Just The Two Of Us <Sweet Pea FF>

57. Moonlight Shadow

The bell rings and sweet pea steps inside pops choclit shop. As I look up from the milkshake I'm slurping I notice how devastated he looks. I get up to give him a hug. While still holding him I left my face to look at him and a mild smile appears on his face. I'm tired of fighting. It's just so exhausting and I dont need that now. What's important is that I love him and I dont want anything to get between us. So I've decided to not show him the letter.

"Arent you cold" he says after scanning my body up and down.
"It's a bit breezy outside, take my jacket"
With his leather jacket over my arm I say goodbye to ronnie and betty who are melting away.
"I'll just go to the toilet real quick" he says on our way out
"K, I'll meet you at your motorcycle" I walk through the doors and put on the jacket.

As I lean against the black bike my hands slide into the pockets of his serpent jacket where I feel his knife in the left pocket. I role my eyes u till I notice something in the other pocket. Unable to identify it I pull it out and my eyes widen in shock. It's a small bag of fizzle rocks. While so many questions start to pop up in my head the door opens and I spot sweet pea coming out, shouting a goodbye to pops. Quickly I slip the packet back into the pocket.

"Ready to go?" He smiles and I nod silently, climbing behind him on the bike.

Sweet peas Pov:

I breathe a sigh of relief as i swing onto the bike, the drug raid still in my bones it feels good to go home now and be with Julia. But she doesn't wrap her arms around my waist as usual as i race out of the parking lot.

i chase through the streets until i only perceive them as shadows passing by. I don't even stop as it starts pouring.
She slips backwards on the bike and stays so far away from me that I don't even know if she is still there at all.

"Can we stop now?" She yells through the deafening storm. I park under an old, abandoned bridge on the lake.  The rain patters on the cement that surrounds us. Julia jumps off the motorcycle. 
"You're a stupid Idiot" she says.
"What?" Completely confused I turn to look at her. What could she be meaning? But instantly I get my answer as she throws something in my face.

It's the package fizzle rocks I picked up from the gargoyles hideout. Fuck, this looks bad. What should I say to explain this? I just found it and instead of letting the police take care I took one just like that.

"Jul-"
With a face distorted with rage she stares at me. The rain has soaked her hair completely and I can't identify if its water or tears strolling down her cheeks.
"I've thought about the possibilities. All the scenarios of why you would carry a package of drugs although you promised me that you would stay away from anything like that. After everything that happened with fangs...Is it that? Are dealing because we need the money?" Her voice gets louder and louder. The frustration in her eyes make my heart ache but I let her finish, still thinking of a way to explain everything.

"I thought about that but then I wondered why you wouldnt talk to me about it. I could pick up an extra shift at pops but obviously you dont trust me enough to even mention it" she stops to run her hands through her wet hair, unable to sort it out.
"Maybe you're taking it..." her voice so small that it could have been her thoughts
"I would never." Is the first thing I say since she started yelling

"Either way it doesn't make sense" She turns around, staring I to the rain.
"Maybe it's got something to do with your mission but it's not like i would know anything about that" she turned from yelling into whispering.

"The truth is...Julia, please look at me" for a split second I want to tell her everything about the gargoyles and the drug raid and my assumption that Mrs. Jones has something to do with it and that fangs and I actually went to her trailer to investigate when we skipped school today... but I can't. It's to dangerous, I need to do that alone.
"I can't" she says and keeps on staring into the pouring rain.

"I'm so tired of being excluded and having all those terrible scenarios in front of my eyes, imagining what could be that dangerous that I cant go with you. I'm so tired of it" she approaches the bike and sits down in the back. "I want to go home" she mumbles.

Without further hesitation I start the engine and drive off into the storm.

My motorcycle isn't even standing still but she already jumps off and runs inside.

I knock at the bathroom door
"Are you in there?"
"No"
"Please, come out"
"No"
"Then let me in"

With a small click she unlocks the door and I step inside to see my girlfriend sitting on the floor, leaning against the wall.
"I found it today during the drug raid" I say, sliding down next to her
"I must have picked it up but then Jones was pushed through a window so I ran outside and probably put it in my pocket. I guess I just forgot it"

Her eyes travel up to mine. Maybe she's not entirely convinced but I see that she wants to leave it behind and just believe me.
"Okay" her head falls onto my shoulder and I rest my head on hers.