accomplice | ethan dolan

nine

jade

"i got you your favourite" noah smiles coming into my bedroom holding up a pizza box for me to see, "large plain cheese, thin crust"

"i need to talk to you" i say and his smile fades.

"what's wrong?"

"i'm not happy in our relationship anymore" i admit.

"seriously?" he asks, raising his voice.

"don't get mad noah, please. we've both known it was coming" i sigh.

"this is bullshit. me and you were perfect before you were suddenly best friends with ethan!"

"ethan has nothing to do with this!"

"lies" he scoffs.

"no, not lies. this is our fault"

"i love you jade, what more do you want?"

"love won't fix this. we're a mess" i mumble.

"i will fix this, please don't do this"

"how many times have you told me that before?" i sigh, "we're always arguing and fighting, you don't trust me and you try to control me. i'm not doing it anymore"

"i'll change, i promise"

"no i'm sorry noah, it's too late. i want to break up" my voice cracks as my eyes begin to sting.

i'm not happy in our relationship anymore, but i used to be. he used to make me the happiest girl in the world and even though we turned toxic, i still love him.

"i don't want to break up" he states stubbornly.

"it's not your choice to make" i remind him.

"yes it is! i've spent almost a fucking year with you and you're only telling me now you want to break up?" he says as his eyes burn into mine, with nothing but anger in them.

"of course you'd want to keep our relationship" i laugh, "i loved you and stayed loyal to you, even after you hit me, belittled me, and controlled me!"

"you think you're going to find better than me?" he scoffs, "you're a whining bitch. no one else is going to deal with you like i did"

"i can't believe i used to believe you when you'd tell me shit like that. i know there's someone better waiting for me, but good luck finding another girl to love you as blindly as i did!"

"someone better waiting for you? i knew it was that fucking son of a bitch" he says before storming out of my room.

"noah!" i run after him, "that's not what i meant. don't fucking touch him!"

ethan, grayson and zack look at us confused as i chase noah into the kitchen.

"i fucking warned you to stay away from her!" he yells as he tries to punch ethan, but ethan ducks.

"get the fuck away from me" ethan warns, pushing him backwards but this makes noah tackle ethan to the ground.

"stop!" i scream as zack and grayson try to pull them apart.

ethan rolls them over, putting noah on the floor, before punching him repeatedly.

grayson manages to pull ethan off him and zack helps noah back up.

"what the hell happened?" zack asks.

"didn't you just see? he's a fucking lunatic" ethan scoffs.

"jade broke up with me for this piece of shit!" noah yells.

zack and grayson look at me surprised, but ethan looks at me differently before noah pushes zack off him and punches ethan in the face.

"no more fighting in my house!" zack's voice booms through the kitchen, "noah, go home and calm down before i kick your ass for this"

"it was ethan!" noah tries to argue, "it's his fault"

"i don't care, i said leave. now" he warns and this time noah listens.

he glares at me while leaving the kitchen and then slams the front door as he leaves.

-

"are you okay?" ethan asks when i join him again in my kitchen.

after noah left, i locked myself in my room and tried to get over what happened, but here i am an hour later still in shock. i can't believe noah reacted the way he did.

"yeah, are you okay?" i ask, referring to the ice pack he's holding against his eye.

"just trying to take the swelling down, i'm fine"

"i'm sorry for what he did"

"you have nothing to be sorry for" he assures me, "it's not your fault your boyfriend's insane"

"ex-boyfriend" i correct him.

"so you really did leave him for me?" he smirks.

"no" i blush. "this was a long time coming"

"so it has absolutely nothing to do with our chat a few hours ago in the backyard?" he asks, "or how close we've gotten in the last few weeks?"

"you helped me realise how unacceptable his behaviour was and how naive i was being, but no, i didn't leave him for you" i explain and he stays silent, "but i do have feelings for you. i'm just not ready to act on them" i admit.

"so what happens now?"

"i have no idea" i sigh, leaning into him as he wraps his arms around me.

"we'll figure it out" he mumbles.

"will you stay with me tonight?" i ask, looking up to him, "and before you get excited, i don't mean it like that. i just don't want to be alone"

"of course i will" he whispers before kissing my forehead.