Euphonious Memories {H.S}

46.

Flashback (2016)

As we all rode up to my apartment in the elevator, I could hear nothing more than the soft elevator music playing.

It was silent.

The silence between Gemma and I was a comfortable kind of silence, but I could not say the same about me and Harry.

I hadn't said anything about Raine freaking out and yelling that it was all his fault, but he knew that it was coming I could tell by the look on his face.

I was totally confused at that moment in time. Why would Raine be mad at Harry?

Unless what she was saying was actually true. Did Harry lie about his own cousin's death?

He kept glancing up at me waiting for me to blow up on him, But I wasn't one to make a scene in public. I was waiting until we got into the apartment and hopefully getting Raine acting like herself again.

She was still acting like we were the bad ones. She didn't act like she knew me and Gemma, but she definitely knew Harry. She basically tried to kick him out of the cab on the way to the apartment building.

I thought that she was calmed down a bit, until we got out of the elevator. That is when she started to throw another tantrum.

"LET ME GO! I WANT TO GO HOME! TAKE ME BACK!"

"Shh Raine! We'll piss off the neighbors if you don't shut your mouth." Harry whisper yelled at her.

And that was all it took. Just that one sentence to set her off. We thought she was crazy before, little did we know that she would go absolutely ballistic.

She pushed Harry against the hallway wall using every single muscle she had in her body. She looked  tiny next to him just like I did, but she actually had him in pain pinned up against that wall.

"I DO NOT HAVE TO DO ONE SINGLE FUCKING THING THAT YOU TELL ME TO DO." She said, pointing her finger right in Harry's face. "YOU LEFT ME TO DIE. I WAS ALONE. YOU SELFISH SON OF A..."

"Okay,okay." Gemma stopped her from continuing her lecture, on the account of a little boy and his mother walking past us in the hallway. "Let's get inside. Alright?" She talked to Raine in a voice that you'd talk to a baby in. I didn't think of it at the time, but it was actually a smart idea considering that she yelled at every little thing.

Surprisingly, Raine listened to Gemma and walked into our apartment that she hadn't been inside of in so long.

I apologized to the little boy's mother as I shut the apartment door.

This was not the Raine That I once knew. This wasn't my best friend anymore. She wasn't at all the same in any way. And we had no idea why.

We got inside and settled down. I changed into more comfortable clothes, and then went into the living room where Gemma was trying to bond with Raine.

I quietly walked into the living room, sat on the couch beside Harry, and watched as they talked.

I then realized that this was the first time that they had seen each other since their "deaths."

Why did it seem that everyone who was supposed to be dead or in jail kept showing back up?

I just crossed my fingers, hoping that Ethan wouldn't come back. If he did, I knew that I would have never felt safe.

"Here it might be a little hot, so be careful." Gemma said, handing Raine a bowl of soup.

"Thank you." Raine said in a small voice.