thirty-nine

Sorry I have been nonexistent lately.. hopefully that will change from now on.. atleast one update a week.. maybe more..

“LIAM!” I said yelling as soon as we walk into the apartment.

“The bitch is back.” Maggie said.

“Breathe.” Sidney whispered in my ear.

“Liam, can I talk to you?” I asked trying to stay calm.

“I’m glad you came back.” Liam said.

“Of course I would come back, Liam.”

“Right.. because you two are soul mates. How dare I try and mess with fate?” Maggie said.

“Maggie.. I think you should just let them figure it out.” Sidney said.

“You are just okay with this all?” Maggie asked Sidney.

“Yeah? You just deal with it.” Sidney said.

“I’m leaving.” Maggie said.

“Don’t leave.” Liam said.

“You have to talk to Grace.”

“Yeah, I do have to talk to Grace but that doesn’t mean you have to leave.” Liam said.

“It actually does mean that. You can’t have us both, Liam.”Maggie said.

“That’s completely not fair. Grace is my best friend. MY BEST FRIEND! But that’s it.” Liam said.

“I am with Sidney now. I don’t want Liam. I don’t want to cause problems with you two.. I just want to co-exist with you.”I said to Maggie.

“Liam, just call me later.” Maggie said leaving the apartment.

“Do you want me to leave so you two can talk?” Sidney asked.

“No, babe. You can stay.” I said.

“I don’t get why you hate Maggie. I don’t get why you just walked out?” Liam said while we were all sitting on the couch.

“I didn’t walk out on you.” I said.

“Yeah, you did.”

“I walked out because of Maggie.”

“Why do you hate her?”

“She just isn’t right for you.” I said.

“if she isn’t.. who is?”

“I don’t know.. not her.”

“Grace, you have Sidney.. let me have Maggie.”

“Comparing Maggie and Sidney is comparing night and day.” I said looking at Sidney.

“I just want someone.”

“I understand that, Liam. I get it and I love you.. but Maggie?”

“Maggie isn’t the perfect person.”

“you don’t have to be with the perfect person.” I said.

“Then why isn’t Maggie okay?”

“I just.. I don’t know, Liam. I don’t know what you want me to say. Okay.. be with her.. but you can’t be in my house and let her walk all over me. You can’t let her call me a bitch. You can’t let her do what she does. She makes me feel like an outsider in my own house! Its not fair.”

“You want me to say that I won’t see Maggie.. but that’s not going to happen.”

“Fine.. “ I said getting up.

“Grace.”

“Its fine.. We are fine. I just want to lay in bed and watch a movie with Sidney.” I said.

Thirty-Eight.

“Whats wrong?” Sidney said.

“Liam is an asshole.” I said.

“What?”

“ He chooses Maggie over me all the time.”

“She is his girlfriend?”

“I am his best friend! It should be no contest!” I said getting visibly upset.

“Just tell me what happened.”

“Maggie acts like she is ruler of the world. She just walks into my house. She doesn’t even knock. I own the house! I don’t even like Maggie and I let her basically live there, but come on.. its my house!” I said.

“You are this upset because she walked into your house without knocking?”

“Then she says I hit on her boyfriend.” I said and he just looked at me.

“I don’t. If I wanted to be with Liam, I could have this summer. There have been so many opportunities where he said all I had to do is say the word.. but I didn’t.” I said and he gave me a look.

“Don’t look at me like that.” I said.

“I just don’t really like thinking about you and Liam.”

“I know. But there is no me and Liam. I am sick of Maggie constantly saying I am the one that wants him. I don’t want him. He doesn’t want me anymore. We aren’t together. We love eachother but we aren’t in love with eachother.” I said.

“I know that.”

“You are cordial with Liam. It can’t be easy, but you are. Can’t she be the same with me?”

“Its just hard sometimes to compete with what you two have.”

“No one needs to compete. Liam and I are choosing not to be together, that’s the way it is.” I said.

“Grace, I know this. I don’t care about you and Liam. I just don’t want you to be upset.”

“I don’t want him to date Maggie.”

“Why?”

“Because she is a bitch. She has always been a bitch.” I said.

“Grace..”

“I’m serious, Sidney. I don’t try and be mean to her, but she makes it impossible.” I said tearing up a little.

“Why are you crying?”

“Because it hurts. It hurts to fight with Liam. It hurts to have someone pick someone over you.”

“Liam would never pick Maggie over you.”

“He did.”

“Then why are you here and not talking to him?”

“Because I needed you. I need you.”

“Maybe he needs Maggie like you need me.”

“He can’t.”

“Why?”

“She is just not good for him.” I said.

“Grace, everyone isn’t going to be with their soul mate. You just got to let him pick.” He said.

“I know.” I said wiping my eyes.

“Babe, don’t cry. Its not worth it.” He said giving me that cute look of his.

“Thanks for meeting me.” I said.

“Of course.”

“I’m serious. I’m so sorry what happened with us. I don’t want it to be like that ever again. I want it to be like this.” I said.

“It will be.”

“Promise?”

“Do you really think I am going to let you slip away twice?” He asked.

“Stop it.” I said laughing.

“I’m serious. Not happening.” He said. I just smiled.

“Want to go watch a movie or something?” He asked.

“Yeah..”

“Should you go back to talk to Liam?”

“We can go back to the apartment, but I don’t know if he will be there.”

“I think we should.”

“What if I just freak out again when I see her?”

“You won’t.”

“I don’t know.. she just gets under my skin.” I said.

“You won’t.. I’ll be there for you.” He said and he grabbed my hand.