Friendship to Love (Life is strange fanfiction)

Ending the Alternation

Sorry for the weird chapter name (it was literally the best thing I could come up with).

 Nathan on the other hand thought he was doing a great job of hanging out with Rachel, Victoria and Kate. That was until Mr.Jefferson pulled Nathan aside and said: "I need to talk to you." and started walking behind the school.

"What are you doing?" Mr.Jefferson asked angrily.

"What do you mean?" Nathan asked, confused.

"One day you're best friends with Victoria the next day you don't talk to her, same with Kate and Rachel, all 3 of them are confused as to what you are doing, and frankly so am I."

"I'm hanging out with all 3 of them like you said."

"Can you do it in a more natural way, it looks like you're forcing it."

"I don't know what else you want me to do, they hate each other."

"Nathan I don't care how they feel about each other, I need you to be close with the 3 of them and that won't happen if you're their best friend one day and don't talk to them the next."

"Ok, I won't do that."

"Thank you, that's all I wanted to talk to you about." Mr.Jefferson said leaving.

Now Nathan was really upset, it already wasn't fair for Mr.Jefferson to tell him who to hang out with, now Mr.Jefferson was telling him how to hang out with them. Of course it looked forced, Mr.Jefferson is forcing me to do it Nathan thought to himself.

Later at lunch, Nathan was walking into the cafeteria with Victoria and said: "Let's go sit over there." pointing to where Rachel and Kate were sitting. Victoria didn't seem happy about it but she followed Nathan to Kate and Rachel's table and sat down with them.

Once Nathan and Victoria sat down it was a very awkward silence. Nathan waited 5 minutes before breaking the silence with "So how's everyone's day going?" and saw Rachel fight back a laugh. "Good." Kate said awkwardly.

"Fine." Victoria said, sounding annoyed.

"Great." Rachel said, still trying to hold back a laugh.

After 2 more minutes of awkward silence Nathan said: "So that math test, it was so hard.".

"Nathan you're in AP math, none of us have math class with you." Victoria said once again, sounding annoyed. Rachel couldn't hold it in anymore and started to laugh.

"Oh ya, anyway it was a hard math test." Nathan said awkwardly.

After a very awkward lunch, they had photography and were partnered up to fill out a worksheet. Nathan was partnered with Rachel, "That was some lunch break." Rachel said. "I realized I was talking to you one day and then ignoring you the next, and the same with Victoria so I tried to not do that."

"Nathan you can hang out with us separately without ignoring us, for example, you could hang out with Kate and I at break, and eat lunch with Victoria, that way you don't have to do that weird alternating thing."

"So you did pick up on that."

"Nathan everyone picked up on that, I'm pretty sure even Mr.Jefferson picked up on that. Though I don't know what that says about Mr.Jefferson."

"Ya, thanks Rachel I'll do that."

That was one thing Nathan really liked about Rachel, she was so easy to talk to. She was never judgemental, and always listened. Nathan wanted so badly to tell her about everything. To tell her Mr.Jefferson's threatening him, to tell her where the bruise on his eye from a few weeks ago actually came from, that Mr.Jefferson made him buy some stuff from Frank that he didn't even know the name of. He couldn't do that though without getting Rachel into some serious trouble with Mr.Jefferson.

Rachel was confused about why Nathan was so stressed out about who he hung out with and when. She always hung out with people because she wanted to. She thought it came naturally to Nathan as well, it did come naturally to Nathan and then all of a sudden he is alternating who he hangs out with every day. Rachel was starting to think maybe Victoria had something to do with it, she never did trust Victoria.

That night was another night that both Rachel's dad and Rose were out late, they weren't getting home until midnight. So at 8 O'clock when Rachel left Chloe's house she headed over to Frank's RV.

Frank had started to get less and less surprised when Rachel showed up. When Rachel walked in, as usual, Pompidou was very excited to see her. Rachel hung out with Frank until 11 O'clock when she went home. Rachel had started to really enjoy Frank's company but she had to remember the real reason she went there. She needed Frank to trust her enough to tell her about Mr.Jefferson. Frank definitely seemed to like her but she wasn't sure he trusted her enough to tell her about whatever happened between them.