Nova's POV:
We finally made it to the fair after what felt like an hour of awkward silence. "Their here!" I heard and looked over to see all our friends. They came up to us and they we all over payton saying how much they missed his and stuff while Harper came over to me. "So, why did you invite him to hang out?" She asked.
"My mom asked him how North Carolina was, and she just said he missed his friends. Then my mom told him that we should hang out with them and I was going to say no, but he cut me off before I could and told my mom that it would be a great idea"
I said the last part with sarcastic jazz hands. "Aw it's ok Nova you can just talk to the others and ignore Payton" she explained while hugging me. "Yeah I guess" I sighed getting a bit sad at the though of what Payton did.
"So do you guys want to go on some rides now?" Noah asked. Everyone agreed. We just ate food and and continued to go in some more rides for the rest of the night, honestly it was really fun, I didn't have to talk to Payton.
It's was about 10:30 so we all decided to head home. We all said our goodbyes and me and Payton started walking back to my house. Then again it was more awkward silence, until Payton finally spoke up.
"Soo..." he said very awkwardly. "So what?" I said. He stayed quiet for a good 10 seconds. "Nova I'm so sorry, like you have no idea, I regretted it every single second I did it" he said. "You completely embarrassed me" I said.
"I know and I hate thinking about it, if I could go back and changed what I did I would do it without thinking twice" he said as his voice cracked a bit. I could see in his eyes that he was really meaning what he said.
"Yeah, okay" I said sarcastically as I rolled my eyes. "Nova I'm serious I literally miss you so fucking much, I miss our late night sneak outs, our movie marathons, I miss everything" Payton said as a tear streamed down his face. I felt bad but I was still upset.
I sighed before speaking. "I loved you so fucking much, I waited 7 fucking years to tell you and when I finally worked up the nerve to. You know I hate telling people I liked them so I never do, but I told you because I thought I could trust you, and then you went to tell your friends and made it sound like I was begging you to be with me."
"As if I was obsessed with you. You made up lies about me and told them and said it was true when you know it wasn't. They called me a crazy obsessed loser, every time I walked down the halls everyone would start whispering and laugh or look at me in disgust. It was the worst thing ever."
"It was even worse because that was our first year of high school so everyone though of me as that. It got so bad I stayed home every other week and just cry and remember the one and only Payton Moormeier did this to me, my supposed to be best friend since birth made me feel horrible about myself. I got fucking depressed and stop hanging out with friends and instead just stay home in my room and cry. I got horrible"
"I started self harm because I couldn't handle it, it was the only way, but when I tried to stop I just got the urge to keep doing it so I did. Because of you, you made me feel so stupid. It took me over a year to get my friends back, even though there's still people who refer to me as the crazy obsessed loser" I ranted out of breath and at this point completely balling my eyes out.
Payton's POV:
I was speechless, I mean what was I supposed to say. I couldn't even think straight. When she said "because of you" it stung my heart, it just kept replaying in my head.
And also to top it all off she cut, she fucking cut herself because of my dumb ass. I ruined most of her high school experience. I made everyone think of her like that and then just left to North Carolina. I left her, I left everyone after telling those thing about her that weren't even true.
I was supposed to be her best friend but best friends don't do that to each other. She never did anything to deserve it, she didn't deserve it but yet I did it just so I could hang out with the popular grade 12 boys.
That was such a fucking selfish move. I just stand there thinking what I did to her while tears stream down my face remembering she cut because of me.
I saw her standing there and balling her eyes out, so I hugged her. I hugged her so tight, I missed hugging her even though she isn't hugging back I missed her I'm my arms. She just cried into my shirt while I hugged her trying to calm her down.
"I'm so incredibly sorry" I say in a soft whisper but loud enough for her to hear. "Why did you do it, what did I do to make you do it?" She said. I felt so bad I did this to her.
"Nothing, you didn't do anything to deserve it but I'm just stupid and selfish and wanted to hang out with the popular grade 12 boys." I told her and I hugged her closer and rested my head lightly on top of hers.
"Yeah that was a bit of a dick move" she said as she kinda giggled because we always though that having the word dick in a sentence was funny. "I'm sorry" I said once again as she calmed down a little bit and finally hugged me back. I miss her hugs. We just stood there for a few minutes until she spoke up.
"I think we should go back home now" she said into my chest. "Yeah, I guess we probably should before something happeneds" I said as we let go of our hug and started walking back.
Nova's POV:
Honestly I was happy that he apologized but I still have a tiny grudge on him but I don't completely hate him anymore. I'll most likely get over the grudge in a few days.
I miss him if I'm going to be honest, I miss hanging out with him. We made it back to my house and then we walked through the door. Our moms were sitting at the table talking then realized that we were home.
"Oh hey guys, how was the fair?" Joanne asked us. "It's was fun I got to see some of my old friends and spend time with them" Payton said smiling. "Sound fun!" My mom said. "Yeah it was" I said also smiling. "Well I'm going to go to my room now bye" I said while walking upstairs.
I then heard Payton say "I'm going to go to bye" then heard him coming upstairs. I grabbed my clothes and went to go take a shower. "Where are you going?" Payton asked. "To shower I feel gross after being around all those people and stuff" "true, I'm going to go shower too" Payton said. "I'm showering in my bathroom so you can go shower in the bathroom in the hall" I told him as I heading into the bathroom. "Ok" he said.
When I finished my shower I walked out of the bathroom I didn't see Payton so I'm guessing he's still in the shower. So I just walked to my bed and turned my tv on and started watching Friends on Netflix.
After a bit of watching friends Payton came into my room. "Holy fuck you take long to shower" I said as I giggled a bit. "Well doing funny hair styles with my hair when there is shampoo in is very fun" he said laughing. "Weirdo" I giggled. "Can we both sleep on the bed tonight? Or are we going to be sleeping on the floor again?" He asked.
"Nah we can sleep on the bed" I responded. "Yay" he exclaimed as he jumped on my bed beside me. "Chilllll, your going to break my bed I said laughing. "Sorry" he said and laughed. We just watched friends for a bit until I got tired. "I'm going to go to bed"
I yawned and turned so my back was facing him. "Ok goodnight Nova" he said as he turned my side lamp off. "Night Payton" I said then soon drifted to sleep.
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