Chapter 8: Love Triangles

Gaege's (Juicy's) POV"Are you okay??" Eddie grabbed my arm, pulling me up. My hands were shaking, and he stared at me in shock. "I-I'm fine," I held onto him, tears flooding his eyes, "What the hell even happened?" "I don't know," Eddie glanced over at his monitor, realizing that we were still recording, "Shit, we're going to have to redo the whole video."He sat me down on the chair, stopping the recording. I winced, rubbing the spot on my jaw where Josh had hit me. A few drops of blood were forming on the scratch he had left me, spilling onto my fingers."Here, let me go get an icepack," Eddie rushed downstairs, leaving me alone with my thoughts. Everything had happened so fast, I didn't know how to feel. Josh's angry expression as he burst into the room kept replaying over and over again in my head. "You have no idea how it feels to be heartbroken!" His voice echoed in my head, making me shiver. I had been trying to defend myself as best as I could, but the unexpected outburst caught me off guard. Me and Eddie were having such a great time too before it happened. Eddie came back to the room, followed by Mully. Mully had a frown on his face, and he was clenching his fists. Eddie bent down in front of me, holding the ice pack to my face. His concerned eyes met mine as his lips pressed into a line. "What?" I asked, still slightly upset about Josh. "Nothing..." Eddie shook his head, looking away from me, "I just hate seeing you hurt." I didn't say anything, only avoided his eyes. His thumb tilted my chin up to look at him again, and he studied my face. He leaned in slowly, kissing me gently on the lips. I took in his kiss gratefully, cupping his cheek in my hand. "Would you two stop doing that?" Mully interrupted, making us pull apart, "You're making it worse." "I'm helping him, Mully," Eddie crossed his arms, "At least I'm doing something to make this better." Mully glared at him, "Ay, I wasn't the one who started this in the first place." "What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Eddie countered, his voice rising. "Woah, guys," I started to say as I looked between the two of them, "Maybe we should just take a break-" "Oh, I'm sorry, you're just too stupid to have figured it out!" Mully continued, ignoring my comment. "You're calling me stupid? You're the one who's assuming shit about me that isn't true!" Eddie argued back. As the room became heated, I felt tears forming in my eyes. My heart was racing, and I didn't know what to do. "Maybe it's because I actually care about our friends!" Mully yelled at Eddie, holding up his hand as he counted each of our friends, "You don't even care about Josh, or Narrator, or even our friendship!" "I care just as much as you do, Mully!" Eddie's face was red, but he continued to shout, "You're making everything ten times more complicated and getting angry at something I didn't do!" I then couldn't hold back my sobs, making Mully and Eddie turn to me. A rush of tears fell down my eyes, and I hugged my arms. Mully's and Eddie's faces both fell, realizing what they had done. "Oh shit, we're sorry Gaege..." Mully muttered as I shook my head. "I-I'm fine!" My voice shook as I didn't look up at them, "Just please... S-s-stop arguing!" Eddie and Mully were silent, and they glanced up at each other. I could tell they still weren't satisfied with how their argument ended, but I was under too much stress to care. "We were supposed to make things better, not worse!" I said to Eddie, gasping between sobs, "I thought everything was okay, but no! Everything is so. much. worse!" Eddie looked down at his feet sadly, "I'm sorry Gaege. We didn't mean to-" "No, save it." I said lowly, crossing my arms, "I don't want to deal with this shit right now." "Gaege, listen-" Mully started to say but stopped when I held up a hand. "I want to be alone," I said calmly, my hands shaking, "Please. Just this once." Mully and Eddie exchanged a look, but then decided to leave me in peace.

Mully's POV"Where do you think you're going?" Eddie grabbed my shoulder before I could walk out the door, "We're not done yet." I pushed his hand away, feeling my head pounding from how much I was yelling. "I'm leaving," I answered, continuing to walk towards the door, "Do you have a problem with that?" "Mully, we both know that we fucked up," Eddie crossed his arms, "Don't you feel bad for making Juicy cry?" "Of course I do!" I furrowed my eyebrows, "I'm not a merciless monster." Eddie looked taken aback from my tone. I scowled, looking away from him. I tried to keep calm, but it was really hard when my best friend just confessed his feelings for me and ended up fighting my crush. What the hell is even going on?"I didn't mean it like that," Eddie said quietly, avoiding my eyes, "I just want Gaege to feel better." "I do too," I crossed my arms, "He's my best friend too, Eddie." Eddie frowned, glancing back at the office door where Juicy was waiting. "Look, we'll talk later," I waved him away, already opening the door, "Just make sure Juicy feels better okay?" I slammed the door shut, the cold night air blowing against my face. I felt tears forming in my eyes, but I didn't dare let them leak from eyes. I wiped my eyes, suppressing my emotions like usual. I needed to keep my head sane before I let my emotions get out of control.And so once again, I tried to keep my head up. I walked to my car, forcing myself not to cry.

A/N: Damn, shit is getting crazy. What will happen now that Josh, Eddie, Mully, and Juicy are in their own dilemma? Guess Narrator wasn't the only one heartbroken.