Chapter Two – For The Good Ol'days

If wasn't for Ashley's disgusted face, Blake would swear that this was a dream. There were so many questions popping in the girls head. What was he doing in New York? Why he was saying 'hello'? And why Harry was hugging him like he didn't knew the whole story? Truth be told, Isaac never brought anything but stress and sadness to Blake's life. Of course, she couldn't help but feel that awful and familiar feeling burning down her stomach once again after three years, but this time she couldn't say she missed it.

"Hell no," Ash said rolling her eyes, "And here I thought I would never see you again! There goes my happy day."

Isaac took a deep breath, the blonde always giving him a hard time, "Missed you too Ash."

Harry seemed to be pretty excited to see his friend, so excited that he was the only one who didn't noticed how the youngest brunette that used to talk and jump all the time, was oddly quiet and stiff.

Zeke looked at Ashley, and the blonde girl rolled her eyes, Blake was acting like a teenager all over again, and if it wasn't for the two good friends standing up and helping the tiny brunette up as well, she would probably never leave the park.

"Come on, Harry." Zeke said, "It is Sunday, and we still have to watch Ash's movie."

Harry looked at his best friends and for a moment he actually forgot about everything Isaac did. "Right, let's go home."

"Home?" the boy with the tanned skin said, "You are all living together?"

"Actually we are–"

"This is none of your business, come on Harry." Ashley said, grabbing her friend's hand and pulling him close.

Isaac shook his head, "You didn't changed, Ash. Not even a bit."

Ashley laughed, not being able to hide her usual sarcastic voice, "As far as I remember, you were the one who should have changed." The blonde said, sounding more angry than usually, "And as I can see, you are still full of shit."

"Guys, that is enough...", Zeke said.

"Whatever, let's go."

Isaac laughed and turned to Harry, "We are all in town."

"What do you mean?" Blake said, for the first time since she saw the boy.

Isaac smiled, and even not looking at Ash's face, Blake knew she was rolling her eyes, "Me, Gus and Victor. We are all here for the summer."

"You, Gus and Victor. As in Gus and Victor from High School?" Ash said, "Holy shit, the fucking golden trio is still together?"

Blake squeezed the blonde's hand, "I guess."

"I need to see the dudes again!" Harry said, looking at Blake, "Please let's see them again."

"Harry..." Zeke started.

Harry held Blake close, looked at his friend and whispered so the brunette could be the only one to hear it, "Come on, Ash will do your makeup and you will be looking smoking hot, as always, and besides, Ash is in a fucking bad mood, she will be roasting him all night and that will be fun! You always said you wanted to see all of our friends again and look at this opportunity!"

Blake shook her head, "You are right, I just don't know what to do."

"We will figure it out, okay?" Harry said, "I know I am always being a pain in the ass with you because you are just so messy and so loud sometimes, but I love you B and I want you to get over that."

"I know Harry, it is just kinda hard." Blake smiled, and turned around, looking at her old crush that now was chatting with Zeke while Ashley seemed to be way to interested in her nails, "We should totally go out tonight." she said, sounding just as excited as she always did whenever they planned to go out.

"It is Sunday." Ash said.

Harry rolled his eyes, "It is summer break. Come on, for old time's sake!"

"And besides," Zeke said, "I could use some drinks."

Blake smiled, "Pub?"

"Pub. 8 pm?" Isaac said, and Blake nodded, "It's a date, just like the old times. I am going to tell the boys to cancel whatever they planned for tonight. See you all later."

"Can't wait." Ash said, and then groaned as the boy walked away, "I can't fucking believe Harry convinced you to drag us to this freaking date."

Zeke pushed the blonde and smiled, "It will be fun."

"How the hell he got into New York anyways? Isn't he supposed to be homeless, fat and maybe in jail by now?" Ash asked, making her friends, well except for Blake, laugh.

The tiny girl was a little bit behind from her friends, while Harry was on and on about how much he never talked with his friends again, and Ashley was already complaining because Zeke and Harry begged her to be nice with the boys, Blake couldn't help but feel like she needed to prove something to the boy who once made her blind with love. But this time, she didn't wanted to prove that she was good enough for him, she wanted to prove that she was much better than him.

Ashley looked behind, stopping and standing the hand to her best friend, "Coming B?"

Blake smiled, and held the blonde's hand, almost laughing about how much her inner voice sounded like something Ash would probably say as an advice to her, "I am excited."

"I can't say the same."


After ten blocks with Ashley complaining about the weather, with Zeke singing out loud awful songs and Harry mad because according to him "he was always embarrassed when they hang out together because they can't behave like normal people", they finally made into the shoebox apartment. Harry immediately glancing at Blake's direction and pointing to the mess in the kitchen. But unlike many other times, he just gave up and went clean the mess himself. Harry could be an awful friend and could be worse than Ash when the subject was complain about everything, but he was the best friend when he noticed that something was wrong.

