Okay so this a completely Delena chapter, enjoy ;)

"Why are you with him?" Demi was yelling, almost at the top of her lungs. They were in Demi's bedroom, completely alone in the giant house. Selena cringed a small distance away. Demi never yelled. Not at her.

But she was now, and all Selena knew was that it hurt.

"Demi, they didn't give me a choice!" If they were still best friends, like old times then they wouldn't be fighting like this. Demi would have told Selena what was making her upset and she would have apologized for it, then try to resolve the problem. But it wasn't like that anymore.

They weren't best friends anymore; they had drifted from each other, slowly, but surely. Their dreams had mercilessly pulled them apart, like two ropes of steel were melded into both their necks, yanking them back even as they tried to move forward.

Demi lips pulled back in a humorless smile. "Give you a choice? Selena, that's like saying I cut myself because I didn't have a choice!"

The venom in her voice worked; Selena flinched. She knew that even though they were re-bonding, a broken friendship was a steep mountain to climb.

Especially if you wanted more.

"What else was I supposed to do? Tell the public I'm dating Justin for hype?"

"That's what Joe did to me!"

The words hit their mark, in both Demi and Selena. The next thing Demi said came out in a broken whisper, even as her knees went weak with loss and grief.

"You weren't there for me."

Emotion rose in Selena's throat, leaving her helplessly speechless, and at the mercy of Demi's next words.

"You left me! I kept trying to reach out to you, but you were with Taylor!" Her name came out like a vile curse from Demi's mouth. "So I ran to Miley! And you know what she did, Selena?"

Selena tried to force a reply through the lump in her throat, but her friend's angry question was met with silence.

"She broke me." Demi whispered again. She sat on the bed, for her knees gave out. Her hands closed over her face, her hair moved to shield her covered appearance. "She broke me, Selena, because you weren't there, because you left me, because you never cared!" Her voice rose to a shout again, and she finally broke, sobbing into the soft covers of her bed. The last four words weren't true, Demi knew, but she was hurt and she lashed out with hurtful words.

Selena finally found her voice, saying what Demi was thinking. "You know that's not true, Demi! The other things might be, but you know better than anyone that I've always cared! I never stopped! You think I didn't try to get to you through all the chaos?" The older girl's voice rose, though not a yell. "I did, Demi! I tried!" The words soothed the rawness of Demi's heart. "I tried, just like I always have, Demi! I tried for you!" Selena took a deep breath, knowing that what she was about to say was going to change everything, either bring it to a screeching halt, or send it soaring to the sky.

"I try because I love you."

A silence followed.

"Demi?"

"You love me." She moved from the bed. It was a statement more than a question. Selena heard the wonder in her voice.

"I do." Selena reverently took each of Demi's shaking hands in her own.

"You belong with me."