A/n: Since Dana fainted, Logan gets two chapters in a row. (Lucky Logan!) Well… anyway.
Chapter 9: Angelic but only when she sleeps.
The next hour and ten minutes are agony! Pure agony. Dana's unconscious and she still manages to put me through hell. I'd love to know how she manages it!
I pull my knees up to my chest and survey her, peering over my knees in order to actually see. I think it must show that I'm worried, because the others are staring at me more than Dana. It's not often I show when I'm worried, but heck, she just fainted! It's not like I was expecting it or anything!
"Quit staring at me!" I snap eventually. I'm sick of their eyes boring into me… don't they have places to see or people to be. (Yeah, I know I screwed up. Sue me: I'm rich, I don't care)
"She'll be okay." Chase tells me. I pretend not to hear him. I think he's partially talking to Zoey. Zoey looks a complete wreck.
"It's not your fault Zo." I tell her finally. I don't actually look at her.
"No, it's yours!" Nicole snaps at me.
"Shut up Nicole." I say. I don't know what else to say. What else can I say? I look over at Dana.
She's laid on top of her covers in the exact same position that I left her in. Believe it or not she looks angelic when she sleeps. But only when she sleeps, mind you. Behind the perfect skin lie fierce eyes, behind the perfect teeth lie a sharp tongue. But when she's asleep these are hidden, and she's an angel. Beneath the pretty face though evidently there lies the mind of a nutcase. Sure I like the girl… but she's stupid, and idiotic…and overall a grade A psychopath.
"I don't get it!" I run my fingers through my hair, ready to tear it all out. "Why would she do this to herself?" I ask it more to myself than the others.
"Don't beat yourself up over it." Michael instructs.
"Stupid girl!" I breathe angrily. For a long time there's silence. I hate silence. It drives me up the wall. I don't know what's wrong with me. I want to cry. That's pretty new to me.
"Is this what you do when you have your heart broken?" Dustin asks Quinn in utter confusion. He's only young... but whata stupid question. And anyway, who's had there heart broken? Me? What have I got to do with anything!
"Trust me kid. It makes you do some seriously freaky things." Chase says. I say nothing. I know more than he does. He didn't hear Zoey say she didn't want him. Even though she probably doesn't. I decide to take my mood out on little miss perfect and her admirer. Just because…well I don't need a reason, but I know Dana's reason for me would be 'because I'm a jerk' But Dana's asleep, so I can be as much of a jerk as I like.
"Yeah." I say formulating my plan. "Yeah. Love makes you do really stupid things, right Chase. You should know. Charging into the theatre screaming 'Zoey don't do it' I heard you." Chase turns scarlet.
"I know you're upset so I'm going to pretend I didn't hear…"
"You can pretend you didn't hear it but you can't pretend she didn't." I say. I look at Zoey. Zoey sighs.
"Look, Logan. Just shut up okay! I think everyone in this room knows Chase has a crush on me! But we have bigger things to worry about." I can tells she's lost her temper. Chase looks alarmed.
"You know!" he asks in shock. Well, I've certainly lit a fire under him.
"Oh come on Chase!" She cries. "How stupid do you think I am!"
"You never said anything!" I'm satisfied now. I've got them arguing. I feel better knowing I'm not the only one in misery here.
"Neither did you!" She snaps irritably.
The noise. I think the noise triggers Dana. She turns around and opens her golden eyes confusedly. She looks entirely dazed.
"God, how much did I drink?" She mumbles sitting up and raising her hand to her head. I figure she may have a head ache, but probably from dehydration. It's dead warm in here, or maybe it's just me.
"Nothing…" Quinn says. "Which is a good job too! Alcohol on an empty stomach can cause a rupture of…"
"We don't care Quinn!" Dustin says. "Are you okay Dana?" he asks.
"Dana you idiot! What the hell do you think your doing!" I say speaking for the first time. I stand up angrily. Now I'm sure she's alive… I'm gonna kill her.
"Ugh! Logan I really don't need this right no…" She starts.
