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Broken Connection

Five Minutes Of Mood Changes

Maya: We were right after all.
Mike: What do you mean?
Maya: Vic and Naira went on a date yesterday!! :D
Mike: No way!
Maya: Yes way! They even made out and shit. It was honestly adorable.
Mike: Good for them! Honestly, Vic hasn’t gotten laid in ages. I will congratulate him today.
Maya: Oh! Then you can find out his side of the story! I’m actually so curious! Will you please do that for me?!
Mike: You know this is not a soap, right? This is my brother and your best friend we’re talking about.
Maya: Exactly!! That’s what makes this even more exciting than a soap!

Mike’s POV

I smiled down at that last message and locked my phone. I shook my head as I thought about the WhatsApp conversation I just had with Maya. Conversations with her always had me surprised somehow. Maya never did what people expected her to do and that was one of the reasons why I was intrigued by her. I had known her for almost three years now and every time I thought I knew her pretty well, she did something I could’ve never expected.
I opened the door of my car and got out, heading towards the concrete building in front of me. This time Maya wasn’t the only reason why I was thinking about the conversation on my way towards the studio, but also the things she said in it. Vic and Naira were ‘a thing’. Although I didn’t really see it coming, I suddenly remembered all those little things that should’ve rung a bell.
Vic was indeed very happy lately. Suspiciously happy. And he was hanging out with Naira more and more, hitting a peak after the whole Jaime thing.
I was truly happy for him, though. He deserved it after all the horrible shit he has gone through in the past. And I didn’t know Naira for long, but she seemed like an amazing girl. I suddenly felt kind of guilty for not trying to talk with her more. She was Maya’s best friend and my brother’s soon-to-be girlfriend and I feel like I knew her the least out of all of the guys. It was just whenever she was around, Maya was there too and I was just drawn to her somehow…
Ugh, I wish I just could not be in love with Maya anymore. It doesn’t exactly make things easier for me. The thing is, I know I need my space, otherwise I will never get over her, but at the other hand space is the last thing I want.
Of course the thought that she would might want to be with me now Jaime and her are over had gone through my mind. It’s just wasn’t that easy in reality. I knew Maya had fallen hard for Jaime and that her feelings had been there for a while. Besides, I had dug a deep hole for myself long ago and that hole was called ‘Friend Zone’.
I sighed as I walked into the studio building and tried to put my mind on something else. While walking through the halls, I said ‘hi’ to a few people I knew from here. Me and the guys had practically lived here lately to record everything for our new album. It was almost finished now, which made us even more eager to finish it since so many people have waited so long for us to release a new album.
I walked the way to the studio without thinking and immediately crashed on the couch next to the door. I looked to my left and winked to Tony who was sitting beside me. He rolled his eyes and laughed. “You’re kind of late.” he said, but it didn’t sound like he minded it very much.
I shrugged. “I’m always late. When are you guys going to stop trying to make me show up in time?” I said and looked around the room.
Vic was having a conversation with our producer Dan at the other side of the room next the panels. Vic mostly did all the talking. It didn’t matter if it came down to interviews, meetings or other important stuff, we always let him handle things. It wasn’t that we weren’t ambitious, Vic just had a talent for convincing people and making them like us. I had respect for him, because I wouldn’t be able to do that.
“When you’re starting to show up on time.” Tony said grinning. He took up an acoustic guitar from a stand in front of him and started strumming random chords.
In the corner of my eye I saw that Jaime was sitting on a chair left from the couch we were sitting on. He was going through something on his phone and I was pretty sure he was trying to avoid conversation. It wasn’t like Jaime to do so at all, but he had been awfully quiet since the whole thing with Maya and Naira happened. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the silence. I was still too mad at him to bear his stupid jokes.
I guess we all had trouble dealing with Jaime right now. On one hand he was our best friend, he practically felt like family, but on the other hand he had betrayed one of our other best friends and another innocent girl.
Vic was not really mad anymore, it was more like he was annoyed. Not that he showed that, he was desperately trying to keep the band together by acting this had never happened.
Tony was always friendly to anyone, so it was not really in his nature to be mean to Jaime. I guess it was easiest for him too. I mean, he didn’t really have a love interest that was hurt by him.
