"Hey Gabriella. Come on in." I say as the girl stands at the door in front of my house. She smiles at me, a lot like Cat would, then walks in. We stand in the foyer awkwardly as she looks around.
"This is amazing…" She finally gets out.
"Thanks." I chuckle. "We can study outside or up in my room. What every you like?"
"Let's go up stairs." She says nodding her head towards the stairs.
"Ok." I lead her up the stairs and towards my room. She follows me into my room and we both sit on the bed. "Do you have your books?"
"Yea, but none of that makes sense. Can you play some stuff or sing some stuff and show me what the differences are?" She asks me.
"Sure." I grab my guitar and play a few chords and some notes for her. She gets almost all of them correct.
"Did I do well?" She laughs slightly.
"Very. Are you sure you've been having trouble with this?" I ask her.
"I've been watching videos and listening to a lot of things trying to work on it. Let's take a break." She smiles pulling out her phone. "Take a picture with me!"
She holds the phone up over our heads and I lean in to get in the picture. Last minute she turns to me and kisses me on the cheek and snaps the picture. She chuckles it off, but I made me a little bit uncomfortable. I shake it off and look at the picture with her.
"This is so going up on Instagram…" She clicks the app and uploads it within seconds. There wasn't enough time to protest. "It's such a cute picture!"
"Yea, I guess." I give her a half hearted smile.
"I need to use the bathroom… where is it?" She asks sweetly.
"Down the hall and to the right." I tell her as she walks out. The was something in the way she walked. A bit of a sexy hop in her step.
While she is in the bathroom I walk down stairs to get a glass of water. My throat was dry from singing and it was starting to get cracky. After I take the first few sips, the door bell rings. I walk over and unlock the door. Just as I open in, Gabriella comes down the stairs.
"Cat?"
"What the hell is she doing here?!" Cat accuses giving Gabriella a glare.
"We're studying. Mr. Downey asked me to help her out." I explain calmly trying to get her to quiet down.
"Can I talk to you for a second…" Cat says quietly. "In private." She adds looking at Gabriella.
"Sure… I'll be right back." I say to Gabriella before following Cat outside onto the porch.
"What the hell are you doing!?" She yells at me as soon as I turn back to her.
"I told you. We're working on vocal stuff. Mr. D asked me to help her. Can you calm down please! We're just studying." I explain trying my hardest not to get frustrated.
"Then what is this!" Cat shows me a picture. It takes a minute to realize where it was from. It was the picture Gabriella posted on Instagram, the one of her kissing my cheek.
"It's just a picture. She turned to me at the last second. I couldn't tell her no or she would have kissed me on the lips!" I protest. I run my hand through my hair and smile at her trying to get her to smile back. "It's no big deal babe… I love you and only you…" I lean in about to kiss her but she turns away.
"No. Not until that slut leaves."
"Cat that's harsh. She's not that bad. She just needed help." I explain.
"Yea that's what she wants you to think. She's trying to steal you from me. Don't you see it? She's taking cute pictures with you, asking you to sing OUR song with her, kissing you on the cheek… She's flirting with you hoping that you leave me for her! Why can't you see that!?" She yells at me.
"I think you're overreacting a little bit. She's a nice girl, but I wouldn't date her. She's not my type. You are my type. Red heads with big brown eyes… With beautiful smiles and charming personalities… With a kind amazing heart." I lean in slowly to give her a kiss, but she turns her head and pulls away. My heart sank into my chest.
"You just don't get it do you? She's a slut and she's just trying to get you in her pants." Cat looks at me solemnly and then down at her feet. "I just don't want to lose you to her. You're mine, not hers. And I don't want to be controlling but I just can't lose another one to her…" She whimpers and the tears start to fall.
"Another? What are you talking about?" I ask sincerely.
"Every freaking boyfriend that I've ever had has run off with her and just left me crying. I don't want that to happen again. So you know what?! If you want to hang out with that bitch, fine go ahead, but I'm not going to sit around and watch her manipulate you into leaving me like every other guy has." She pauses and turns around, avoiding eye contact with me. "I thought we had something this time… But she did it again."
