chapter 13
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dejah's relationship with her parents is extremely complicated. nate, not so much considering he was older so he understood what was happening. but not for dejah. she never understood why her parents put her and her brother up for adoption. but, dejah was lucky that her best friend, chris was in a family full of boys meaning his mother gladly took her and nate as she had never had a daughter. nate was 16 and dejah was 14, nearly 15. they both had lived with marylou until nate turned 18 when he bought a cheap apartment that they are currently living in right now.

even when they were living with their parents, technically it was their grandparents that were taking care of them both as their parents were always out. so when their grandparents passed away, that's when they were put up for adoption. to put it in perspective of how little nate and dejah saw their real parents, they don't even know their real names, or their ages, or anything.

but everything changed when they got back in contact with nate...

"i don't know what to do i'm freaking the fuck out" shouts nate, pacing the room back and forth. he was panicked and reached out to his best friend, chris to help.

chris wasn't much of a help. he just stared into space with his mouth wide open. he was also just as shocked as nate was, "i honestly have nothing to say. i mean, do you even want to see them?"

nate stops pacing, he thinks on the subject for a second before shaking his head. he starts to pace again and chris huffs, "i don't even know? i mean, yeah i want answers! but i'm not sure i want to see them if you get what i mean."

chris nods his head. all he could think about is dejah. how was she going to react to this news. while she was living with chris, she had always talked about how much she hated her mom and dad because of their absence, always  wishing they could have a relationship with her like marylou and jimmy had with their kids. "what are you gonna tell dejah?" he blurts out, not even thinking about what was he saying. it just sorta, came out.

"i don't know. she's probably still pissed at me for telling jude that she was with you guys, which i feel terrible about but it wasn't my fault. i didn't know he didn't let her hang out with you guys, because that's crazy! i'm glad they broke up." he says, falling into the seat next to chris. they both sit there for a few seconds just thinking. the two of them had a lot on their minds, and they weren't sure what to do.

"i think i li.." begins chris, stopping himself, "doesn't matter."

nate notices his sudden pause between his sentence and urges to know what he was going to say, "no, say it. i've just told you something crazy. how about you return the favour."

chris laughs and shakes his head, "nah. i was gonna say something but then i thought about it for a bit longer and realised maybe i actually don't like this person. so it doesn't matter." he runs a nervous hand through his hair, closing his eyes as he ruffles with his hair. once he re opens them, he's met with nate's raised eyebrow. chris sighs and looks away smiling.

"oh, so you like someone?" he teases, pushing chris playfully, "cmon, you can't just think you like someone and then all of a sudden not. i mean, you guys clearly have something going on if you think you like them?" he says, making chris turn his head.

for some reason, chris was doubting his thoughts. it's almost like he knows it's true, but he's trying to convince himself that it isn't. there was a look of uncertainty buried deep in his eyes that nate could sense, "it's a lot more complicated than that. i mean, i barely know her!"

"cmon tell me!"

"okay fine. it's this girl called lana." once the words leave chris' mouth, he instantly regretted it. it was a complete lie. he did not like lana, at all. he just didn't want to say the real person that he liked as he wasn't completely sure he actually did, or he was just confused. but he was in too deep, so he had to make up a lie fast.

nate sits back in his seat. he raises his eyebrow, "damn." he says. chris turns to look at nate who's face is surprised, "for some reason, i thought you were gonna say my sister."

something about that sentence made chris' skin crawl. his stomach flipped when he heard those words come out of someone's mouth. he was so used to everyone making him aware about the fact that dejah hated him, that it was weird now hearing the possibility that he liked her, or that they would have a 'thing' going on. "nahh." he says awkwardly, "i'll uh, show you a picture of her." he says, finding her insta to show him a picture. he flips his phone around so that nate could see what she looked like.

nate grabbed the phone and scrolled through some of her other photos, "oh yeah, she's hot. i'd be all over that if i were you." he says, passing the phone back to chris, "this is what i like about our friendship." he states, earning a confused look from chris. "i've just got the worse news ever and somehow it's like it's never happened. you can just turn bad things into something fun and it makes me forget everything else that's going on. that's why i came to you first."

chris' lips curl into a smile as he pulled nate into a hug. something about their hugs were special. they never hug, so when they do, its meaningful, "everything's gonna be fine-"

the door suddenly swings open, making the pair jump. they look over at the door and it's dejah. her eyes are red and her mascara is smudged all around her eyes, "dejah? what's wrong" asks nate, rushing towards her.

chris stays seated, but he is now perched at the edge of his seat. he watches as dejah struggles to breathe, "mom and dad are back in town? i mean, what the fuck!" she says, breathing heavily in nates chest, biting her fingernails. chris now stood up and walks towards her, "i went outside and they were there! they came out of their stupid fucking car and introduced themselves to me! as if everything was normal and they didn't neglect us our whole lives?"

nate takes a deep breath, "they're here! what the fuck. where are they? did they follow you?"

dejah can't even form a single sentence since she's breathing so much. chris can't just stand here and watch dejah be in such panic, he had to do something. he wraps his arm around her and leads her to the sofa where he gently places her down. she instantly rests her head on chris' chest, "breathe dejah. just take a slow deep breath okay?" he says, watching as her breathing becomes slower.

nate rubs his forehead, "i can't believe this is happening right now. they said they were taking a flight tomorrow morning?"

dejah's head lifts from chris' head, "you knew about this?"

"not until like an hour ago!"

"so you told chris first instead of me? a nice little heads up would of been nice?" she shouts. her breathing became faster again and her knee begins to bounce.

"i promise i was going to tell you as soon as i was done talking with chris. it's just that i needed his advice before i came to you because i knew it would be hard to tell you! nows not the time to be mad at me, dejah" explains nate, huffing a breathe of air when he heard a knock at the door. he darts his eyes towards dejah who shakes her head frantically.

