"Our Old Memories"

Chapter 1.

I was in my room, just looking through the old photos, and memories of me and Ross. I shed a tear as I looked down to my phone, ringing. It was Raini. I wiped my sore red eyes before answering. ''Hey Raini'' I said, in a slow tone''. ''Hey Laura, is everything ok?'' she replied back to me. I needed to put on my fake voice. ''Everything's fine, why would'nt it be?''. Before she replied to my question, I knew what she was thinking, that I was in denial because Ross had a blazing row with me in front of his bitchy girlfriend, Layla. Man I hate that girl so much, she bullies me, in secret. She still does now. One day I had the guts to tell my bestfriend, all the awful things she had done, I could'nt take it any longer. And this is how it begun.....

It was a Friday afternoon, at school. The day was almost over and I was glad of it to. I was about to meet Ross so we could hang, but recentley all he kept doing was hanging with Layla. And I know she's his girlfriend, but he was my best friend and I had knew him longer than she ever had. I was at my locker when Ross aproached me. Before I could speak and say ''Hi!'', because I haven't seen him in hours. He breathed ''I heard what you did, to Layla''. Um, Im sorry I'm confused. I did something to her? No, no,no. He has that all wrong, I did nothing to her. What is he on about? ''And what was that exactly?'' I said back to him, very confused, and I said it with a hint of sarcasm. ''I heard that you, have been causing her to-'' Ross said with a hint of anger in his voice. ''Oh please, if your about to say self-''. He took over my sentence. ''Yes, and that you've been bullying her for a while. She came to me, earlier with a black eye, from you. ''Care to explain?''. Was he serious? Was he seriously believing this bitch of a girl over his best friend? I know I have done nothing because I haven't seen her, all day. Me bullying her? More like the other way round more like. I stood there laughing at his sentence. His eyes narrowed. ''Why are you laughing? It's not funny''. ''For one Ross, I do not bully her. If you seriously believe her then you're an idiot''. ''SO YOU'RE CALLING ME AN IDIOT NOW'' he said to me rather harshly. ''Yes'' I replied, with a laugh. ''For even believing a thing that little rat says to you''. He jsut looked at me blankly. ''Look I know you don't like Layla''. ''I've never liked her, Ross''. ''And that's exactly, why you would do something like this''. ''When have you ever known me to be so horrible to someone like that. I just have never said anything in front of her, because I don't wanna cause arguements'' I finshed. ''Well you've started one now, haven't you?''. Seriously, right now I'm laughing, in my mind, not to him. ''Well if you don't wanna hear the truth, then why am I wasting my time talking to you, Ross?''. ''Go on'' he said, with his arm extended. ''Explain'', he finshed. I felt as if I was going to burst in to tears and cry a waterfall how I felt. I lifted my arm and pulled back my jacket arm, there, buried in my arm, were grazes, bruises, cuts and scars, the scars I had caused. He looked at my arms then back at me. He saw everything, and I'm guessing he knew everything as well. My eyes starting filling, I knew it I had started crying. ''She has bullied me, Ross. Since day one, when you started dating. She has pushed me, bullied me in to things I did'nt want to do, she has excused me of anything she could think of. She hated us being friends. I hate her Ross''. I finshed, choking on my words as I spoke. ''Your lieing, Laura''. I'm sorry, did he just call hsi best friend a lier? ''I'm not, Ross. And if you don't believe me''. ''Maybe we're not friends, after all. First you bully my girlfriend, then you lie to me, saying that she caused this. No, I wont believe you. I don't want to believe you. I think my heart, literally just broke in to a million pieces. ''To think....'' I started, as he slightly turned his body. ''Ugh. I'm so stupid'' I put my head in my hands, as my tears fell. ''As if I was falling in love with you. I'm an idiot, not just for that, but for believing that you could trust me. I thoght we we're best friends. Obviously I was wrong''. By this time I looked up to see an upset Ross, his eyes red. I obviously did'nt hear his cries over me saying how I felt about him. ''I wish we we're never friends either. I wish I had never met you!'' he screamed at me. I looked in to his eyes, one more time before turning. ''Me too, Ross. Me too'' I choked, before slamming my locker shut and running out of the school. That was it, my best friend Ross, said he wished he had never met me. I ran as fast as I could, out of the school. I never looked back to see if he left the school or not. He was probaly with the bitch that caused this arguement. What did I tell you, she lied to him saying that I had hurt her, when yet, she had been doing it for the last two years. And I did'nt tell anyone because I hate when people feel sorry for me. And today was the day, I was gonna pluck up the courage and tell him everything that had been going on. But he believed Layla. The stupid girl that has been in his life only, what? A few months?

As I was running home, I felt someone grab my arm gently. ''Laura?'' the voice questioned. I turned to see a worried Riker, Ross's older brother. ''Are you ok?'' he asked. ''I-I-I''. I totally froze, I had lost my voice for words. He pulled me in to a hug as I started to cry. ''It's ok'' he kept saying, but he actually didn't know what was the matter. After a while, I broke the hug. ''Now tell me'' he started. What's happened?''.