TEMPORARY FIX | Shirbert

Chapter I

It was not uncommon to see a boy every now and then walking around the ΓΨΑ house in the mornings. There were no rules against bringing partners to sleep at night. But what Anne did not expect to see that morning was her ex-boyfriend walking out of the president's room with his jacket in his hand and messy hair. It was not the best thing to see in the early hours of the morning, even less considering it had only been four weeks since they broke up.

Everyone knew Roy and Anne dated, not for long, but they dated. Anne had a rough few weeks at the end of the summer; Matthew, her adoptive father, fell and broke his knee while he was working on their farm, he had to be in bed for a few weeks, resting, so Anne had to help her brother Jerry, also adopted, on the farm a lot more than what she used to. She did not have as much time to be with Roy during that time and eventually, he got tired and broke up with her.

"You're ignoring me!" Roy argued.

"I'm not ignoring you, Royal," Anne responded hotly, "My father is in the hospital!"

"He's not even your real father!"

"He is my father, he raised me"

"Whatever, I don't want to do this anymore," Roy said, waving his hand at her as if he was trying to dismiss her.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Anne murmured.

"What do you think it means?"

Her friends were there to pick up the little pieces of her heart and tried to make her feel better, even though they really wanted to tell her "I told you so". When they first started dating, none of her friends were fans of Roy, and in the end, they hated him even more. Roy was not the nicest person to be around if you were not Anne, he was very two-faced; he made Anne fall for his cute side, the charming one, the one any girl would want as a boyfriend, and he would sometimes use that side with her friends, mostly when she was there, but in reality, he was an asshole.

How could I be so blind? Anne thought after he broke up with her. She does not miss him anymore; she just misses the idea of him. She misses the Roy that first approached her last -academic- year at a party at ΛΨ. He had offered her a drink, then he asked her to dance and he did not try to fuck her that same night, which Anne thought was very gentlemanly of him. They went out a couple of times and then they started dating. It was not a surprise he broke up with her after not spending that much time together, it was really difficult to see her alone unless she was in class, Roy was always around. He was very possessive and jealous, mostly of Gilbert.

Gilbert did not like Roy, at all, but for some reason, he was well-liked in their fraternity. That is the only reason why Gilbert agreed that Roy should be his vice-president; he knew Roy could help them win. Anne and Gilbert were very close friends. Even though at the beginning he did not make the best impression with her -calling a cute girl like a vegetable was apparently a good move on his part-, she eventually started liking him more, after he apologized of course, and now they were best friends. Also, they were "cousins", even though they only met a year ago and they only found out they were "cousins" when Gilbert went to visit Anne in the hospital.

"Hi," Gilbert said, "How is he?"

"He just woke up" Anne responded, "Want to meet him?"

"You sure?"

"It's about time, he's met Cole and Diana, you're not officially a friend until you meet him," She said, matter-of-factly. He just laughed and gestured for her to lead the way. Anne knocked softly and waited for the 'come in' that a boy in the room said, "Matthew? Hi, this is my friend, Gilbert Blythe"