goodbye ▸ zalfie

marcus

                        MARCUS

I had been sitting around my flat waiting for Alfie to return. He hasn't been here much the last few days and I knew it was because he didn't want to be around me. I was fed up of us not speaking, Zoe had managed to forgive me so why the hell could Alfie not? He wasn't even going out with Zoe at the time, in fact he didn't even know her, he still barely does!

One part of me thought that if I knew where he was, in the back of my mind, that I should go and sort it out there, follow him, make things right. But the other part of me said that if he wanted to sort it out then he would come back and sort it out.

I decided to go with the first option because by the way things were looking, Alfie was super pissed at me and he wasn't going to want to sort it out unless someone made him.

The only flaw in my plan is that I didn't know where Alfie was but I could probably find out. He had spent most of the time with her recently, maybe he was even with her now. I doubted it since the girl obviously had a life and couldn't spend every single day with him but she might know where he is.

I grab a pair of shoes and shove them on my feet clumsily. I grab my car keys, swing the door open and go to my car. I get in and start the engine before driving towards Zoe's flat.

All I can think about now that I'm half way there is what I'm going to say. The last time I spoke to Zoe alone we ended up kissing and now that I knew Alfie properly liked her I didn't want to get in the way of that. I had already extremely pissed off Alfie. I didn't want him to end up walking in on us doing something that would upset him. I suppose even me knocking on her door would piss him off right now.

When I reach Zoe's flat I still had no idea what on earth I was going to say to her, I decided just to go with whatever I felt was right at the time so I got out of my car, slammed the door shut and locked it. I saw Zoe's car a couple spaces away from mine so I walked into the building and up the stairs before knocking on her door. I could hear faint voices inside but I didn't know who or what it was. For all I knew it was the TV but at least I did know for definite someone was in there and it was more than likely to be Zoe, considering it was her flat and her car was outside. Duh Marcus.

"Zoe please! I know you're in there, your cars out front. I need to know if Alfie's there. Or do you know where he is? Please Zoe!" I shouted through the door, not caring that all her neighbours could probably hear me right now. The faint voices I just heard had stopped so I figured that it was people. Probably Alfie. Wow, the girl must not have a life if she is still with him.

I shook the thought from my head, instantly feeling guilty for what I had just thought. "Zoe I know you're in there please answer the door! I want to sort this out with Alfie, I don't want to loose him." I shouted again, sounding more desperate than I wanted to come across.

I heard some footsteps coming closer to the door and I felt relieved. I stepped back from the door slightly and ran my fingers through my hair, trying to sort it before the door was answered.

When the door swung open, Zoe was standing on the other side. She looked small but still as gorgeous as I remember her from when we were together.

I stepped inside the flat without being invited, knowing Alfie was in there now. I looked around and there he was, standing in the middle of the room, his eyes were wide as he looked at me.

Every time I had tried to speak to him, he had walked off. This time was going to be different, I wasn't going to let him and I knew that if Zoe was here he wouldn't act the same.

"Alfie, listen to me. We need to talk. I'm fed up of you being pissed off at me." I demanded.

"Fine." The panic in Alfie's eyes faded and he folded his arms and slopped down on the sofa. Sulking like a five year old who didn't get his own way.

I waked into the room further and Zoe closed the door behind me. I sat down on a seperate chair and Zoe sat beside Alfie. Alfie looked down at his hands whilst he twiddled his thumbs. Zoe looked at me with a looked I took to mean 'hurry up and god damn say something' , so I did.

"Alfie, what I did to Zoe is unforgivable in my eyes, I know that. But it is in the past, Zoe has managed to forgive me for treating her that way she has gotten over it, I don't understand why you can't either?"

"What you did is unforgivable, you're right. I can forgive you Marcus, I just don't want to. And I know Zoe doesn't care anymore, I know it is in both you and her's past but this is new to me. I don't get how you could treat anyone like that. Especially someone like Zoe." He argued back, he waas so fucking annoyed at me. This was going to be hard.

"You barely know her mate." I snapped back, I didn't like the way he acted like he knew her for ages when they had only known each other for four or five days.

"At least I want to fucking get to know her! At least I wont fuck off and never speak to her again after I fucking sleep with her like you did you fucking bastard!" Alfie stood up and screamed at me.

"Alfie" Zoe said quietly, Alfie looked at her before sitting down, obviously he saw it in her eyes that she thought he had taken it too far.

"I know what I did was wrong. I don't know how many times I have to tell you that but I wont do it again. I swear down on my life. You deserve Zoe way more than I ever have or ever will."

At this point I was willing to say anything to Alfie, even if I didn't mean it. I didn't not deserve Zoe, I've grown up now and realized my actions were terrible but it doesn't mean that I don't deserve her.

"You're right there." Alfie took a deep breath. "Look, Marcus, I know it isn't my place to be pissed off but I like Zoe and it isn't the fact it was her. It is the fact you would do that to anyone. But I'll forget abot it, just because Zoe has. It'll make life easier for all of us, but don't think that this is going to make things go back to how they were before instantly, because they wont."

"I get that but mate I'm just glad we've took a step in the right direction."

I smiled before standing up and then Alfie did too. I extended my arms and I gave him a hug, I patted his back and looked down at Zoe. She smiled at me and I smiled back. This was going to be perfect, this was what I wanted.