Aye it's been a month. But good news. I. Feel. Great. Today. Something happened and it feels like a weight was lifted off my shoulders. I hope this affects my writing and even more down the road. But I wrote this for you guys ❤️ thanks for still reading my fanfics

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chapter 10
Lifeless

Serena's P.O.V

     My eyes darting down to my arm that was leaning against the table, I made sure not to look up. But even as I did that I could feel his eyes stare at the top of my head. I took another sip of my drink, my eyes unconsciously keeping the cup out of focus and continuing to focus on the garnished wood table.

Through the noise of the clinking of cups and the end of chairs hitting against the floor, my thought went to how I saw him. Had the same blue scarf. Had the same lips that never curved or smiled. I closed my eyes at the thought, realizing how lucky I was to of chosen Ash instead of him.

I looked to the side, spotting his shoes in the large line beside the table I was sitting at. My feet shuffled over towards each other until they touched. I didn't know what to do. All I could do was wait for Ash to come back.

"Um..." Oh no- "Hey." I felt like dying.

I looked up and saw Alain staring down at me, his hands in the pockets of his grey baggy pants.

"Hey." I replied, only giving a slight bit of emotion in my tone of voice.

He brought the hand up to the back of his head and scratched the back of it. I felt like dying a second time. Ash did that.

"I don't mean to make this awkward... but I was wondering why you were sitting here alone."

"I'm just waiting for Ash to come back with our pizza." I looked around, hoping to find him, but failed it. The heck was he?

As soon as I asked myself, I noticed him picking up some napkins off the floor that he noticeably dropped. I tried not to laugh as the pepper packets also began to fell off the top of the pizza holder.

"Oh... well... good to see you I suppose." Alain said, the side of his lips twitching in an attempt to make a simple smile.

I watched him turn around and take his place back in line as it took another few steps forward.

Ash's P.O.V

"Thank you," I thanked the cashier as she handed me Serena and I's plate of pizza. I turned around quickly for the person behind me to pick up their order and looked over towards where Serena was sitting.

For only a moment I only noticed her sitting there. That was until I saw her lift up her head and watched her lips begin to move. Who was she talking to?

I looked over towards where she was looking and saw the man with the blue, ugly, fluffy scarf. I stared for a while. Watching them talk. So much that I failed to notice the napkins falling off the side of the large pizza plate apparently.

I noticed them begin scatter the entire floor and I quickly bent down and reached to pick all of them up. As soon as I was about to pick up the very last few, I heard a single pepper packet hit the floor beside me. Though the thought of one only hitting the floor soon vanished as I heard more rustles and small smacks against the tile floor.

I closed my eyes and sighed.

Once I was done picking that up, I stood back up as slowly as could and looked back over towards Serena. I noticed she was back at looked at the table in front of her. For some reason a sense of relief washed over me.

"Hey," I said, taking a seat in front of her, setting the plate down in between us. I made sure to look up at her.

"Hey." She sat up to stare back and smiled.

"What... was, uh... happening over here?" I brought my hand over to the back of my head and saw her lips lose their smile.

"Just. Alain." She looked back down at the pizza in front of the both of us and. "This looks good." Her smile returned and he picked up a slice.

I pressed my lips together and looked down at the pepperoni pizza that was now missing a piece. For one more time in my life, I think I lost my appetite.

I felt.

Lifeless.

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I'm sorry for another short chapter ;-;