Noortje’s POV

I was making dinner when a familiar car drove up the driveway. It’s lights turned off and I looked out of the window. I didn’t know we were having people over today. The person got out of the car and slammed the door shut before hurrying to the front door of the house. I shuffled over to it as quickly as I could while drying my hands with a towel. The ringing of the doorbell started and I shouted that I was going to get it. As soon as I opened the door the person standing outside fell into my embrace and started sobbing. I hugged back and tried to calm them down. Never had I thought that this would happen, but I should have expected it. There was no way this was going to be avoided.

“Babe, who is it?” Tony came down the stairs but stopped when he saw me holding onto the panicked Danielle who had stormed into our house.

“I swear to god, I’m going to kill Vic,” I growled and held onto the other redhaired girl tightly.

We kept standing there until she finally calm down a bit. I urged her to come inside and led her to the living room where my brother was sitting. He looked between us and sighed, “I’ll go get the ice cream.”

Danielle gave me a confused look and I chuckled, “that’s my brother, don’t mind him. He’s the most loving gay guy I know.”

She nodded and sat down on the couch. I followed her and let her take her time before starting. There was a silence and Danielle opened her mouth the speak, but nothing came out and she started bawling her eyes out again.

“I know it’s not your fault,” she hiccupped in between sobs.

I pulled her into a hug again, “Vic told you, didn’t he?”

“He- He broke up with me.”

“He WHAT! Oh my god. I’m seriously going to fucking kill him! Why would he do that!”

“He said he likes you a lot and can’t get over you. I told him understood and that I would wait and help him, but he just got mad and broke up with me,” she hid her face in my shoulder and continued crying.

“Shh,” I cooed, “it will be ok. Vic will come to his senses and realise what a mistake he made. I told him countless of times that there never would be anything between us. I love Tony. There’s no way I will ever get together with Vic.”

“I know, I’m not mad at you. I just love Vic so much, Noortje.”

“He will come back, and if he doesn’t then you’re too good for him. I will always be your friend no matter what happens.”

Danielle stopped crying and sat up right. He face was red and puffy, and streaks of makeup were running down her cheeks. She didn’t deserve to feel like this. Vic screwed up big time. This could have been the only girl for him, yet he chases after a girl he has no chance with. Life really was unfair.

Ewout came back in and handed Danielle a tub of ice cream and a spoon, “He’s not worth it. Don’t waste your tears on a stupid mistake somebody else made. As great as a guy Vic seems, he really does fuck up a lot,” He sat down on the other side of Danielle.

This was why my brother was one of my favourite people in the world. He always knew how cheer people up, especially after break ups. When I had my first broken heart at sixteen years old, he helped me get over it. Even though he was 20 years old at the time, he still cared enough about a minor problem while the rest of my family ignored me in general. He went out and bought three different kinds of ice cream, five different chick flick movies, and a ton of chocolate. We even found every photo of him in my school yearbook and drew on his face. My brother really was the greatest person alive.

Danielle looked at me after having some scoops of ice cream, “aren’t you going to have any?”

I shook my head, “Spud doesn’t really like me eating it. I throw up and feel sick for the rest of the day if I do.”

“Oh ok.”

“You know,” Ewout began, “if needed, I will go out and buy some paint. We could go to his house and splatter his car with it. It’s what I did with Noortje after some guy used her.”

“Richard really was a dick,” I nodded.

“You actually did that?” Danielle seemed to giggle.

“Yeah, Ewout comes up with the best ideas ever. He’s the best big brother ever. I’ll share him with you if you want.”

“No, it’s fine. Vic was pretty mad and really looked upset. I don’t want to make it any worse.”

The doorbell rang again and I heard Tony go get it. Why were there so many people coming to our house? All I wanted was to have dinner, go to bed, and have a great day before Tony had to leave again in two days. We would have any time together for weeks after that. But Danielle was really important as well. I just hoped it wasn’t another broken heart coming through that door.

But no. Of course it was Vic, “Tony, I really messed up. I was telling Danielle everything and she was so sweet about it, but my mind was racing because I realised how stupid I was sounding and I sort of accidentally broke up with her. The ran out and I tried running after her, but I couldn’t find her anywhere, so i decided to come apologize to you and Noortje first.”

“Umm, well, apology accepted,” Tony replied, “And you’re lucky. You can apologize to Noortje and Danielle at the same time.”

“What?”

“She came here half an hour ago.”

Vic rushed into the living room and looked at both me and Danielle with sad eyes. He looked like a mess. I could tell he had been crying. His hair was in a mess, his clothes were sloppy, and he had bags underneath his eyes. He finally realised what a mistake he had made.

“I- I- I’m so sorry,” he breathed out, “Noortje, I should never have done everything I did to you. I was too stubborn to listen to you. Everything Jay, Jaime, and Mike said went to my head. I hadn’t considered that it could all be wrong. I’m so so sorry. I promise not to do anything like that anymore, it was all a mistake,” He then rushed to Danielle and kneeled in front of her, “Baby, please forgive me. I fucked up. You are the most amazing girl I know. You even told me that you were ok with the whole thing and I got mad at you. I shouldn’t have done that. I didn’t mean to break up with you. I was panicking, I didn’t understand why you forgave me. When it came out of my mouth I immediately regretted it, but I knew I couldn’t just take it back. It would have made it worse. I love you so much, Baby.”

Danielle pulled Vic up and crashed their lips together. I got off of the couch and walked over to Tony, Ewout had already left when Vic came in. Tony hugged me and kissed my forehead, “You really are going to be a great mom. I can’t wait till this little baby is born.”

“Me too,” I kissed his chin, “being pregnant is making me really hungry and tired… I’m going to continued making dinner.”

“You rest, I’ll finish it off.”

“Hmm, you sure?”

“Of course I’m sure. Let me cook for my lady before I leave her for over a month.”

“Ok, then.”

I had asked Vic and Danielle if they wanted to stay for dinner, but they decided to go home. That night I was able to fall asleep a lot easier. Vic was no longer going to bother me and me might have a chance to become good friends again. Slowly but surely everything was coming back together.

Notes

A short chapter to get me into it again. Updates will be less frequent, but I'm hoping for at least once a week, preferable more. Just two more weeks and Ill have a week of holidays. If my family doesn't decide to make plans, I'll be able to write.

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Settling the Vic liking Noortje conflict already. I wasn't sure how I was going to keep it up, so I decided to resolve it. Was this ok?
Also, This story is probably going to be a lot shorter than the prequel. I have a lot of stuff planned out, now all I have to do is write it. Let's see how that goes.