Heart of Glass (A Pierce the Veil Fanfiction)

XXXI

Anne's POV

Seeing it hurt. Hearing about it hurt. Knowing about it just hurt. Tony Perry had a date with Monica Anderson. Tony Perry then had two more dates with Monica Anderson. Tony Perry had asked Monica Anderson to be his girlfriend and now they are an item. A little piece of me died every time I saw them.

"Anne, you can't keep doing this." My thoughts were abruptly interrupted by Valerie walking with me to my car. I had seen our newest happy couple walking just before. He was laughing at something she said and I couldn't help but wish it was me. Valerie and I had been leaving the school for lunch for the past month now. I know she wanted to really spend time with Vic but I was taking that away.

We got into my car and I was about to start it but Valerie stopped me.

"Hold up, I'm getting a call."

"From who?"

"Not sure... Hello...? Belle!?" She put her phone on speaker.

"Valerie, yes. Listen. I hate it here, I need to get out. I'm not getting better, I just feel worse. Val, I need to talk to Jaime is he with you?"

"No, Belle I'm sorry. Do you need his number?"

"Yeah, but please hurry, they're gonna cut the call soon." Belle sounded miserable and I rushed to pull the number up on my phone. I rattled the digits off to her before the line went dead.

"Wow, do you think she's gonna be okay?" I stared at her phone like it was magically going to give me the answer.

"I don't know. I hope so, and I hope she speaks to Jaime soon. He hasn't been happy in a month and I know he was really looking forward to winter break with Belle." I started the car and we were on our way.

"What do you feel like today?" I asked and Valerie only shrugged.

"Okay so fast food it is then." We drove to the nearest Burger King and I felt the sadness returning. "Val, I'm sorry. I never meant to steal so much time from you and Vic. I know you probably don't like to be with your sulking friend for a month." I apologized but Valerie looked at me sympathetically.

"Hey, when I was going through the same thing, you were there. You didn't leave me to be by myself and I won't do that to you. But at the same time, you can't stay sad because I don't like seeing you like this."

"I know, but... seeing them together just makes me see that I have stronger feelings for Tony than I thought. He looks so happy with her and I wish it was me instead." Our conversation stopped so that we could order burgers and fries and picked back up on the way back to the school.

"But Anne, are you really going to sever ties with two of your friends just so you can not feel the situation?" I thought about it. Emotional oblivion didn't sound too bad right now but I knew the correct answer was no.

"No, I guess you're right. But Monica's not my friend. Tony was and how do I go around him without feeling like complete shit!? They're always together!"

"Anne, there are one of two ways to do this. You can cut off any ties you have with them until the pain goes numb, or you could add so much of it that you move past it. You need to try the second one. Befriend Monica. I hated her too but we're pretty okay right now." I grimaced at the thought of being friends with Monica.

"Look, winter break starts in a week. I'll work on it then. But for now, I really wanna stay away."

"Deal." With that we ate in the school parking lot and headed back to class. I wasn't looking forward to winter break but I guess it had to be done.