I leave my footprints for the evidence

I woke up with my face in my pillow and my left leg off the bed along with my left arm. I'm pretty much half laying on air and half on the bed. I push my body parts back on and turn on my pillow. I open my eyes and see Alana staring at me. I push back only to fall off the bed due to my close proximity to the edge. "Sorry, Honey." She says. I rub my head and sit up. "It's fine, what time is it?" I asked standing up. "It is 2:30 pm." She said a little too cheery. I sigh and sit on the bed criss cross from her criss cross.

"It's too early." I say. She reaches over and shakes me by the shoulders. "Paige, if you sleep anymore I will rip your right nipple off." I hold my right boob in my hand and make an noise that certainly wasn't human. She laughs and stands up. "Get dressed, I'll make you a sandwich." I smile as she leaves the room. "I love you!" I shout at her. "Yeah, yeah!" She shouts back. I stand up and go through my suit case and pull out loads of stuff to wear today. Considering I'm hanging out with the guys again, I want to look semi-presentable.

This is how I cope with lose by the way, I don't think about, or doing anything about it. I pull out one of my favorite shirts and slip that on over my black bra. I pull on some new under wear and some ripped skinnies. I pull on a shit load of bracelets, not cause I'm scared of people knowing but because I'm seeing them for the first time in 6 years and that's not a discussion we need to have now. I pull on some socks and a couple new rings and such. I have 3 holes in each ear, a nose ring, spider bites, my belly pierced, and my tongue. Sure that's a lot but whatever, I was young and reckless.

I finish by letting my hair stay in it's natural wavy curly look and some mascara and eyeliner and I'm done. Heading down stairs to eat my sandwich. I walk into my kitchen, leaning over the breakfast bar. "What up, lady Jane?" I ask. She laughs and passes me my sandwich. "Turkey, yes!" I say taking a bite. "You're welcome." She says taking the seat next to me. I nod and kiss her cheek. Then the door bell rings. With only half my sandwich left I say fuck it and shove the rest in and run for the door.

I get to it and open it. "Hey, Matty." I say with a mouth full of sandwich. "Hey." He said with a laugh. I move out of the way and he comes in. I lead him to the kitchen where I steal Alana's coke. "Hey." She says to me. I get the bread out of my mouth and open my mouth. "This is Matt, Alana. Matt, this is Alana." "Nice to meet you." He says. She shakes his hand. "I call him Matty, everyone else calls him Flyzik." I said. "What?" Alana asks.

"Flyzik, it's my last name." Matt says. "Cool." Alana says. "So what time are we heading over Matty?" I ask. "We can head over anytime, I'm ready if you are. Alex said get there anytime after 12." I nodded. "You good?" I asked Alana. She's wearing burgundy skinnies with a white vneck. "Yep." She says standing up. We walk back into the living room and I stuff my feet into my shoes. I throw my bag over my shoulder.

We walk out of my house and go to Matt's car. We slide in Alana gets in the back cause she doesn't know Matt. We ride listening to Green Day, just like Matt and I used to. Matt would drive me to school cause we lived in the same neighborhood, so naturally we became good friends. Eventually we pull up outside a nice looking house. Alana takes my arm and we walk behind Matty to the front door.

Matt knocks but we hear Alex yell "Come in!" We do that opening the door and stepping in. "Yo dude, it's me. I brought two people with me, hope you don't mind." Matt says. I smile hearing Alex walk around the hallway. "No, as long as they're cool, we're good." He came around and looked at us. I smiled. "Hey, I'm Alex." Matt was about to open his mouth when I stepped forward. "Alexander, darling it's me. Anastasia." I said dramatically. Just like we used to.

His eyebrows wrinkled together before he realized who I was. "Holy Fucking Shit! Paige! I can't believe you're here, why are you here?! Oh that can wait, give me a fucking hug." He pulled me into his arms and I smiled taking in his smell. I missed him a lot. "Hey, Lex." I said after hugging for a minute. "Hey, Paige." He said back. We pulled away. "Oh right." I said turning to Alana. "Alex, this is my best friend, Alana." He stared at her for a moment.

I knew that look but much to Alex's dismay, she likes guys with muscles. But to my surprise when Alex stepped forward and took her hand and kissed it she blushed. I smiled and shrugged my shoulders heading off towards the kitchen. "Wait! Don't leave me, bitch!" I hear Alana yell. Followed by running. She linked our hands together and I walked into the kitchen and saw thta everyone else was outside.

After handing us a beer we followed Alex outside. "Hey, dipshits! You'll never guess who decided to crash our little get together?" Alex said sitting in a chair. "Is it a stripper?" Zack asked. "No, but turn around you wont recognize her." They turned around and stared at me. "That brunette is Alana, but I'm talking about the blonde." Alex said. Cass, Rian, and Zack stared at me. Cass stood up and pulled me into a hug.

"I knew I could count on you." I said. She pulled away and started hitting my shoulder. "Ow! Ow!" I yelled pulling away. "You. Deserve. Every. Last. One." She said in between hits. Then she stopped and turned to Rian. "Seriously, sure it's been a long time but not forever." She said to him. She walked over to me throwing an arm over me. "She was about 5'7 when she left, and not tan like at all." She continued.

