Chapter 8

Skyler

     Everyone thinks I ran away but I didn't I made it too the backyard tree house Conner and I built all by ourselves when we where younger. We use to sleep in it from time to time too, I almost forgot about it till today. I was all snuggled up in the corner of the tree house my head and spinning i just wanted to go to sleep. I was the odd ball out in this mess! I wasn't involved with that little love triangle between Pacey, Kairi and Harley and Bennett has known Kairi since like diapers so obviously i don't fit there. And well Harley and Conner obviously have a background they all are like intertwined and I'm just Skyler....Conner's step sister!
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Harley

     Once we got Conner settled down Bennett and I helped him up and we made our way the parking lot to get him to a doctor as soon as possible. 
      "What happened to Kairi?" Bennett asked as we walked through the woods 
      "She ran away, to the car."
      "Pacey really?" Conner looked at him "Are you really that bad with girls?"
      "Look who's talking, kid who kicked a tree to take out his anger/" Harley said adding herself into the conversation. Conner casted her a look
      "At least i can't hurt the tree," Conner added and Pacey sighed. Hearing that i watched at Bennett up his other arm, the one not supporting Conner, around Pacey's shoulders. I wanted to date Pacey yes, i thought looking around at all my friends faces and i was glad he wanted back  but the pain in his eyes right now hurt me. The one issue though is i don't know if it was for the fact that he wanted me and felt bad for hurting Kairi or if he really wanted Kairi, if he had really moved on completely when i was gone and he didn't want to make me mad and leave again! I wonder if a guy can like two girls at the same time?
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Conner

     We where almost to the car i could see it now as we emerged from the woods and onto the pavement. It hurt my ankle which pulsed in pain with every step. I tried to avoid the pain by making my mind think of other things like how fast my group of friends was falling apart all because of a stupid love triangle. Don't get me wrong i can't give my advice on it, I've never been in one before, but right now i think Pacey need's to make a choice, he can't play both girls. I mean I'm not really all guy, but i know you can't like two girls at the same time, you have to like one more then the other! And in the end you will have to hurt one of them by telling one of them the complete truth, not just what you want them to hear. They probebly will get mad or upset but they won't hate you, and trust me the truth is worth more then any lie you can make up, i just wish Pacey knew that. He's a smart guy, he's just so stubborn and he just doesn't think, he seems to always need a push in the right direction. I wonder if it's because he cares so much about hurting people or if he really hasn't got a clue?
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Pacey

     As we approached the truck i couldn't brace myself enough to see Kairi again. Just the look in her eyes and the pain on her face it hurt so much inside me to do this to her, but Harley needs me too? I thought i was doing the right thing, i was helping a friend, our friend, but in doing that i hurt a friend! I just wanted to scream, hit the lights and make me head just stop thinking, Kairi could do that for me with a kiss or just a simple hug but i couldn't ask for that. One of us had to be the strong one here no matter how much i liked her, we broke up, we need to move on, no matter how strong the magnets are pulling us back together. Things happened for a reason, Harley came back for a reason, Kairi and I broke up for a reason, all this is happening for a reason i just need to figure out that reason...somehow? And then maybe things will go back to normal....i hope they do!
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Kairi

     i could see them when they emerged from the woods from my place in the back seat of  Bennett's car. Harley was supporting Conner with the help of Bennett on the other side and Bennett had his other arm around Pacey, they looked like they had all become buddy buddy and no one even know i was missing. I wondered if Pacey told Bennett what happened or if Pacey just blew it all off, he didn't seem to care about me anyway he didn't make an effort to come after me. I know this are bad right now with Conner and Harley but we are all still friends, and we are splitting and fighting and bickering left and right. I just want to rewind back a few days, to the beginning of this week before all our lives spun out of control....before Harley came back!
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Bennett

     Once we got to the car i opened the doors and helped Conner into the front seat, i figured that would give him the most leg room. I knew that meant Kairi, Pacey and Harley would have to sit in the back seat together and I felt bad for Kairi but this was for Conner health and that meant a lot right now too. We all pilled into the car and headed to the hospital. No one spoke but in the rear view mirror i could see Kairi's face, i took a glance back at the right light to see what her eyes where starring at..it was Pacey and Harley holding hands. She was trying her best not to show it but you could tell it pained her to see them together. I know Pacey hurt too and i know he really likes Kairi more then i think i can explain in words but he liked Harley too, she was his first actually crush and when she left he was heart broken. He thought he would never find anyone else, then he found Kairi, he liked her more then he ever liked Harley he told me that a bunch of times when they first started dating. I know they had been dating for almost two years, but feelings like that don't just fade away, they can't someone has to push them away and that's exactly what Harley did, by suprising Pacey. He fell for her again, I think Kairi just needs to give it time, let all this work itself out slowly and Pacey will relieze his true feelings and come back to her, Conner will go back to himself, Harley will tell everyone why she came back, and as for me I guess i'll go back to being alone, or i could however go hit on Skyler....i think sometimes she feels just about as left out as me! 






