Micah pov
I can't believe that about Alyssa parents even if I saw her father acting broken, I refused to believe it. It just isn't possible. They were one of the forever couples I knew about. One of the only two. My parents being the other. I know that anything can happen even a tragedy as big as this but come on. This is Alyssa life we are talking about, her world. Everything has to be perfect and under her control. It isn't possible any other way.
Any way whatever happens, I am here for her, I will always be here for her. To the best of my capabilities. She is too sad for my liking, I hate to see tears in her eyes, and I hate to see sadness in there. I have to remove her mind from what is going on around her. And I told her just that.
Hey remove your mind from that okay.
Where would I put my mind instead? She asked with her hands folded across her chest.
Your new cheer leading squad this year. I replied. I think that Tiffany shouldn't be on the squad.
"She has to be on the squad, she is the best flyer in the whole school. Alyssa argues
No, she is not. My sister is and she can finally apply, besides Tiffany is a senior like us. Do you want the squad to break down when you are no longer here and all its key member has left for college too? I ask her. I have to present a very good argument about removing that slut from the team. You may ask why I am carrying it on my head like it was my mission in life. I will tell you this.
Tiffany is just like Alyssa, she gets what she wants and lately, what she wants is Jake and Alyssa position as head cheerleader. That is just not going to happen. I can't let it happen on my watch. Right now Alyssa only control what happens in school, if she does not control that, she controls nothing and I don't want to imagine what will happen to her if she does not control anything. You may think she is a control freak but to me, that is just Alyssa.
Why are you so determined to remove her from the squad, she has not broken any rules and she is very good at what she does. What do you have against her? Alyssa asks raising an eyebrow at me.
* She is going to steal your boyfriend and turn you into a social outcast, she is as wicked as that and evil too. She will ruin the cheerleaders squad and spoil their mind against you. You will hate your life. * I can't really tell my best friend that. So I said instead. I don't just trust her.
I know. And I also know that you hate it when I am around those you don't trust but there are some things in my life that you can't have control over. Alyssa said softly
Like your choice in boyfriend. If I had a choice in that decision. Jake Stanton will never see your shadow. I mumbled but based on the fact that Alyssa eyes are glaring at me. I know she heard my mumblings.
Well. It is a good thing that you had no choice in that decision. Why are you so against us dating? "
Because there is difference between a prick and a rich prick. Jake is a rich entitled prick. It is bad enough that he is a prick but he is also rich. He is not good enough for you Al, he is not even good enough to brush the dirt off your shoes I burst out. I know right now that I sound jealous and all that, but what am I to do. Al never listens to me when I am trying to protect her. Although she doesn't know that I am trying to protect her. She lives by examples of her mistakes not examples of other people mistakes.
When we were seven, she want to stay out all late watching people watching. I begged her that we should go home, she refused. We went home that night in a police cruiser. When she was ten she wanted to do pole jump although she had never done it before, I begged her to start small but she refused and started like a pro, she dislocated her arm and don't get me started about the time that she tried stake boarding without any protective gear because of a bet of fifty bucks. Her allowance on a week then was five hundred. I am glad that she quickly found her sport. Cheer leading. If she had continued with trying different sports, I would have died when I was thirteen because she shaved off years, off the normal age I would have died.
You sound so much like my dad. Alyssa said after staring at me for a while
What. I asked confused and relieved that she he didn't suspect I have feelings for her. I mean I will tell her someday but I don't want it to be when I am criticizing her boyfriend.
You sound so over bearing like my father, especially when it comes to boys. I know that you don't date girls all that often but I like Jake a lot and I wish you would have a girl who makes you happy. Alyssa said patting my shoulders in a patronizing way.
I hate that so I shrug off her hold on me. * I like a girl a lot. In fact I love her and she make me happy. She is just not my girlfriend. * I don't need anybody like that in my life.
You do. All you need is the right girl... Alyssa says going off with making plans about my life and hers but just not together.
