Sorry for the little longer pause than originally thought it would be. I'm gonna change to 1/2 weeks scheculde i'll upload more if I feel like it but I don't wanna rush things. Thanks for the 1 review. English isn't my first language so if I make same mistake like 10 times feel free to correct me if it bothers too much. But as allways reviews and feedback is allways welcome and enjoy trying to post next chapter during the next 2 weeks
Chapter 2: The one with the birthday part 1
It was May 16th my birthday I was gonna be 14 years old allthough I don't care much abaut birthdays, of course it was fun to spend time with family and friends and getting some presents but it isn't anything special for me. Not after the year when we met with Alex.
*Flashback*
"Group of girls bullying a small brunette girl whos crying" Enter Emma and Jes
Emma: What the hell do you think your doing? Rose why aren't you doing anything?
"Group of girls runs away except Rose who looks down"
Rose: I-I... just... Im sorry have to go...
"She walks away too"
Emma: Rose come back! You can explain yourself...
Jes: What was that abaut?
Emma No idea, I guess we will catch up with her later
Alex: Excuse me?
Emma: Okay sorry abaut our friend, she's not usually like that and for those other assholes too. You're the new girl right? I'm Emma Geller she's Jessica Miller. Whats your name?
Alex: Alexandra Walter but please just call me Alex, and please don't hurt me, okay?
Jes: We dont hurt anyone who doesn't hurt us first. Fine, so Alex where are you from?
Alex: I moved from San Francisco abaut month back haven't made much friends and now I allready got bullied.
Emma: Well we could use more members to our group so you got 2 new good friends. Probably 3 once last one of us comes to her senses
*end of flashback*
Well the problem was that she never came to her senses. Even though I got one of my best friends on my birthday I also hate the fact that I lost a good friend on that day as well... Birthdays have never been the same after that. I've never had a decent conversation with her, after what happend she's trying to hide behind her new group and avoid me and my friends, but I know that same girl is still there I just hope I knew how to get her out.
It was 10 o'clock on the dot and girls wanted to meet me on the coffee shop and go shopping, but a text message changed the whole day
" I know this comes out of nowhere and we haven't spoken for years but I would really wanna meet and talk. I understand complitely if you don't wanna but I offer a chance for that sincearly yours Rose"
"So what do you guys think?" I asked after showing the text
"Obvius set up or trap I wouldn't go" came from Alex almost immediately
"You are not going to meet her alone, if you want to meet her then you'll take us with you. We both have questions for her too you know" Jes said pretty much as I expected.
" You guys can talk to her after I have, but you can come to cover my back if this really is a set up. There is just no way would leave this chance without using, even if its a set up. But I dont think it is, she would have done this years ago if she wanted to bully us. I think there is more to this than there is to the eye. I somehow believe that she wants peace between us I would to know why though."
"Well we can come and stay on the background just in case. Just make clear to her that you want her to come alone." Alex said
"Fine"
"We can meet, but I expect you to come alone, if your not I'm out of there... 12pm at central perk dont be late okay? Respectfully Emma G"
couple minutes later she answered
"I'll be alone, no worries 12 sounds perfect see you then"
"I guess there is no turning you arround on this?" Alex asked
"Sorry but no. I want to know what is going on and why she wants meet now and perhaps even get some reasons to things that happend... I know you dont like her but i also know that she is not the person she truly is right now. I don't want you to do anything unless she attacks me physically. If she attacks verbally meaning shouting or something like that I don't want you to do anything I need your word for that"
"Okay" came from both girls
"Okay we have couple hours before meeting so what should we do?" I asked
"I don't feel like shopping anymore so i guess we will just wait for now..."
2 Hours passed slowly it felt like those were the 2 slowest hours of my life I didn't know what to expect. Doubts, fear and hope those were the feelings I had, finally Rose showed up even 10 minutes early I guess she didn't want to be late
Hi... I heard a small sound almost like a whisper coming from behind I knew it was Rose.
Hey you came and alone... I said back
Well I see that you didn't come alone... Rose said back pointing Alex and Jes
"Well you know I wasn't sure that you'd come alone so they wanted to come just in case but you know as well as I do that they dont do anything unless you give them a reason. And they want to talk with you too "
"I know but I wanna talk to you first okay?"
"Of course, you wanted to talk so talk I can ask questions later if i need to but you can just start by telling your story"
"Well first of all I'm sorry for everything that has happend... I wasn't being myself..."
