Chapter inspiration: Boy Without Batteries – Man Overboard

Jack felt the urges to scream at Alex every time he saw him. He couldn’t believe that his best friend would turn down the girl of his dreams just to get back with Lisa. Sure, Lisa never did anything to make him hate her, but Jack could see how perfect Victoria was for Alex, and there Lisa was, just messing it all up for them.

On the day of the happening, Jack had returned home with a case of beer to find Victoria curled up in her room, tears falling slowly down her cheeks. He held her close while listening to her rambles of “why doesn’t he trust me?” and “why doesn’t he still love me?” Jack wished he could answer those questions as he pushed small strands of hair from her eyes, looking around at her almost trashed room. She had pulled at her sheets, threw her trash barrel to the ground, and ransacked her hope chest with papers overflowing.

Jack had looked to the side of her, spotting her old high school sketchbook practically ripped apart. Pages of vintage sketches were scattered around them, all torn apart. It had taken Jack a second to realize the drawings were of Alex she had drawn when they were together. Jack never had been the one to grow soft on a person’s doomed relationship, but he could almost feel his heart breaking inside of him.

After a few days, Victoria decided to be the bigger person and not have Lisa grow more suspicious by taking her offer of lounging around her place. Jack had advised her not to since seeing her in the state she was just days ago, but she overlooked his advice.

She wished she hadn’t ignored him though, because Alex was always around coincidentally when she hung out with Lisa. She constantly had to watch them cuddle and kiss and it was honestly killing Victoria inside to see them together. Her friendship with Lisa ended up becoming a torture method.

But despite all the lovey dovey moments he had with Lisa, Victoria always happened to notice the way Alex’s eyes glided to hers. Sometimes he would stare for a bit too long, almost as if he were apologizing over and over again. Needless to say, it never helped with the situation at hand.

An hour before having to leave for work, Victoria had stopped by Lisa’s. The girl had said something about a plate of brownies she had made for Victoria. (Victoria was never one to turn down food.) She had knocked on Lisa’s door a few times before walking in and finding her in the kitchen with Alex kissing her ear while she stirred something. The sight almost made Victoria barf.

“Hey,” the dark blonde greeted while setting her work visor on the island.

Lisa turned with a smile on her face. “Oh, hi! Work soon?”

“Too soon,” Victoria laughed softly, noticing Alex glancing at her with sorrowful eyes. She quickly turned away as Alex went back to sliding his hands up and down his girlfriend’s hips and mumbling things in her ear that made her giggle. Yep, she was going to vomit.

“Your plate of brownies is on the table, Victoria. I was in baking mood today.” She squealed and started to bombard Victoria with questions on how she’s been and how was her day. Victoria gave a usual shrug to most questions, seeing as Alex kept viewing her way with the same look in his eyes.

Victoria took the plate from the table and announced it was her time to leave. She started to walk out the door when she was surprised by Alex walking her out. “Bye, Victoria!” Lisa waved and then winked at Alex. “Don’t take too long, baby.”

Alex only let out a sullen chuckle as he held the door open for Victoria and led her out to the elevator. Victoria held the plate of brownies tightly and looked at her shoes. “You need to stop with this whole staring charade whenever I’m around.” She said, looking straight in his eyes.

“What?” He acted dumb, but she could see behind it.

“She’s already been suspicious, Alex. Don’t make it any worse.” She shook her head and pushed the elevator button to go down.

“It’s you too, you know.” He crossed his arms over his chest.

She furrowed her brow. “That’s bullshit, I haven’t done anything.”

“All I’m saying is that we’re tempting each other.”

“We? You’re the one who keeps on looking at me!”

“Victoria―”

“I hope you realize that you were the one who was too scared to break up with your girlfriend, and the one to not tell the person you used to trust with your life why you couldn’t break it off. I’m done with your bullshit, Alex.” She pushed the button more times, cursing under her breath about the slowness and turned back to him. “And, you know what? Even through all of this, I still love you and I would still tell you everything. But that’s okay, because someday I will get over you. Someday I’ll finally realize how your bullshit worked on me and I’ll get over it.”

He scowled at her, words escaping him.

She almost mocked him by crossing her arms over her chest. “Why do you always put me through misery?”

He still remained quiet as the elevator doors finally opened. Victoria gave him one last scoff and walked inside the cart, pressing the button for the lobby. “Oh, and by the way,” she spoke up, “your penis still isn’t all that it’s crapped up to be.”

The doors closed with a slam. Alex’s demeanor changed as he almost started to pull out his hair, muttering under his breath loudly, “Fuck!” He wanted to push the elevator button to take him down to the lobby. He wanted to catch her before she left, grab her in his arms, and apologize a hundred times while kissing her whole face. But he still stood there, his feet planted to the ground as he whispered to himself, “Why do you always fuck everything up, Gaskarth?”

Notes

I already started on the next chapter last night because I had time :3 It's not finished yet, but it should make up a little for all the anger in this chapter!
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