Heâd been ignoring you for weeks, he didnât answer the phone, he stopped hanging around all the places he knew youâd be. He just stopped being in your life, it was almost as if he never even existed in your life and you were sick of it.Â
Heâd been your best friend for years and youâd be damned if you just let him walk away that easily⊠and thatâs precisely what you were doing here at this exact moment. Out the front of his door that you had to climb two flights of stairs to get to.Â
You knuckles rattled gently against the wooden frame, your heart thumped rhythmically in your chest as you waited for him to answer the door. You had been waiting for so damn long.Â
âIâm âcomin, Iâm âcomin.â You could hear Dally mutter, he definitely wasnât expecting you to be standing outside his door.Â
âY/N.â His voice was stiff, forced and angry, he didnât want you here. âWhatâre ya doing here, huh kid?âÂ
He only called you kid when he was angry at you, when you had done something wrong⊠and you searched your mind, trying to figure out just what that could be. What line did you cross?
âLooking for you.â You said it with a simple tone, your shoulders shrugged and you looked at him as if this wasnât a big deal to you, but your charade was crumbling with every passing second.Â
âSo, you found me?â He shut the door behind you, he was shirtless, his jeans hung lowly on his hips as he searched through the wreckage of his room for a clean shirt.Â
âWhere have you been?âÂ
âAround.â He was snappy. âWhatâs it matter to you, kid? You ainât my girl. Youâre not my mother, not that she gives a hang about me, none.âÂ
âI care about you.â You sat on the edge of his bed, trying to find a single shred of the Dallas Winston you knew, and not the hood that the neighbourhood had notoriously branded him for.Â
âWell good for you, Doll, now get out of here. I got a hot date tonight.âÂ
A date. A girl. You wondered to yourself who that might be. And what she had that you didnât. You were never his girl, but you were comfortable being his best friend. You were comfortable being the sisterly figure in his life; but now it seemed that you werenât anything to him.Â
âA date?â You questioned, you forced a smile to burden your lips with untruthful feelings. âOh thatâs great, Dal. Can I see you afterwards?âÂ
âIâm busy, now get out of here.â He grabbed you by the arm as gently as he could muster so he could show you the way out, even though you both knew you knew your way around this place.Â
He opened the door and to your horror, you realized that you were crying. Tears were welling up in your eyes, and they fell one by one and they began to slide down your face like tiny rivulets.Â
You stopped him by placing a hand on his chest, you looked him in the eyes and you spoke.Â
âWhy donât you love me?â You pursed your lips together so that they would stop shaking. âYou did before, I know you did⊠and now you canât even stand to be around me. What did I do? I can fix it.â
The truth is, he had been in your life so long that you didnât know who you were without him.Â
âWhat?â Dallas muttered, he looked down at you with disgust. âY/N, you know I donât love no o-âÂ
âBullshit, Dallas, Bullshitâ You pushed him back against the wall as roughly as you could. âYou loved me. And you left me behindâÂ
He didnât say a word, he just stared at you⊠he stared at your chest heaving up and down, and the tears falling from your eyes. He silently wondered to himself what he had done to you. He didnât think youâd react this way.Â
âI should go.â You couldnât stand him just staring at you. Did he even care? âI shouldnât have came here.â
âWaitâ Before you could even cross the threshold his arms were wrapped around you. âDonât go.â
âYou donât love me⊠you donât want me.â You tried to push yourself out of his arms, you needed to leave. You could feel yourself breaking underneath his finger tips. âYou left me for some broad that doesnât give a shit about you.â
âThatâs not true. I love you, okay?â You looked at him, almost expecting him to laugh in your face and push you out the door. âYouâre my best friend and I love you. I never left you for some chick.âÂ
âBecause, Y/N, youâre so good. Youâre so pure. Youâre everything Iâm not. Iâm bad for you. You need someone in your life that is like you, someone who can make you happy.âÂ
âYou make me happy. Please donât leave me.âÂ
âOkay.â He said simply.