And me? I was just trying to not rip his throat out. Every time I looked at him, I couldn’t stop thinking about the fact that Maya had spent years being in love with him and that he just threw her away like trash. I couldn’t stop thinking about the fact that he was the reason of her being sad. I was perfectly aware that I shouldn’t scream at him or hit him, but I really wanted to too. Instead I ignored him completely. I didn’t know if he noticed that and I really didn’t care to be honest.
Dan stood up from his seat and walked out of the room. Vic turned around in his desk chair and rolled it over to us.
“We should record Floral & Fading soon now. I think we’ve recorded everything if we have that one. Dan thinks we should record it on Monday.” He said and he looked over all of us.
Jaime put his phone away and Tony put down his guitar. “Why not tomorrow?” Tony asked. “We’re ready to record and I thought we wanted to finish it as fast as we could”
A small smile grew on Vic’s face. “Because I’ve something else tomorrow.” He said and I saw that he had to try to hide his excited expression.
I suddenly realized what he said was talking about and grinned. I leaned over to grab Vic’s shoulder. “You're going on a date again, right? Congrats man!” I said and I leaned back into the leather couch.
Vic raised an eyebrow, his face showed confusion. He was about to open his mouth but I spoke up before he could. “Maya told me.” I said explaining how I knew about it.
Vic got a slight red color. “Of course she did.” He said rolling his eyes, but he still looked very happy. I could see that this girl already had a huge impact on him.
Tony leaned forward a bit, being surprised by the sudden change in the conversation. “Who's this date? And why does Maya know it before us?” He asked.
Vic lost a bit of the color in his face. It only occurred to me now that he might not wanted to share this with the us yet. At least not with Jaime there. A lot of peace could be lost if he knew.
To be honest, I knew Jaime still had some feelings for Naira and I hoped he suffered seeing her with his best friend. Did it make me a bad person that that was on my mind while it should be on keeping the band together?
Vic raised his hand to scratch the back of his neck. “Uhm yeah. I wanted to talk to you about that…” He said and remained quiet for a few seconds after. “The girl I’m dating is Naira.”
It was like a bomb dropped in the room. Even though I already knew it, it still felt to me like that.
I couldn’t help but glance towards Jaime. His face looked whiter than I had ever seen it and he stared at Vic with wide sad eyes. “Y-you’re dating Naira?” He asked.
I wondered how he was going to react and I waited for the moment he actually would. Maybe he would get really mad or insulted. Maybe he would act like he didn’t care or maybe he would cry.
Vic closed his eyes and took a deep breath. “I’m sorry, man. It just kind of happened and she is technically not your ex, so yeah.” Vic said calmly.
I hated the apologetic sound in his voice. “Why are you even apologizing?” accidently slipped out of my mouth. “He betrayed her. It’s his own fault that she is with you now and not with him.”
Vic sighed and shot me an angry glare. “Mike…” he said with a warning sound to his voice. He was trying to keep everyone happy, but when was he going to see that that was impossible? When was he going to see that he had betrayed one of our best friends? And of course his soon-to-be girlfriend!
The fact that he was doing nothing about that made me even more mad. I already felt adrenaline rush through my veins. “What?! It’s not your fucking fault that he can’t treat women with respect.” I snapped back to Vic and the frown on his face got deeper. I knew that deep down inside he knew I was right.
“Mike, why can’t you just drop it? You’re the only one who is not talking to me. The rest has already moved on.” Jaime said, his voice full of annoyance.
I slowly turned my head to him and saw to my disgust that he had meant what he had said. That fucking asshole! I stood up from the couch and walked over to the chair Jaime was sitting in. I glared down on him and he glared back up to me. “You know why I can’t just drop it, Jaime? Because, unlike you, I actually care about my friends and I try to be there for them when they are down. When they get hurt, I get hurt. I honestly have no fucking idea why Tony and Vic have moved on so quickly after knowing Maya for three years. She was there for all of us when we were stressed or sad. Also for you, Jaime. And this is how you repay her.” I said. My voice wasn’t loud and I didn’t speak fast. I wanted every word to sink in now I was finally able to say what I thought.
The fire in Jaime’s eyes began to burn a little brighter and he stood up from his chair. We were now on eye-level of each other, only a little distance separating our noses from each other. Who would have known I would stand like this, in front of one of my best friends. “Mind. Your. Own. Fucking. Business.” Jaime said, he took a small break after every word.
“You made it my fucking business when you involved Maya in this!” I yelled now and my words echoed through the room.
