Author: the tangled web we weave
Archive: Sure! Just tell me, please.
Review: Yes please!
Warnings: Not really for this chapter, although there are mentions of drinking / drugs in the next section.
Hello again! Okay, this is a really short chapter, (sorry!) but I thought it would be fun to leave you hanging a little before I moved to the next section. So I'm gonna post the next chapters today as well. I haven't changed anything in the last chapter, although I did realize that at first I said he was wearing his black cargoes, and then I said he was wearing jeans…sorry! And thank you to those who reviewed! Okay, here - read!
Chapter Two - How true were their words?
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"Look Andy, you know we can't just forget what happened. I mean, I feel like things have changed now. Or at least, maybe I've changed." Claire said with a small, hopeful smile. She had been gesticulating, but she began to fidget with her hands in her lap. "I guess I'm just worried about the way things will work out tomorrow, you know?" She looked up at Andrew, waiting to hear whether he, too, was uncomfortable about facing his friends. Since he was driving, Claire couldn't see his full reaction, but it looked as thought he was thinking about what she had said.
"Yeah. Yeah, me too," he finally responded, giving Claire a comforting look and nodding in the affirmative. He lapsed into thought, and then spoke up a few minutes later. "I mean, it's not like I really care about hurting the feelings of my friends- well, I guess they're gonna end up being my ex-friends, but I'm not really worried about hurting them," He took in Claire's slightly surprised look, and quickly continued. "Really, they're pretty shallow as it is; I don't know how worried they would be about me changing. I think it's really that they'd just be surprised, and that they wouldn't have myuntarnished reputation to stock up their posse anymore." Claire smiled in response; she knew exactly what he was talking about. They were passing the park, and Claire turned to look at it, one of the grassier spots in their area. What she saw surprised her, but Andy didn't notice immediately.
"You see, with Allison, there's just so much more. Ya know? She just seems more, I dunno, human," he finished. Andrew threw a glance at his passenger, but she was staring intently out the window. He frowned. "Hey, what's so interesting out there?" To tell the truth, he was a little annoyed that she wasn't listening to his "inner feelings" while he was willing to talk about them. But Claire had heard him, and she started.
"What? Sorry. I uh…well, there's just this guy in the park on the bench, and it looks, kinda, you know, kinda like…" Here she paused for a minute, trying to make up her mind. She turned back to Andrew. "It looks like Bender," she finished.
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Okay, I know it was short, buthere wehave the other characters starting to come into play! Yay! You'll see much more of Andy, Claire, and John in the next few chapters…coming up - now! Thanks for reading, as usual, review, tell me what you think…there'll be more character development in the next chapters as well. Come back soon!
the tangled web we weave