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Desclaimer: don't own 'em, make no money, never happened.

Author's note: this chapter kinda sucks, action will start soon. And, I forgot to mention the AU: Billie's a famous poet.

It's over

Tre didn’t know where to go so he parked at the library – the most random place he could think of. He just set there staring at the empty street trying to gather his thoughts somehow…Where the fuck did this come from? Did I give him a reason? Why didn’t I see this? Fuck, fuck, fuck!

He started the car and drove to Adie’s house, hoping she’d know more about this strange discovery he had just encountered.

As he parked at her house he saw Billie’s car and decided to leave right away, but Billie, who was walking out of the house, notices Tre and headed towards him.

Damn Tre thought… What the hell am I going to say to him now?

“Hey, what are you doing here?” Billie hopped into Tre’s car without waiting for the invitation. “You’re here to see Adie?”

“Emm…yeah!” Tre replied a bit too enthusiastically. He noticed that Billie’s eyes were bloodshot, he had obviously been crying. And I’m pretty damn sure I know what those tears were about. “Yeah, I got bored, and thought I haven’t seen Adie in a long time, so I’d visit her…” I’ve seen Adie 2 days ago…

“Bored? Wasn’t Mike supposed to be with you?”

“Ehh, yeah, but he had to go somewhere else, so…I got bored”

“Okay. Go kill your boredom” Billie got out of the car “And, Tre…”

“Yeah” he looked at Billie as unemotionally as he could fake.

“I really didn’t know you consider me THAT stupid.” He slammed the door and walked towards his own car.

Damn…How could I possibly think I could fool the all-knowing Armstrong…He can see right through people…

Tre waited for Billie to drive off. After that he slowly got out of the car and walked to Adie’s house.

Adrienne was already expecting him – Billie had called her from his car to let her know that “…he talked to Mike and now he wants to know what I said to you…”

Tre knocked on the door. Adie opened the door and practically ordered him to sit down on the couch:

“We need to talk.” The tone of her voice sobered Tre out of his confusion. “What’s up with Mike?” She decided to attack Tre before he attacks her.

“What do you mean?”

“You know what I mean! Is he not in love with Billie anymore?”

“Emm…” It was a really bad idea to come here…

“Listen, you know I love Mike, he’s a great guy, but if he break’s my best friend’s heart, I don’t know what I’m gonna do to him.”

Great, fucking great…Tre looked at Adie with a shade of fear in his eyes.

“You should have seen him!” Adie went on with her passionate speech, making Tre feel like a hostage of her rage. “He was crying his heart out! It’s killing him”

Tre lowered his eyes. He felt guilty for Billie’s pain. Guilty for stealing Mike from him…

“What’s going on, Tre?”

Adie sank into the couch and took a deep breath to calm herself down.

“I just hate seeing him in pain.” She said quietly.

“I know”

“What’s going on?”

After a couple of minutes of silence Tre knocked Adie down with his answer:

“Mike’s in love with me”

“WHAT??!!!”

“But I rejected him! I rejected him. I can’t take him away from Billie!”

“Damn…” Adie looked at Tre’s overwhelmed eyes. “It doesn’t matter anymore”

“What do you mean?”

“It doesn’t matter if you reject him or not. Doesn’t matter if it’s you or the pizza delivery guy…He’s still in love with someone else.”

“I’m sorry” without realizing it, Tre began to cry.

“It’s okay” Adie hugged him. “It’s not like you purposefully fell Mike in love with yourself. It’s not your fault.”

Billie unlocked the door and entered his house. It was very quiet, so he assumed Mike wasn’t home. He walked upstairs, but stopped after hearing Mike say his name quietly:

“Billie…come here, we need to talk.”

He walked into the living room and saw Mike on the couch. “Please, Bill, sit down.”

He obeyed.

“Billie, I love you and I don’t want to lie to you. I think after everything we’ve had you deserve complete honestly, even if it’s gonna hurt. Do you agree?”

“Yes.” Billie lowered his eyes expecting something horrible to happen now.

“ I’m not in love with you anymore” Billie didn’t move so Mike went on. “I’m in love with someone else”

“With Tre” Billie whispered throw upcoming tears.

“How…?”

“I saw him today, Mike. At Adie’s house. He looked like someone just showed him a dog with 7 legs. So, I took a guess.”

“Oh” Mike was constantly surprised by how Billie seemed to know everything. Sometimes it seemed he knew what you’re thinking before you even know it yourself. He chose me, and I’m giving him up. How can I be so stupid!

“Mike, it’s okay.” Billie’s speech was now broken into bits by his tears. “It sucks that you don’t love me anymore, but I will get over this eventually. And you deserve to be happy. Even if not with me” I don’t think I’ll ever get over this, but I want him to be happy…

“I’m so sorry” Mike wrapped his arms around Billie “I’m so sorry.”

Billie’s body was shaking in Mike’s arms. What am I gonna do now?