A/N: I decided to post a chapter today since we reach 1K views. Thank you to everyone who has read this story!!!

"Um Luke can we talk?" She whispers.

"Sure, Sunshine."

Luke/Lucas's POV

Isla walks into my room and takes a seat near me on my bed. "Luke, I know you love me, and I love you too but- "

"But the way you love me isn't the same way that I love you, am I right?" With watery eyes, she nods her head. "It's Hayden, isn't it?" Once again, she nods her head and I feel my heart break into a thousand pieces. A thousand pieces that only she can put back together, but she won't.

"Luke, I'm really sorry. I-I just can't move past you kissing Chelsea. I tried, I really did, but every time my feelings for you start to grow, the vision of you kissing her creeps back in my mind. I'm too afraid that you will do it again to me. I know you said you wouldn't, but the only reason you kissed her in the first place was to hurt me. Luke, you wanted to hurt me, and you did."

I take several deep breaths trying to calm myself down. I have to be careful on how I handle this. If I let my anger get the best of me, I may lose her all together. "Isla, I know what I did was wrong. Fuck." I growl. "Of course, I know I fucked up, but Hayden can't give you what I can. Sure, he's a great guy, but what about our history. It was one fucking mistake Isla. I'm only human and we both know I'm fucked up in the head. Without you, I'm a goner."

"Luke, please you have to understand. I loved you. I wanted nothing more than to be with you. You had my heart and you broke it. I can't be yours in that way, but that doesn't mean I want our friendship to end. We've been best friends since kindergarten."

"I'm sorry, Isla, but I can't watch you be with my best friend. I can't live in the same house knowing you gave your heart to someone else. I want you to be happy, I do, but I can't be happy watching you with someone else."

"L-Luke, what are you saying?"

I stand up and start pacing in front of her. "Fuck!" I yell. "Fuck. Isla, you can't be doing this to me. If you are going to choose Hayden, I can't stay here anymore." The anger becomes too much for me and with all the anger and heartbreak boiling over inside of me I punch my bedroom wall. As the sheetrock crumbles to the ground, so does all of my emotions.

I sit on my floor crying. Isla is staring at me in shock and horror. When she notices that my hand is bleeding, she runs to my bathroom and grabs the first aid kit. She hesitantly grabs my hand and starts cleaning my wound, tears running down her face. I don't know what to do anymore. I can't make her sacrifice her happiness for mine, but I can't let her go either. "L-Luke," she says searching my eyes. "P-please don't l-leave me. I c-can't lose you a-again." I stare into her eyes, but I'm just too numb to say or do anything in this moment.

My door suddenly busts open and Nick, Hayden, Sofia and Tyler barge in. Nick takes in the scene. "What the fuck is going on?"

By now, I know my eyes are bloodshot and puffy, but all I can do is glare at Hayden. I fucking hate Hayden. Isla gives me a sad look. The happiness and all of her hopes have been drained from her eyes. She then looks at Hayden and her tears well up more. She lets go of my hand. "Don't leave me, Luke. Don't give up on me. Don't give up on our friendship."

She stands up and walks over to Hayden while futilely wiping the tears from her eyes. "I-I love you," Her voice breaks. "But there can't be an us." She kisses his cheek and runs downstairs, ignoring him and everyone calling her name.

I watch as my once-best friend crumbles in front of me and everyone in the room. As I look him in the eyes, I see nothing but pain. There's a voice in my head telling me to run after Isla and apologize. To tell her it's okay to be with Hayden. I want to tell her that her happiness is more important to me than my own, but she's the reason I breathe. I'm so screwed up in the head that I can't get myself to do what's right. The worst part about it, is that I know I'm screwed up in the head. I know what I'm doing right now is wrong, but I can't stop myself.

Hayden is in absolute despair. "What the fuck did you do, Lucas?" I cringe as he uses my actual name. The name Isla never knew when we were younger. "Does it make you feel better knowing that you hurt me and Isla? Fuck. I love her. I fucking love her, and she loves me, but you don't care, do you? You say you love her, but you don't really love her. You don't care for anyone but yourself."

"I care for Isla. I love her. I always have. I have always fucking loved her, and if it wasn't for you, there wouldn't have been a problem between me and her. You knew I loved her and yet you still went after her. She was never yours, Hayden. She was always supposed to be mine. You knew that and so did Nick. The biggest mistake I made wasn't kissing Chelsea, it was introducing the two of you to Isla."

"How can you say that?" Hayden bellows. "How can you fucking say that? You're the one who time and time again turned your back on her when she needed you the most. It's not my fault you didn't step up when she needed you, but I wasn't going to let her suffer alone."

My body seems possessed as I yell, "Fuck you, Hayden!" and slam my fist into his face. Time seems to slow down as I throw punch after punch at him. He does the same to me, but there's no pain. Everything feels like it's in slow motion and before I know it, I'm being restrained by Tyler while Nick is restraining Hayden.

I feel the warm thick liquid of blood dripping down my face and by the looks of it, Hayden isn't better. Sofia is screaming and crying, but none of her words register through my ears. My head feels like it is spinning. Tyler's grip doesn't loosen from me. Slowly reality starts to come back to me, and I can start to hear, see, and think again.

Hayden puts up a fight as Nick tries to pull him out of my room. "No, I want to know what he told her. I'm not leaving until I know what he said to her. She loves me, and she wants to be happy, but she is willing to give it all up for that fuck up. What did he do to her?" Hayden continues to shout while try to struggle free from Nick's grip.