 
 

Chapter 7

Bennett

     "Kairi listen to me," Bennett yelled which made Conner looks up at us for the first time since he like broke down. We had still not gone over to him because first off i didn't want to push him too far and second because Kairi was taking up all my time right now! "We called Harley okay, i know you don't like that but you can't solve everything you are not superman!" Kairi looked at me and rolled her eyes moving farther away from Conner and me.

     "I care about people okay that should mean enough!" she cried, tears had not started down her face yet but you could see the pain in her eyes.

     "And that means a lot it means your a great friend, but you still can't solve everything," i stole a glance over at Conner he was still sitting on the rock but he was looking at the ground now i could still hear him sniffling. I turned back to Kairi and put my hands on her shoulders "Your a great person okay, a really great, amazing, beautiful person, but some things you can't fix....like i said your not superman, your just human." With that she looked up at me "And right now Conner doesn't need someone to fix his problems he needs someone who understands and right now that isn't you, no matter how much you want it to be, its Harley!" I pulled her into a hug and kissed the top of her head. She was like a sister to me, i hated seeing her like this. After a little while i turned away from Kairi and walked over to Conner.

     "Hey buddy," I said putting my hands on his knees "how are you?" Conner just shrugged and that's when Pacey and Harley came running through the woods, hand in hand mind you. They stopped a few feet from where I was sitting in front of Conner. I turned around just to see them run past Kairi, the look on her face and the speed at which Pacey pulled his hand out of Harley's at the sign of it made my stomach turn, it's as if they where just playing a stupid game it made me sick. But right now that was the least of our problems.

      "Hey," Harley said walking over to Conner slowly as if she was walking up to a rabid dog ready to pounce. "What's wrong?" As she got closer to him i got up and walked back over to where Pacey was and i whispered to him

      "Go talk to Kairi,"

      "Why?" Pacey said turning around to look at Kairi who still had not moved from where she was.

      "She just wants to be your friend, she needs someone who understands her..." I shrugged "Right now i don't think that is me....it's you!" Pacey looked at me and rolled his eyes.

      "Can't we just go our seprate ways, i was nice in the break up?"

      "Yah you where, but you still have feeling for her i know you do, and she still has feelings for you....just go talk to her." I put my hand on his shoulder "please, if not for you do it for her?"

     "Fine," Pacey shrugged and i pulled my hand away and mouthed thank you and Pacey smiled a half smiled like sure whatever kind of smile. Pacey turned around and started toward Kairi and I walked over to where Harley and Conner where to give the two of them some privacy to talk.

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Kairi
    
      "Hey," Pacey said walking over to me and then just standing there awkwardly next to me

     "If that's all you've got to say then go away, i want to be alone!" With that Pacey shrugged

     "If that's what you want then i'll leave?" He started to walk away from me and that's when i exploded

     "Did you even know me at all?" That got him to turn around and look at me "I don't live in a stupid cave, i know more then you think i do!" He just looked at me, he was so horror stricken his face was just blank, i couldn't read him at all. "You run around as if I'm nothing to you anymore, whatever happen to friends! I can't sit here and watch you with Harley it makes me sick, it took you a year to get over her and now i don't even know if you are over her or not because you just right back to her as if nothing happened between the two of you." tears where now falling down my face but i didn't want to stop them i wanted to keep going no matter if i choked or not he needed to hear what i wanted to say.

     "Kairi i," he tried talking a step toward me

     "Save if for someone who cares, we called Harley to help Conner not to see the two of you running through the woods holding hands, this isn't about you and your stupid relationship with her it's about him! And you are using it to get back into her head...heck i don't even know if you ever left or if she ever left yours!" I tossed a  stern expression at him and he still just looked at me, he wanted to speak but ever time he opened his mouth he would close it again like he didn't know how to say what he wanted to say, either that or he would just look at the ground, never the less avoiding eye contact with me. "You said you still cared about me and you loved me and we could make this friendship work! Now, i realized this is just another one of your stupid games!"

      "Kari stop please..." He took another step toward me by now he was about an arms length away but he didn't do anything.

      "This is all a game to you," I enraptured "Well you know what it's not a game anymore if it is, i don't want to play, i was the one that got hurt... leave me alone!" With that i took off into the woods. I was going to head to the car, i knew he wasn't going to follow me and i was right i never heard footsteps behind me. Dam he pisses me off...why do guys have to be so stubborn!