full five course meal!" I yelled to him

"Why not?!" He asked

"Because, I can't exercise enough to keep up with your food!" I called to him

"Fiinnne!" He said

"Thank you. Wait, why are are you cooking? I thought we agreed on going out tonight?" I asked walking around to the kitchen

"I'm making cookies yah goof ball. Jace wants cookies." Sean told me

"Okay, where are the two rug rats?" I asked

"I think they're upstairs playing games. Maybe recording, I'm not really sure." Sean said

"Maybe they're upstairs fucking." I said laughing

"I wouldn't joke about that there Me.Iplier, they probably have already." Sean told me smirking

I stopped dead in my tracks. "Ew!" I yelled at him

"Hey I'm just saying, I mean, Jace is 15." Sean reminded me

"Yah, yah. Shut up." I told him continuing to go upstairs. I opened the door and poked my head in the door. Jace was sitting on his floor, Shane no where to be seen. "Hey bud, where's Shane?"

"I don't know." He said slurring his words togeather

"Okay, you wanna come down and play Marieo Kart?" I asked

"No, not really." He said with a sigh

I frouned confused. "What's wrong?" I asked

"Just worried." He told me simply

"About what?" I asked trying to help him. I walked over and sat next to him

"About everything. About school, about high school next year, about Shane, about trying not to cut, about not worrying. About everything." He told me putting his head between his knees

"Why don't we talk about it. What's going on between you and Shane?" I asked

"I just... He doesn't respond to my texts as often as he used to. I just feel like we're growing apart. I mean, first we don't text, then we stop talking, then he pushes me out of his life, then out of our friends lives, until I'm left alone again. 'The lonley weired kid'." Jace explained

"You know bud, I was the lonley weired kid growing up. Why do you think my step mum and I moved to Ireland?" I asked genuinely wanting to hear his answer

"Because you're dad died, she couldn't live there without him. And because it was closer to work." He explained to me

"You wanna know the real reason why we moved? And why Sean and I left Ireland, why his dad and I fought at your party?" I asked

"Yah." He said looking at me

I took a deep breath. "After my dad passed away, I got really depressed, so did my step mom apparently. Kids at school bullied me because I didn't have a dad, so I closed myself off from everybody else, told all my friends to leave me alone, broke up with my boyfriend. After five months of that I stopped eating, and tied to kill myself. We moved to Ireland to get away from the bullying. Then I met your Dad, your actual dad. He bullied me in school. But when I met Sean, well actually jumped in-between him and your dad during a fist fight it changed. I lived next door to Sean so we got to know each other very well. That's why his dad is an ass. Because Sean is gay. His dad is against it, but fuck him. You'll have to ask Sean for the rest of the story." I told him smiling