protip: play the youtube song to get more feel. or turn on that song during reading this chapter

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14: interlude

MONTH ONE FROM 'THE THING THAT RUINED APRIL':

Quentin: THAT C***! HE BROKE UP WITH MY SISTER! F****ING C*** THE F*** MOTHERF****** I WILL FIND HIM AND PUT MY TWO FINGERS TOWARDS HIS NOSTRILS SO THAT I CAN SQUEEZE HIS BRAINS FROM INSIDE OUT.

April's mom: Well, yeah. That guy who shouldn't be named broke my daughter's heart. NO, HE BROKE THE HEARTS OF THE COLLECTIVE HALE ANCESTRY! HE SHOULD BE SKINNED ALIVE AND THEN-

April's father: My wife's a bit emotional. I hope you can understand. It's only natural that she feels... so strongly... towards that... piece of sh*t. Okay, sorry, that was a bad word. But that sonuab*tch literally broke our daughter and then I... that was another bad word? F*ck. No. I can't do this. I can't talk anything that resemble niceties towards that f*cking c***.

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MONTH THREE FROM 'THE THING THAT RUINED APRIL':

Trisha: Uhh... like, okay, she broke up with her long-term boyfriend. But everybody does that, right? I mean, I broke up with my high school sweetheart, too. Lauren did, Mindy did. Who the hell keeps their high school boyfriends, anyway?

Lauren: I'm a bit concerned that she seems to lose all interest about food and have heightened interests towards television, though.

Mindy: Yeah, scary amount of dedication to finish those series.

Trisha: And it's okay, I guess? I mean, people have their own ways to cope. When Alex broke up with me, I became a slight alcoholic-

Lauren: She didn't. Became a slight alcoholic, I mean.

Mindy: It's a I-will-embarass-my-parents-and-myself kind of downward spiral towards destruction kind of alcoholism.

Trisha: My friends are shitty human beings.

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SIX MONTHS FROM 'THAT THING WITH APRIL AND THE UNNAMED BOY'

Prof. Langley: April Hale? Yeah, she's a student of mine. Kind of weird, have these crazy eyes that will either intensely look at you or intensely avoid you. Sometimes she gives me creeps because she will always know the smallest trivias of any kind of movies or television. I mean, I was supposed to be the film teacher, but it seems like she's the one who has already watched everything that's made by men from year 1950 to now. I wonder where she got the time?

Student #1: Nah, she's just got no social life.

Prof. Langley: makes sense.

Student #2: She was kind of popular before. You know, when she decided to show up at parties and gatherings. People like her because they say she's got... *whisper* Asperger's. I mean, I wouldn't mind hitting that. She's pretty.

Student #1: Meh... if no ass means pretty, then yeah. But she looks like she will get windswept all the time. And ever since she reportedly broke up with her ex-boyfriend, she just went into the deep side of no-friend-zone.

Student #3: And I tell you, there's a difference between the friendzone, and the no-friend-zone. The latter is a scary, cold, lonely place.

All three students look at one another and then nod sagely.

Student #2: Shame.

Student #1: Yeah, shame. I bet that boyfriend wasn't worth it, anyway.

Student #3: I mean, what 19 year old guy is worth it?

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TWO YEARS, FROM 'THAT THING THAT HAPPENED TO APRIL'

Alex: She's so withdrawn nowadays. Well, if you actually try to talk to her, then she'll talk. But that's about it.

Boy #1: She's kind of a prize nowadays. You know, the pretty girl who just needs to be saved. Lots of guys have tried to get through her, but she's an ice cold bitch, man.

Boy #2: Not cold per se. Just dense. Super dense.

Boy #3: To the point of cruel. I offered her a dinner at an expensive restaurant, and she said no because she wanted to watch some shit series at the same time of my reservation.

Boy #1: Tell me about it. She avoided touching me at all costs because she thought I'd have germs all over my body.

Boy #2: You guys got it easy. She screamed at me when I tried to tap her shoulder.

Boy #4: That's some scary no-touch policy she's got there. Alex is the only one who can actually talk to her without her freaking out.

Alex: Yeah, cause I treat her like a human being. Not as a prize to be won.

Boy #3: He's still far away from ever getting her to... you know. Maybe she's a homosexual.

Boy #2: Or asexual

Boy #1: Or pansexual

Boy #3: Or whatsexual. Fuck, there's so many sexuality nowadays I can't keep track of it.

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TWO YEARS THREE MONTHS AFTER 'THAT THING THAT WAS REALLY BAD TO APRIL'

Quentin: 'You can't believe how good April gets at this thing.

Classmate #1: A genius. A work of pure genius. She really knows how to do this shit.

Classmate #2: Yea, our film professor basically quit because she can't stand being around her.

