Mislead Love

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Spinner looks down at the joint between his two fingers. He had been doing so good for a time. Everything had seemed to be okay, but then along came Paige again. He couldn't help the way he felt about her, but she never seemed to care.

He knew she wasn't a lesbian, he was sure she had feelings for him. It was as if she wanted to prove she wouldn't fall for him again. He basically could never understand it. Everything was okay until the summer came. Marco began hanging out with Paige who was home again, and that meant hanging out with Alex. Spinner couldn't do it, he couldn't see Paige kissing Alex, and he knew it should be him she was kissing. That's when he turned back to Jay, back to the whirling downfall.

Jay and Spinner were outside the Dot, smoking up when some familiar faces showed up.

"Heyyy Spinner, is that you man?" Marco said squinting trying to see through the darkness of the night.

Spinner looked up.

"Yeah man. What do you want?"

Marco came closer and could see what Spinner was up too.

"Shit Spin. Are you kidding me? What are you doing? C'mon come inside with us."

"Us. Marco, there is no us. There's a you Ellie, Paige and Alex. But no me, no Spinner."

Ellie became visible behind Marco and spoke.

"Spinner, you know you can't change her. Just come inside and you can be friends." Ellie and Spinner had never really been close, but for some reason she had an underlying sadness for Spinner, something she felt she could understand. The desperate need for someone to love you that you loved so much, just like she had with her mother.

"Ellie that'll never happen. Just leave me alone, all of you."

Ellie walked up to Spinner who was standing against the wall, having to support him from falling. She could smell the weed and alcohol all over him. She gently touched his hand and whispered in his ear. Then she turned to Marco.

"I'm taking him back to our place. This has to stop."

Marco smiled; he had been talking with Ellie about her helping him for awhile. He wouldn't talk to Marco because it was if he knew Spinner felt that Marco knew too much already, but not with Ellie. They had hardly even talked before.

Ellie grabbed Spinner's arm and helped him walk back to the house Ellie was sharing with Paige and Marco.

"Wait a second. Is she here?"

"No, I told you, she's with Marco at the Dot."

Ellie lead him inside to the living room where she offered him a water to get everything else out of his system. For awhile they both just sat there. Unaware of what to say to each other. Spinner had already run twice to the washroom to be sick, and it was obvious to see he was sobering up as he became emotional.

"Ellie I can't help the way I feel. I love her, I always have."

"Spin, but she doesn't love you back. What do you want from her, she's in love with someone else."

"She's in love with the wrong person. What can Alex give her that I can't?"

"Well the fact that…"

Spinner laughed. "Okay so there's a big difference between me and Alex, but still. I can't understand it."

"Spin, I don't mean to ask anything personal. But did you and Paige ever…"

"Yeah we did. Just once, while I was dating Darcy. And the thing is El, she initiated it. Not me…not that I hadn't thought about it, but I wasn't going to make the first move. After seeing her go through everything with Dean, I've never want to see her hurt as much as he hurt her. And I guess I always felt if I got too close to her, she would collapse."

Ellie looked at Spinner. There really was more to him than she had thought. He was deeply in love with a girl who had none of the same feelings.

"Spin, you're a great guy. And I can't see why she wouldn't want to be with you. But the fact is…she doesn't. You can't ruin your life and get back into your old habits because of it. After everything has happened with me I've never gone back to cutting, and im proud of it. But I know you can do the same, you don't have to be friends with Jay and go along with his shit."

"But I don't always want to be around Paige, and if I hang out with Marco, that's what will happen."

"I'll tell you what Spinner. What about I start doing stuff with you. Just me you and Marco. No Paige. No Alex."

"I guess that could work."

Spinner smiled at Ellie, he knew she was tying her best to make him feel better. But he knew she wouldn't follow through with that offer.

The sound of a key in the doors lock was suddenly heard and Spinner hung his head down knowing who it would be. Ellie quickly rushed to Spinner's side and turned on the TV to make it seem as if they were watching TV, instead of talking about her, which she would probably assume anyways.

She walked into the living room to see who was there. Without noticing that it was Spinner, Paige quickly said hello to Ellie.

"Oh sorry El. I didn't realize you were on a date."

Spinner looked up for Paige to see it was him.

"Oh. Nevermind. Hey Spinner. What are you doing here? If you came to talk to me, I'm sorry I was out for the night"

Ellie quickly responded for him.

"Oh no. I just happened to see Spinner with Jay and invited him back here to watch some TV."

"Spinner hun. You know you shouldn't be hanging out with Jay, that loser is up to no good." Spinner couldn't believe she would have the nerve to actually tell him who he could be friends with, it would matter if she were his…but she wasn't.

He quickly stood up and walked towards the door. Ellie stared at Paige and gave her the look. The look that she knew they had been talking about her, talking about 'them'. Paige quickly ran out after him.

"Spinner I'm sorry. I didn't mean to upset you…I never have."

"So what Paige. We sleep together, then talk about having a relationship. And you don't think that's going to bother me after you turn me down."

"Spinner, I wanted it to be casual."

"It CANT be casual Paige. I don't see how you can't understand that." A tear fell down his cheek and Paige started to cry as well.

"Spinner you have always been there for me when I've needed you, but I'm sorry I cant be there for you now when you need me."

She quickly grazed his arm and kissed him on the cheek.

He looked into her eyes and drew her into a kiss. He touched her cheek and drew himself towards her, giving himself a taste of her. Then she let go.