Andy’s Point of View

After an hour-long lunch at the pizza restaurant near my house we went to a cute greenspace across the street to hangout for a bit while deciding what movie we’d go to. I pulled out my cigarette package from my jacket pocket, ignoring the conversation Jinxx, Jake and Ashley were having while I lit a smoke. After a small argument, they finally decided on the movie. I breathed in the smoke and looked at my friends. Of course Ashley, Jake and Jinxx were excited for the movie since they were the ones who picked it, but CC seemed excited too. Which wasn’t surprising if I was being completely honest: CC was always excited. I glanced at Sandra, who seemed pretty much indifferent towards the whole thing, and sighed. I was the only one who wasn’t happy about the choice in the movie.

I had looked up the reviews on the movie when I had seen the trailer and although I loved horror movies, I hated extremely gory films and that’s exactly what this movie was: a complete fucking bloodbath. But I forced a smile onto my face, forcing myself to seem excited when Jinxx looked in my direction. I had to agree to see the film because I knew how badly Ashley wanted to see it since he had mentioned it during our drunken after-sex talk, and I just wanted him to be happy. I guess it helped that Jinxx wanted to see it too. In fact, I think Jinxx had mentioned wanting to see the movie once too… I think.

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“Wow.” CC muttered as we walked into the theatre, which was packed. The lineup to get tickets was at least 75 people long and growing. I sighed.

“Don’t people have anything better to do on a Sunday?” Ashley whispered to Jinxx and myself. I chuckled at the irony.

“What time is the movie at?” I asked.

“4:30.” Sandra replied, looking around her with a look of disgust on her face. She hated crowed areas.

I looked at my watch. “So in about ten minutes.”

CC groaned. “We’ll never make it.”

“We can just go to a later show.” I suggested. “Like the 7:45 one?”

“What will we do for three hours?” Jake asked.

“Uh, I don’t know. Walk around the mall? I need to pick up something for my grandma’s birthday anyway.” I replied, shrugging. “I’ll wait in line for tickets and meet up with you guys later.”

“I’ll wait in line with you.” Ashley said. He turned to the others, grinning like an idiot. “Give me your money.”

CC and Jake handed us twenties while Sandra fished around in her bag for a five, a ten, and a bunch of change. I refused to take any money from Jinxx though.

“No.” I said firmly, gently slapping away the twenty he was trying to shove in my hand. “Dude, you bought me lunch, so I’m buying your ticket.”

“Fine.” He said, shoving the money into his jean’s pocket before leaning over and kissing me softly on the mouth. “See you soon baby.”

“Okay.” I whispered, smiling slightly. “I love you.”

“I love you too.” He replied, kissing me once more before walking away with Sandra, Jake, and CC.

I stared after them for a few moments before Ashley brought me back with an awkward cough.

I smiled apologetically at him. “Shall we get in line then?”

He returned my smile. “Sure.”

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The silence between Ashley and myself was torturous. The last time we were alone together we were drunk and fucking each other. I looked down at the thought, feeling the heat rising to my cheeks. Ashley was clearly thinking the same thing as he was looking everywhere except for at me. I shuffled my feet and began picking at my fingers; desperately wishing I was wearing nail polish so I could actually have something to pick at. I cleared my throat.

“So…” I began, wanting to break the silence between us. I paused for a second and sighed, not knowing what to say.

“So?” Ashley replied, still not looking at me.

“So what’s up?” I said lamely. Thankfully though, Ash laughed.

“Oh, you know. Just waiting in line to buy tickets for a movie. You?”

I laughed. “Same actually.”

“Really?” Ash said with mock surprise. He finally looked at me, his eyes wide with fake enthusiasm. “Oh my god that’s so weird.”

“I know. It’s like we’re twins or something.” I chuckled.

We laughed slightly and fell back into silence. Finally, Ash decided to break it.

“So, you didn’t tell Jinxx then?”

I paused. I didn’t want to talk about this. Not here where there were so many people that could overhear. “No, of course I didn’t. I told you I wouldn’t.”

