mine. - johannie.

19 | she knows

"If I need to die just to keep her alive, I'll do it."

~+~

L a u r e n

I'm pretty sure I heard fake boyfriend.

I can't be hearing things.

It just can't be.

I was walking towards my room when I heard Annie and Johnny's conversation.

"When are we ever gonna stop?" The high pitched voice asks, I was thinking it was Annie.

"When Asher doesn't bother you anymore." The lower pitched voice says.

"But that won't happen." The other voice replies. "Let's just deal with the consequences."

"No, I don't want to. And I'm sure you don't too." Johnny's voice says.

"We just need to stop faking." Annie says. "It's been 4 months."

"Well, think of another way to fix our problems." Johnny says. "Both of our problems."

"But there's nothing better." Annie says.

"Wait. Let me get something from the living room that could help us." Johnny says as I hear footsteps come closer to the room door.

I quickly ran to my room.

So they're faking?

They were never really dating?

Really?

How could I not tell it?

I mean, they stayed for 4 months, like it.

And I didn't notice.

Johnny doesn't do that.

He never took a 'relationship' that long.

Or I mean, after a year, I thought he actually dated someone already.

The longest, real, and only relationship he ever had was with Nadia. Which was more than a year.

He really loved Nadia.

And then they broke up more than a year ago.

And he 's not sad anymore.

I guess Annie changed him?

Or it's all included in the fake boyfriend and girlfriend thing.

~+~

"Hey, John?" I ask innocently as he looks up from his phone.

"Yeah?" He asks.

"I need your help." I tell him before he stands up and places his phone in his back pocket.

Johnny may look and sound like a tough and mean guy but he has a soft side.

Especially when I'm involved.

"What do you need help with?" He asks.

I gesture for him to follow me as we both head to my room.

"Here." I tell him as we were both inside my room, pointing to the door knob.

"What's wrong with it?" He asks.

"This." I tell him before I kick the door close and locking it.

"Okay, what the fuck?" Johnny states.

"You are not going anywhere until you answer all my questions and the answers satisfy me." I tell him.

"What's this about, Lauren?" He asks trying to walk towards the door.

"Hey! You, sit here." I tell him as I point to my chair near my desk, a bit far from the door.

He eventually sits down as I sit across him, on my bed.

I cross my legs and I smile at him.

He seemed confused.

"How's the whole fake dating thing?" I ask joyfully as his eyes widen at my sudden question.

"G-going g-great I g-guess?" He replies definitely nervous.

"Success?" I ask.

He nods hesitantly.

"Care to explain?" I ask crossing my arms.

He looks down then back to me.

He lets out a deep exhale.

"Here goes nothing." He started off as he explained the whole thing to me.

~+~

"You did it all because of Asher?" I ask.

"Yeah," he says

"And because you care about Annie?" I ask again.

"Yes?" He replies.

"You really care about her?" I ask. "You're not trying to make her fall for you?"

"Lauren, I love her. If I need to die just to keep her alive, I'll do it."  Johnny states.

Oh.

So he does love her so much.

He really cares.

"What's wrong?" Johnny asks as I looked at my phone then back at him.

"A-annie, she-" I stutter making Johnny panic.

"What? What happened to Annie?" Johnny asks

"She's...." I paused.

"She's what Lauren?" Johnny asked, concerned.

"She just went to the hospital today." I stated.

"What? H-how? Why?" He asks.

I let out a small giggle.

"What's wrong?" He asks.

"I'm kidding, I'm kidding." I tell him as I let out another small laugh.

"You really do care about her." I state before he stood there speechless.

"I'm proud of you." I tell him before walking away.