Chapter 4

Rae's POV:

Rae was paralized. What did he want to talk about? A million possibilities running through her head.

'What do you want?' she asked, hoping he wouldn't pick up on the nervous undertone, coming through her voice.

'What was that all about? Why did ya pretend not to know me? Did I do something?' she didn't know why, but he seemed to be angry with her for some reason. Why did it bother him anyway? It wasn't like they've been friends before. He ran after her to give her the bag she'd forgotten, he didn't save he fucking live for god's sake!

'Calm down Finn. I forgot ok? It was a couple of minutes after we've been introduced, that I remembered alright? It's no big deal.' shifting her weight from one leg to the other, Rae hoped that he wouldn't be able to see through her lies.

'Bollocks to that. I saw the look on your face when Chloe introduced us. You clearly recognized me, so don't pretend you didn't!' he sounded even angrier than before. There was no way she could talk herself out of this anymore.

'Even if I did what's it to you anyway? Why do you even bother?'

'You know what? I don't! At least not anymore. I actually thought we would get along. We clearly won't!' He said and just left her standing there.

Rae wanted to go after him and explain, make everything alright again, but she couldn't. He just said that he doesn't care anyway, so what's the point? She just turned around and walked home.

Her mum was already sleeping, when she entered the house. Rae went into the kitchen, made herself some tea, grabbed some sweeties and biscuits from the cupboard, and made her way up to her room. She knew she shouldn't eat that unhealthy stuff, but her talk with Finn had been horrible and the sweeties would make her feel better, even if it's just for that short period of time. Rae grabbed a pen and her Diary and just started writing.

Dear diary,

well that was some kind of a day wasn't it? I never expected my first day out of hospital to end up like this. I thought it would be easier to deal with people and tell the truth, but it is just the same. Of course, I didn't think that everything would magically be perfect, but does it always have to be so complicated? I suppose it was good that I ran into Chloe. I really enjoyed my evening in the pub and they all seemed to be very nice. I can see myself meeting all of them again and just relax and drink beer. Maybe one day, I will find myself part of their 'gang' as Chloe calls them. I just wish things with Finn didn't happen the way they did. He was right to be angry with me. I hope that I can fix things between us, explain my reasons. I'll see how the next couple of days go... which reminds me OMG! I am meeting Archie tomorrow! I can't believe it. I don't even know how that happened. Wait. Was it a date or are we just going to hang out? And when do we meet? Where do we meet? FUCK! I didn't even know his number! I guess I've got to call Chloe tomorrow. She'll know what to do.

With that she closed her diary, changed into her pj's and went to bed. She lay there in her bed, thinking about the recent events until sleep finally caught up to her.

Finn's POV:

After his talk with Rae, Finn went straight home ,slamming his door after entering his room. He was still angry about their conversation. How dare she try and lie in his face like that? Didn't recognize him! What kind of bullshit was that? He couldn't believe, that he had been so wrong about her. The way Rae acted around her younger friend, calming her down and encouaging her, had made him want to be friends with her. But now, after their fight, he wasn't sure that that was a good idear. She clearly had a problem with him, he just couldn't figure out why. This was driving him crazy. He could just let it go and try to start over with her, like a blank page, but he knew that right now, he was still to angry and his pride was standing in his way. They just had to see where this was going.

Not knowing what to do next, Finn decided to postpone any decisions until tomorrow. He couldn't change anything at this moment anyway. With that in mind he finally managed to fall asleep.

Finn woke up around 9 a.m the next morning, which was actually quite late for him. He usually got up early, but he must have been exausted from everything that happened the last couple of days. Finn made his way to the kitchen to make himself some breakfast and a cup of tea. He was surprised, when he found a note from his dad, telling him that he was doing some shopping and will be back in the afternoon. Taking his breakfast into the livingroom, he sat down and turned on the tv, hoping there would be a decent programm he could watch. After going through the channels twice, Finn gave up. There was only crap on tv, so he decided to go to the record store and see if he could find some new CDs, before his football practice in two hours. He had nothing to do anyway.

Finn chose to take the scooter. It would give him more time to go through everything and he didn't have to worry about being late for football practice. Trying to find a parkingspace near the store, he saw someone familiar coming out of it. Rae. He thought about going over to talk to her, but decided against it as he was still angry about yesterday. He was nosy and wanted to find out what Rae had bought, but convinced himself that it was probably just the new Spice Girls album or some other kind of shitty girl music. He waited until he was sure that Rae was gone and entered the shop. The first thing he saw, after he got in the shop was the new Babylon Zoo album. Uurgh talk about crap music he thought. Who would even consider buying this shit? Finn was in there for quite a while. He went through a bunch of CDs but couldn't find anything interesting. He was just about to leave, as something caught his eye. He had almost forgotten, that the new Oasis album came out yesterday. Getting a hold of the next to last CD, he made his way to the till, paid for the album and made his way to football practice.

Finn was actually looking forward to his practice, until he ran into Archie in the changing room. His friend was walking towards him, a big grin on his face, as he remembered the reason that had agitated him yesterday. Archie was going on a date with Rae after football.