“I know. I’m just… Thankful I guess. Like, I know you don’t want to lose Jinxx. That’d suck and it’d be for nothing since I’m moving. Not that it matters, even if I wasn’t I wouldn’t expect you to leave him for me since you don’t want m-”

He was starting to ramble. I grabbed his arm to cut him off. “Hey. Don’t say that.”

“So you would leave Jinxx for me if I wasn’t moving?” Ashley’s eyes searched my own. I looked down. The hope in his eyes made my heart hurt.

“I don’t know Ash.” I whispered, removing my hand from his arm. “Like, I love you. I really fucking love you. But… I love him too. If you weren’t moving, I’d be stuck.”

“Well thank fucking God I am so that your choice is obvious.” Ash replied after a moment. His voice was hard and he was seemingly pissed right off. But because I knew him so well I knew he was just trying to hide how hurt he was. He was just trying to hide the fact that he wanted nothing more than to cry.

“Ash, don’t be like that.” I said quietly. Still, he refused to look at me. I reached over and gently grabbed his chin in between my thumb and forefinger, forcing him to look at me.

“What?” He asked. I could tell the question wasn’t as forceful as he wanted it to be.

“I love you Ashley Purdy, and I always will.”

Ash paused. “I love you too, Brighteyes, and I know I will never stop. I will always love you. You’re my everything.”

I smiled. “You’re my everything too, Ashy.” I felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my chest as I spoke those words. For weeks now I had been trying to deny the fact that I still needed Ashley in my life, that he was still the only one for me. I was trying to lie to myself, trying to pretend that Ashley Purdy wasn’t my soul mate and that Jinxx was. But as I spoke those words, I knew they were true. Ashley and I were meant to be together. We just couldn’t ever be together. It was impossible now that he was moving, and we both knew that.

At that thought my heart began to hurt. I felt tears coming to my eyes, but I blinked them away, desperately trying not to cry. I looked into Ashley’s brown eyes and smiled before leaning over and gently connecting my lips with his.


Jinxx’s Point of View

I regretted leaving Ashley and Andy alone. I knew that Andy was still deeply in love with Ashley, and it was obvious that Ashley still loved Andy. That fact didn’t really bother me before because I had trusted Andy, but everything changed when I woke up at five this morning and Andy wasn’t next to me.

Of course I had told myself not to worry and that Andy had probably just woken up before me and went out for a smoke, but after half an hour of lying in bed waiting for Andy and him not showing up, I knew something was wrong. I had even went outside to look for him. When I couldn’t find him I knew he went to Ashley’s. That fact was proved true when he had shown up at 6:55, clearly hung over as fuck.

He didn’t know that I knew because I had went back to bed before he got home. I also didn’t say anything, as much as I wanted to. I didn’t want to risk losing him. I didn’t even know for sure if he cheated on me actually, but my gut was telling me that he did and that they did more than just kiss last night. Especially because Andy was trying to have sex with me that night and I refused.

“Jinxx!” CC called, pulling me away from my thoughts.

“Huh?” I mumbled, bringing a hand to my face.

“Which shirt do you like?”

“I don’t know. That one.” I said, pointing at a random black shirt CC had gripped in his left hand.

CC lowered the shirts. “Are you okay?”

“Yeah, I’m fine. I’m going to go wait with Andy and Ashley. I don’t feel like shopping right now.”

I left the store after CC, Jake and Sandra waved goodbye. Just like the theatre the mall was also packed with people. I pushed my way through a group of young girls, ignoring their dirty looks, and walked quickly towards the cinema. I don’t know why, but I had a really bad feeling about Andy and Ashley. At the thought, my pace quickened.
Eventually, I reached the escalator that led up to the cinema. I got on behind an elderly couple and had to physically force myself not to shove them aside and race up the stairs.

It’s fine. Just calm down. You’re probably freaking out about nothing. I told myself firmly, but the knot in my stomach telling me otherwise wouldn’t go away.

Finally, I reached the top of the escalator and pushed my way to the ticket booth. Just in time to see Andy reach over and press his lips softly against Ashley’s.


A/N: Hi guys! I know this is a really shitty chapter, and it’s probably boring and shit. And I haven’t read back through it so I’m sorry if it makes no sense at ALL… But I felt like you guys deserved another chapter because you’re wonderful readers.

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