The next afternoon Evan was on his phone yelling at Selena. "Just let me talk to her Selena!"

"No, I've already told you she doesn't want to talk, see or hear from you Evan. Just do us a favor and let her be." And with that she hangs up on him.

Evan slams the phone down. Damn it, he felt horrible, and Mila refused to talk to him. He had went over her house that morning, but her father refused to let him see her said to him it was best if he left her alone and dealt with the real problem he has.

Kristan.

So he went home calling every ten minutes trying to get Mila on the phone. Suddenly his front door starts pounding. He rushes to go answer it. When he opens the door Jared stood there, then the next thing he knew he punches him dead in the face. Evan was thrown backwards onto the ground.

"What the hell Jared?!" He yells, rubbing his jaw where a big lump was already forming on his cheek bone.

"You're a piece of Shit you know that!" Jared yells at him while standing over him, eyes filled with anger, his fists clenched tight, his nostrils flaring. Evan didn't say anything but continued rubbing his throbbing jaw.

"How could you do something like that? I thought she meant something to you! You used her like she was some ass to grab and dump the first chance you got!"

Evan's eyes flashed with anger now. "First off you don't even know what you talking about! And what about you huh?!" He got up off the ground and faced him.

"You don't talk to either one of us for weeks. You act like we became below your oh so worthy self as if we didn't even matter anymore! You act like your ashamed of us, ashamed to be our friend anymore!"

Jared went right up in his face and says calmly, "I'm not ashamed of her, Evan."

Evan slowly shakes his head at the full meaning. of Jared's words. No, he wasn't ashamed of Mila but ashamed of him. Although he had every right to be it still hit him full blast knowing his best friend, his brother, felt that way about him.

"I thought you were going to treat her with decency and respect, but I should have known better. I blame myself for this." Jared turns away from him.

"What are you saying, Jered." Evan asks him.

Jared stops and tums back around. "I'm saying I should have never told her to give you a chance. I should have just told her the truth that you're nothing but a two timing bastard." Jared's eyes filled with sadness, and he felt defeated.

He starts again to walk away as Evan watches him go. He clenched his jaw and blurted out. "Kristan''s pregnant, Jared!"

Jared slowly stops but he doesn't turn around dreading on what was coming next.

"I broke up with Mila because Kristan came to me saying she thinks she was pregnant. I didn't know what to do." Evan's throat became constricted as tears and panic threatened to choke him.

He stared at the back of Jared's head.

"When did this happened?" He asks, completely not believing on what he was hearing.

"The night of Mila's birthday party." Evan walked to a cemented bench that was on a path of grass of the apartment complex and sat down heavily and put his head in between his hands.

Jared turned and looks at him. "That was a little over two months ago." He clenches his teeth. "You're telling me you had sex with Mila's cousin the day before you asked her to be your girlfriend?"

Evan closed his eyes and felt worse with every word that Jared bit out. "I know. When I woke up that morning I was hoping it was all a bad dream. I don't even remember doing it. I had gotten really dunk."

"Does Mila know?" Jared asks suddenly.

Evan dropped his hands and looks up at him. "Yeah, she knows. But not by me."

"What do you mean?" But Jared already knew the answer.

"Kristan told her. Mila was the first person she went to once it was confirmed. She told her even before me."

"That bitch!" Jared said under his breath.

Evan winced for the bitch was now going to be the mother of his child. Which brought him to another point. He stood up. "I'm only seventeen Jared, hell Kristan's only fourteen! We can't be parents, we're barely even old enough to take care of ourselves let alone a baby! How are we expected to raise a kid?"

He shook his head at him for his foolish of a friend was so naive. "Guess you really should have thought about that before you stuck your dick in her, Evan."

Evan winces at the choice of words. "Well yeah I guess, can't fix any of it anyways even if I had too, she's leaving."

Jared snapped his gaze back to him. "Who's leaving?" he demands.

"Mila, she's about to hitch a plane to Arizona tonight to live with her aunt and uncle. I seemed to screw things up pretty bad. I hurt her a great deal." Evan felt deflated, for the girl he knew he was in love with was gone from him forever and he knew he could never repair the damage and pain he had caused her.

Before he could say another word Jared jetted off down the street as if a demon was on his heels.

"Jared!" He yelled but he was already gone.

***

Jared ran straight down the street and ran five blocks to Mila's house. His side was hurting like crazy from running so hard. How could she be leaving? He thought about all the things he said to her the other day and how he regretted not telling her the real reason of his anger. How he regretted saying those mean things only because he was hurting inside. When he got home from school yesterday he was upset that Mila didn't show up to class because he knew he was the reason for it. And he blamed himself. He had locked his bedroom door and put his headphones on and laid on his bed while thinking of all the what ifs, of course it never helped him any, but he still couldn't help thinking it. Later that evening when he finally decided to come down for something to eat Selena laid it on him.

"Oh it's so nice of you to grace us with your presence!" She snapped sarcastically.

She was at the kitchen counter with their mother who was preparing dinner. "Selena calm down." Their mother said softly cutting up chunks of raw beef on their cutting board.

Jared ignored his sister and went into the fridge to grab a bottle of water.

"Why should I? He was a total jerk to Mila today! He made her cry!"

He stopped mid-way of taking a drink. He made her cry? Well that's just great. Another rotten thing he's done to put on his ever growing total jerk list. He didn't look at Selena. Their mother looks at her son.

