!JAKE!
Sarah's phone call had pretty much ruined our wedding night. I followed after Alyssa in my car and saw she was headed to the dorms. I wasn't sure what she was going to do. What could she do. I wasn't sure if I should help her or stand back and let her do it all. In the end, I went to Sarah and she went to Audrey and then switched off, trying to approach the situation cautiously. Audrey wouldn't look at me for a long time, ignoring even my existence. Finally, when I said "It's not my fault I fell in love with your sister. She seems happy with me, don't you think?" did she start to talk to me. She finally dismissed me saying we could talk about this later and that it had been an emotional night for her. Something apparently happened between her and Kevin. I think Sarah was fine with me, maybe still a little upset, but for the most part she was calm. I didn't know how she was going to react to Alyssa, though. I was a little worried because she seemed really angry at her. It would've been sad if they never came to a resolution. They had been such good friends for their whole lives and if something like this would tear them apart forever... I would feel like I needed to take the blame. When I knocked on the door to get Alyssa to go back home, they were both leaning on each other asleep. I smiled. They had obviously made up. I wasn't going to wait around all night in this place, though. I walked over to Alyssa and shook her gently and led her to my car slowly. "Did you make any progress with Audrey?" she asked me as she yawned. "Not really. She wouldn't talk to me at all." She sighed. "I see you made up with Sarah though." "Yep. Took long enough." Alyssa was slowly being lulled into a deep sleep. I placed my hand on top of hers. I can't wait to go on our honeymoon.
!KEVIN'S POV!
I couldn't believe it. Audrey was mad at me about something that happened in 7th grade. I knew that she was already emotional, which probably had a lot to do with her rage towards me. After she slammed the door on me, I sat in the car for awhile thinking about everything that had happened. Then, I slowly made my way up to my dorm that I now shared with Kyle. It seemed that everything had fallen completely apart in one night. Alyssa and Jake were gone, Audrey and I were fighting, Kyle and Sarah were fighting, Sarah and Audrey were fighting, Sarah was mad at Alyssa and Audrey was mad at Jake. I wasn't really mad at anyone. A little upset but not mad. Girls confuse the heck out of me. The next day, I woke up unusually late because I had a late class. I called Audrey and asked her out for lunch at the cafe' and she agreed. When we met and found a seat, we were silent for a long time. "So, where are we going?" I ask, not quite sure how to start off the conversation. "What do you mean?" "Well, I couldn't help but notice that you mentioned marriage in our little fight and we've never talked about that before." She looked down, almost embarrassed I think. She looked up. "Um. Well, Alyssa and Jake were getting married and now Sarah and Kyle are getting married... I thought maybe we would get married soon too. I was mistaken, though." She looked down again. I just kind of looked her stunned. I had no idea she felt this way. "Well…" I couldn't think of the right words. "Well… I hadn't really thought about it. I mean, are you even ready for that kind of commitment?" She gave me a look that I'd never seen her give before. "What do you think?" I shrugged. "I don't know what to think anymore honestly." "So, are we over?" She'd never been so blunt before. "...I don't want to be over." "Me neither." We just sat there for a while. I was trying to think of life without Audrey. It gave me the shivers. I couldn't even imagine it. "We've got to fix this," Audrey said in an almost whisper. She looked so vulnerable. Had I really hurt her than much?
!SARAH'S POV!
When I first opened the door for Alyssa, I didn't want to talk to her or even look at her at all but I didn't quite have the heart to slam the door in her face. She came in and not far behind her, Jake came in too. "Jake could you leave us alone?" I asked him. "Yeah, go talk to Audrey," Alyssa added. "Oh. Yeah," Jake said as he turned around and left the room. "So?" I asked Alyssa once we were alone. "We need to talk." "I know that." "So tell me exactly why you are you mad at Me." she told me with hurt in her eyes. Did she not know? I mean, honestly, it was pretty obvious why I was mad at her. I just kind of sat there thinking of how to put it. "Come on Sarah, you can tell me. I need to know." "Well, ever since you and Jake started going out in 7th grade, I've accepted it. But what you don't know is that I became the 3rd wheel in a way. Jake had always been my best friend and still after you both started going out, we confided everything to each other. We were there for each other. But now... it seems like you've taken him away permanently. He's not my best friend anymore, he's yours." She looked at me with sad eyes. "Sarah, I didn't take him away from you. He still loves you. We're both his best friends. Just like Audrey and he are mine now." I was getting annoyed. "But that's not even possible!" Alyssa took hold of my shoulders. "Yes it is. You're my best friend too." I looked at her. I didn't want to fight anymore. "I need to sit down," Alyssa said, put her hand on her back. "Oh! Are you all right?" I found myself asking. I was worrying about her. I helped her to the couch and we sat down. "Yeah, I'm fine. I'm just exhausted." she said yawning. "Me too," I said. We both sat down and I looked at her. "Are we good?" She smiled. "Yeah. We're good" she said smiling. I hugged her. I felt bad that we even had this fight. We both fell asleep on the couch but when I woke up, she was gone.
