Lunacy Fringe -CUA triqual-

Maybe it was losing branden, or maybe it was just watching Jeph oves on, but Wil was so much closer to the end than he'd ever been. He stared down at the ground, thinking deeply. Th others were his friends and not the Whores, but Frank. He knew Frank didn;t trust him, and tat had to change for him to ruin Whores life.

"Hey," Quinn handed him a beer. "How are youdoing"

Wil took it and sipped "Alright I guess" he mumbled "It wasn;t his fault, He was just scared Gerard was going to hurt Bert, he wasn;t thinking straight" he kept finding himself making excuses for Branden, never entirely sure why. "Anyway, how practice going? I saw Bert, Dan and who-I mean, Jeph coming in earlier so I guessed..."

"Oh,yeah, Bert has some new things he wants to work on, and Jepha's the only good bassistI know, so..."

Wil whinced and looked t the floor "I hate him" he mutetred.

Jeph was near the door when he caught those words.

"Why? I mean, yeah, hekilled Branden, but it was Branden who made him do it."

Wil sniffed "branden didn;t mean to, he couldn;t control his temper, if Jepha had just done what he asked none of it would have happened. And he still killed the one man I loved" he said quietly.

Jepha poked his head round the door "Er, we're st-starting again Quinn" he sid quietly before dissapearing back and almot walking into Dan "Oh, Sorry Dan"

Dan spat at him. "Stupid prick."

Jeoha flinched "I-I didn't do anything!"

"Yeah, apparently that's all you can do-nothing! You pathetic little shit."

Jepha winced and forcedhimself not to tear up"Please Dan, I've never done anything to hurt you!"

"Oh spare me the melodrama. Iknoweverything you've done. Bert told me that you're only in the band from necessity.

Jeph whimpered "That's not true! They're my friends!"

"When was the last time any of them poke nicely to you,dick?"

Jeph bit his lip "Qu-Quinn does, and Berts liek that with everyone"

"He's really not, bu tell yourself that if you want."

Jeph blinked hard "Whatever, you haven't been part of this group long enough to know anything" he snapped "They ARE my friends."

"How can you tell? I'm suprised you can see from under all those scars?"

Jepha tipped his head forward, touching his face with one hand and trying to hide a muffled sob, still insanely self-concious about his scarring.

"Just accept it. Nobody want you here."

Jeph gave a sligt sob "Why are you being so cruel?"

Quinn leaned into his ear. "Branden probably thought the same thing."

Jeph looked at him, shoked by Quinns words "Wh-What? He hurt ME not the other way around!"

"Yeah, but you killed him, you weren't exactly being nice."

"He wanted me to kill frank!"