Quentin: She's got the talent. I know she always has. And you know, I can't believe myself for saying this, but I'm glad 'That Guy' broke up with her. Well, she was depressed and became weird, WEIRDER THAN HER USUAL WEIRD SELF, for a few months. And then she went crazy.

April's Mother: Full on crazy.

April's Father: like she never before. It's like she saw the world with new eyes. She never stop working. She has this laser focus, you know. Maybe it's genetics?

April's Mother: or just the perks of her condition.

Quentin: She's not even senior in her college and can now make money editing videos for these youtube celebs. It's crazy. Whenever I eat with her, she's always paying! It breaks my heart as the brother, and the male sibling.

April's Mother: If only you didn't spend all of your money on that skanky girlfriend of yours...

Quentin: Mom, language, please. And Audra's not skanky. She's just got a unique sense of fashion!

April's Mother: Which involves a lot of belly button and cleavages more lower than what's allowed on cinemas.

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TWO AND A HALF YEARS

Alex: Oh, this messy hair? 7th of April is a really hard day for April. It's the 6 months Cryingversarry of her breakup with... the other person. Still better than the yearly Hystericalversarry, though.

Bella: I tried, okay? I tried EVERYTHING. I dragged her to spa. I dragged her to a nice restaurant. I dragged her to the club that's famous for its hot guys. None of it work. She will cry and cry and cry and she will try to pull her own hair. Or anyone within the 500 meters radius.

Alex: That includes us.

Bella: Ugh. Being around you and your expensive perfume still gives me all goosebumbs. Can't you stop looking like you're trying to flaunt all of your money for once?

Alex: I still can't understand why this blonde-haired asian drag me to wherever place she's taking April. I think she secretly has a crush on me.

Bella: As IF! Aaand you can't fool me. I know how you look at April. As if she's a precious china ready to fall apart and break.

Alex: And you look at her like a handmade bomb ready to explode.

Bella: Where is HE anyway? I thought you two were friends.

Alex: Well, I thought you two were friends.

Bella: Wait, I hear April singing that Chainsmokers
song off tune again. Gotta go.

Alex: I'll be here when she needs the hangover cure.

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Alex sat on the couch, the green mixture of all things unworldly and disgusting was on the glass beside him. He had already forgotten how he had acquired the recipe, but it was damn effective.

That hangover cure had secured him a lot of friendships and in some cases, morning sexes.

Unfortunately, no matter how potent the cure was, it still couldn't cure April's broken heart.

He sighed and then unlocked his phone. Sometimes it irked him at how much she thought about That Guy. It was one thing if That Guy broke up with her because he had cancer or got involved in an accident. But that hadn't been the case.

That Guy had broken up with her so that he could move on and become a greater guy.

Sure, Alex knew that he should always stick to That Guy, by the standard procedure. Bros before Hos, after all.

But April...

April was different. She wasn't just your regular easy ho. She was April.

And she had been hurting so bad.

Alex opened her instagram page and then typed something on the search bar.

I-Left-At-April

The instagram page was one of the most popular woodworking page as of now. It had been set up on the date when That Guy broke up in April, and as of now, two and a half years later, it had garnered more than 500 thousands followers.

The guy behind this page never showed his face, but you could tell from the bits and pieces of the videos that he had a good looking body and a nice face profile.

Alex also happened to know the tattoos to notice that the guy behind I-Left-At-April, an up and coming home solutions, was Ryder Black.

Alex snorted. 'I bet April didn't even notice that the only person this wood Guy follows is her'.

There was a wry smile on Alex's face as he browsed through the page. All of Ryder's creation was beautiful, of course, and it was no wonder that most of his chairs or tables or even shelves were sold in ridiculous prices. $5000 for a wood chair. Where the hell did he find these people, anyway?

He really had made something on his own.

And as the small sound at the back of Alex's head screamed, he tried his best to shut it off.

I don't want That Guy to ever see April again.

I don't want That Guy to hurt her again.

"ALEX!" Bella called out. "The Cure! Now!"

Alex locked his phone, and then muttering "Get yourself together, you sickfuck!', he trotted over towards the sound of April groaning with his omnipotent Hangover Cure.

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author's note:

Ta-Da

I originally wanted to just time skip and let Ryder meet April again 2 years later.

But then I decided to make this.

In case some of you missed it:

- April became depressed after Ryder left her

- After a while, she started working like a madwoman as a video editor

- Meanwhile, Ryder found success on his carving and wood artistry.

- Some time soon, they will meet again, BECAUSE THIS IS A ROMANCE STORY OKAY AND THE MAIN GIRL AND THE MAIN GUY WILL MEET.

Hope you like my little update. :D let me know if you like the little insta page. I'm planning to incorporate a lot of the character's social media in the future haha.

I'm updating My Wattpad Boyfriend next. If you have time, please do check it :D