I'm sorry

Maddie tried so hard to avoid Annie's gaze, but she was unable to. As she sat there, looking at Annie, she felt nothing but pure sadness and pain on the inside. All the emotions of loneliness and despair she was keeping bottled up inside started to resurface.

"Exactly!" said Matt.

"And I don't need to ask how you feel Maddie, because I know you feel the same." said Matt as he looked at Maddie who was silent.

"Fighting with your best friend is one of the most silly, petty, things you can ever do because, they are your best friend, if anything, you are only fighting because you both care about each other, but you're both on different pages." said Matt.

"I don't know if these past few days stuck between this stupid feud has taught you anything, but is surely has taught me something." said Matt.

"I miss my friends, I miss us hanging out together and laughing... you don't know how boring and lonely the days are when we're separated not because of distance but because of one stupid argument." said Matt.

"I don't know about you two, but I believe that true friendship is worth more than any stupid argument, or disagreement, or feud." said Matt.

"If we can't be there for each other when we really don't want to be, then how can we be there when we need to be?" asked Matt.

"Okay I know that sounded funny, but you know what I mean, we should all learn to be mature enough put our differences aside for the greater good of everyone else." said Matt.

"Now, this is not a matter of being weak, but a matter of making sure that peace reigns, trust me, that's all that matters." said Matt as Maddie groaned, hating that Matt had so much truth in his words.

She hated that she was starting to feel worse than she already felt about this whole thing.

"At this point in time, I am sure that I have spoken enough words for the two of you to make a decision, and mind you, not just any decision, but a good, well thought out decision of how you are going to end this stupid feud." said Matt, Annie could tell that he was sick and tired of this feud more than she and Maddie were.

He looked visibly tired, and even more so mentally. He looked as if once they decided to end this feud his life would have been fulfilled.

"Okay, so the floor is all yours, don't mind me, just carry on as if I am not here." said Matt as he smiled painfully, wishing with all his might that they would choose to finally end this nonsense.

Maddie and Annie looked at each other. At this point it wasn't even a matter of being weak, but a matter of finding the right words to say to break the ice and extremely frosty atmosphere that their several days of feuding had caused.

Matt on the other hand was silently praying that one of them would please say something nice. He didn't want to have to force them to make up, but the silence was killing him on the inside.

Annie sighed internally, she already knew what she had to do.

"Maddie, I'm sorry..." said Annie as Maddie looked rather surprised for a second before the expression on her face turned to a neutral one.

"I shouldn't have started this whole thing, I know that you didn't want to be a part of this in the first place and yet you still went along with it because of me... I'm sorry that I tried to get you to study by force." said Annie.

"But just know that I didn't do it like that because I was being mean or selfish, but I did it because I care about you, and I just don't want to have to miss my best friend because she's far away and I'm far away." said Annie as she looked down at her sheets.

"But I know now that that wasn't my decision to make at all, so I'm sorry Maddie, could you ever forgive me?" asked Annie as she looked at Maddie who looked as if she was on the verge of tears.

"Oh Matt you are so annoying!" said Maddie as she turned to look at Matt in annoyance as he only chuckled, feeling instantly relieved that his stern talking had worked.

"I'm sorry too Annie, I should have never hurt you by dropping my book on your head, it wasn't fair, and you're right, I did choose the worse type of violence, I'm sorry, could you ever forgive me?" asked Maddie as she turned to look at Annie, internally cursing that Matt had met them at such a delicate time.

"Of course I forgive you Maddie, I did start it first." said Annie as she chuckled and they all laughed, but no one's laugh was as joyous as Matt's who had finally accomplished his mission here successfully.

"How wonderful, now the two of you seal the deal with a hug." said Matt happily as Annie looked at Maddie who stretched out her arms as Annie happily got down from her bed and gave Maddie a warm hug that she had wanted to give her ever since two days ago.

"I'm sorry." whispered Maddie into Annie's ear as Annie only smiled.

"Awww, don't you see how nice it is to finally reconcile?" asked Matt happily as Maddie brother their hug and she and Annie chuckled.

Matt definitely seemed more happy that they were done with this stupid feud than they were.

"I agree with you Matt, I'm so happy we ended this silly feud, I was starting to feel very tense in my neck." said Annie as she rubbed her neck and sat back down on her bed.

"Same here... gosh the top of my head is still aching." said Maddie as Matt looked at the both of them and shook his head.

"The two of you need to find other better ways to solve your differences, please never resort to physical harm again." said Matt.

"You don't have to tell me twice. Curtis was starting to get worried that I would be wearing a neck brace soon." said Annie as they all laughed.

"Well then, my work here is done, I need to go and catch up on some well deserved sleep." said Matt as he stood up. Ever since this nonsense feud started not only had his days been spent in suffering loneliness but his nights had been affected negatively as well.

"This whole thing has made me lose some very valuable hours of sleep." said Matt as Maddie scoffed and rolled her eyes.

"Oh please, you don't even really need to sleep vampire boy." replied Maddie in annoyance as Annie chuckled.

"I'm only half vampire, besides, I still need my rest regardless of if I may be partly nocturnal or not." replied Matt as Maddie scoffed.

"Yeah right, just admit that you're a sleepy head, you like to sleep too much." said Maddie.

"Says the girl who if she doesn't get a good night's rest she's instantly grumpy for the entire day." replied Matt as he decided that it probably wasn't a good idea for him to remain here any longer.

After all, he did not want to end up starting a fight between he and Maddie, they had only just settled the first one.

"Anyway, I'm out of here, see you tomorrow, and goodnight." said Matt as he yawned.

"Goodnight Matt." said Annie as she smiled at him.

"And thank you." she added as he looked at her and smiled.

"What are friends for?" he replied.

"Goodnight to you too Maddie." said Matt as he quickly left their room before Maddie responded with something he would have to stay to reply her.

"That boy is nothing but a coward!" said Maddie as Annie laughed and shook her head.

"It's late Maddie, we better go to sleep." she replied as she laid down on her pillow.

"I guess we should..." replied Maddie as she scoffed and laid her head on her pillow as well.

After a few minutes Annie and Maddie both realized that for some odd reason they could not seem to go to sleep.

Annie sighed internally as she turned to the right.

"Maddie, are you awake?" she called as Maddie turned to the left.

"Mhmm." replied Maddie.

"Can't sleep?" asked Maddie as Annie nodded.

"What about you?" asked Annie.

"Same." replied Maddie.

"So what should we do?" asked Annie as Maddie chuckled.

"Stay in our beds and wait until we finally fall asleep." replied Maddie as Annie chuckled.

"I guess that should work." replied Annie as she shook her head as there was silence for a while.

"You know... I am actually really nervous about tomorrow." said Annie as she looked at Maddie who looked at her.

"Yes, I can tell, you looked so nervous before Matt came in here." replied Maddie as she laughed.

"Well I can't help that I show all my feelings on my face now can I?" asked Annie as she laughed.

"No you can't." replied Maddie as she laughed.

"But don't be nervous." replied Maddie.

"You studied really hard, and I know that all your good efforts won't go to waste." said Maddie confidently as Annie looked at her, completely stunned by her words.