Of course that bumping into Isaac would make Blake at least a little bit shocked, and even upset. It is not everyday that you have to face someone that made your life harder. And although he knew Ash was being just protective over Blake when she started to insult Isaac as soon as she saw him, Harry knew that the blonde girl wanted as much as all of them to see Blake happy and able to face the boy. As much as it sucked now, it would be better soon.

"We should go to the same pub we went last week, people loved me there." Zeke said, "Or maybe, we should go to the one I met that ginger chick with the big tits." He smiled, laying on the couch and taking off his shoes, "God I love New York."

"That's because you are so popular, Zee." Ash said mocking him, making Blake and Harry laugh at one of the brunette's catch phrases.

Zeke raised his middle finger and rolled his eyes, "Well, you sucked my cock once so I guess you know why I am popular."

"Trust me Zee," Blake said, flipping the pages of an old magazine that they had on the house, "if you are somehow became popular the size of your penis was definitely not the reason."

Ash high-fived the girl and laughed, "You learned so well, cutie pie."

"I feel very attacked right now." Zeke said, screaming making Harry punch him.

"Shut up."

Zeke sat down properly and took a deep breath, "Sorry Harry, I guess I am just excited about tonight."

"Me too." Harry said, "Three years since I saw them. Three whole years. Can you believe it?"

"Yes!" Ashley said, "And for a moment I really felt like life was good. Silly me."

"Well," Blake said, now opening the freezer and grabbing some ice cream putting it on the balcony waiting for it to melt, "I am excited to see Gus and Victor, it was a little bit of a shock to see Isaac, I admit it, but that doesn't mean I don't want to see them. We were friends."

Ashley took the ice cream from the balcony and shoved it in the microwave, rolling her eyes, "We were not–"

"Don't put the ice cream in the microwave!" The three other friends screamed, making the blonde girl frown a bit.

"Sorry?"

Harry rolled his eyes and went take the ice cream off the microwave, "Every fucking time Ash, damn."

"Whatever," she said, "as I was saying, we were not friends, and now not only I have to wait ten minutes to eat my ice cream, I will have to spend my Sunday night with a bunch of douchebags that I never even liked."

"But you did kissed Isaac and Gus," Zeke said, laughing at the blonde.

"Shut up, asshole."

Harry laughed, "Blake kissed all of them."

"Oh god," Blake slapped her own face and laughed, "I guess I did."

Ashley smiled and tried to grab some ice cream with a spoon but failed miserably, "All I know is that I am the first using the shower."

"Second!" Zeke said.

"Third!" Blake screamed.

"I fucking hate this game. Ash will end the hot water and I will have to take a cold shower, again!" Harry said, "This is even worse than 'doorknob'."

And with that said all of them laughed thinking about the old game they used to play, in which whenever someone farted or burped, if the person didn't screamed 'Saved' before someone screamed 'Doorknob', they would slap the person until she reached a doorknob.

"That was the best game, we should totally do it again!" Blake said laughing, "Wait, why we stopped it anyways?"

"Cops," Harry said, "We were drunk in the middle of the night, walking to down the streets and then I burped."

"Fuck, I remember that!" Ashley said, laughing and laying next to Zeke in the couch, "Zeke found broomstick and started to hit Harry and next thing I know, the cops are there and Zeke is explaining the rules of the game to the cops."

Blake laughed, "I miss those days."

"Me too," Zeke said, trying to grab the blonde's boob, receiving a slap in his hand and a not so friendly look.

"Do you think," Blake started, "I am better than him?"

"Fuck yes!" Ash screamed, "Please B, you live in New York, you go to Juilliard, you are hot as fuck, and you live with the hottest people in this town."

"Agreed," Harry said, "and as much as I hate to admit, even when it comes to being messy, Isaac is way worse than you."

Blake shyly smiled and hugged Harry, "Thanks Harry, you were sweet today. I think I am having a crush on you again."

Zeke laughed, "Careful, this time he is single so things can get a little hot in here and I like to be the only one who had any kind of sexual interaction with you two."

"Jealous cunt," Harry said, rolling his eyes.

"We should start to get ready, it is almost 5pm and I know how much you hate to be late," Blake said, and Harry looked confused at Zeke an Ash who were staring at Blake as if she just said some bad word or something.

"Is she following the rules?" Harry asked, pointing at the tiny brunette who now had both legs up against the wall and the head facing the ground, "If I knew all I had to do was bring Isaac back so Blake would cooperate with the house rules, I would have brought him back ages ago."

"Thank God you didn't" Ashley said, "Now please go open one bottle of cheap whine, if I am going to hang out with those assholes, I need to be already drunk."

And as always they just agreed.

Blake was facing the ground, only listening to the boys while they discussed about some random videogame and she could also listen to Ashley's awful voice coming from the shower, the blonde once again trying to sing one of the many Broadway hits she loved. Blake sighed, of course she was better than him. Now she only had to make sure he knew it. And if she learned anything after leaving with Ashley for three years, was that it was all about the teasing, and not about the teasing.

"I can't wait to prove you wrong." She accidentally said out loud.

Zeke turned around, looking to the girl upside down, "Said something, B?"

"Hm, no. Just thinking out loud."

It was going to be a great summer.