!AUDREY'S POV!
"We need to fix this," I said to Kevin. I desperately didn't want to break up, but I didn't want to act desperate. "Audrey I don't want us to break up at all. Do you understand? I love you and there's nothing I would change about you." He paused. "Did you want to break up?" I shook my head slowly. "No." I paused now. "Maybe we should take a break, though." "A break?" he asked slowly. He put his head into his hands and heaved a huge sigh and then looked at me again. "If that's what you want." "It's not what I want. I think it's what we need." "I don't think we need it at all. I'm perfectly fine going back to the way we were. I don't understand where all of this is coming from." "I think we've been around each other too much. We just... need a break for a little bit." "Fine. You know it won't be the same next time, though." "What?" Kevin stood up and left me, where I sat, looking at my food. Were we over or was it a break? What have I done? I stood up without eating any of my food and drove back to my dorm. I opened the door where I found Sarah sitting on the couch. "Hey. How'd it go?" Sarah asked. I walked over to the couch and sat down next to her. I laid my head on her shoulder. "I don't want to talk about it," I said as tears started to creep down my cheek.
!ALYSSA'S POV!
I finally got there and Jake caught up with me. We both went up to Sarah and Audrey's dorm. First, I talked to Audrey and Jake talked to Sarah. I went into Audrey's room and asked her "I know you're mad at Jake, but are you mad at me too?" She shook her head. "No, I'm not mad at you." "Well, that's good. But you shouldn't be mad at Jake either. He didn't do anything." She didn't say anything and just shrugged. "Audrey, you're going to have to give me more than that. I can't make everything better by myself." "Well, don't. Just let me be mad at him." I sighed. I didn't want her to be mad at him. The two people I loved most and they weren't on good terms. "I just don't understand why you're mad at him, though," I said starting to choke up. "Alyssa, don't get upset. It's just... it's just I feel like he stole you." I looked at her with tears welling in my eyes but before I could say anything else there was a knock at the door. I got up and answered it after wiping the tears off my cheeks. It was Jake at the door and he went to talk to Audrey while I went to talk to Sarah. After Sarah and I made up, we both fell asleep on the couch until Jake came in and gently shook me awake. After I was awake enough to walk he grabbed my hand and led me down to his car (we decided that since I was in no condition to drive just to leave my car there for the night). I fell into a deep sleep once we got back to our house but woke up early (well, earlier than Jake). I didn't feel like getting up so I just laid there and thought about everything and the mess they had become.
!KYLE'S POV!
The next morning, after everything had happened, I went over to Sarah's dorm at around lunchtime. When she opened the door, she seemed to be doing well. "Hey Kyle. Come on in. I was just making come lunch." I walked in. "I just thought we could talk about last night..." "Oh yeah. We can while we're eating." I was surprised. Since when did Sarah start making lunch? I sat down. "So..." I started not sure what to say. "Look Kyle, I'm really sorry about last night. I was unreasonable and overdramatic." I sat there, speechless. Since when does Sarah apologize and admit she was wrong this easily? "What's gotten into you?" I ask. "What?" "You're acting so... not like yourself." She laughs. "I know. I just feel... different." She sat a plate down in front of me and then sat in the chair across from me. I kind of gave her a weird look. "Since when?" "Well, when I got back to my dorm last night, Jake and Alyssa came by and everything got straightened out. Well, everything except the fact that Audrey is still mad at Jake." I shrug. "She'll get over it." Sarah placed her hand on mine. "That's what I love about you. You're not dramatic. You're so laidback." "Really? I didn't know." Good. Things are getting back to normal. I was surprised. I had come over here with a long speech prepared to try to resolve things but everything seemed to already be resolved. What a load off my chest.