Roadtrip

Brian’s POV
Izzie was so exhausted that she had fallen asleep in my arms. She had been crying so long and I had no other chance then to hold her and try to soothe her.
She looked so fragile lying there on the big bed, I pulled the blanket over her and paced the room.
We had to fix this, but how?!
They needed to talk this out, but I don’t think we could get them into one room so easily.
Maybe I should talk to Jimmy and we should make a plan…
I walked towards the door and very carefully opened it and on tiptoes I tried to get out without making a noise.
When I turned to my right I saw Jimmy, doing exactly the same.
I closed the door and looked at Jimmy, “Hey…”
“Hey”
“We need to do something…” I told him and walked a few steps towards him.
“Yeah, I know. But what?” I shrugged my shoulders.
“Let’s make a plan.”
“You know what we need for a plan?” Jimmy asked.
“What?”
“Drinks!”
“Right… But we can’t leave them alone.”
“Shit… Wait, let me call Johnny, he can do something, too.” I grabbed my phone and Johnny picked up.
“What?”
“Come to our floor and bring beers with you.” I hung up.

I took Johnny about 15 minutes then he walked towards us, Jimmy and I was sitting between our rooms leaning back on the wall.
“What are you doing here?” Johnny asked and handed each of us a beer and opening one for himself.
“Making a plan.” Jimmy replied.
“And?”
“Nothing, we needed something to drink first.” I replied with a shrug.
“Care if I join in?” Johnny asked and let himself slide down on the wall.
“Nope, you can help for a change.” Jimmy nodded and Johnny rolled his eyes.
“Good, what did Mia tell you?” I asked Jimmy.
“Hm…” Jimmy seemed lost in thoughts and Johnny punched his shoulder. “What?”
“What did she say… between the screaming Jimmy oh god Jimmy? You mean?” Jimmy smirked and I shook my head at him.
“Cut out the dirty details for now…” I replied.
“Why? You didn’t get any?
“Of course not! She was upset!”
“The thing you heard earlier got to you, huh?” Johnny looked confused
“Shut up! Just tell me what Mia said”

“Fine… she didn’t say much, she was hurt… I guess it just got out of hand in the end. I mean it is not Mia’s fault that Izzie is so pissed right now.” Jimmy replied and I frowned.
“What? You make this Izzie fault now? I thought they are best friends, shouldn’t Mia have told her everything?” I shot back.
“But she was afraid and she was embarrassed… damn I only found it out because…” Jimmy stopped.
“Because what?”
“Yeah because what?” Zack came walking towards us, grabbing Johnny’s beer and taking a sip then sitting down across from us.
“What are you doing here?” Jimmy looked uncomfortable with everyone around.
“Matt told me to look out for you guys, see if the situation was cleared, but I guess not.”
“No, they are pissed and don’t want to talk to each other.” I replied to Zack and turned back to Jimmy. “Because what?”
Jimmy sighed, “Let’s just say she had a strange reaction towards me.”
“Huh?” We all frowned at him.
“Can someone tell me what this all is about?” Zack asked. “Me too.” Johnny nodded.
“Alright, so short from… We were bowling and Mia distracted me all the time, I got mad.. like not really mad, just playful and when I walked towards her, she flinched back and put her hands up to shield her… I knew that this was not normal I pressed for her to tell me… and later that night she confessed to me, that Josh had been beating her… she was too afraid to go to the police… Izzie didn’t know about this and I told her… that’s why they are fighting… and one fight morphed into another and well now they don’t want to see the other again…” Jimmy finished and Zack shook his head.
“We really should have treated that son of a bitch differently when we had the chance.”
We all nodded in agreement.
“Anyway… we need to make a plan, how we can get them to talk again… I mean, we can’t just say talk it out, they will refuse.. I mean Izzie said Mia is always this pigheaded.” I said.
“Mia is pigheaded? You mean Izzie! Look, she should have been just be there for her and she starts this fight!” Jimmy looked at me pissed.
“What? You mean that-” I began but Zack interrupted us.
“Stop it! You two are even worse than these women!”
We saw Matt walking towards us and I looked on my phone, shit it was already after six, we have been sitting here for hours and didn’t come up with any idea…
“As I can see you didn’t clear the situation?” Matt asked and looked from Jimmy to me and back.
“I had to clear the situation between Brian and Jimmy, but… the other girls no.” Zack replied and I kicked his leg.
“Fuck off!”
“Fine, then I will handle the situation and fix it. I knew that this wouldn’t be working out with you two in lead…” Matt said matter of fact and I frowned at him.
Cocky ass!
Suddenly both doors opened and both Mia and Izzie looking at us then looking to the side, seeing each other and both about to close the door again but Jimmy and I jumped up. I held Izzie’s door open and Jimmy grabbed Mia around the waist.
“DON’T! JAMES! SET ME DOWN!” Mia screamed at him, but Jimmy carried her easily into my and Izzie’s room.
“You two will talk, right fucking now!” Jimmy replied and I grabbed Izzie’s waist, afraid she would want to run away as well.
Matt, Zack and Johnny followed us into the room.
“I won’t be talking to her, now let me go!” Izzie looked at me with pleading eyes but I shook my head.
“Yes, you will.” I replied.
Matt sat down on the bed and looked from Mia to Izzie, “Sweeties, sit down. We will talk now. The others will go outside.”
Both Jimmy and I frowned. “Wait… What?”

