lungs

part 67

joey comes up the stairs to see me crying with dylan and mckenna. "what's wrong?"

"what's wrong is that your girlfriend is fucking with my girlfriend!" mckenna says with her hands on her hips.

joey looked at me and parted his jaw. "our promise ring-"

"joey, listen."i say, "remember my birthday party when i was crying?"

he nods. "dylan kissed me and now he's been bothering me ever since." i look down and take a deep breath, "he's been hitting me too."

"she's lying!" dylan's says and looks at mckenna, "you have to believe me baby! are you gonna believe your future husband or your best friend? think about our baby!"

he's not gonna lie to her. "you fucking told me that you didn't care about mckenna or the baby because all you wanted was me after i told many times i'm with joey!" i yelled.

"you don't care about us?" she whispers.

this bitch got caught! "w- it's not like that."

"wait. so you're telling me that he hit you anna!?" joey asked me before looking at dylan. "you hit my god damn girlfriend?!?" joey yells.

i nodded and pulled up my sweatshirt sleeves, reveling my bruises. he looked at them and ran his hands through his hair.

"you think you can just do that to her?" he asked as he shoved dylan's shoulders.

i looked into joeys eyes. i know that look. it's the look of violence, violence to dylan. the same look of what he had when he was about to beat up zach for me.

i grabbed mckennas arm and pulled her back. "chill out." dylan said.

"chill out? chill out!?" joey yelled. "you hurt my cross. my love of my life. my girlfriend!"

"and?"

joey curled his hands into a first. mckenna, scared, got behind me. "what are you gonna do about it, huh? gonna cry? gonna piss your pants?"

{if you know that meme then i love you😂}

"this-" joey punched dylan, knocking him to the ground. then got on top of him and kept on punching him more.

"no stop!" she said as i pulled her back. "anna let me go!" she yelled.

joey kept on punching him. it went to the point where dylan was crying and his nose was bloody. i want him to be in my shoes. i want him to feel my pain that i got for the past 2 weeks.

"are you gonna do something!" mckenna screamed.

i came back to reality and realized that this was getting bad. i get off of mckenna and go over to joey, trying to pull him off.

joey was crying as he was punching. "stop!" he cried as i pulled him off.

he was shaking when i pulled him off of dylan. mckenna went over to dylan and took him into the other room. i sat down on the ground with joey shaking into my arms.

his arms were squeezing me tight as he was crying on my shoulder. "anna. i just could let him get away with it. i love you so much i just couldn't" he cried.

i rubbed the back of his head, "i love you too." i whispered, "it's okay."

"no it's not. you forgive people to easily, anna. i mean, it took you not even a week to forgive mckenna for not talking to you for 6 months. and i know you're thinking about forgiving jeremy too." he says, and it's the truth.

i'm always letting people walk over me and then i'm okay with it. i know that's something i need to work on. some people i just cant forgive.

i looked down. "i know."

"then why do you do it?" he asked me.

"i-i don't know. it's something that i need to work on okay?" i said.

"that's good." we stood up in the room. "now what?" joey asked.

i shrugged. "i don't know."

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some one you guys remember the book "outbreak" if you do, then should i remake it? i deleted it bc it was trash but i wrote some stuff down in class and i think i could make a new book out of it.