"Sofia, where is Killian? We are going to need help separating these two!" Nick yells. Sofia pulls her phone out and rapidly dials her brother's number.

"Let go of me." I spat at Tyler.

With all of his strength, Tyler slams me against the wall. "Shit, you need to calm down."

"Let me go!" I roar. "I need to find Isla."

Tyler struggled to keep me restrained. "Don't you think you've already done enough to her for one day? Dude, you're too far gone right now. Do you not realize that you just hurt two people who you care about and who care about you?"

"No. No, I didn't. I love Isla. I wouldn't hurt her. She loves me. She told me she loves me." Tyler released his grip on me, and I collapsed onto the floor. "Sh-She said she would never give up on me. She promised." I sob. "She said she wouldn't give up on me. Why is she giving up on me? She promised. She promised."

Nick's POV

It's a fight to get Hayden into my room across the hall from Luke's but I'm finally able to. Hayden is a complete wreck. "Why would she turn me down for him?" Hayden cries. "What's so special about him, that she would sacrifice her own happiness? Why would she throw away what we could have had? S-She said she loves me, but how could she love me and tell me there is no us," Hayden cries as his voice breaks. "There is no us. I never stood a chance. There will never be an us."

I pull Hayden into a hug. "Don't say that. She loves you, but she's scared. Her worst fear is coming true right now. She was afraid that this would happen if she chose one of y'all." Hayden is trembling in my hold. I'm scared right now. I don't know what to do for my three friends. Each one of them are hurting and while I'm beyond pissed with Luke, I know he's not in the right state of mind. "She loves you. She wants to be with you. Just give it time for this to all settle. You and I both know that Luke has some issues that are hard for him to work through. We both knew him letting go of Isla wouldn't be easy on him."

Hayden pushes me away. "No. You don't get to make excuses for him. I love Isla and before we can even become a couple, I've already lost her."

"Hayden, I'm not making excuses for him, I'm-"

"No, Nick. Just leave me the fuck alone." Hayden yells before falling to the ground.

At the moment I am completely at lost at what to do. I walk out of my room, leaving Hayden alone. Sofia and Tyler are already in the hallway both of them looking like shit. "Were you able to get a hold of Killian?"

"No, his phone keeps going to voicemail. How's Hayden?"

I pinch the bridge of my nose. "Not good. I've never seen him this bad." I sigh. "He thinks there's no chance ever now for him and Isla."

"Luke isn't doing any better." Tyler says. "He's like, messed up in there. Really, really messed up. I wouldn't leave him alone for very long with the state he's in.,"

I comb my hand through my hair. "Okay, y'all don't know this. No one does besides Luke, Hayden and me. The foster home we met in wasn't a foster home for normal kids. It was for kids who are kind of messed up in the head. My issue was and still is my temper. It gets to a point where I have no control over myself and I can become extremely violent. Hayden's issues were his depression. Out of the three of us, he manages his mental illness the best. Up until he met Isla, he was never happy but after he met her, he changed. For the longest time, he blamed his family's death on himself, but Isla showed him it wasn't his fault. Finally, he was happy."

I sigh, "And then there's Luke, in general, he is a little messed up in the head. He would have uncontrollable outburst when he was younger causing people to pick on him or stay away from him. From what I know, Isla was the only one before who either didn't know he was messed up in the head or didn't care that he was messed up in the head. She stuck by his side through thick and thin. Once Luke's mom passed away and his dad abandoned him, he seemed to get worse. We told him he needed to get help, but he kept telling us he already had something that would fully help him, Isla. Things seemed better once we started the same high school at her, even though he never talked to her. Just her being near was enough to make it fine again, but I don't think he can handle Isla dating Hayden. In his mind, he was always supposed to end up with Isla."

"Fuck." Tyler mutters. "So, if I am understanding this correctly, we have Luke who is messed up in the head and then we have Isla and Hayden who struggle with depression. What the hell are we supposed to do?"

I pull at my hair. "I don't know, but from what I've learned from Isla since I've known her and from what Luke has told me, she had basically abandoned all of her friends when she was younger for Luke. She was extremely attached to him with her only other friend being Chelsea at the time. The only reason her and Chelsea remain friends for as long as they did was because Isla's family had money and Chelsea would use Isla for her family's money." I start pacing back and forth in the hallway. "As y'all know Isla's depression started when Luke left without being able to say goodbye. All of these years when she was bullied and hasn't had any friends, it was the thought of being reunited with Luke one day that kept her going. She's not going to let him disappear again. Whether either of them realizes it or not, Luke has some type of hold over her."

Sofia looks at me with a worried sketch on her face. "So, basically what you're saying is all he has to say is he's leaving, and she will pretty much do whatever it takes to stop him." I just nod my head. "So, this is Luke's fault then, that Isla can't be with Hayden."

"Yes and no." I sigh. "Yes, because he is telling her that he's going to leave and no, because he honestly can't stop himself from doing it. Even if in his head he knows he's doing it, he can't stop himself. It's just a part of his mental disorder."

Tyler sits on the floor leaning his head back on the wall. "That's why he kept rambling on about her promising not to give up on him."

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A/N: Hello my amazing readers! This chapter has been broken into two parts because it was over 4000 words. ~KarenJ128~