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XXIV // Hard

Daniel taps one key on the electric piano over and over again as Jonah hums. Jonah and Daniel flew down from their one week break from tour and asked me to help adjust the lyrics of the song Daniel read the other day. They named it Hard and instantly wrote some more lyrics yet they needed my help. 

"Like a breath or something their like a small quick snappy beat," I say when Daniel reaches his sixth time hitting the beat continuously. Jonah writes it down in his brown notebook which had a slight rip on the corner. 

"What order do you think you are going in?" I asked. Jonah shows me the notebook and the order of the verses we had so far. There was some deep stuff in this song, the boys really went hard for this song. 

A knock hits my door and Nate walks in, I knew he still had hatred towards Daniel, he showed it as he glared towards the guy. "We are going to town, you guys need anything?" He asks still glaring at Daniel. 

Daniel gulps and then looks back towards the keys of his little keyboard. "Thanks, Nate but Jonah said he will make hamburgers for us," I say patting Jonah on the back. Jonah turns to me and raises an eyebrow before nudging me. "HEY!" I yell nudging the boy back. 

Jonah grabs my waist and lifts me up after dropping his notebook to the floor and me on the bed. He tickles me and I squeak as I begin to laugh from his actions. I turned my head to Daniel who flicked his head to me before moving it to the floor in sadness. I cough and then shove Jonah off me. I just suddenly felt major Deja vu and then I heard all the times Daniel called me after our break up, crying, he still loved me. After all of it, he loved me. But then I moved my head back up to Jonah who just hopped off of me, Daniel I can't forget what you did.

"Well uh, see you later maybe? The step-siblings are coming with so you will have the house alone. Don't do shit," Nate says as he walks out of my room and slamming my door. The room fell silent and no one moved. 

Jonah spoke first, "I am gonna go get those hamburgers cooking, then." He scratches the back of his head and then leaves the room. I sat up on my bed and crossed my legs. The room was frozen. Not a single word or movement. 

The stillness made me think, about him. Even though he sat so close I felt the distance between us. The cold breeze was way too big between us. I think the feeling my body was gaining was guilt. I felt guilty for flirting with Jonah, I felt guilty for not speaking to him the second after and I felt guilty that the distance between us was bigger than we wanted. 

He coughs and then stands up, movement. He paces back and forth for 10 seconds before sitting down beside me. I knew he was going to speak first, I could hear his mumbling beside me. But I couldn't prepare myself for his next words. 

"I want you to sleep with him," He says. He immediately scratches the back of his neck in the uncomfortable situation he placed himself in. 

I turn my head to him, "Excuse me."

"Jonah. I want you to sleep with him, so we can start on an even slate," He explains. I look away from him and down to my fingers which the nails were painted red by Lisa two days ago. 

"Daniel, I-"

"Noah, I wanna be with you. But we both know the distance between us is big and we can't fix that unless you get back at me. So do it, please. It won-" I turn to him and place my hand over his soft pink lips. He turns his head to me and widens his eyes. We had froze again. My hand on his lips and his eyes staring deeply into mine. Those blue eyes could save me from drowning. 

"Daniel, we are in too deep. Doing it with Jonah would just dig us a deeper hole," I say pulling my hand from his lips. He licks them and stares into my eyes. 

"I don't care if I am drowning, don't save me. I just want us to be together again. Don't you miss us and o-" I did it again. Covered his mouth with my olive-skinned hands. 

"Of course I miss us, Daniel. I fucking loved you." This time he drags my hand away and holds it. 

"So it is still loved, ay?" He asks. I sigh and look down at his hand in mine. This boy wanted me to sleep with his best friend to get even. I wouldn't. We didn't need to be even. Love isn't a game. If it was our three lives were nearly up.

"I just thi-" I bring my head up as he leans in and presses his lips on mine. I widen my eyes taken by surprise. He had his blue eyes slammed shut as he pressed gently on my lips. I missed those soft lips like crazy. But I wasn't the last one who had touched them. I shut my eyes and pull away. 

"I can't do this Daniel, that distance between us, I think the only way to fix it is time. So let's just slow down," I explain. His eyes laid on me again, those fucking ocean eyes drove m closer to him on the highway we called love. 

"I will wait, I will wait as long as you want me to Noah. I am not going anywhere," He explained, squeezing my hand. 

The question is. Will I allow you to come back? 

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AN:

This is a super short and super fricken late chapter. I am so sorry for posting so late. I am posting twice today hopefully so please don't run away. I won't let you guys down again. How do you like Daniels blonde hair though? ha

- P