"What the hell do you think you're playing at? Are you trying to kill yourself? There are easier ways to bloody do it!" I'm very angry. Actually I think I'm more hurt than angry. She rolls her eyes.
"I think I might go throw YOU off of Mystic Cliff instead." Zoey says. "Honestly! You two can't even put aside your differences for two minutes!" She says. "Logan, don't yell at her. Dana, don't even try to fight. You know he has a point."
I'm fed up. I know I have a point… and suddenly I'm the bad guy. I wonder if I can help, instead of hinder. I grab my bag (Which I left under Zoey's bed two days ago… I kind of broke Chase's cell phone. I was meaning to stash it here until I could get Quinn to fix it.) I pull out a chocolate bar and cross to Dana. I sit beside her which I think surprises her.
"You know what this is all about? You keep trying to prove yourself to everyone." I tell her.
"I have nothing to prove!" Dana protests. I soften my voice, knowing that if I yell at her I'm just going to make her worse.
"You keep trying to prove to everyone that you're so strong. Then you go and pull a stunt like this."
"Shut up. I'm stronger than I look! I can do anything I wa…"
"Then for gods sakes eat something." I plead with her.
"I can eat I just don…" before she could say it I cut her off.
"No excuses." I tell her. I break off a square of chocolate and place it to her lips, running it along her bottom lip in an attempt to tease her. "Prove it." She hesitates and there's absolute silence.
"Oh for… you're all hopeless!" She eats the chocolate though. I hold my breath.
She over exaggerates her chewing motions and then opens her mouth and shows.
"All gone." She tells her audience. "Now get lost!" I hand her the rest of the chocolate bar. She pushes it away. "I've proven I can, now leave me alone." I thrust it at her. She growls at me.
"Dana, please eat?"
"It's not the food I'm objecting to." She says bitterly. I know she's talking about me but I couldn't care less. I'm just pleased she's actually alive. Of course, I'm not letting on.
"I wouldn't be here at all if a certain someone hadn't collapsed on me!" I snap at her.
"I wouldn't have collapsed if you hadn't have…" She trails off. "Shut up."
"If I hadn't what? Go on enlighten me. What the hell did I do to make you so 'depressed' that you'd stop eating."
"Just get lost. It's after eight o clock! So unless you live here shove off!" She orders. It's after curfew. Nobody moves. She gets in a huff and turns her back against the wall, lying down.
"You're afraid." I tell her with a smile. I know this'll get her. "You're afraid because you know I haven't done anything. But you want me to have done something. Just so you can hate me. Because you know that you can't hate me. Because everytime you try, you fail miserably. And you hate failure." Sure I'm copying her but heck, if it'll get her to open up…
"You didn't do anything? Don't make me laugh!" She says. Got her.
"I didn't!" Just one last push and she'll explain. Zoey shoots me a worried 'I hope you know what you're doing' glance. I nod at her.
"Oh yeah! I don't throw coke over boys for not doing anything! I'm not that heartless!" She fumes.
"Oh so this is about Chloe?" I ask.
"No this is about me!"
"It's always about you! But if you never tell anyone what you want you'll never get it!" The woman infuriates me so.
"It's not always about me because if it were…"
"It is always about you! You're there the first thing in the morning when I wake up! You're the last thing on my mind before I go to sleep! Now tell me this isn't about you!" I'm angry. I'm in one of my rants. Dana looks confused.
"You like me?" She asks curiously. I groan and turn away.
"Yeah." I tell her. "Yeah I do," I stand up and look down at her. She turns back to me. "I'll admit that. And you know what, forget it." I walk out. I know that's probably a really stupid thing to do. But I'm fed up! Unrequited love…. Here are my views
Unrequited love
1) It stinks
2) It especially stinks when you have to see the girl everyday
3) It especially especially stinks, when the girl is Dana Cruz.
A/n: Man are these chapters short! The next one is cut and cop. (Shorter at the beginning but longer at the end.) PLEASE review? Please…