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Me and Mike both had a fight today, about El once again. The stupid thing where Mike takes all of his attention and focuses solely on El. It’s like he forgets about me, about us and just returns to his shitty self.
(flashback to fight)
Will and Mike are standing in an empty classroom at school.
“You're pushing me away, again!” Will yells.
“I'm not pushing anyone away, SHE'S MY GIRLFRIEND.” Mike explains.
Will's eyes shimmer with tears as one falls down. He has tried to just give up on Mike so many times but he can't bring himself to.
“We were bestfriends! Now you treat me like I'm some random guy you don't even know!” Will gets closer to Mike, getting louder as he does.
Mike’s eyes wince knowing what he is doing is wrong.
“I-” He stutters.
Mike's head falls down into the palms of his hands. Will stares as more tears fall down his face, he barges out of the room but before he leaves he looks at Mike.
“If you can't maintain friendships with other people while in a relationship, then there's clearly something wrong with that relationship.” He says.
Mike's face lifts up fast as Will leaves the room.
(present)
Now I'm sitting in my room eating a whole pizza alone. We never really fight but he was ignoring me all week, pretending like I didn't exist. I don't understand what I did wrong. Suddenly I heard the doorbell go off, no one else was home so I guess i have to get it.
I get up pushing the pizza box to the other side of my bed, I walk towards the door opening it slowly. It's Mike, standing there with tears in his eyes.
“Can I come in?” He says.
I roll my eyes and walk away flinging the door closed, Mike catches it before it does, he walks inside behind me.
“I'm sorry!” he pleads.
Mike grabs my shoulder, turning me around right outside my bedroom.
“I said I was sorry, what else do you want me to say?” He says.
I look at him, frustrated.
“I don't want you to say anything, I want you to be here with me, that's all I want. You keep leaving me for El, like I'm not your friend? Like you don't care about me!” I say.
“I do care about you, will..” Mike's face gets sadder as his voice starts to break.
‘Then why? Why do you keep ignoring me, leaving me?” I replied.
“ I-, I don't know..” Mike seems confused, scared even.
Suddenly Mike snaps out of whatever his brain was doing and walks up to me, hugging me with both arms.
For a moment I give in but then I politely take his arms off of me as I look at him in the eyes.
“I just want us to be friends again, bestfriends. Like we used to.” My voice is quiet but heard.
He looks up at me.
‘Friends..” His voice is confused.
Eventually he nods, being compliant. We both return to our normal standing positions away from each other.
“I should go..” He says.
I sigh and smile a little bit.
‘Yeah, okay.” The awkwardness in the room is bigger than us, our voices are quiet yet so loud.
Before leaving he looks at me once more.
"I'm sorry by the way.” he says.
I nod.
“It's okay, really.” I smile towards him.
Mike opens the front door walking out of it, I close it behind him as he walks away. What was that? When I close the door, my head falls right into it, I let out a huge sigh. Eventually heading back to my room to sit and over think everything again.