"don't open it! it's clearly them." she pleads, turning to chris for back up, "tell him not to open the door!"

chris furrows his eyesbrows and watches as nate opens the door from the corner of his eye, "cmon" he says, taking dejah's hand. he pulls her into the other room which just so happened to be nates room in his campus. "i knew you didn't want to see them, so i figured i'd take you away." he explains, hearing nate talking. he was saying something about the flight that was meant to be for tomorrow.

dejah nods her head, "i understand." she whispers, "thank you. i don't know what i would of done if nate had opened the door and you didn't pull me in here. it's almost like you just know me well enough to know that i didn't want to see them right now."

"orr maybe you were begging not to see them so i thought it was obvious that you didn't want to see them-"

"no. chris. that's not what i meant. you just, get me." she explains, "i mean. you just understand me. even when i 'hated you' i always seemed to notice the little things you did. like that time you talked about mr musgrove falling in geography, you knew it would make me laugh. or the time in the pool. even though i made it out like i didn't want to talk to you, i did! but you ignored all the signs and spoke to me anyway." she says, looking straight into his big blue eyes. in that moment, something changed in her head. her whole perspective changed on christopher sturniolo.

"you don't even like taylor swift, but every time i'm in the car, you play my favourite songs. and you just saved me from seeing my parents again. so i owe you. like, a lot." she laughs. her smile faded once she hears nate's voice being raised. he was angry. "i wonder what they're talking about. i wonder what they want? why did they all of a sudden come back, i mean they were pretty happy to forget about us, so why now all of a sudden do they think it's okay to come back into our lives like this?" she cries. the tears that were forming in her eyes as she spoke finally spilled over, causing chris to pull her in for a hug.

"i hate them so much." she says, watching as chris grabs her shoulders, turning her so that they were facing eachother. he wipes away her tears and for a second she could of sworn that chris' eyes flickered to her lips, but maybe that was her mind playing tricks on her, because chris knows better than to try and kiss her when she's just received the worse news of her life. wait.. was her eyes playing tricks on her again or is he leaning in closer to her.

christopher owen sturniolo just leaned in for a kiss.

"woah, what are you doing?" she says, frantically pushing away from chris. his heart sank and he had realised what he was just about to do.

"i thought we were having a moment.. i- i don't know what came over me.. i mean, i just thoug-"

"chris. what the fuck is wrong with you? my parents just came back in town and you're deciding that now is the perfect time to kiss me? i've just gotten out of a toxic relationship?!" she shouts, stating the obvious reasons why trying to kiss her wouldn't end good, "and for christ sake, i don't like you!"

christopher sturniolo just endured his first heart break. his heart shattered into a million pieces and he felt like he was going to throw up. he became dizzy as he took a deep breathe as he regretted every single thing that had just happened. he had never felt this feeling before, and it was a feeling he hoped to never feel again as he wouldn't recover. it was going to take a while for him to recover from this, let alone it happening again. he didn't know what to say. he felt so bad for even thinking that she would ever kiss him back, especially under these circumstances. before chris had time to say anything, nate opened the door, "they've gone." he sighs, wiping away a small tear that spilled down his cheek.

dejah stands up and leaves the room. chris stays seated. he was completely broken, she had taken his heart and snapped it in half. he was angry at himself for even trying to kiss her when she's in the state she's in, i mean they literally just made up from a relationship full of hatred and he tried to kiss her. he sits there in a state of shock before he exits campus and makes his way back to school. he needed to tell someone, and matt was the first person he saw, "yo, matt!" he says, making matt turn around. he was on his way to pe when chris pulled him into the bathroom.

"what the fucks going on? we're gonna be late?" groans matt, knowing chris is going to make him skip with him.

chris takes a deep breathe before blurting out, "okay, so i basically tried to kiss dejah when she's only just come out of a relationship and her parents just came back in town and she rejected me. like badly, rejected me and it's really bad and i've fucked everything up.." he takes a breath as that was a mouthful for him, "she fucking hates me right now, and it's all my fault."

matt hopped onto the sink counter with his mouth wide open in shock. he had no words for chris' stupidity, "you've got to be shitting me right now chris! what were you thinking?" he shouts, rolling his eyes.

chris rubs his forehead in stress, he hops up onto the sink next to matt where they both sit there for a moment while they both think, "you need to talk to her. tell her how sorry you are."

chris looks at matt with annoyance clear in his scrunched up face, "she's sooo stubborn. she's never gonna forgive me. this is probably just adding to the million reasons why she hates me."

matt shakes his head as he hops off the counter, "just do it." he deadpans before walking out of the bathroom leaving chris alone. it seemed as though matt was done with chris' idiotic behaviour all the time.

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user IVE ALWAYS SHIPPED DEJAH N CHRIS YAY

user bro they literally hate each other don't be fooled

user theyre js tryna make u want to watch it dont be fooled 🙄

user MUSICCCC

user i fr can't wait for this episode to come out!!

user i never looked at dejah n chris this way before it's making me feel weird

nicolassturniolo can't wait to watch it!!

matthew.sturniolo proud of u bro 👊

user u guys r all freaking out over him n dejah like i been knew 🤣 anyways i'm excited to hear abt the music

user CHRIS MAKING MUSIC?? YESS

user POSSIBKE COUPLE?? DRISH FANS R WE OKAY??

user i think i'm the only person interested in the lactose stuff?? 😭😭

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CHRIS WTF IS WRONG W U BRO?
u guys may hate chris this chapter but i promise the next few chapters r good so js try like chris 🙏🙏
matts fed up w chris but i don't blame him 😭😭
kinda long chapt i'm srry 💔💔

anyways ily bye :)