Years After The “Incident”

After 3 years, from seeing Clarabella, turning into that awful thing, and after Miranda and I last held each other. I had stayed up all night, thinking of her. As daylight peaked through my window, I slowly got out of bed, running my fingers through my hair as my legs hung off the side of my bed. All I felt was pain and lonyless. I got up, changed into my black shirt, pants and jacket. Putting my red converse on. I grabbed my art pad, my phone and earbuds and started walking towards the door, before i could open the door, Mike came running from his room to me. "Hey Alex! Where you going?" Mike asked, I turned my head sideways, for him to only see the side of my face. "Nowhere important. Why?" I replied. Turning to face him. "Because, I was wondering if you wanted to go with me to see Justin."my eyes opened, I didn't know what to say. "Uh sure I guess." I replied back, I sat my art pad down on the kitchen counter, Mike put his shoes on, grabbed his keys and walked out the door with me. We drove for an hour or so, I didn't really pay much attention, I was listing to my music the whole way there. As we approached to Justin's house,my heart raced as we pulled into their driveway. When Mike turned the car off, he looked at me, trying to make me smile. "Come on Alex, it's only been 3 years since you and Miranda have held each other or talked. Please try and say something to her." I looked at him, tears almost came to my eyes. "Okay." I replied my voice starting to

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break, Mike looked at me, his smile started to fade. "Go ahead and go inside, I'll be there in a minute." I said, my head looking at the floor. Mike nodded his head, he opened his door, and started walking towards Justin's house. As I looked at the ground, tears came to my eyes. What if she doesn't feel the same way towards me anymore? I thought. I dried my tears, put some makeup on to cover the sadness on my face. I got out of the car and started walking towards the front door. Before I twisted the handle, I heard mumbling coming from the side of the house. I walked off the front porch, walked to the corner of the side of Justin's house, as I hide my face, more tears came flowing down my face, I backed away so fast that I hardly made a sound. I went back to the front door, twisting the handle to the door. Mike and Justin stared at me as more tears came down my face. Justin had never seen me cry before. Mike rushed over to me, holding my head against his chest, my arms wrapped around him. "What happened?!" Justin asked, I looked at him as tears ran down the side of my face. "Ask your sister! She will tell you!" I screamed, I loosened my arms from Mike, I opened the door, ran past the car, and ran into the woods. Mike and Justin yelled and screamed my name as I kept running. "Justin go see what Miranda is doing! Alex has never been hurt this bad before." Mike said, running in the same direction as I was. "Okay. I'll talk to her and you talk to Alex." Justin replied,

walking over to the side of the house. When he walked to the corner, he saw Miranda kissing another girl, her eyes closed and everything. "MIRANDA!" Justin screamed, his eyes opened wide. Miranda flinched, her face red. "Justin! It's not what you think!" she replied, trying to cover her butt up. Justin's face was red like a cherry. "Alex saw you I hope you know that!" he continued, walking closer to her. Miranda's face went pale. "No I didn't know." Miranda was trying to hide her face behind her shoulder. "Yeah well, she just ran off crying because of what you just did! Mike went after her so that she wouldn't get hurt!" Justin continued to shout at her. "I'm sorry! It was just that its been 3 years since we last spoke and seen each other that I thought she had moved on." Miranda finally said, tears started to form in her eyes. Mike kept running after me, screaming my name as I ran, deeper into the woods. "Alex please! I just want to take you home!" I had stopped running, Mike had finally caught up to me. "Fine, Take me home. I never want to come back her ever again!" I shouted, turning around and started running back to Justin's house. I slowed down for Mike to catch up. As we exited out of the woods, Miranda and Justin were standing on the porch. "Finally caught her." Mike said as he tried to catch his breath. "Okay, Alex, do you wanna stay for dinner like we planed or do you wanna go home?" Justin asked me, walking towards me as I stood beside Mike in the driveway. "I want to go

home actually." I replied, walking back to Mike's car. "Okay, we'll see you later Alex." Justin replied, giving me a hug as I walked over to the car. As I opened the car door, Miranda walked over to me, tears down her face. "Alex I'm so sorry!" Miranda begged as I got into the car