Blast From The Past

"I'll watch a movie or something." she snorted.

"We'll have to go out so you can have some grown up time."

"That would be nice."

"We'll go next weekend."

"I can't wait then. It'll be fun and good to get out."

"Well clear your calendar, we'll do something fun." She chuckled and headed for the door.

"Sounds good." she said as she went to let her out.

"Hopefully you can talk to Scott tonight." She said as she opened the door and stepped out.

"We'll see, but I highly doubt it."

"It'll work out." She said. "Okay, let me go, it's late." She chuckled.

She nodded and opened the door for her. "Good night."

"Bye." She said as she started to walk. She ultimately decided to end up walking home instead of taking the train and it took her right at about an hour. It was a little past midnight when she got to the front door and she took a short breath before unlocking it and making her way into the house.

Punk was home and was tending to his hand, since he did bang it up a little...after she left the school. He was worried about where she was and had texted and called Ellie a while ago, so she had let him know. He heard the door and looked over. "Lace?"

She let out a small sigh, already not looking forward to whateer conversation they were about to have, though she knew they needed to have one. "Yeah, it's me."

"How'd you get to Ellie's?"

"The train and bus." She said as she shrugged her jacket off and hung it up.

He nodded. "I wish you wouldn't have, but what's done is done and you're safe."

She sighed heavily. "Yeah. Lets get this talk out of the way, it's been a long day."

He nodded. "Yeah, I agree." he said.

"I just want you to be honest with me about how you're feeling, Phil." she leaned back against the wall. "Just be real about it. You can be mad at me, you can curse me out.. something other than beating the shit out of something to show you care."

He nodded. ''Alright. I'm going to say something and I just want you to hear me out." he said.

She nodded. "Go ahead."

"When everything happened all those months ago, I was extremely pissed. Not only was I pissed at that wannabe Fabio but I was also pissed at you. Honestly, I didn't think I deserved that to happen to me. Yes, I may not have showed you much attention and romance or whatever at that time, but I always treated you right. It baffled me that you even did something like that because I know if I ever tried something like that, you'd have my head on a stick, but hey it happened." He shrugged. "After a while though, Lace, I forgave you. I saw that you were really hard on yourself and everybody was giving you shit and I didn't need to add to it. I let it go and didn't want to bring it up again because we were finally working on things. Today, what happened at the school with Roman, I can't and won't apologize for that. He was talking shit and I wasn't going to allow that to happen. Call it a man thing but I refused to let him keep running his mouth. Am I jealous of him? I can't lie and say that I am somewhat jealous. More jealous that he almost had a chance with you because I fucked shit up. I know you chose me and I shouldn't feel that way, I'm working on it." He said. "I don't want to fight anymore and I want us to be good, which is why I've never said anything. I was scared that my mouth would fuck up everything and we'd keep fighting. I'm just ready to finally move on for real this time. Not look back on it and go forward. However, if he ever shows up again, I can't make any promises on how I act with him."

She sighed. "You could have gotten in a lot of trouble tonight."

"Yeah, I know." he said. "It was stupid of me to act like that."