Mia´s POV
Sweetie? Sweetie!? He was calling Izzie "Sweetie" and he still wanted to kick Jimmy out? Leaving me alone with these two? Matt would surely pick her side, I crossed my arms over my chest "If Jimmy leaves, I won't say a word"
"If Jimmy stays, Brian stays too" Izzie replied, I shot her an angry glare. Typical... she needed two in her corner..
"None of the boyfriends stay" Matt said calmly. Brian opened his mouth to protest, but Matt held up his hand "Really? You really want to complain about THAT now? Get out.. both of you... You will only make this worse!"
Jimmy stood behind me, but Matt's forcing stare made him walk for the door.
"Fine" I said "Then Zacky stays!"
Matt looked at me "Are you going to be like this, Mia? Giving me a hard time fixing this? I have all night"
Zack sighed "Just let me stay Matt, I will be quiet, if that will make her talk?" Matt nodded, sending the others out with a look on his face. Jimmy, Johnny and finally also Brian left the room.

Matt had set Izzie and me down, both in a chair, facing each other, Matt sat in between us on the bed and Zack took a chair, sitting opposite from Matt. We were forming a weird little circle and if I hadn't been this mad, I would be laughing... that was until I looked at Izzie. She was shooting daggers at me and her face didn't give a glimp of regret, if she would continue like this I would give her a run for her money... see who had the longest endurance.
"Right, I thought we could fix this like adults, but apparently you two just went back to being babies again" Matt said, looking back and forth between Izzie and I.
"She is the baby, not me! I'm two years older!" Matt looked at her with a knowing look "yeah.. that reply was really ladylike" he smirked.
I looked over at Izzie, suppressing the urge to stick my tongue out to her.

"So, who is starting?" We both looked around us, to the ceiling, out of the window, everything to avoid Matt "If you both don’t start, I will decide who does, but don't blame me then for putting one of you in front of the other"
"She is unreasonable!" I said, I heard Izzie huff. I looked at her directly "Yes you are! Why the hell are you mad at me? I can't tell you everything... And I told you now! And you are keeping things from me too!"
Izzie's eyes widened and shot at Zack.
"You are seriously not putting THAT on the table again!!" Izzie groaned at me. "And you are wrong! We did tell each other everything! You kept something really important from me... How do you think that made me feel!?"
“Could one of you fill me in on what that “something really important” is? I’m kinda lost here.” Matt said, looking over to me first and then over to Izzie. I couldn’t tell him, I couldn’t relive it once again. Silence fell over the 4 of us, until I heard Izzie softly speak up.
“Mia was hit by Josh, multiple times” Matt’s eyes widened “What?! I shouldn’t have let him go, I should have taken care of him right away” Matt growled.
I felt a lump in my throat, it felt wrong to tell about it, but it felt even worse when I heard someone else say it, when I heard Izzie say it. I felt tears well up in my eyes and even though I really didn’t want to cry, I did. Zack stood up from his chair and hugged me, Matt looked at me with pity in his eyes. I was nice to have people around me who cared. Izzie opened her mouth again, and I just wished she didn’t “He beaten her up so bad, she had to fake a business trip to not have to tell me”
“You don’t know how hard that was” I finally got out, almost choking on my own voice.
Izzie just looked at me, sighing.

Matt smiled "See.. was that so hard? You got some words out. Without screaming, really good" he clapped softly. I shot him an annoyed look and looked over at Izzie, when I saw her doing the same thing... A slight smile coming over her face. Matt continued
"Just listen to each other... I think you know what is wrong... just say it"
Izzie looked shy all of a sudden and looked over to me "You hurt me Mia, by not telling me and then telling Jimmy after nearly 3 weeks of knowing him. I've known you for over 15 years, how could you not tell me?!" Now the anger was out of her face, I could only see hurt.... That I understand, I had felt guilty over not telling her for all this time. Zack was still standing behind me, his hands on my shoulders, softly massaging them.
"I know, it wasn't that I didn't trust you... My first reaction was to hide and after that it got harder and harder to tell you. I was so embarrassed" Izzie bend forward and put her hands on my knees "Why Mia? I never judged you... I never would"
“I know”
“I love you... how could you not know that?”
I let out a deep breath “I love you too” Before I knew it, Izzie had pulled me from my chair, into a tight hug, we both overreacted this morning, but she was still my best friend.
“I’m so sorry Iz. I never wanted to hurt you, I needed you so bad, but I didn’t know how”
“It’s okay babe, but never ever do that again, okay? You might have found the perfect boyfriend, but I still have the oldest rights” Izzie smiled at me and I kissed her cheek. “Sure you have”
We smiled goofily at each other.

“Awhhhh” Zack said “This situation needs a group hug” He put both arms around Izzie and me and we all laughed.
“Hey! I want to be included too! Don’t shut me out!” Matt chuckled.
Izzie put out her arm and pulled Matt into the hug. We stood there for a few minutes just laughing, holding on to each other. I was just thinking how peaceful this moment was, when it was brutally disrupted by a loud voice “What the hell?! How come every time I turn my back I walk into a situation like this?!” We all got out of the hug and looked around
“It’s your own fault, Brian, you choose the wrong moment to walk in” Zack grinned.

All seven of us were in the room again, Matt looked around.
“Great, everyone is here and everything is fixed, so I got us a job for tomorrow night”
I felt Jimmy behind me, I leaned back, my back against his chest, his arms around me. Izzie stood next to me, holding my hand, and I felt happy, I’m glad the guys made us talk, this could have dragged on a long time, seeing how stubborn she was.

“What’s the job?” Brian finally asked.
“It’s a security thing, we will need to work from 9pm to 5am, so I suggest everyone sleeps in tomorrow and relaxes, so you are rested for the night, we can make good money with it. For now... I think we deserve drinks.. Who is with me?”
“Yo!” We all said in unison and headed for the hotel bar, time to have some fun!

Notes

What would we do without Matt? :D

Ding, Ding, Ding, It's 4 chapter weekend again! And guess what?! I have a holiday.... YAYYYYY!!!!