AN: Thanks for the reviews guys! I decided to update sooner, thanks to moongrl088, hahaha. Athena64: thanks for reminding me lol! I like this chapter personally, I hope y'all do too(:

Auggie had called Annie over and over, but she wasn't picking up. He didn't know what to do with this situation. He almost left a message, but he waited after the beep and he just didn't know what to say. He didn't say anything but rather just breathed awkwardly into the phone before he finally realized he had no idea what he was going to say, so he hung up.

When he got to work, he saw her several times, but she just avoided him. She wouldn't make eye contact with him all day, and he needed to talk to her, so he knew what the best thing to do was.

When Annie started to exit the building, she saw Auggie waiting for her, standing by the exit of the building. She immediately started to walk slower, trying to keep her heels from clonking so heavily on the floor. She did not want to talk to him right now. She wasn't sure when she would feel like it, but she definitely didn't as of right now. Right now, she wanted to go home, soak in the bath tub, eat a huge dinner, and try her hardest not to think of him whatsoever. So to get away from him, she tried to be as quiet as possible and slowly sneak past him, staying as far from him as possible. She was extremely relieved when she thought she had gotten away from him, but then he started talking to her back.

"You know, I've always liked your perfume," he said.

Annie tried to ignore it and keep walking quietly, still trying to convince him nobody was there, but he was following her.

"They say that when you lose a sense, all your others get stronger," he started, with a small moment of silence following. "Therefore…you can't sneak past me as long as you're wearing that perfume and those heels," he said, smirking.

She stopped when she got to her car. She didn't want to talk to him about last night, because she didn't want to think about last night…but she still wanted to talk to him, just because she couldn't go a day without talking to him. She had thought about him all day. It was like her day was incomplete without speaking to him at least a few times. Hearing his voice and seeing his face just this once while he was speaking to her already made her feel better. It was like she'd rather have negative attention from him than no attention at all, and even if she refused to speak back to him, she wanted him to continue trying. It was completely unfair to him, she knew, that she wanted him to be so desperate that he continued trying to talk to her even after she turned him down…but part of her just couldn't go without seeing him or hearing from him. But because she realized how unfair this was, she decided she would reply to him.

"I can't turn you down, even when I'm pissed," she said. "It's not fair." It seemed like Auggie was staring right at her, even if he couldn't see. He gave Annie a tiny smile, a somewhat bitter one.

"Let me buy you dinner," he said.

She looked away for him a minute and then looked back at him. "I'm not hungry. Big lunch," she lied.

Auggie leaned against her car and almost grabbed her hand but decided not to touch her. "You're always starving after work."

"Not today," she replied.

He was silent for a long moment. "I can't fix this if you don't let me make an effort," he finally spoke, his voice just about a whisper.

Part of Annie just wanted to hug him and say, "It's fine, whatever. Let's just keep being friends." Another part of her wanted to just be okay with being Auggie's second choice, and be with him anyways, even though she would be a settlement, simply because she wanted him so badly. But her brain told her that she couldn't do either of those things…she could, however, go for a bite to eat with him.

She moved his arm out of the way and opened her car door, climbing into the driver's seat. Auggie was confused. He stood outside of the car, staring at her.

"The passenger's seat is on the other side," Annie said sarcastically.

He grinned and got in the car with her.

On the way there, Auggie tried to talk to Annie about everything other than what had happened the night before, but he wasn't getting much out of her, and he couldn't avoid the subject forever. After a long few minutes of silence, when he had nothing left to talk to her about, he finally brought it up.

"I'm sorry about last night…I just…I don't know. I guess I was confused. I know it was a mistake…I don't know if I was feeling like that or not. But now I know that you weren't, and I know I shouldn't have done that. I didn't mean to mess anything up, I just…now that Parker and I are done, it made me realize that-"

"Made you realize what? Made you realize that you'd never have her so you'd go for me?" she interrupted him, her words tumbling out of her mouth before she could think about them.

"Wait, what?" he said, confused.

"You know what I'm talking about. I'm not a settlement, Auggie! I'm not a second choice! I'm not someone desperate that you can just have whenever you want me!" she yelled, her voice rising higher than it had ever gotten when she was talking to him.

He yelled back at her. "What the hell are you talking about?"

"Quit acting like you're confused! I know good and well that you love Parker, and you'd never pick anybody above her if she was an option!" Annie spat, looking at him long and hard.

"Why would you even think that? Because I was going to propose? I didn't even propose," he said.

"Yeah, because she shot you down before you could!"

"Wait, how do you even know that-"

Auggie was cut off because the car swerved and cut him speechless.

Annie had been looking at Auggie the whole ride there, only glancing at the road occasionally, unable to concentrate on driving. When she glanced back at the road after screaming at Auggie for the last time, she saw that she was in the wrong lane and she had been clearly taking her anger out on the steering wheel, and she was now about to run into an 18-wheeler.

"Shit!" she screamed as she jerked the steering wheel to the right. When she did this, her little car smashed right into a large truck and started to flip, but thankfully smashed back down to the ground instead of flipping. Annie and Auggie both hit their heads several times when the car bounced around. Then it spun a few times and the airbags nearly suffocated them.

"Auggie!" Annie screamed. "Auggie, are you okay? Auggie!" She reached for him and grabbed his arm.

He panted. "Yeah, I'm fine, I'm fine. Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm okay," she said, gripping his arm tightly. "I'm so sorry Auggie, I'm sorry," she said.

"Me too," he said, pulling his arm out of her grip and instead grabbing her hand.

Annie was inhaling a lot of smoke from the front of her car, and she could barely see out of her window, but she saw a faint figure of a person running towards her, and the figure got closer and closer until she felt her car door being pulled open.

"Are you guys all right?" the middle-aged woman asked.

"Yeah," Annie replied, crawling out of the car and helping Auggie out with her.

"Did we wreck your car?" she asked the woman.

"No, no. I just pulled over to help. The truck is behind you, it's not too bad. It's not smashed like your car; it was big enough to handle the damage pretty well. Just a bit of a dent and crushed lights," she said.

Annie nodded and went to talk to the man, pulling Auggie by his arm with her.

"Hey. I'm so sorry, sir. I'll pay for all the damage, I wasn't paying attention. Here's my insurance card," she said, digging through her wallet for a minute and finally pulling it out.

The man was understanding, and an ambulance pulled up within a few minutes to take Annie and Auggie to the hospital. When it arrived, Annie just stared at it.

"We don't need medical attention. We're fine, we aren't hurt," she said.

"You may have suffered a concussion or contusions during the crash, we need to take you in and examine your heads," the EMT said, signaling for them to get into the ambulance.

Annie glanced over at Auggie and linked arms and hands with him. "Okay," she said, getting into the ambulance and helping Auggie in with her. "He's blind," she informed the EMT when they got inside.

The ambulance took off towards the hospital, and Annie gripped Auggie's hand all the way there, laying her head on his shoulder.

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