* I have the right girl in front of me. * stop matching making me. There is a girl I like. I raised my hand to stop her from talking. Yes, you know her, no I won't tell you her name. So please stop match making me like my mother do. I already have a woman on my back urging me to bring a girl home because she suspect I am gay and she really wants grandchildren and Michael might not be able to provide children for her based on the fact that he is gay, she wants me to do it. I already have her on my case so please drop the issue. "
Gosh, you rant like a girl. Alyssa complains
Alyssa. I warned
Fine, fine, dropping it. If only you drop mine. She says with an eye roll.
I will.
Would be better if I can go on couple dates with my best friend though. She mumbled.
Alyssa!
Fine, dropping it for real this time. " she says with smile.
Alyssa pov.I wish that Micah could spend the whole day with me but he can't he has to go pick up his sister and brother from their friends place where his mother dropped them off four hours earlier when they finally got on her last nerves. I certainly don't want to go back to that house, not anytime soon and even if I go, I don't think I want to be sober when I do it. Then again I have never drank to the point of inebriated before so I might as well get that experience before I move to college. That reminds me. I have to ask Micah if he has made his choice on colleges yet. I know that he might not be able to get in an Ivy League college but because of his athletic championships he has been winning since he was twelve, he has a wide range of schools to choose from. He needs to make his choice and I need to tell my parents my own choice. I guess it is just parent now since my father is the only one aro
Alyssa pov Where to, Miss." the cab man asked me when my sobs reduced. Far away from this place. As far away as possible. I replied through my tears. What about the park close to town council hall. " he asks quietly. I know that right now he is talking softly because he recognized what is going on. He saw the bastard on his side view mirror and he knows from my tears that I was the girlfriend.Yes please. I answered in a low tone.My life is turning into a typical cliché story. What is remaining is that I fall in love with either my best friend, Jake best friend or the school bad boy then we get married and live happily ever after. The end. I can't deal with this. I just cannot. This day is too horrible for me. It has just been too horrible. Wait... did Micah know about this, is that why he wa
Micah povI have been searching for Alyssa for about an hour now. Driving with top speed to get to our favorite spots where we hang out but I didn't see her there. I stop and sat down, * use your brain and think this boy, stop acting like you are insane. Alyssa is your best friend, you know her better than you know anyone else. Where would she go since she had her heart broken? What would she do? * I am supposed to even know how she would think dammit. I need to calm down, I can do this if I just calm down. I slowed down my breathing as I try to think with a clear head, pushing all the worries that have been swimming in my head so fiercely that if me brink I can see them behind my eyelids. She must have been in a situation where she couldn't think and that would have made the taxi man to drop her off in an extremely popular place. I paused that flow. That would be what
Alyssa pov.Waking up to shouting is not a good way for someone with a hangover. My head was banging and pounding as if they were trying do an operation on it without giving me morphine. I groaned as I sat up in the bed and when I could finally open my eyes without closing it back because of the brightness, I looked around at the room I slept. Sure, I remember last night, the important details like I was dropped off in a park, I drank myself to oblivion, I woke up at night to discover I am alone and I started crying and as he heard my cries he appeared and was there with me. He took me home and dropped me in this room. I don't need to be a psychic to know that Micah will be pissed at me. I don't know what I did but I know that it was something stupid. I know this because the only part of our conversation I can remember was when he was calling me daft for thinking about something. * Oh Alyssa, when will you realized
Micah pov.Alyssa makes me so mad. Why is she so annoying at times. Sometimes I feel like taking her head off but I know that if I near her I would just kiss her silly. That is me for you. A lovesick boy who is hopelessly in love with his best friend, had been for about four years now. Had known that she was the only one for me for about two years now and I sat still, said nothing about my feelings while she went out and started to date a boy I certainly knew will hurt her. Why did I do something like that? My own heartbreak is not funny one bit. If I could go back in time, I would go back to a year ago when Jake came into her life and the punch I gave him yesterday would have been done then, I would have warned the cheating asshole to stay away from my best friend and I would have told my best friend about my feelings for her in a grand way. I would have made Tiffany to stay away from the squad and I would have made her parents
Micah pov.By lunch, everybody had heard of what happened during class today, they were all staring at me while I eat and although I am used to ignoring people attention on me. This one was different. It is like they are all waiting for me to stop eating and turn to tell them that yes, I broke their quarter-back nose and that it is because he cheated on my best friend. Apparently that news started spreading since yesterday evening. Everybody who is anybody has heard of the news already but then again that do not concern me. Why you may ask, and I will reply that Alyssa doesn't care about things like that. She is used to back talk and negative comments. Those don't get to her again. When we were small and she was always getting hurt by what people say about her. I will retaliate by beating that crap out of whoever said what hurt her. When she saw that I was always getting into trouble, she started to build her amour and now anybody who has
Alyssa pov.Time for tryouts. Time I have been dreading. I hate the look of pity that people send my way especially girls in the squad. Some openly scoff at me, they think that I will not remain in cheer leading, they forgot how the group was before I became leader, and they forgot all I did for them. I hate ungrateful people. They make me so mad that I seriously consider being bitchy to them but then again I will remember that Micah hates bitchiness.Of all things for him to hate, why does he have to hate that one. I went to the locker room to change into my uniform only that as I got there I saw my things from my locker on the floor and a note on them which said ' we don't need you. Signed T. ' I am officially angry. That is it. I don't mean to sound like a record or like those people who say the most clichés stuff when it comes to revenge but Tiffany will surely regret this.
