Things Have Definitely Changed (Part 2)

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After a few minutes of silence other then the occasional chicken cluck or a breaking block (from the minecraft game) Dorito comes back in the room balancing three cups of hot chocolate on his uninjured arm. He kneels down beside the two girls in the beanbags, and tries to figure out a way to get the mugs from his arm to them. Cinna rolls her eyes and picks up two of the mugs, putting them on the floor. She takes the other mug and puts it into Dorito's hand. She kept one mug for herself and unwillingly pushes the other cup to Venus.

Dorito sat in front of them, crossing his legs. He takes a sip of his cocoa. Cinna pauses the minecraft game and turns off the tv. Venus keeps her eyes glued to the floor.

After a few minutes of silence and sipping hot cocoa, Memeyboi decided he didn't like the awkward silence looming over the three of them, so he started to talk.

"So, Venus, you've been gone for how long?" He questions, putting his cup onto the floor. Venus looked up at him for second then tilted her head to the floor again.

"About two months I think..." she mumbles back.

"That's so longggg.... It's been forever hh..." Dorito wailed.

"Well, at least it was long enough for you to-" Cinna starts. But she's cut off by Dorito putting his hand over her mouth, forcing her to stop talking. Her eyebrows furrowed in frustration. Venus watched through her leaves, visibly confused. Dorito uncovered Cinna's mouth and put his hand on the back of his head.

"Oh! Heh- Sorry Cinna! Didn't mean to do that!" He gave a forced laugh. Cinna made this face: 🤨.

"Sure....."

"So! Where were you for all the time??" he insists. Venus moved her gaze to the floor next to Memey, instead of looking at him.

"I got lost..."

"How? What happened?"

"Well... I was walking around... To get some air..." She explains, "But I guess I wandered too far, 'cause I didn't know where I was anymore... I started walking back the way I came, but a car came by and was so close that I moved backwards to avoid it. When I did that, I didn't realise what my surroundings were and I slipped down a hill. Everything went black. I woke up later to some animal sniffing my flytraps. I had gotten up and I looked at it. It ran away after I did. I tried to find my way around, out of the dark forest I was in. I thought I saw people, but they were gone before I could get to them. It was a long time before I found my way out of the forestry area, and when I did I saw other objects. I ran up two the two closest to where I was, and then they helped me out...."

"Wow.... That must've been tough..." Dorito says, looking at Venus with empathy in his gaze. Venus fails to notice.

"Yeah..." Venus replies. Cinna rolls her eyes for the, what is it, the 3rd time? She grabs a dark brown book, with reddish orange scribbles on the cover, from behind her and opens it and starts scanning the pages.

"So, what about you? What happened to YOU while I was gone?!?" Venus blurted. Dorito's 'happy' expression fell.

"Oh-! Me? Wh- Nothing really happened while you were gone-" Dorito lied. Venus and Cinna both look at him with eyebrows raised.

"Wh- SOMEthing had to of happened!! You're hurt!" Venus asserts. Dorito shook his head.

"N-Nope! Heh-"

"Dorito, if you don't want to tell her about it because of something, I'll just tell her." Cinna offers, her normally angry or stern glare turning to a somewhat worried expression. Venus was still confused, and kind of irritated because her 'boyfriend' was hiding something from her.

"B-But if you tell her you'll tell her about-"

"If you don't want me to tell her about that I wont okay?"

"R-really??"

"Yeah. Sure. Now I think she doesnt like being talked about things being kept from her right in front of her face, so let's stop talking about that."

"Oh yeah true-"

Venus was so confused at this point she was just looking from Dorito to

Cinna to Dorito and etc.

"So yeah. While you were away the band that Dorito's in had a little... uh... Teamwork trouble... yeah- Basically, long story short, MePod punched Memey in the face. Oh, and also shot him in the arm twice." Cinna announced basically. Venus' eyes widened, though no-one could see because her eyes are under her leaves.

"That's terrible!!" She exclaims.

"Oh yeah, also Dorito and me have been dating while you were gone." Cinna continues.

"Wh-what!?"

"Cinna what the heck! You said you wouldn't say anything!!!" Dorito interjected. Cinna stuck his tongue out at him, and he glared at her angrily.

"Wh-why....?" Venus whispered. Dorito and Cinna turned their heads to look at Venus again. She had stood up.

"Why wh-what?" Dorito asks her, like the stupid adorable idiot he is.

"Why!? Why this!? Wh-why!?" Venus continued. Dorito didn't know how to respond. Cinna looked from Dorito to Venus, then back to Dorito.

"Look, Venus, I- I should've said it a different way-"

"No Cinna, You actually TOLD me. And from the way it sounds, Memeyboi WASN'T going to say anything, so thank you for actually SAYING SOMETHING!" Venus shouted. Dorito was taken aback from her yelling. She'd never yelled at him before. Actually, he didn't think he'd EVER heard Venus yell.

"I- Wh- I-" Dorito stuttered.

"Why did you think it was okay to replace me when I was gone!?" Venus snapped, tears starting to well up in her eyes, non-visible to Cinna and Dorito.

"H-How-" Dorito sniffled, "How were w-we supposed to know you w-were coming back!? We thought you died!" he retaliates, failing to hide the emotion in his voice. Cinna didn't know what to do because she doesn't usually participate in this type of shit.

"You don't love me anymore because you thought i was dead!?" Venus squeaks.

"Wh- No!! I love you! I still love you!! I jus-" He stopped, locking eyes with Cinna. She immediately averted her gaze to the floor beside her, her hand on her other arm.

"W-wait I- I mean-"

"If you love me, then why are you dating her!? If you love me, why are you replacing me!?!?"

"Because- I can't- hhhhHHH-" He burrows his face in his arm.

"I thought so..." Venus breathed. Her tears started to fall and she walked out of Dorito's 'closet room'.

A few minutes passed in silence while the argument sunk in. When it did, Dorito burst into tears. He said words that no one could understand due to his crying and the whine in his voice. Cinna sat there awkwardly. She felt bad for multiple reasons, but didnt know how to react to it. She wanted Dorito to stop crying, but didnt know what would make him stop. She just wanted what had just happened, what had just been said, what she had caused to happen.

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