"I know you weren't, thats why I was so upset, not becouse what you did but becouse what you could have done to stop all this before it happend. "
"I don't know what happend the moment just came so quickly they wanted me to help them with something and the next thing I remember is that you were standing there yelling I didn't know what to do so I just walked away I figured that I will speak to you later, I tried couple times as you know but I allways just chickened out. I didn't know what to do. Then they slowly convinced me that you guys dont want to be friends with me after what happend"
"You should have known better. That was and is best thing abaut we will allways be there for one and other no matter what."
"Yeah I know that now. I just hope it's not too late..."
"Its never too late for us of course your welcome back to group if you want to. But you need to get rid of them first. I pointed to door where there were those 3 other girls standing, and don't worry we are here to back you up if necessary"
"Thanks"
"And what the hell do you think you're doing trying to get your old friends back just so you can abandon them too" Brunette girl from behind said
"So there is more to this story than there was to the eye. As I expected" Emma thought
"Linda this doesn't consern you even slighest, so if you don't want to be with me on my last days in states then just go to hell and leave me alone."
"Trust me I will leave but I'll take you to hell with me if you think that I will just let you leave the group then you're sadly mistaken. Well and Geller I never thought that I'd see you forgive a bully and you were foolish to come alone"
"First of all its Emma second I haven't forgiven her, you know why? Becouse there is absolutely nothing to forgive she got scared on that day. She didn't want to risk her health. I can see that now your acts have proven it. Correct me if I'm wrong but has she done anything else than stood aside and watched while you guys bully? I highly doubt that. You guys managed to break her confidence and made her think that we wouldn't want to be her friends while the fact is I haven't had a decent birthday after that day 6 years ago"
"And you really think I would come to sitiuation like this alone you should know me better than that after all these years. Just becouse they are not next to me does not mean that I'm alone"
"Aw you mean like in spirit thats cute doesn't help you when we beat the crap out off your over confident ass"
I saw a climpse of Jes standing up, but I showed her to sit back down I knew this was something that Rose needed to do on her own stand up to her "boss", so she could get her self confidence back. It was a risky move, but I knew that she could do this. I saw them trying to make a move on me but then it came as I expected she didn't take it any more she saw that I had forgiven her so she decided that it was time to correct the she stood up and went between us. I actually expected other girls to help Linda but now they were just standing there doing nothing I quess they found respect that Rose deserved.
" If you want her you have to go through me"
"And us" Jes and Alex came to my aid as well
" What the hell? why dont you guys do anything show them, their place"
"Sorry but no. She has shown that she doesn't want to be part of us anymore, and I dont see a way for us to win this one anyways so let's just let them be for now. Shes moving anyways why should we care lets just go." Two others said"
"Face it, you've been outmatched even your friends see that you cant win so just go with the little dignity you still have left." Emma said
"Fine whatever but dont think that if you someday come back here we would be your friends" Linda said
"You guys were never my friends you just wanted to break our team appart and i can see that now. Just for the record I dont need you anymore. So no worries if I ever comeback here you guys are the last ones ill seek."
3 girls walk away
"Wow I never knew I had that in me" Rose said
"Yes you did know, you just needed a way to get it out. I knew I could trust you thats why I showed to Jes not to make a move, I wanted you to step up. You needed it."
"So does that mean that you guys trust me too?" Rose turned around
"Well we trust Emma's judgement if she thinks you're okay then we have no problems with you either. You earned Emma's trust today you will earn ours too just give us some time" Jes said
Rose looked down
"I dont think we have that time or do we Rose? Judging by the way you spoke youre moving soon"
"You're right I'm moving to London at the end of the next week I just wanted to make peace with you guys before that."
" Hey dont be like that its better to make peace too late than never. To be honest I have wanted this for the last six years. I haven't had good birthday party ever since that day, I hope you can come to my party today becouse first time in 6 years I feel like celebrating my birthday. And you're more than welcome to join us"
"But I dont even have any gift for you..."
"Thats allright becouse you have allready given me your gift. You're back even if it is only for tonight. We have to make this night count"
" But what abaut your mom she didn't let me in last time..."
" What do you mean?"
" Well I tried to come to your birthday party on that faithful day I wanted to make peace between us on that very day but your mom said that you were mad at me for some reason. I said that I know that and i wanted to make it up to you but she didnt let me in. I was crushed."
" Well if thats the case I'll have to talk to my mom. But trust me you're welcome this year if you're not we will celebrate my birthday just the four of us. 6 pm on the dot on our place, okay?"
" I don't know how to thank you!"
"Just be there and we're even"
"I will"
To be continued