I watch her as she walks do the driveway to her car and gets in. I wanted to stop her. I wanted to shout her name and tell her it was ok. I wanted to fix whatever just happened, but something inside of me told me not to. Something told me to let her walk away. Maybe it was my brain, maybe it was my heart, maybe I just knew she needed a little time to think.
I turn around and walk in the door, slamming it behind me. Gabriella was standing in the foyer. She probably over heard it all because there was a sly grin on her face.
"What are you trying to do?" I accuse.
"What are you talking about?" She tries to hide the smile, but I already saw it and it made me sick.
"Get out." I say calmly but sternly.
"What? But we aren't done stud—" I cut her off quickly.
"Get out!" I repeat myself but louder and with more daunt.
"Fine!" She rolls her eyes, grabs her bag and is out the door before I could say anything else.
I pick up the phone and hit Cat's contact. The phone rings and rings and rings, but there was no answer. I don't know what I expected. Why would she answer?
I walk in to school the next day and see Cat by her locker, which is right next to mine. She burys her head inside trying to hide from me, but I still see her.
"Hey, can we talk?" I ask her.
She doesn't answer. She just keeps her head inside her lockers. She whimpers a little bit, and I know she needs a hug, but if I hug her, I don't know what will happen between us. She needs a little time to wrap her head around things, and I'm going to give it to her.
"Ok. Maybe later." I tell her before grabbing my things and heading to homeroom.
The first period bell rings, but Cat and I never went out in between for our daily roaming of the halls. Mr. Downey walks up the front of the room and looks back and forth between Cat and I. I mouth out the word "no", but he pushes it aside and smiles.
"Why done we have another song today." Mr. Downey says to the rest of the class. Everybody looks around and nods. "Cat? Robbie? Why don't you two come up? It's been a while."
I roll my eyes and stand up, because he didn't ask it as a question. I walk up to meet Cat in the front of the room. She's still a little bit sulky and the thought of singing a song with me probably makes it worse.
"What do you want to sing?" I ask her casually.
"I don't know." She says bluntly before pulling over a stool and sitting on it.
"Ok, stools. We'll do something slower." I say pulling one over for myself, then getting the guitar. "How about this one."
She takes the phone out of my hand and looks over the lyrics and smiles a little bit. It's been a few days since I've seen one on her face. She nods slowly and hands the phone back to me.
"Ok. Sad Song by We the Kings and Elena Coats." I tell everyone in the room.
(A/N Robbie is Bold, Cat is italics, Both are both.)
(Robbie)
You and I
We're like fireworks and symphonies exploding in the sky.
With you, I'm alive
Like all the missing pieces of my heart, they finally collide.
So stop time right here in the moonlight,
Cause I don't ever wanna close my eyes.
Without you, I feel broke.
Like I'm half of a whole.
Without you, I've got no hand to hold.
Without you, I feel torn.
Like a sail in a storm.
Without you, I'm just a sad song.
I'm just a sad song.
I look over at her as her part begins and she's rocking back and forth on the stool with her eyes closed giving the song every emotion inside of her. She looked beautiful.
(Cat)
With you I fall.
It's like I'm leaving all my past in silhouettes up on the wall.
With you I'm a beautiful mess.
It's like we're standing hand in hand with all our fears up on the edge.
So stop time right here in the moonlight,
Cause I don't ever wanna close my eyes.
In my head I go back to the first of school. I was new, she knew everyone. I was a geek, she was beautiful. If it weren't for Mr. Downey we may have never talked after that day. But because of him, I fell in love, and because of him this thing that Cat and I have may just work out.
(Both)
Without you, I feel broke.
Like I'm half of a whole.
Without you, I've got no hand to hold.
Without you, I feel torn.
Like a sail in a storm.
Without you, I'm just a sad song.
(Robbie)
You're the perfect melody,
The only harmony
I wanna hear.
You're my favorite part of me,
With you standing next to me,
I've got nothing to fear.
