The Unforgiven

"Oh my god!!!!" She screamed. Isabella had been walking to her dorm after dinner, when she saw one of her friends that she hadn't spoken to since she had moved. She ran over to him and hugged him laughing.

"Hey, Isabella," He chirped happily.

"Oh my god, Eric what are you doing here? How did you get here? How are Nyssa and Lilly?" Isabella excitedly asked as she broke away from him. They began walking in the direction of her building.

"Oh well I just had to get away. We kinda got divorced and she won custody of Lilly and moved to Arkansas with her parents and I moved back in with my grandma and mom. I knew that you had moved here so I convinced my mom to move up here with that miserable fat lump Phil. I just needed to be with my one friend who was always there for me." Eric mumbled sadly. They were both staring at the ground as they walked.

"Oh, I'm so sorry. I've missed you ya know." Isabella mumbled as she opened the door to her building and started leading them down to her dorm room.

"I've missed you too." Isabella opened her room and turned on the light. As Eric closed the door she kicked her panties under her laundry bag.

"Well this is my room, my new home if you must." Isabella swept her arms out gesturing towards the small room. She went and sat down on the bottom bunk of her beds.

"It's lovely. So what have you been up too?" Eric asked as he sat down next to her. Part of Isabella wanted to move away from him but instead she just laid back against her pillows. He sat back on her chair back, opposite of her.

"Just school, trying to find a job, you know the usual." She was looking down at her fingers as she fiddled with her thumbs.

"Cool, cool. I'm sorry."

"What for?"

"For treating you so crapily. I know I must have hurt you. I didn't mean to...it's just...I wanted to try and make things work with Nyssa. For Lilly you know..I never wanted to fuck up our friendship."

"It's fine Eric. Really, I've gotten over it. Sure I was hurting for a bit but I'm fine now. I'm sorry things didn't work out for you and Nyssa, truly I am."

"I know. You always did want me to be happy. You were always there."

"Only cause you were there for me. But, no matter we shouldn't dwell on the past. All that matters is the present."

"True. So what you wanna do?" Eric looked up at her for the first time. Isabella looked up, feeling his eyes on her.

"Watch tv?" She suggested.

"Sure, sounds good." Isabella nodded and turned on the tv. She turned her back to the wall and Eric laid behind her. She closed her eyes as his arm gently wrapped around her waist. She wanted to pull away, she wanted to smack him, she wanted to lean in closer. She blinked away her tears and just concentrated on the television, breathing in his scent.