Forever The Best Friend [Completed]

Chapter 21 - A Girl In An Oversized Aeropostale Shirt Gets My Sleeve Wet

I've been waiting for this chapter the entire time I've been writing this book. I hope you'll like it. Maybe.

Ed's POV

She's just my best friend.

I liked the way she smiled, the way she talked, and the way her eyes screamed a thousand words, but we were just best friends.

But our story wasn't an ordinary best friend story. It was something more.

Ever since we were kids, we were best friends. We would always play together at the park, and I would always visit her in their house, since I didn't like staying in mine. I had and still have family problems.

My mother left me. I got stuck with my cruel and sadist father who had always beaten me up for every single mistake that I made. The marks on my skin were gone, but what he had hurt inside me will never heal. His belt hitting my back still haunted me every night.

He married this woman named Cassandra who was 10 years younger than him, and she thought that she could actually replace my mother. But no. No one can replace her.

Sidney always tried convincing me to sort out my family problems, but she just couldn't understand how hard it is. Even I myself couldn't understand how hard it is.

Cassandra may be nice to me, but everytime I see her, she just reminds me that my mother left me. I never told that to Sidney.

Sidney was everything to me. I didn't know how I could ever live without her. Seriously. She's like my oxygen, only sometimes when she plays with me and covers my mouth and nose so I couldn't breathe, she may actually be the reason for me to end my life. Of course she would never kill me intentionally. Maybe.

Sometimes I make her so angry, that I wonder how could she not kill me yet. Not that I wanted her to kill me but, you get what I mean.

Also, she was a tardy teenage girl. Every morning I pick her up, so even though I wake up early, I always get late. I always get in trouble for being tardy because of her. Not only at school, but also at home.

But hey, that's what friends are for right? She even had this really old alarm clock so she could wake up early. Even I would've never used that alarm clock. It was just creepy.

But sometimes, she's just too hard-headed. Harder than a rock. For example, prom.

The year before, I admit she looked stunning at prom. Even though she wasn't smiling and looked like someone who got robbed while wearing a prom dress, she was still the most beautiful girl that night.

I couldn't keep my eyes off of her, but that was just my little secret.

But I liked Aubrey Hart. I didn't know why, but her beauty just captured me. We never really talked or anything, but every night I dream of her and me being together (I know I sound like a girl).

It was a simple high school crush, and Sidney knew everything about how I liked Aubrey. She hated her and I had no idea why.

At prom, I wanted both Sidney and Aubrey to be nominated as prom queens. I didn't know who to vote. My best friend, or the girl I liked.

Sidney didn't want to get nominated, and Aubrey wanted to win. I thought that maybe Aubrey already had a lot of voters, so I voted for Sidney. Both of them did get nominated, but Sidney acted like an ape in a dress the whole pageant.

A cute little ape, though.

I didn't know why, but I found it funny and cute. I was laughing the whole time, but it wasn't because she looked stupid, but because she looked so adorable (she did look stupid, though).