Micah pov.I knew something like this would happen. It might have taken two months but my heart broke for those two months since all I could do was just stand by and watch it happen.I am crushed.Alyssa and Jake are talking again, she forgave that bastard easily. Too easy in my dictionary. If it was up to me I will never let him back in her life but it isn't up to me. It is never up to me. All I will ever be with her is just friends, why can't she see that it kills me. I tried, I tried for two months, I really tried to make her see me in a different light, to make her see me in another way than just a friend but she doesn't even notice. I will always be looking in from the shoulders of whoever she decides is the lucky guy who gets to share her life. I hate that fact. Still with all this that has been happening you would think
This is the end of our story, our love story. The one that started with the letter I wrote for her, the one that started a year ago but burned as fiercely as a raging inferno. An inferno that was put out too quickly. An inferno that died the day Alyssa died. Now she is being laid to rest but as she is being buried so is my heart. I have finally conquered my anxiety attacks. I no longer feel anything. I am now cold and unfeeling. It scares my family. I can see it in their eyes when they look at me and share a worried look between themselves, I can see it when my siblings try to cheer me up, they don't do what annoy me any longer, the pranks have died with Alyssa. Sometimes I wish we never started dating if that means that she would still be alive.Then I would slap myself and stop assigning blames or 'would haves' because it never change anything. Alyssa is still gone and I cherish every moment we spent together. Every kissed we shared, every look th
**** Within two weeks, I relapsed and now I am back in the hospital. Doing chemotherapy and having a therapist come to deal with my anxiety. I know for a fact that if I am not careful this period I would end up with an anxiety disorder. Alyssa would certainly not want that for me. I can see it clearly in my head, if Alyssa was alive and something like this is happening, she would have hit me at the back of my head and order me to get my shit cleaned up. That is my girlfriend for you.... That was my girlfriend for you. I still can't believe that she is gone. It is too unsettling to discover that she is not by my side or that she didn't go to get something and that is to reason for her not being able to be with me physically. I cannot believe it that she is gone, sure I know that she is gone but my mind can't wrap around the fact that I will never see her face smiling or pouting or giving me that look that is sp
Micah pov. Even before the doctor came out with the news that Alyssa was gone. I knew that she was gone. I now know what the sharp pain meant. It meant that my soul mate was dead. I have been numb ever since I entered the car, I came out and did everything my family did but my mind was blank... The doctor came out and her parents rushed to him but he just removed his mask and shook his head. My sweet bratty princess was gone and it was confirmed, that was when the first sob teared out of my throat and I held on tight to my mother, I felt people surrounding me but I could not pay attention to them. I am without my soul mate, my best friend. How would I survive? This is all her mother fault, normally I try not to point fingers and assign blame but I have to this time. It is all her fault, if she had let Alyssa do whatever she wants, we wouldn't even be in this town now. If she had not forced Alyssa to be her maid o
Micah povWill you grow up man? I asked my brother as I hit him with the back of my hand. I am only thirteen, so no, not yet. Mike replied annoying the hell out of me. What did I do to deserve this, right from the moment he was born he has done nothing except annoy me. Mike, stop. Alyssa call put him in a good mood let's hope that the good mood last for a little while. Don't make it evaporate so quickly. Celine said as Mike and dad chuckled at her statement. What is this? Gang up and tease elder brother day? I asked not amused. No, that was yesterday. Mike replied. That is why we annoyed the hell out of you. Celine added. You mean like how you are doing right now and how you also did last two days. I pointed out. You are right. Annoying e
