I hope you like this chapter. And sorry if it's confusing.
Cory runs out of Chubbie's. Shawn was quickly up and following after him. Shawn was able to catch up to Cory, once out on the street. Shawn grabs him and pulls on Cory's jacket. Preventing Cory from continuing to leave. "Cory, please!. Let me explain?." Cory spins around quickly. He tugged at his jacket, forcing it from Shawn's lose grasp. "Go on then." Cory replies, forcefully. Shawn placed his arms to his sides. "Alright." Cory stood impatiently by. "I'm waiting for the explanation." - Shawn looked at Cory, he takes a deep breath. "It was when we had that fight at Chubbie's. And I left. I left you there with Topanga." - "And you decided to go to my brother?." Cory asks, the venom apparent in the tone of his voice. "It was nothing I had planned, Cory. I'm sorry... I love you, you know that. I didn't ever want to hurt you. Not like this." Cory nodded. "Okay. So while I was at Chubbie's with Topanga, you were doing what with Eric?." Cory asks. - Shawn looked down. Unable to speak. He didn't know what else to say. Cory kicked at the ground. Before beginning his rant. "You say that you didn't plan this, it was something that just happened. Out of the blue. Right. All this happened while I was with the person who you feel threaten by, right?." - "What, what are you talking about. I don't feel threaten by Topange?." Shawn replies, dumbfounded. Cory laughs. "Oh, right. Cause I mean even-though me and her broke up and all, and I did break up with her because of you, for you. After-all. You still feel like I somehow treat her better then you. Which I don't get, because I'm not with her anymore. I left her. I'm with you, I spend all my time just about with you, by the way. So how is it that I treat her better." - "Cory, what are you talking about. I've never told you that I think that you treat her better. I just might have mentioned that I didn't understand why you would always invite her with us. When I was hoping it would be just the two of us. I don't feel those things that your saying, though. I don't." Shawn replies. - "Well, I'm thinking that this was planned, Shawn. I'm thinking that because." - Shawn quickly cuts in. "It wasn't, Cor." - "Let me finish, please!." Cory shouts. Shawn looks down. "If you don't mind." Cory states. "Sure. Go on." Shawn whispers. Shaking his head, in disbelief at Cory's behavior. " I think you did it with him because you wanted to hurt me, you were mad because I had invited her. You said so yourself, just now. I had asked her to join us. And you were mad. You knew that being with Eric could hurt me. You could get a little payback for all those times when you just wanted it to be us two instead of us three.
"You've always resented my friendship with her, and then when we began dating, well...just admit it. You hated her, didn't you?." Shawn couldn't believe what Cory was saying. He was just all over the place. He really thought that this was the truth. "Look, if I'm to be honest. I'll admit that I do sometimes feel jealous of how much time you spend with her, and how you always invite her along with us, I said that already. But I don't hate her, and I certainly didn't be with Eric to get back at you for inviting her. That's just crazy, Cor. I'm not like that. I would never do something like that. Does it sound like me, Cory." - Cory tried to hold back his tears. "Then why were you with Eric, Shawn?. I don't understand any of this." - "I just thought that after you and her broke up, that you would be seeing less of her." Cory exhales deeply. "That doesn't mean that I still wasn't gonna be her friend, Shawn. And to be there for her. She had called me that night, and she sounded real depressed. She told me that it was hard to deal with her parent's martial problems that they've been having. She was having a real hard time with it, Shawn. And I just thought that I could invite her with us. I was just trying to be nice, be her friend. She needed me." - "And I didn't." Shawn bitterly replies. "What was I supposed to do?. Just say well that's bad but I've gotta go because Shawn wants to hang out, just the two of us. You know."
"You still could have seen her, I'm not saying that you can't. But why then. Why when it was supposed to be just us. On a date!. You couldn't have chose another time to see her." - "Shawn, she was upset that night. How would saying I'll see you tomorrow gonna help her get over what she was feeling that night!." - "Maybe you just didn't want to be alone with me. Cory?. I mean if you think back, how many times have you invited her to be with us?. So maybe that does bother me, but what happened with me and Eric had nothing to do with it." - "So why did it happened. You still haven't explained it to me." Shawn stood there in front of Cory. His mind racing. Cory looked at him intently. Shawn looked down, placed his hands in his pants pocket. Cory shook his head, whispered something that Shawn didn't hear. Then turned around and began walking further down the street, and away from Shawn.
Shawn started running after him, but Cory turned around and got in Shawn's face. "I just need you to leave me alone. I need time to think all this through. So please, Shawn. Go home, and think on why this all has happened. And when you think you can tell me. Then, and only then do I want to see you. Or hear from you. You've got that!." Cory points his finger at Shawn before turning around again and walking away. Shawn didn't run after him this time. He placed his hands back in his pockets and walked the opposite direction. He walked home in the light rain that fell from the dark night sky. Shawn's tears fell to the ground, mixing with the rain.
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