Abbey's POV
I woke up the next morning dreading school. I would have to face Rory, Benny and probably Jesse.
I get up and throw on a t-shirt and a pair of jeans and go downstairs. My mom was still sleeping, so I decided to go outside on a walk.
I go down the porch stairs and start thinking. How was I going to tell Benny that I choose Rory? God, today was going to be horrible.
As I keep walking, I decided to just get it over with and talk to Benny.
I pull out my phone from my pocket and call Benny.
Ring. Ring. Ring.
"Hello?" Benny answers tiredly.
"Hey," I say, unsure of how this was going to go. "I kinda need to talk to you."
"Can't it wait until school?"
"No," I tell him. "It's important."
"Ok," he sighs. "Where do you want to meet?"
While I was talking to him I had ended up in front of his house.
"Outside," I explain. "I'm standing in front of your house."
"Okay," Benny says. "I'll be out in a sec."
I hang up, and a few minutes later Benny walks out of his front door.
He walks up to me and puts his arm around my shoulders, which was going to make this harder.
I shrug his arm off and distance myself a few feet.
I look up at him, and there's hurt in his eyes.
"I'm sorry," I apologize. "I..."
"You came to break up with me," he finishes.
He looked down at me and I knew he saw the truth in my eyes.
"It's not technically breaking up if we never went out," I point out.
"What about the other night?" Benny asks.
"What about it?" I ask, confused.
He didn't answer, and I could feel that he was getting frustrated.
"Look," I say. "The other night was me needing someone to comfort me. That's all."
"So you just used me?" he asks, starting to get angry.
"No, not at all," I assure him.
"Then what?" Benny asks, furious.
"You know wanna what?" I say, fed up with him. "I was trying to be nice, but now I realize that you're going to be a jerk about this!"
"Of course I'm going to be a jerk about this," he bellows. "You acted like you liked me!"
"I do like you," I defend. "But as a friend. I swear that's all it was the other night. I needed someone to tell me it was all going to be okay. I didn't want to be a vampire, and I can't talk to my mom about it. She wouldn't understand."
I turn away from him, and start walking back towards my house, tears threatening to fall.
"Abbey!" Benny calls after me.
I ignore him and keep walking. I didn't want to deal with this anymore. It was stressing me out, and I felt so guilty about it.
By the time I get to my house, my tears are running a steady stream down my cheeks, and my vision is blurred.
I slam the front door and my mom comes rushing out of the kitchen.
"Abbey?" she says, after she gets a good look at me. "Are you okay?"
I just shake my head and continue to cry. My mom walks over and tries to hug me, but I brush off her arms, and start up the stairs.
"What happened?" she yelled after me.
"Guys are jerks," I yell back. "That's what happened!"
I reach my door and slam it shut behind me and then collapse against my door. I tried to take deep breaths, to calm myself, but it made me even more upset.
I didn't even notice that I had left my iHome playing my iPod.
"Skies are crying,
I am watching,
Catching teardrops in my hands.
Only silence as it's ending,
Like we never had a chance.
Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me?
You can take everything I have,
You can break everything I am.
Like I'm made of glass,
Like I'm made of paper.
Go on and try to tear me down,
I will be rising from the ground like a skyscraper,
Like a skyscraper.
As the smoke clears,
I awaken and untangle you from me.
Would it make you feel better to watch me while I bleed?
All my windows still are broken,
But I'm standing on my feet.
You can take everything I have,
You can break everything I am.
Like I'm made of glass,
Like I'm made of paper.
Go on and try to tear me down,
I will be rising from the ground like a skyscraper,
Like a skyscraper."
I was beginning to think that my iPod was possessed because it always seemed to know how I was feeling.
This wasn't just about Benny, it was also about Jesse. He'd taken my humanity from me, and that was something I could never get back.
There was a knock on my door.
"Honey?" my mom says, voice muffled by the door. "Benny's here to see you."
"Tell him to go away," I say. "I never want to see him again."
"He seems really upset about something," she tells me.
"I don't care," I say. "Just make him leave."
I hear her footsteps going down the stairs.
I sink lower onto the floor and I'm eventually staring at the ceiling.
"Abbey?" Benny asks, standing outside of my door a few minutes later.
"Go away," I say. "Didn't you get the memo? No jerks allowed."
"Look," he says, resigned. "I'm sorry."
"Sorry doesn't make it better," I tell him.
I know I was being stubborn, but he deserved it.
"After you stormed off, I thought about what you said," Benny explained, trying to make the situation better.
"So?"
"So, I realized that you'd been going through a lot lately. With Jesse, moving here because of your dad, and all of the other crap you've had to deal with."
"How did you know about my dad?" I asked, surprised.
"Your mom told me," he says.
I sigh, deciding to forgive him.
"If you ever tell Rory about what happened between us," I threaten. "I will personally kill you myself."
"Ah-ha!" Benny exclaims. "So you admit something happened!"
"That's beside the point," I say, rolling my eyes.
"What is the point?" he asks.
"The point is," I say. "Is that I forgive you."
The door opens up and I'm looking up at a smiling Benny.
"Why're you laying on the floor?" Benny asks, confused.
I just rolled my eyes and got up off of the floor, standing in front of Benny.
"Thank you," he says, looking at me.
I just smile and shake my head. He pulls me in and gives me a hug.
"C'mon," I say. "We're already going to be late for school."
I turn off my iHome and go downstairs, picking up my backpack off of the bottom step, and walk out of the door with Benny beside me, heading towards Whitechapel High.
I finally updated! LOL. My life has been crazy busy the past few weeks with school starting and everything. Thank you to all of you who have reviewed this story and didn't want me to stop. Anyway, the song that Abbey was listening to was Skyscraper by Demi Lovato. Please continue to read and review J