"What have you done to make that sweet girl cry Jared?" She asks him, looking slightly disappointed.

"I would rather not talk about it." he states with a wince.

"I do! He said some really mean things, he refuses to talk to her! All because he's in love with her and can't handle his dumb best friend getting her instead! Because he's jealous!"

His eyes widen. "Shut the hell up Sel!" He yells at her. His face was red with the complete truth that he himself wouldn't admit.

And in front of their mother who was really good friends with Mila's whole family. "Jared! Don't talk to your sister like that!" His mother chastise in an astonished tone. "I don't know what's going on here, but it sounds like it needs to be discussed. Mila happens to be a big part of this family, so it needs to be fixed and soon." she emphasized to Jared.

"It's not that simple mom." He tells her, looking down at the ground.

She stares at him for a moment then turns to her daughter, "Selena I need to talk to your brother alone could you please?" She asks gently.

"Sure but just so you both know; Mila is also upset because Evan dumped her yesterday without saying why."

Jared stood ap straighter "What?!" he angrily yells.

"Jared stop!" His mother growls sternly when he was about to stomp out the room. "Selena go!" she points out the door of the kitchen.

When Selena was gone his mother looks to him. "Sit down Jared, before you explode."

He sits down reluctantly and crosses his arms. When he gets the chance he was going to kill that asshole! His mother sits down across from him. "Listen to me Jared. I can see this is affecting you a great deal so I'm guessing what Selena is saying is true? Do you have feelings, for Mila?"

When he didn't answer and refused to look her in the eye she says, "I guessed as much. I'm sorry this happened especially between you and Evan, but you have got to make this right because if you don't you're going to lose them both. Tell me what happened today between you and Mila."

He sighs deeply. He told her everything from the time that Mila had come to him about calling it off with Evan to the point of the fight they had at the school that day. When he finished his heart felt more heavy than before and his mother looked disturbed.

"Oh my, well I hope she doesn't end up pregnant." She says to herself more than him.

Jared's eyes bulged at the thought. If that was why Evan broke up with her than he was definitely going to kill the bastard. "Please don't say that mom."

He says with difficulty. His mother looks up in surprise. "I'm sorry hun, I was just thinking...I mean these things tend to happen...Well teenage pregnancies have been increasing lately..." She shut her mouth realizing that none of this was helping her son's state of mind. "I'm sure she was smart enough to use protection."

"If she was smart, she would never have done it in the damn first place!" he bites out sternly.

She gave him a small sad smile. "Sometimes the things that hurt us the most is the things that we love the most but in the end it always comes back in the most greatest gift."

"I don't think that's going to happen for me mom." he tells her feeling worthless.

She leans in and put her arms on the table. "Things aren't going to easy Jared, it takes some hardships to get there. You just have to be willing to fight for it, if you love her then just don't sit back and watch things happen. Be the one that makes things happen. Isn't she worth for you to give it your all?"

With that she got up and went back to cutting their meat and she watches from the corner of her eye as her son gives it some thought, gets up and leaves the kitchen without another word. She smiles to herself.

When Jared goes up the stairs Selena was coming down. "Going somewhere?" he asks.

She stops and stares daggers at him. "Why yes I am, not that it's any of your business."

He roll his eyes and waits for her to tell him where she was going. Selena gave a big huff at his stubbornness. "Fine if you must know I'm going to Mila's. I'm worried about her she's hasn't been answering any of my calls or texts so I'm going to check on her."

She did sound worried, and he knew part of it was his fault. He swallows hard. "Look I'm sorry for the way I treated her."

"I'm not the one you should be apologizing too Jared." She says.

"I know but honestly Sel, I don't think I'm..." He didn't finish his sentence.

She gave him a small smile. "Ready?" She finishes for him.

He just shook his head and went up to his room and decided to go to bed early. He didn't even get the chance to find out about Kristan and her being pregnant because that very morning he got up just to see Selena is a pissy mood, something about two timing bastard and Evan's name. It was enough to get Jared's anger up when he demanded to know what happened. All she said was that Evan dumped Mila because of his two timing ways and that all he wanted was a piece ass, but Jared didn't hear the rest because by then he was out the door.

He finally reached Mila's house and pounded on the door. When no one answered he went to the window and saw that no one was inside. He looked around and saw that his father's old truck was at the curb. Selena must have drove here earlier. He took out his cell phone and dialed her number as he dug out a pair of spare keys he always kept with him. Selena had gotten her license a week ago and already she had locked her keys in her car twice, so he always kept a spare. He unlocked the door and got in.

"Hello?" Selena yells into the phone.

"Selena it's me Jared, where are you?" he asks as he peeled out from the carb and made a quick U-turn.

"What was that?" She yells.

He could hear a bunch of noise and people in the background with an intercom stating boarding some terminal. "Are you at the airport?!" he asks a bit loudly.

"Yeah, why?" she asks curiously.

"I'm on my way right now!"

"Well then you better hurry up, her plane leaves in a half hour."

"Damn!" He hangs up and drove onto the freeway.

It takes almost twenty minutes just to get there! Jared went eighty miles an hour keeping an eye out for high patrol and the feel of the old truck. He hoped he got to her in time and decided if he did he was going to tell her right then and there of how he truly felt about her and that the one she should really be with is him. He didn't care about what happened between her and Evan or what they had done. As long as she was his, to him none of the past matters only the future.