Real Friends (An IM5 FanFiction)

Chapter 78.

Gabe's POV:
*Saturday, December 20, 2014, 4:50 p.m.*

"Dana, stop!" I shouted, holding him down as he tried to get out of the apartment.

"Where is he?" he shouted, asking me a question I didn't have an answer to.

"Calm down!"

"No! Where the hell is he?"

"I don't know!"

"Bull shit!" Dana yelled. "Tell me where he is!"

"Dana! Don't you think we want to go and find Nick as much as you do?" Will helped me in restraining Dana.

"No! You guys don't get it!" Dana kept trying to get out the door. "I have to do it! He can't talk to Lina that way! He can't make her feel that way! I have to do something!"

"No you don't!" I told him. "She's okay! She's fine now!"

"No, that's not good enough!"

"Dana!" Will got his attention. "If you try to do something to Nick, if you try and fight him, do you understand what would happen if you got caught? You're not a little boy in high school anymore! You won't get detention, you won't get suspended, you could go to jail!"

Dana's thrashing was beginning to subside.

"Is that what you want?" Will continued. "Do you want to leave your girlfriend and your baby all by themselves just because you couldn't control your damn temper?"

Dana looked at Will, not saying anything but also no longer struggling to break free of my grasp.

After I was sure Dana had calmed down, I let go of him. He shook my arms off and readjusted his shirt.

"You good?" I asked him.

"Yeah," Dana nodded. "I'm fine."

The three of us stood looking at each other, Will and I watching Dana and Dana staring at the ground.

The girls sat on the couch in Dana and Lina's living room, continuing to watch the three of us.

I looked over at them and Lina whispered something into Alex's ear, causing Alex to nod.

"Come on, guys," Alex said to everyone as she stood up from her seat. "We should go."

The other girls looked at each other, a little confused, but got up nevertheless.

Will and I continued to watch Dana, none of us moved.

"Come on," Alex spoke to me softly, wrapping her hands around my arm.

"Are you going to be okay?" I looked passed Dana, at Lina.

"Yeah," she nodded her head. "I'll be fine."

She sounded just like Dana.

"Okay," I looked back to Dana. "What about you? Are you going to be okay?"

He just nodded.

I patted Dana's shoulder with one of my hands, starting to turn away when Dana's hand landed on my shoulder, stopping me. I turned back around to look at him.

"Thank you," he said to me before turning to Alex then Will. "All of you. Thanks."

I nodded, turning away again.

"You're welcome, man," I heard Will say to him.

We all walked out of the apartment and made our way down to where we all parked.

"So what now?" Nikki asked us.

"We're going home," I answered, taking Alex's hand in mine.

"I promised Cole we'd FaceTime tonight," Darcie told the group.