It's Only Time
By Spark'd

Makes Me Happy - Chapter Five

Is it crazy to say I was nervous for today?

My week was supposed to be lacking in anything important, but sadly, my week turned out to be the exact opposite.

I had been attempting to avoid Tara and Sara for a majority of the week (hard to do when you have a class with both of them) and during lunch, every day for the whole week Tara would run up to me, yes run, and jump into my arms. She almost knocked me over a few times, but most people would stare at us and I think everyone was fooled that I was really into her.

Which made me feel like crap all week.

I took in a slow breath as I started eating the popcorn I had made ten minutes ago. I was laying on the couch with the bowl on my chest, no chocolate syrup in sight. I didn't feel like eating anything sweet, although the plain popcorn tasted nasty.

I let out a sigh and turned my head away from the ceiling to look over at the TV. Law and Order was on, about some girl with mental problems or something, I wasn't sure.

Today, Saturday, at eight o'clock at night, I would be going out with Alex, Sara, and Tara to a pizza place. We would socialize, act like we were all best friends, and then... Then, I'd brake up with Tara.

I was pretty depressed and I almost vented out my depression to Miss Nancy, or whatever Josh called himself... Herself... I don't even know.

I closed my eyes and wondered if Sara showed any signs at school that she was into me, and if Tara showed any signs that she was getting sick of going out with me.

I remembered Dawn giving me weird looks in the hallway, and her friends staring at me when they walked by. Elena would always walk up to me in the hallways and yell at me for some stupid reason, Tara would give me a hug and a kiss and then leave with her friend. Sara never really talked to me, at all.

I groaned and opened my eyes, being greeted by a worried expression of my step-brother.

I cringed and pushed him away with one of my hands, the other hand hold the bowl of popcorn tightly, so it wouldn't spill. "Josh! What are you doing?"

I sat up on the couch as I gave Josh a look mixed between disgust and curiosity. He looked at me funny for a while before he finally said, "People have been talking."

I raised a brow, "About... What?"

"Your relationship with Tara."

The words barely left his mouth before I instantly turned pale and began shaking. I looked down at my bowl of popcorn as I thought. If Josh had heard about what people were talking about, it must've been all over the school. "W-What did they say?" I stuttered a bit, but cleared my throat quickly afterwards.

"Rumor says Sara has been flirting with you all week and you've been flirting back. Rumor also says that you're going to dump Tara and Sara is going to dump Alex, and you guys are going to go out with each other." I stood up quickly, knocking over the bowl of popcorn and swore loudly.

I stomped around the room for a while, trying to take out my rage on the floor, before I glared at Josh, as if he had spread the rumor. "Who did you hear this from?"

Josh frowned, "Elena told Alex, and Alex told me."

I closed my eyes and held my head in my hands, "Shit..." I stood like that for a while before I looked up at Josh, "Alex was my first friend in high school, if I break up with Tara, Sara will probably break up with him, and Alex will get mad at me!"

Swearing furiously, I continued to stomp around the room, occasionally punching a wall or something. Josh just sat on the couch, watching me with the same worried expression painted on his face.

"I can't break up with her," I decided finally, stopping my temper tantrum near Josh, I looked at him as calmly as I could manage. "I'll have to stay with Tara until I can slap some sense into Sara that I don't like her."

Josh raised a brow, "You were really going to break up with Tara?"

I shrugged, I had forgotten to tell him. "Yeah, I was going to tonight, but..." I swore again and yelled random words as I stomped around again.

Josh frowned and walked upstairs, a heard a loud crash and a, "MEGAN!" but I didn't really care about my step-brother at the moment. I was worried on what I could tell Alex. I rehearsed some scenes in my head where I gave Alex an explanation, but most ended with a broken friendship.

I gave a loud groan and sent a sideways glance at the clock on our wall. It was basically 7:45, I had fifteen minutes until my disaster. Or date, or whatever you'd call it.

I figured I should leave and head for the pizza place. Alex was usually early to dates, unless he wanted to impress the girl, but I doubted he'd want to impress Sara if he knew she was going to break up with him.

The car ride to the pizza place was just a fuzzy memory, compared to walking up to the door of the pizza place. I felt like I'd never reach that door, and with every step it the door would just get farther away... Or something like that.

When I went in I saw Alex sitting in the corner, his back to the door, drinking Coke. I took in a deep breath and slowly walked up to him. I felt like my footsteps were echoing through the entire room.

When I reached him I put my hand on his should and gave him a little wiggle, "Hey Alex."

He slowly looked up at me and I gave him a small smile, "Drake we gotta talk."

I sat down on the seat across from him and held my hands between my knees, they were sweating badly. I was scared Alex was going to get mad at me, I didn't want to loose Alex as a friend.

He took another long sip of his drink before looking at me, placing his cup dramatically to his side. "Drake, Elena told me that Sara was was bragging about making out with you, and that today you were going to break up with Tara, and she'd break up with me, and then you two would go out together... Is that true?"

He was calmer than I thought he'd be. "I want to tell you the truth, but I don't want you to get mad at me."

He closed his eyes and readied himself for the worst, "I won't, don't worry."

I gulped and started explaining, "On that first date, Sara kissed me. We were in the car alone after I dropped off Tara, and she kissed me." I paused, he looked like he was going to say something but he didn't.

"I didn't want to kiss her, I know how much you like her, so I didn't want to break up guys up. I was going to tell you what happened, but I didn't want you to think I was going to steal her away from you, and I didn't want you to think your new girlfriend was cheating on you with every Tom, Dick, and Josh. Then she told me not to tell you, because I wouldn't want to see you hurt, and how you'd get mad at me, even though I didn't do anything!"

I wasn't sure if that made any sense, I just started saying things that popped into my head. I swallowed again and waited for him to say something.

He looked down at the table and shook his head, "I can't believe I thought she liked me. I knew it was too good to be true, nothing good ever happens to me. I thought meeting you was the best thing ever, you were a great guy, a little self-absorbed, but a great friend... I should've know that I'd never be able to keep a girlfriend with you around."

That really stung.

"You know what, Drake?" He looked up at me, his eyes red. "I've known you for a long time, so I know you'd never do this to me, stealing my girlfriend and all... But, most girls I go out with, only go out with me to get to you, and that hurts. I think we should stop being friends."

That really hurt. "What? Alex, listen to what you're saying... You're choosing girls over me? Your best friend?" I frowned, that sounded retarded. "Girls will come and go, but best friends are always there for you. I'll always be here for you Alex."

He shook his head, "I really liked Sara... Half of the girls I go out with, I don't like, so I don't mind if they get a little touchy with you when we're hanging out together, but I really liked Sara."

He looked off to the side, "My mom never liked it how I went out with so many girls, and she was glad that I never told any of the girls that I loved them, because she didn't think I understood what love meant," I knew where this conversation was headed, "On the phone a few days ago, I told Sara I loved her. She was the only girl, besides the girls in my family, that I've said that too."

He shook his head, "You took her away from me, Drake."

I resisted the urge to give a groan and yell at him, "I don't like her!", instead I glared at him. I didn't know what else to say and I was really mad at Alex for saying all the things he did.

He wasn't the only person in the room with hurt feelings.

A/N: Haha, I really hate this chapter. xD Sorry you had to read this horrible-ness.

The story doesn't match the chapter title at all, which makes me mad.

CountryPersonel - Nah, there will be no Drake/Alex in this story. I pretty much suck at writing slash anyways.

Disclaimer: The only thing I own in this story is made-up characters: Alex Vander, Sara Johnson, Tara Davids, Dawn Matthews, Elena Stigrad and the plot.