We Meet Again | e.d

F O U R

Xylie's P.O.V

I was with Emma and the twins driving to James' house film the video together like he wanted to and we decided to make a quick stop at Philz (I don't know if LA has a Philz so please don't come for my wig.) 

We were at Philz when I realized I'd left my purse in the car so Emma said she'd mind the twins while I run back to get it. I walked back to the parking lot and I got to my car and got my purse and started to walk back to Philz. I got back to Emma and the twins and we got our drinks, I just got the twins some cranberry juice since that was for some reason their favorite, strange, and we walked back to my car and set off to James' house. It was about 8.45AM so I could drop the twins off at school on the way.

We arrived at James' and he was all set to film so we made the video and then I decided that my video for this week would be a vlog so I basically was just gonna vlog my day. James, Emma and I went to get food and then remembered we had a photoshoot with our friend Bryant at the beach so we decided to go shopping, James took his car (just pretend he has a car, I can't remember if he does or doesn't, I don't think he does). Of course I vlogged that part of the day. We got our stuff and then went to Emma and I's apartment since it was the closest to the mall where we were at. We all got dressed and went to meet Bryant.

Once we were at the beach it was James' shoot shoot first, then there was Emma's and then mine. We just went and chilled on the sand afterwards until it was time to do us all together.

"Hey I hope you don't mind, I have some friends coming in a few minutes to chill with us after we wrap this up." Bryant, said. 

We all just agreed and finished the shoot and then me and Emma went into the ocean for a little while and James stayed to chat to Bryant.

"So, have you met any guys you might like?" I asked Emma.

"Nah, I'm not looking for a boyfriend right now. All I need is you and the twins." She responded, making me smile. "What about you?" She asked me.

"You know me, I don't do men; not after what happened with the twins' dad." 

"Not all guys are the same you know. Stop stopping yourself from finding a nice guy because some dickhead broke your heart when you were fifteen." 

We talked for a bit longer and then walked back over to James and Bryant. I noticed Bryant's friends were there but I couldn't see their faces because their backs were facing me. As we got closer to the group, Emma spoke up.

"Hey guys, what'd we miss?" They immediately all shot their heads towards us.

I looked up and made eye contact with one of the guys and there I saw him. The guy I fell in love with, the father of my kids, Ethan Dolan. I froze, staring at him in disbelief; I'm pretty sure everyone was now looking at me and Ethan.

"X-Xylie?" He sqeaked out. I just stared, thoughts rushing through my head until I decided I couldn't take it anymore.

"I-I need to go." I said throwing my long hoodie over my head, grabbing my stuff and running off, I heard Emma running behind me.

"Wait! Xylie!" Ethan shouted running after me. "Let's talk about this!" I got to my car and Emma hopped in the passenger's seat. I opened my car door and threw my bags to the back seat and then felt a hand on my shoulder. "Xylie, let's talk about this." He said calmly. I slammed my door shut, shooting Emma an apologetic look for startling her.

"What? What is there to talk about Ethan?!" I raised my voice.

"You left me! You left everybody!" He raised his voice even higher than mine.  Bryant, James and Grayson caught up to us but none of them said anything, they just watched.

"Because of you!" I pointed at him. "You're the reason why I left, you're the reason why I couldn't handle it anymore! You did this to us!" I screamed at him. Emma got out of the car.

"You wouldn't even let me explain! You did this to us!" He turned it around on me. Did this bitch really just blame me for everything?

"How dare you blame me for what you did to us, to what we had! I am not in the wrong here, you broke us! You broke me!" He looked down. Fans started surrounding us, recording.

"I'm sorry." He said quietly. "But you didn't have to leave!" He fired back at me.

"Hey! She doesn't wanna talk to you. Back the fuck up!" Emma yelled at him. He completely ignored her and kept his eyes on me.

Ethan was gonna say something, he opened his mouth but nothing came out and then Grayson walked over to him. "She doesn't wanna talk, this is hard on both of you. Give her time." He said, it was like he had no idea what Ethan did. My jaw dropped as I realized that Ethan hadn't told anybody what he did.

"You didn't tell him." Everybody looked at me. My hand covered my mouth and a tear ran down my face. "You didn't tell anybody. You let everybody think that I'd just left for no reason, you didn't tell anybody anything did you?!" He looked at the ground, ashamed.

"Ethan what is she talking about? What did you do?" Grayson asked him.

"Yeah Ethan, tell him. What did you do?!" I fired at him, he just stayed silent. "Go on then. Tell Grayson, your twin brother, what you did to me." He wouldn't say anything.

"Ethan what, did you do?!" Grayson raised his voice at Ethan, making him jump a little.

"You wanted to explain to me, so do it." He didn't look up. "That's what I thought." I said. And with that Emma and I got into my car and we drove off.

I stayed silent, letting the tears on my face dry, keeping my eyes on the road.

"Who was that?" Emma asked. Shit, I knew she was going to ask me that.

"That was Ethan Dolan, the twin's dad." I replied, her jaw dropped. I stopped at red light.

"Shit." She mumbled, but I could hear her. "I know this is a stupid question but, are you okay?"

"I'm fine." I responded as fast as possible, forcing a false half-smile onto my face. I wasn't fine. I was feeling the exact same way I was back when I was sixteen and I walked in on Ethan and Demi; broken. I'm broken. I'm broken all over again. And the worst part is, I'm still in love with him.