One day

Chapter 4

I ran away to my house, away from the more yelling. When I was little, my parents fought non stop. About bills, me, having another child, and about their life as a couple. I saw it every time I woke up and went to bed. I cried each night, and screamed as they would yell until they lost their voices. Sometimes my mom would get bruises on her arms, neck, face, and waist, but she just said she fell down the stairs. One day, I told my guidance counselor about and she recommended I stay with a friend of mine. Which at the time became Nate, and then when I was able to get an apartment of my own I moved out. I’m lucky I was able to since I’m only 17, but surprisingly they let me take it for what I had. Must’ve been a sympathy thing, because I told them why and I didn’t hesitate with any other reason. When I met Haley and Daphne, we were nerds and total weirdos together - until that is, that Haley became part of the popular crowd. We went to parties, and did many things we regretted. Including the fact of me drinking and taking too many drugs. I was in the hospital for weeks, without my parents knowledge. The only people that were there were Nate, and Daphne. Haley didn’t care for me as much as she had before, and that’s why when she got angry at me she mentioned getting me drunk. I haven’t gone even near alcohol now or drugs because of what happened, until today. I knew I had a stash somewhere, I just needed to think. Ah, far underneath by bed. Not very clever, but no one else would know about it. I put the cigarette with whatever I stocked it with and lit it. I let the drug take over me, and told myself to stop I don’t know how many times but that didn’t stop me. I shuffled to the fridge and slumped over the door, a small bottle of chardonnay was all the alcohol I had. After downing the whole small bottle, I felt faint. I slid down in the corner of my room, and let the cigarette fall from my fingers.

“Ally! Ally! Please answer the door!” I heard a faint noise come from the front room. The loud smash of my door breaking open, didn’t even make me jump from how “calm” I was. My heart was beating so much that I could practically hear it, which was not a good sign. I groaned as my head pounded in sync with my heart, throbbing.  “Ally no!” Was the last sound I heard as my eyes completely shut. My head throbbed as I felt a hand softly rubbing it, and a teardrop falling onto my cheek - but it was the persons above me.

“Mom?” I groaned.

“Ally, oh my god. How could you do that to yourself?” Daphne said, but she wasn’t the one holding me. Nate. I rolled onto my side, squeezing Nate’s side. He held tightly onto me, still stroking my head.

“Can you let Ally and I have some alone time?” Nate whimpered, which I had never seen before.

“Yeah sure, I’ll be waiting in the car.” Why had they come here together? Or just come in general.

“Why are you here?” I choked, barely opening my eyes.

“Your mom got ahold of Daphne and said she was worried about you, so we rushed over here. Why, Ally? Why did you begin this again?” He cried, whimpering again.

“Can you just hold me?” I asked, but he nodded and held me into him. When I woke up again, I was on his chest like before. I wiped my eyes and sat up, I couldn’t be shoved back into reality that he wasn’t single - he was just here to comfort me as a friend. I began to stand up, but I felt him grip my waist. When he pulled me back into him, he started to kiss my neck. “Nate, no.” I pushed my elbow into, trying to push him away.

“Just let me.” He intertwined my hand into his. “I know you want this, I know you need it.” I looked down at the floor, this wasn’t my house and with a twitch I was actually back to reality. He was just holding tightly onto my waist, occasionally twitching. The dream made me wonder what was happening with him and Haley, I mean where is she while all this is going on?

Haley’s P.O.V

“Where is he!” I yelled at my phone. I swear if he is with Ally, I will make sure she drinks too much and doesn’t survive this time. We used to be friends, but I can tell Nate is starting to have feelings for her and that kills me. What does he like about her anyway? She’s nowhere close to as pretty as me, maybe a little smarter, but the pretty thing is my advantage. I don’t know weather I like Daphne, she hasn’t said anything rude about her in a while so i’m on the edge for her. Nate is mine, and that is how it will stay. I mean we broke up and got back together in no longer than 24 hours, I have the advantage over him. Now I just have to find him now, and if he is with her than we are over. Well maybe we will be.

Nate’s P.O.V

She is so beautiful while she’s sleeping, and I can’t help stare at her.

“What?” She asks me, pulling me back to reality.

“You’re just very attractive.” I try not to sound creepy, but completely fail. I bet Haley is wondering where I am, but this time around it’s about Ally not Haley. I notice my comment has made her face redden and she sits up and adjusts her hair the best she can. Knowing I made her cry is the worst thing I’ve seen in a long time, not even seeing Haley cry hurts me that bad. I thought I “loved” Haley, but sitting here with Ally I realize I really don’t love her - I never did. I wouldn’t say I love Ally either, but I sure feel a lot for her. I hurry to stand when Ally almost tumbles over, but helps herself with a table that’s nearby. “You don’t always have to be strong around me Ally. I’ve seen your worsts and bests. Sit down, and talk to me.” I easily convince her. The drugs and luckily small amount of alcohol are still storing themselves inside her system, because she wouldn’t be this woozy otherwise.

“My head hurts.” She held her head, and I couldn’t help but chuckle. “Hey, that’s not funny.” She was just too cute right now. “Do I have to explain?”

“Not if you don’t want to, but it might not be long until Haley storms in and makes your head hurt more.” I said, more serious this time around.

“Uggghh. Fine. You win. You’re lucky I practically love you.” She said, and I noticed that wasn’t intentional - it was the alcohol talking. I smiled at the ground, and she blushed. On her behalf, the lighting wasn’t great in her room so I couldn’t see it that much. “Well..What happened was I was obviously upset about what happened between you and I, so I came back here,” She paused, pointing down to the floor. “And found the door partly opened, and the floor messy. After many minutes of searching, I found a note on the table from of course my mom. Near the note, there was over 20,000 dollars to pay off my apartment.” Her words shocked me, the last time she talked to her mother, or anything close to that, she was mad about Ally getting her own apartment. “I was of course shocked to see the money, but it was even more surprising on the note that her and dad are doing better than before,” she sniffled, biting her lip to hold in tears “and I wanted to find out if this was actually true. Oh, and it said that “I was welcome at any time, back home.”” That made her finally let go of the tears, and I knelt in front of her to wipe away a tear before it fell to her lap. “So,” she continued, “I went over there, and found out the reason for my messy apartment was their new small dog Nico. Which is a ridiculous name for his size a dog, or should I say unoriginal. But anyway, I talked to her and she said she wanted me to keep the money and all of what the note said was true. The last thing I heard before I left was my dad coming home to yell at her. So in the end, she lied to me about her and dad getting better.” She wiped her eyes with the back of her hand. She was just so torn, and hurt.

“How do you know he wasn’t just upset about something. You don’t know for sure he was going to completely yell at her, I’m sure he would’ve loved to see you, Ally.” I tried soothing her, but she just backed away from my hold on her face.

“What makes you think you could be right, huh? You’re here with a friend of yours, when you should be with your girlfriend.” What I said must’ve hit a sting, making her put up her defenses.

“I am just saying, Ally. And I’m here, because I’d rather be with you than my own girlfriend. There I said it. I love you, and I have no feelings whatsoever for Haley.” I said, raising my arms high in the air. With that, I heard a whimper and when I looked back up from Ally I saw Haley crying in the doorway.

*Author's note*

Hellooo my 20 readers :3 I hope you liked this chapter, it's probably my favorite so far even though there's only been 3 others. It's just starting to get intense, and will just get more and more from here on! Love you all!! Vote, comment, share if you'd like. Thank you<3