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Chapter 6

"It's not a dream anymore. It's worth fighting for. I can't believe we almost hung it up. We're just getting started."- Looking Up, Paramore.

Hayley's P.O.V.

Two weeks.

Two weeks since me and Alex kissed.

He's ignored me ever since.

I don't think he could be anymore of a douche right now.

"Hey." Kori walked up to me.

"Hi." I said as I kept looking ahead.

"Hayley," she placed a hand on my arm, "you need to talk to him...or at least Jack, Rian, or Zack."

I looked at her, then turned back. "I can't." I said. "I'm terrified to hear what he has to say."

She looked at me confused. "But what if it's something good?"

"Then it's something good." I shrugged. She got up and walked over somewhere. I don't really care. I'm too depressed to even talk to anybody. I mean, I really wanted to talk to Alex and ask him what the fuck is going on, but I just couldn't get the guts to.

"Hey." really, Kori?

"Hi Jack." I turned to face him.

"Talk to him, k? He's just freaked out." he said. I shook my head.

"Why not?" he said.

"I don't want to set myself up for a disappointment." he rolled his eyes.

"Just talk to him, okay? I promise you, you won't be disappointed." he said. I sighed.

"Fine." he grinned.

"Good. Now what are you waiting to for? Go talk to him!" he said. I smiled and got up from the table in the cafeteria and walked over to Alex who was sitting up against the wall listening to his iPod. I sat down next to him.

"Hey." he said when he noticed I was there.

"Hello." I said. "We need to talk."

"I know."

"Do I start or...?" I trailed off, hoping he would start. He sighed.

"I just...I've known you for only a week and I'm afraid there's going to be hidden secrets." he explained. I thought this over.

"Since when is Alex Gaskarth, the ultimate ladies man, afraid of hidden secrets?" I said with a laugh. He chuckled.

"You're different." he smiled at me.

"Alright, I don't like this." I said. "What else do you need to know?" he smirked.

"You don't have to tell me."

"I want to. Ask me anything."

"Well, what's really bothering me is what happened to you back in Nebraska. Would you tell me that?" I sighed.

"I met Anna in seventh grade. I didn't talk to her much but when I started eighth grade, we became friends. Everything was okay for a while, but when freshman year came around things got worse." I paused trying to remember every detail. I was still looking ahead, but out of the corner of my eye I saw Alex with concern written all over his face.

"She dated this guy once. He broke up with her for another girl, but about a month later they went out again, but then broke up. Then he wanted to date her again, so she was trying to figure out what exactly he wanted. Then she found out he wanted to have sex with her, and she told me."

"He is like the biggest manwhore in the world. I have yet to meet one as big as him. So since she was like my best friend, I told her how I felt about it, which was that I didn't want her to have anything to do with him because she would just get hurt, yet again."

"She was going to go through with it anyway but then, I don't know exactly what happened, but they stopped talking for a while, and she started dating this guy, Ryan. Ryan was supposedly cheating on her so they broke up and she went back to the other guy."

"They started talking again, but she dated this guy Tyler, who-as far as I know-is dating him again. The whole time she was dating him she was talking to this guy Adam, this guy Sam, and the other guy. She broke up with Tyler after about a week."

"Then she was just talking to the very first guy, but that's when she started dating the boy I liked." Alex tensed up a bit. "I don't like him anymore because, well, that was two years ago and after she dated him I didn't feel the same about him." he relaxed.

"But that's not the point. It was the fact that she said she would never hurt me-wow, that sounded like I was her girlfriend-but she did anyway." I paused so I could think.

"She broke up with him right before my birthday but it still hurt, you know? Then she was talking to the first guy again, but something happened and they hate each other now. And then she started dating Tyler."

"Because I was so worried about her and because she took me down with her and because she hurt me by going out with the guy I liked, I just got really depressed. I never tried to commit suicide or cut myself or anything like that, but I was sad ALL THE TIME. I really just stopped caring about myself and my own sanity. I just recently got over all of it. But that's why I wanted to move away and start over." as I finished I looked up at him. He pulled me into a hug.

"I'm sorry." He said.

"It's okay now, really." I said and smiled. "Now anything you want to tell me?" I asked. He shook his head.

"It's not that I don't want to tell you, I just don't have anything to tell you. Yeah, bad stuff has happened to me but nothing to big." he said. I nodded.

Little did he know that he spoke to soon.

Author's Note: Sorry for the short, filler chapter, but it's important. : )