Love Your Neighbour

Chapter 10

Song: Clueless by Jessie Michaels
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I sat on the bed, looking out the window. I hadn't seen Mike in a while. I had to admit I was kind of missing him. He was visiting a friend for the weekend.

"Mike's back." My mum called me from downstairs. I saw a car arrive outside and ran downstairs.
She was acting like he lived here. I sighed. I was looking forward to seeing him again. I had decided I would give him a second chance, since he had said he liked me...
Even though he had broken my heart ages ago, it was the past, and I knew I would regret it if I didn't forgive him for now.

I ran down the path to meet him and my mum raised an eyebrow as if to ask why I was suddenly so keen to see him. She still had no idea what was going on.
I reached the hedge and heard voices.
"So who are the idiots you're staying with?" I heard a girl's voice.
"Just the neighbours."
"Ha. You're staying with a girl. I hope you're not too into her, because then I wouldn't mean anything to you." I heard a giggle and poked my head out from behind the hedge.
I saw the girl see me and froze, waiting for her to accuse me of eavesdropping. It wasn't just any girl though, it was Christina, previous best friend with an occupation of being a crush stealer.
"Well she doesn't mean anything to me." I heard Mike say and my jaw dropped as I quickly jumped behind the hedge again.

That hurt. It was like a stab in my heart.

Christina hadn't reacted to my presence. But there had to be a reason why. I peeked around the hedge and saw that they were... kissing. Why had I been willing to give him a second chance?
I froze again, for too long, and I saw Christina open her eyes and see me while kissing Mike. She pulled away from him, before pulling him into a hug and then smiling at me. His back was to me so he had no idea what was going on. She held him in a possessive way, as if to say 'he's mine' and made two fingers into an 'L' shape for 'Loser'. I gasped quietly and mouthed 'bitch' to her before turning and running back down the path. Tears streamed silently down my face and I started to really cry once I got into the house. I had just forgiven him and he was doing this like he didn't care about me at all.

There's probably a reason why. I probably shouldn't listened to myself, but there is no way I was going to in my situation. When the same person broke my heart for the second time, I couldn't just sit there and think rationally.

You should have listened to your brother. I thought of Louis and sighed, wiping the tears from my face. I had been so stupid, and if I had just listened to Louis before.
Christina had been there all along. I had been so blind. I remembered when I had sat I the sofa with Louis and asked him about Mike.

"Who's Mike?"
"He's a boy, and total player. But a really good buddy, but he's not gonna make a good boyfriend."
"Stop being so much like dad!" I complained.
"He's had loads of girlfriends, and, although he's a good person, he really is no good for you... I would stay away from him."

I had ignored his advice and made friends with Mike, and he seemed to like me for a while, until he started to get really close to Christina, and I never wanted to relive the day I found him kissing her.

But then I remembered that day when she told him how she felt, and he said he didn't like her. Didn't she get the picture?

There's no point chasing someone who won't ever like you back, when they've put it out there that they won't ever like you.

I realised how similar Christina's situation and my situation were. I wish I had never listened to him when he said that he actually liked me. He was no good for me. The signs had been right in front of me. I knew what he did. He was a player, not my type at all. I hadn't planned this, and I just wanted to forget everything that had happened.

What the hell are you doing with your life, Lauren?
Get a grip. Forget about him, why can't you just forget?

I wish I didn't know about what happened. I wish I had never run out to the gate to meet him. I wish I hadn't heard anything.

I heard a noise outside the bedroom door.

"Lauren, are you okay? Do you wanna talk?" Louis said from the other side of the door, and I shifted off the bed and walked towards the door, hesitating. I needed my brother, he would know what to do.
"Okay."

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