Chapter Fourteen : like a broken record

Bay runs the cotton ball over Emmett's eyebrow where a large cut had formed from the few punches and then the irritation of the helmet. He's looking out the small window in her bathroom, cringing here and there, and avoiding eye contact completely. He was conjuring up something great to say, to explain himself, but he felt like a monster and he assumed everybody else thought that way of him at this moment in time as well.

"Bay?" He questions.

"Yeah?" She says pulling out a band aid and placing it carefully on the cut.

"I like Daphne the way you like Toby..." He signs slowly, flashing back to the years wasted.

"So like a brother?" Bay chuckles.

He laughs, "Or sister."

Bay nods, "That's cool... I mean if you like her..." She sighs dramatically, "That's fine with me, whatever."

Emmett shakes his head, "I don't... you walked away from me for once Bay and I realized what it does to you everytime that I do it to you."

"Are you saying that you've missed me like crazy for the last two weeks and want to be my totally loyal and devoted boyfriend?" She smiles awkwardly and widely at him, clasping her hands together in hopes that he agrees with the statement.

Emmett makes a surprised face, "How did you know?" He holds out his arms for a hug.

She bites her bottom lip, "Well... I guess I just feel the same way. But.. girlfriend, not boyfriend!" She kisses him and sits down on the floor in front of him, "Don't worry about Wilke, he knows he becomes an asshole when he drinks and he won't stay mad at you for getting mad about it."

"Really?" Emmett questions raising an eyebrow.

Bay nods quickly, "Trust me."

Emmett smiles, "So, you and I, we're back together?"

Bay nods, "I guess so."

Emmett growls, "You guess?"

Bay playfully hits him, "Of course... And this is for good?"

"Until I get sick of you." He makes a completely serious face that takes her back, "Just kidding." He kisses her and rubs his hand down the side of his face, "Thank you."

She smiles and walks over to the door, "You're welcome, anytime, although I'd appreciate if you didn't get into too many fights?"

Emmett nods, "I will try and avoid them, promise."

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Bay and Daphne stand together and watch him leave like they've done a few times before. Daphne turns as he takes a right out there driveway and clears her throat.

"So you and Emmett... are back together?" She questions.

Bay stutters out, "Yeah... we are."

"I'm happy for you two." Daphne says smiling, "Ty is going to swing by later this week... he's back for a few days, he said he'd love to see you."

Bay's eyes shoot open, "Is that like even allowed?"

Daphne shrugs, "I don't know."

"Well..." Bay runs her palms down her side, "That'll be good.. to uh... see him again and stuff."

"Yeah, I'm sure you miss him, and I know he missed you." She's smug.

"Well him and I were pretty close friends." Bay looks down at the ground, avoiding eye contact.

Daphne shrugs, "Wow, you didn't know him that long, must have been some connection."

The dark haired girl looks at her, "He's a nice guy, we got along. What are you getting at?"

The other girl laughs, "Nothing, I was just letting you know. Thanks for the ride home tonight, i'll be sure to stay out of trouble in the future." She waves.

Bay waves back and sighs, "No problem..." She turns to walk back inside the Kennish residence a million things on her mind.

It's like one moment life was great, the next it sucked. She knew what she wanted but she was a teenage girl, what she wanted changed quickly and often, espeically when it came to Bay. Her and Ty may have had there moment, and he may miss her, but they could only be friends. She had self control- limited self control at certain moments in time but things were going great and she wasn't going to fuck that up. Daphne sure had a lack of faith in her but that really wasn't a big deal, she didn't really give a damn about Daphne anyways... after all, she had won damn it! She had worked her ass off, she had taken a million emotional blows all for Emmett and she was not about to risk a million more. She walks inside and sits down at the counter, a pile of muffins mocking happier times. She rests her head on her arms, ignoring the growling in her stomach, thinking she may vomit if she eats anything.

Why the hell did things have to go this way? Her and Daphne had an apparant tension since the beginning but Bay wasn't going to go out of her way to make her life horrible, after all, Daphne was Bay's link to her 'real' family and that was really important. No matter what went on, she would keep on attempting to get along with her, for the sake of everybody.

She hears the door shut and she looks up to see Toby, shaken up. He slowly sets his body down next to her in the chair and nods at her.

"Rough day?" She questions raising an eyebrow.

He just keeps nodding and turns to her, "It was.. it was rough."

She pats his back, "You want to go talk about it?"

"You drive?"

Bay nods, "Let's go."

authors note : short chapter, i know, i'm sorry, i'll make up for it next chapter :) i just wanted to thank everyone for their lovely reviews, i should apologize for my uh, horrible spelling- i don't use a program with spell check and i probably have the worst grammer known to mankind but i didn't think i would have so many people reading this story so i'm sorry everybody, thanks for sticking with me despite! :) oh and hey fourteen chapters! yay! i'm so excited! :D so thank you guys and gals! :) leave me some love?