In the corner of my eye I saw Tony moving on the couch. He was probably wondering if he should intervene before we would hit the shit out of each other. He was overlooking the situation to see how serious this was. “Guys, calm down. You’re both too angry to talk now.” he said a bit careful, afraid to set us off.
Jaime looked away from me and took a deep breath. “I have done bad things, I know. Believe me, I payed for them. And no, I don’t have the right to stop the thing going on between Vic and Naira, even though I want to. But I have the right to not like it, okay? I want to be your friend again, Mike. but you make it so hard on me.” he said, obviously containing himself. Annoyance just radiated off his face. I hated that look on his face, because it made me feel like he didn’t take me seriously.
“I have seen how you treat your friends. I don’t want to be one of them anymore.” I said, disgust dripping of my voice. I heard Tony and Vic release the breath they were holding and the anger that had left Jaime’s face returned again.
“I know I fucked up, okay!”Jaime said, now yelling for the first time. “It wasn’t my intention to hurt anyone. I’ve learned from it and now I’m trying to fucking move on. So please let me!”
“Yeah, they’re trying to move on too! But that’s a whole lot worse when someone you trusted betrayed them! Someone they had feelings for!” I snapped back.
Vic now stood up. It was obvious that he wanted to say something, but we hardly noticed him. At least I didn’t. “Oh please. We’ve been on a few dates. How hard is it to get over someone you’ve had three dates with?” Jaime said, obviously ignoring Vic too.
His ignorance drove me mad. “That’s easy for you to say! You didn’t have to see Maya break down crying. You didn’t have to see her skip meals, because she was too sad to eat. You didn’t have to see her face every time someone says your name.” I said and I knew that that hit him. Maya was so good at hiding her feelings, I was pretty sure he didn’t know how she felt about him.
Jaime’s face broke for a few seconds, but his anger got the upper hand again eventually. “Why do you care so much, Mike? Do you have feelings for her or something?” he asked.
My face fell immediately and I took a small step back. He had said it to challenge me even more, I bet he would've never expected that he was actually right.
I tried to put up my angry face again, hiding the fact that this had actually hit me, but I just couldn’t. His words had surprised me a lot and I couldn’t think of anything to say back. By the time I knew something, I knew I was too late. All three of the guys now looked at me with both pity and shock.
“What? No! Of course not! I-I just…” I began, but the rest of my words faded out. Like my body was trying to prevent me from lying.
“Mike, you can’t be serious…” Vic said. I couldn’t quite recognize the emotion in his voice, but somehow I knew it was disappointment. I didn’t know why. Probably because it would make the situation even harder. At least for him, for me it was already that hard.
I started shaking a bit, but contained myself and looked at Jaime again. Even his expression had softened. “You’re not half the person she deserves. I don’t feel a bit of pity for you. I think you deserve every single bit of this. It’s my fault that this even happened and I’m going to do everything to make this right again. If you only do the smallest thing to hurt her, you’ll never see me again.” I said, trying to sound intimidating. And I succeeded, because I saw the emotion in his eyes I was aiming for: fear.
With that said, I looked away and headed for the door. On my way I bumped up to Dan, who was looking at the scene with a steaming cup of coffee in his hands. His expression showed confusion. In the five minutes he had been away to get coffee, the moods had entirely changed.

Notes

heyyyy guys

Sorry this took so long. There is no excuse except for the fact that I started school again and homework is more than it has ever been....I promise I'll make it up to you.

Aweirdkindofyellow will update the next chapter in a few days. If she has time.

well okay bye

xxxx

Nicky

Comments

@aweirdkindofyellow
yeah, i understand. Plus- writing is a great way to keep your mind off of stress. ily <3 :)

ptv.love ptv.love
3/13/17

@ptv.love
Well, for me, things at school are only getting started. The perks of only having a year left... Writing is the perfect way to take a break, though.

@aweirdkindofyellow
that's totally okay. I hope you guys are doing well. <3

ptv.love ptv.love
3/12/17

@ptv.love
Oh my god, this is so awesome to hear. Thank you so much. Unfortunately were a little busy this week, but there's still so much to come. I have so many ideas and keep thinking of more. So, don't get too frustrated if it takes another little while. We haven't forgotten about this story, school is just getting in the way right now. We will update.

I just wanted to let you guys know... I've been binge-reading this over the past few days and now I'm finally caught up! and TBH- this is the best story i've read so far. PLZ update soon!! <3

ptv.love ptv.love
3/10/17