AN: So, here's the next chapter (I actually think this is my longest chapter yet :D)

Disclaimer: I don't own WWE, blah blah blah, on to the story!


How Do I Deal

John's POV

I then felt a hand on my back and when I looked up I couldn't believe who it was standing in front of me.

Standing in front of me was who else but Zack Ryder. "What do you want?" I spat out at him.

"Listen bro, I just saw how down you looked and I thought you needed a bro to talk to, so I was going to be a friend and come and talk to you, but it seems like you want to be alone so whatever bro," Zack said.

He turned and was about to walk away when I said, probably a little loud because a few people started to look, "Wait!" He turned back around and I said, "You're right I do need someone to talk to, please sit down." I don't know why I was going to talk to him, but I was feeling so alone and even Zack was better than no one, I think.

Zack sat down in the seat next to mine and stared at me expectantly. I looked down at the table and when I didn't say anything for several minutes he said, "John, I know I'm the last person you want to talk to but c'mon bro, just start from the beginning."

He put a hand on my back and started to rub in little circles and this made me relax a little so I took a deep breath and said, "Okay, well it started this morning when I saw Randy and Kelly walking down the hallway together. I hadn't seen them in a while so I went over to them to talk to them. I told them hi and then...well...Randy and Kelly broke up with me I guess."

Zack's eyes went wide and his mouth hung open in I suppose was disbelief and he said, "Wait, are you sure? What exactly did they say?"

"Randy said 'John a three person relationship can never work, and I now realize how foolish I was in trying to start one, I'm just going to stay with Kelly'," I tried to say this in my best imitation Randy voice and Zack chuckled.

"Well what did Kelly say?" Zack asked with a mixed expression on his face.

"That's another thing Kelly said nothing! She even looked sort of sad, which was weird because Kelly is hardly ever sad."

After a moment of silence Zack asked, "So what happened after that?"

"Well after skipping like three class periods crying in a janitor's closet I came here to lunch to which I was informed that Josh and Sheamus both ran away with each other. Which really caught me off guard. Then..."

"Wait, Josh and Sheamus ran away together? They were a couple?" Zack asked interrupting me.

"Yep, I guess the whole school didn't know," I said glancing over at Beth who was still chatting it up with Santino.

"Okay wow, so what's next," Zack said looking into my eyes.

"Well that's when you came to talk with me, which I would like to thank you for by the way," I said giving Zack a quick hug.

"No problem broski, it seems to me that I'm all that you've got since everyone else has left," Zack said smiling and I frowned. "Wait, I didn't mean it like that. What I meant was that I am here for you when you need me," Zack quickly tried to cover his past statement and I laughed at his epic fail to do so.

"It's okay I know what you mean, and if you don't mind me asking, what happened to your 'new broskis', Eve, Jason, and Cody?" I asked putting air quotes around "new broskis".

"Oh them? I'm done with them, they tried to get me to do some creepy stuff," Zack said with a small shudder.

I nodded and then heard the bell for next class ring which was art class and Zack and myself happened to have that class together so I said, "Let's go to class." Zack removed his hand from my back which I just now remembered was there and we left to class.

After art class I waited outside of the classroom to talk to Zack and when he came out of the room I said, "Hey Zack, I was going to hang out with Randy and Kelly tonight and watch movies and junk, but since we're both free, you should totally come to my house so we can work on our art project together."

Zack smiled brightly and said a little quickly and loudly, "Sure John! I would love to come to your house with you." I noticed as he said this that Randy and Kelly walked by at that exact moment and I blushed a deep red. Zack didn't notice me blush, but he did notice me look down and he looked behind himself and saw Randy and Kelly and he pulled me down the hallway towards the front door.

"Sorry John, I probably embarrassed you back there, huh?" Zack said looking at the ground.

I playfully punched him on the arm and said sarcastically, "No? You think?" I had forgot how nice Zack could be when he wasn't acting crazy.

"So bro, I don't have a car so can I ride with you to your house, or are you gonna make me walk?" Zack said with a small grin.

I grabbed his arm and said, "I'm gonna drive you half way, then I'm gonna push you out of the car." Zack looked at me with a scared look and I laughed at his stupidity while I pulled him to my car. I would never push someone out of my car and risk getting a ticket.

Zack was smiling the whole way home, which was a little creepy, but I didn't say anything. When we got to my house Zack said, "I thought you were really going to push me out of your car."

I laughed again and while unlocking my front door I said, "I was just kidding stupid."

Zack sighed and said as he walked in, "You made it really convincing I was actually scared for my life."

Just as Zack said that my mom walked into the hallway from the kitchen with flour on her flowery sundress and said, "Why were you scared for your life?"

I sighed and said, "Nothing mom it was just a little inside joke."

"Hi Mrs. Cena," Zack said with a wave.

"Well hello, your Zack right?" my mom asked.

"Yes ma'am I am. I'm here to work on a school project with John here," Zack said patting me on the back a little hard.

"Well alright, just watch out, John likes to be a little touchy sometimes," my mom said with a smile and she went back into the kitchen.

"MOM!" I yelled because that was so uncalled for. Zack was chuckling next to me and I pushed him down and walked up the stairs towards my room. I heard Zack scramble up and follow behind me.

When we got into my room Zack gawked at all of the paintings in my room giving me compliments on nearly all of them. He stopped in front of the one that was hanging on my wall on the right side of my bed and said, "I really like this one bro."

I walked over to it an smiled at the painting that I did of a picture of Josh, Sheamus, Zack and myself when we were younger playing in the park. "Yeah that's one of my favorites too, it's basically one of the few things that I have left to remind me of Josh and Sheamus," I said with a tear rolling down my face. Zack wiped it away and I smiled at him.

"Bro, this totally fits the prompt from Mrs. Dumas for the painting project," Zack said smiling brightly at me.

I looked at it again and realized that it did, "You're right we could turn this in."

"Do you mind if I make a small tweak to it so I can get credit too bro?" Zack asked with his eyebrows raised. I nodded and he went and grabbed a paintbrush that I had laying on my bedside table under the painting and some liquid paint that was in the first drawer of that table and he added some red and white to the sky which worked because in the picture it was dusk.

"Nice," I said with a grin.

"Thanks," Zack said, "So what do you wanna do now? It's only like 3 pm and I already have all of my homework done."

"Me too, I guess we could watch the movie I rented for Randy, Kelly, and myself," I suggested picking up the movie I rented from off of my bed.

"The Titanic? Are you serious bro I love that movie!" Zack said with a smile. I smiled too and I led him into my family's movies room that was across the hall from my room and I put it in. We sat on the black couch in that room and we watched that movie and others until we fell asleep.


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