Falling For Trouble {Completed}

Chapter 4

Chapter 4 (1 hour later, 6:42 pm)

Lyrics outfit:

Troys outfit:

They were all sitting in a booth at the diner, Alexander and Lyric were on one side, Troy sitting across from them by himself in the other side. The kids were sitting by themselves in the booth behind them, drawing on the colorable place mats with crayons the diner provided and snacking on their food occasionally in between chatting. Lyric and Alexander were talking and had been the entire time, Lyric attempted to include Troy in it multiple times but he kept fading in and out of it, and Alexander seemed to keep pushing him out of the conversations even though this whole thing his had been his idea. They had moved onto a different topic at this point, and while Alexander discussed something about his job that she was hardly interested in she hesitantly snuck a look over at Troy, he had his body semi-turned towards the door, spaced out and picking at the corner of his fingernail, and his food had hardly been touched. Lyric did a double take when she noticed how sad he looked, and frowned, and once Alexander realized he no longer had her attention he paused, pressing his lips together to keep himself from babbling any longer. She flashed him an apologetic look and disappeared to under the table, carefully sliding up into the booth seat and sitting down at his side. "Is your food not good? You've hardly touched it." She inquired gently, it looked like Troys soul had left his body when he turned to look at her. "Jesus-" Troy said, wide eyed, "...-Christ" Troy breathed out the word in relief when he realized it was just her, deflating a little. "When did you even get there?" He inquired with a brief chuckle following his question, Alexander crossing his arms over his chest as he relaxed back into the booth, Lyric just shrugged her shoulders in response as she waited for an answer to her question. Troy sighing out an exhale and giving her a small reassuring smile before he began "It's good, I'm just not that hungry anymore" Troy murmured and Lyric hummed "Mm. Well I can help you with that. we certainly don't want it to go to waste" Lyric offered as she took a handful of his fries off of his plate, shoving every single one into her mouth all at the same time. Troy stared at her as she did so, his eyes exploring her in fright but also amusement, She played dumb, lifting up her shoulder in a half shrug. "What?" Lyric tried to say but it was mostly muffled, so it came out as more of a garbled "Wurt?" Troy laughing, hard. "Don't you know it's rude to talk when you have food in your mouth, Lyric?" Troy inquired, earning a chuckle out of Lyric who slowly began to chew the large amount of fries, nodding in response to his question. Troy grabbed another fry off of his plate and simply stuck it into her mouth which made Lyric laugh, allowing the fry to slide in with the others. "Mm..Mhm." She murmured flatly, nodding a little, she was struggling to chew them all. "These are delicious" Lyric said muffled as she motioned towards her mouth, which made Troy grin..She finally chewed through the large amount of fries and cleared her throat before she spoke, picking up another fry off of his plate. "Try one" Lyric persuaded as she offered it to his mouth, and Troy stared at her, hesitating for a moment before he slowly leaned forward and gently took the fry out of her fingers, holding eye contact. He chewed it and basked in the flavor for a moment, his face lighting up with shock. "Well damn, they're even better than they usually are" Troy uttered, "Right?" Lyric laughed out her response, which caused Troy to laugh as well just from her laugh, it was so contagious. They had now began to block Alexander out just as Alexander had done to Troy the entire time, They were in their own peaceful little bubble, and then it burst, "Jesus just keep flirting with her right in front of me why don't you" Alexander hardly muttered under his breath, gaining Lyric and Troys attention again. She scoffed in disbelief at his accusation and Troy scowled quietly, but kept it subtle enough to where Alexander didn't realize Troy was getting pissed. "We aren't flirting, Alex, we're just joking around" Lyric reassured him and Alexander chuckled in disbelief at her response, he couldn't believe that she was so blind to not see how Troy acted towards her, "Aww we're friends?" Troy teased, attempting to break the tension a little..Lyrics gaze quickly shifted back to Troys with a big smile on her face, swatting his shoulder. Troy grinned wider, holding eye contact with her, "That, Lyric, friends shouldn't look at eachother like that" Alexander said, motioning towards Troy which caught Troy's attention again, Lyric scoffing in disbelief once again. "Like what?" Lyric inquired irritably. "Like they don't want to look away." Alexander uttered. Troy and Lyric looked at each other like Alexander was crazy, Troy scoffing when he looked back at Alexander and Lyric shaking her head in disbelief. "You're reading way too much into this, Alex" Lyric said gently "Lyric, please, I'm not-" "Jesus Christ, Alexander, get over yourself." Troy finally snapped, "I hardly know her yet and even if I did I don't want your girlfriend because I'm not you, alright? I don't go around stealing other peoples girlfriends." Troy irritably disclosed and Alexander sat up in his seat towards Troy, leaning onto the table "Shut the hell up Harvin!" Alexander whispered angrily "God i am so sick of you. I tried to be civil with you because i know Lyric cares about you but i can't fucking sit here and watch you eye fuck my girlfriend." He spat out bitterly towards him. "Alex!" Lyric whispered irritably, disbelief washing over her face. Troys fists began to tighten under the table and he went to say something in response but he remembered that this was his friends boyfriend and that he didn't want to kick up old dust. Troy just let out a frustrated huff, deciding to leave before it went further downhill, he stood up and put his phone in his pocket, taking out his wallet. Lyrics gaze shifted to look at Troy, it was a bit gentler now "Where are you going?" Lyric asked softly. "I'm going to head home. If you'd like you can still take Gabriel and I'll give you the money for it" Troy muttered as he set down a 20 for his and Gabriel's food and a tip on the table. "Why are you always running from your problems?" Alexander egged him on and Troy scoffed lightly, hardly giving him a single glance as he put his wallet away. "I'm not running, I am simply leaving so I don't do some dumb shit that I will regret." Troy stated and Lyric looked at Alexander, her eyebrows furrowing. "Alex, please stop." She pleaded gently and Alexander seemed to have blocked her out, continuing "No, Troy, You don't face shit head on, not even a simple argument, and you never have been able to. Your sister always solved your problems for you when you were younger, and now that Alexis isn't here-" Troy had enough of it, slamming his hand down onto the table which made all of their dishes clatter disruptively, interrupting Alexander. "You need to shut the fuck up!" Troy yelled emotionally, he was so upset that he was visibly shaking, Lyric flinched a little bit and her lips parted as she stared up at Troy, she was stunned. The diner went quiet, everybody had turned around in their seats, all eyes on him. Alexander stared up at him, swallowing through the lump in his throat, he realized he had gone too far. Troy shook his head a little as his chest rose and fell repeatedly with pure rage. "You don't get to say her name." Troy was barely able to whisper. "Not after what happened."