Without you, I feel broke.
Like I'm half of a whole.
(Cat)
Without you, I've got no hand to hold.
(Both)
Without you, I feel torn.
Like a sail in a storm.
Without you, I'm just a sad song.
Without you, I feel broke.
Like I'm half of a whole.
Without you, I've got no hand to hold.
Without you, I feel torn.
Like a sail in a storm.
Without you, I'm just a sad song.
I'm just a sad song.
I pick at a few other notes before looking over at her. Our eyes meet, and it was just like the first day. My heart stopped, the butterflies in my stomach went wild, and I fell even harder right onto my face.
Cat just stared at me for a second before getting up and running out of the room. The door slammed shut behind her and that was it. I was wrong, maybe it won't work out.
I look up at Mr. Downey and he nods slowly and flicks his head towards the door allowing me to go after her. I jump up and hand him the guitar before running out of the room.
I heard the cries coming from the janitor's closet, so I walk in. She was sitting on a box full of toilet paper crying into her hands.
"Hey… Come here…" I say pulling her into my arms.
She shoves me back and continues to cry. She looks up at me finally with a look of hate burning in her eyes.
"She told me you slept with her! How could you do that to me! I thought you loved me!" She screams at me punching me and hitting me as hard as she can, which wasn't that hard. I pull her into my chest despite her flailing arms.
"I didn't sleep with her. I swear to you I didn't. The second you left, I went back inside and I flipped on her and told she had to leave. I would never do that to you…" I say holding her tightly as she tries to push away from me. Finally I let her go and she stands glaring at me.
"I can't do this! I can't! No matter what I do the guys always leave me! And it always because of her! I can't take it! I can't lose you! But if I stay with you, she's going to make my life a living hell and I can't do that either! Every guy I have ever been with has hurt me and left me completely vulnerable. I don't want to be hurt anymore! I CAN'T be hurt anymore! And if it's just going to keep happening over and over again because of that little bitch, I'd rather hurt myself then be hurt by anyone else! Especially you… Robbie…" She stops for a moment, just long enough for me to get some words in.
"Don't do this Cat… Please don't do this..." I say calmly.
"I have to. I know you don't understand, but I do…If I don't give her what she wants, it will never stop and I will never be happy. I love you Robbie and I always will but I can't do this anymore. Be happy with somebody else. Fall in love with somebody else, because it's not going to work with me…" The tears continue to stream down her face and they start to form in mine.
"I can't… I can't fall in love with somebody else! Not when you're still here… I'm in love with you!" I try to fight for her, but I can tell it's not going to work.
"I know, but sometimes you need to move on… Please, just make this easier, for you and me both. I'd rather hurt myself than have you hurt me like everybody else because I can't hate you."
I look down at my feet trying to hold back the tears. Everything we went through, all of it, we got through, but this is the thing that breaks us apart.
"I'm sorry for anything I ever did to hurt you. Or upset you or anything else I should apologies for… I love you…" I whisper grabbing her face for the last time I will be able to do this. She draws my shirt in to her clenched fists tugging me closer to her, as close as we could possibly get. Our mouths fit together perfectly like they were meant to be together, but after today, they will never meet again. Our lips move together simultaneously until we separate. It was a kiss full of emotions I had never felt before. Then it was over.
I look her in the eye one more time, taking in her beauty, then turn away and walk out the door. I walk past Mr. Downeys room, past my locker, past the office, and out the front entrance. I didn't care if I got detention for skipping, I didn't care if I got suspended, I didn't care if I got hit by a bus on my way out, I only cared about her, and losing the love of my life.
I'm sorry it's been so long, almost 2 weeks, but I've been pretty busy. I'm only looking at one more chapter for this story, so be prepared. Thanks for sticking to my stories and reading them even though I have some hiatus's. It's almost summer, so I'll be writing more and updating more as long as I have new story ideas. I'll try to do some more one shots because everyone seemed to like them, probably because they had happy endings hahaha. We thanks for reading.
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