AFTER. (lxc version)

Chapter 41

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"Are you okay?" Lucy asks. She walks towards me and wraps her arms around me. It's odd that her arms can feel so comforting.

"Yea, well no. But I will be. Thank you for making her leave" I tell her and she hugs me tighter, my tears are flowing now and I don't see an end in sight.

"Don't thank me, Lauren may be my friend but you are my friend too and I don't want her upsetting you. I am sorry, this is all my fault. If I wouldn't have let her come around you all the time. She can be a real dick."

"No, it's not your fault at all. I am sorry, I don't want to come in between your friendship. I just need her to not come to our room anymore"

"Of course, I will get the key back from her. I knew I should have given it to Dinah anyway" she says and I laugh lightly and pull out of her embrace. I appreciate her being here for me more than she will ever know. I feel completely alone, Matthew is taking time to consider whether to break up with me or not, Lauren is an asshole, my mother would lose it if I talked to her about this, and Ally would be disappointed. I literally have no one except this girl who I never expected to become my friend, but I am glad she did.

"Do you want to talk about it?" She asks and I nod. I do actually, I want to get it all of my chest.

I tell her everything from the first time I kissed Lauren in her room to the way, our day at the stream, the orgasm I made her have last night, the way she called my name in her sleep, and the way she destroyed every ounce of respect I had for her when she made me tell Matthew. Her face goes from concerned to shocked to sad during my story. My shirt is soaked with tears by the time I finish and she is holding my hand.

"Wow, I had no idea that so much happened. You could have told me after the first time. I knew something was up when Lauren showed up here the night we were going to the movies, I had literally just got off the phone with her, then she showed up here. I had suspected she came here to see you, now I know I was right. Lauren is a good girl, sometimes. I mean deep down she is, she just doesn't know how to really care for someone the way that you, well most girls need to be cared for. If I was you, I would try to make things work with Matthew because Lauren isn't capable of being anyone's girlfriend." she says and squeezes my hand. I know everything she is saying is true and she is right, so why does it hurt so bad?

"Do you want to get some ice-cream? There is a good place right off campus, we can walk" she asks. I wipe my tears and nod. It is only noon and if I sit in this room any longer I will go insane.

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Ally is leaning against the brick outside the waffle house just near the school waiting for me on Monday morning.

"What happened to your eye?!" She has a blue-purple ring around her left eye and now that I look closer I see another bruise on her cheek.

Realization hits me like a truck. "Ally! Did Lauren do this?" my voice is shaky.

"Yea.." she admits and I am horrified.

"Why? What happened?" I want to kill Lauren for hurting Ally.

"She stormed out of the house after you left and then came back about an hour later, she was so pissed. She started trying to find more stuff to break so I stopped her. It wasn't so bad actually, I think both of us got a lot of our anger towards each other. Even though she's a lot taller I still got quite a few good hits on her" she laughs and my mouth falls open.

I am surprised at Ally's light tone while talking about her and Lauren fighting.

"Are you sure you're okay? Is there anything I can do?" I ask her. I feel like this is my fault, Lauren was mad because of me, but I can't imagine her being mad enough to physically hurt Ally.