Micah povWeeks laterPreparing for Alyssa parents marriage is taking a toll out of me, well out of Alyssa, which affect our relationship and in turn, affect me. Sometimes I wish I could kidnap her and hide her away from her mother who has turned into brideizza. I don't get the deal, you have being married to this man for eighteen years only to divorce him saying that you no longer feel sparks or whatever silly excuse she gave eleven months ago only to come back three months later and plead with him that she made a mistake and that she still wants to be in his life then get remarried in less than a year of being apart. Too crazy, she didn't apologize to Alyssa and although she was welcomed by her husband... Ex-husband and soon to be husband again and also my parents, Alyssa and I never did welcome her back. Alyssa was hurt by her leaving and Al never forgive someone who hurt her ea
Micah povI was getting ready to take my car to the mechanic to see if there was anything that could be done to salvage the situation when my mother called me from down stairs saying I had a visitor, I groaned as grabbed a tee shirt and quickly out it on as I hurried down the stairs with my keys in my back pocket only for me to stop at the last step when I saw who it was.Alyssa, someone whom I was clearly not expecting to see. I was even tempted to not believe my eyes because I was certain that Alyssa would never apologize for what happened, the highest I was expecting her to do is to concede to the fact that maybe she was not right with her actions and even then, it would be done grudgingly. Alyssa was not the kind of person to apologize and that was why I was finding it hard to believe.Then my siblings started their snickers in the background, the tv they were watching was long forgotten as they turned to face us.
Alyssa Pov,How did me and Micah go from a candlelight dinner to fighting? I have no idea but what I do have an idea of is that he is irrational and my feelings are rightly justified.And what I am also sure of is that he might not want me again.Yes, I might sound dramatic but it is the truth, Micah cares very much about his car, I think me and his mother are the only ones who are allowed to seat in the front seat and I just keyed his car.I know, I wasnt really thinking. I just got upset because he was not relenting, it was just me saying goodbye to Jake.Jake was going away to college, and based on what happened at his party, I did not really talk to him and although he got on Micah nerves, it did not change the fact that although Jake sting my pride by sleeping with Tiffany but I broke his heart when I broke up with him just to be with Micah.
Alyssa povHello honey, it has been long since we talked. Tiffany stated trying to hug me with a false smile which I certainly did not believe.She had ambushed me on my way to get drinks for me and Micah because since we arrived at the party together, we have been inseparable and have been sitting on the couch together, not making out but certainly more touchy feely than usual, I think it is finally getting into their heads that we are a couple.I have been happy at that and feeling high and staring into the face of Tiffany, that high is slowly being expired and I was not in the mood to feign happiness at seeing her.What do you want? I asked but instead of my tone to come out as hostile, it came out as defensive.I frowned at my words and I was not the only one who caught up on the defensiveness that was in my tone because Tiffany jumped on it by crowding my space.
Micah povApparently, kissing in front of your friends and those who you went to high school with is not enough to convince people anymore that you are in a relationship with your best friend.Granted, it was me and Alyssas fault for always coming up with crazy schemes and being too close outside. It was annoying enough to Jake wanted Alyssa but it was nothing compare to the girls who me and Alyssa went to school with as they all, all of a sudden wanted to hang out with me. Alyssa was not a happy camper at the attention which they paid to me.You know that you look cute when you pout. I teased Alyssa to get her mind off the fact that we were invited to go for a party tomorrow and in Jake home nevertheless.You know, you ought not to annoy me especially since I am in a bad mood. Alyssa retorted as I sighed.I let go of the trash bag in my hand as we were in the process of cleaning the la