I stared at them. "It's Paige, the answer we're looking for is Paige. You fucktards." She said. I laughed and watched their faces light up. They both jumped up and gave me a hug. "I missed y'all's hugs." I said. "Wow...did you just say y'all?" Alex asked as I took a seat on the bench pulling Alana with me. "Yeah, I live in the south." I said to them. "what are you doing up here then?" Rian asked. "Well, my mom was sick." I said. "Right, all the people around your house last night." Matt said.

I nodded at him. "Yep, she passed away last night." I said. "Alrigh, you don't wanna talk about that right now." Zack said breaking the silence. "So what has the great Paige been doing?" He continued. "Well, I moved to Cali, like planned but decided fuck psychology and went in a completely different direction. I went to school to become a cook and opened up a restaurant of my own down in Georgia. I'm a chef." I said being proud of myself.

"Congratulations." Cass said. I smiled. "Yeah, that's great." Rian said. I smiled even bigger. "So what do you do, Alana?" Alex asked. "I uhh... I'm a dentist. I know boring. But I took time off so I could help her do the restaurant and I seem to be enjoying it." "Yeah when you don't burn things." I added in. She gasped and punched my arm. I laughed and looked around at the faces I missed so much, but one was missing and I wanted him here.

Then the sliding glass door opened. "Hey, Jack." I tensed and never turned around. He came over and sat across from me, next to Zack. We all got quiet. "Hey, I'm Jac..." He stopped. Please. let that be that he remembers me, wait! Why the fuck do I care?! I turned to Alana and held out my hand. "This is Alana, that's Jack." I motioned towards Jack. He mouth was slightly hung open. I was so distracted having a good time earlier that I forgot I finished my beer. I stood up to grab another one.

I walked into the kitchen pulling out a new beer. I held it to the back of my neck before opening it. The sliding glass opened but I didn't open my eyes. "Hey... Paige, what are you doing here?" Jack asked. I removed my beer from my neck and opened my eyes. "I came back to see my mom, before she died." I said coldly. I smiled and it faded as I passed him to go back outside. He grabbed my upper arm turning me back. I pulled away. I still felt tingles, just like old times.

I wanted to rip his clothes of right there and make his moan my name loud. I stared at him, he's changed and looks good. His hair styled into a mohawk and the blonde streaks were now not streaks but almost half his head. He looked taller, he thing but not too thin. I missed him, he had more scruff now and I liked it. "Paige..." He started. I stood there stuck because he spoke my name, I missed that. He never used to say my name unless he was serious, climaxing or saying good bye.

"You seem different and You look amazing." He said. I smiled, genuinely. "Thanks, you too." I said. We stood there for a minute just taking the other in. "I l-like your shirt." He said with a stutter. I held one wrist in the other hand, suddenly uncomfortable. "Thanks." I said looking down at my feet. "You're taller, and more tan." He said taking a step forward. I stayed put still staring at my shoes. "Yeah, it happens when you move down south." I said. "Mhm." He said. I looked up at his gorgeous dark brown eyes, that melt my heart every time.

I stepped back knowing I can't do this right now. "Wait." He said grabbing my wrist again, keeping me there. "What?" I asked slightly annoyed. "Did you... did you at least do what you wanted and become what you wanted?" He asked as if it was a super important question. "No, I did something else." I watched his face change to almost upset. "That didn't matter though Jack, I wanted to go with you but you couldn't figure that out." I said grabbing my beer and heading back outside.

I sat down in Alex's seat cause he took mine next to Alana. I took a long swig of my beer and started a conversation with Zack but couldn't pay attention, I was lost thinking of the way my skin still tingled after all these years every time Jack touched it. I wanted him to touch me. Eventually the night turned late and it became no longer night but morning and I was buzzed and so were Alex, Zack-who was staying at Alex's, Alana, and Jack. Jack and I didn't talk anymore and that's probably for the best.

"So when ya heading back, Paige. Alana?" Alex asked. "We have 3 more days here in Baltimore before we have to be back for the grand opening of our second location." I said with a burp at the end. "We should hang out again." Alex added. "Most certainly my good man." I said to him making everyone laugh. Alex held out his phone and I took it putting in my number. "Matty, are you ready? I'm tired and Alana is a little too nice of a drunk, so we need to get her out of here." I said pulling her up with me.

She clinged to my side. "Come on, babe." I said. She wrapped her arms around my waist. "Love you." She said. I laughed and gave Alex a kiss on the cheek and waved to everyone else. "Night guys." I said. We walked into the house following behind Matt. We made it out to his car and we got in. We pulled out of the drive way and started to drive away. I looked in the car door mirror behind me and it looked like Jack was standing there. I blinked and turned. It started to rain and I knew that was the end of this fun evening.

We pulled up and I got Alana out. "Thanks, Matty. Call you tomorrow or something." I said as he pulled away. "Welcome." He said back. I walked Alana up to our room and changed her into Pj's. I did the same and crawled in. She curled into my side, which I don't mind cause I owe her for all the times she has helped me, which there have been a lot over the years. I kiss the top of here head and snuggle into the cover. "Love ya, Alana." I whisper falling asleep.

Notes

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