ifhy, | vinnie hacker

17- Sure we can

Rhiannon

Sure, where? 

and when?

Vin

in 15, where are you? ill meet you.

I'm at Gucci, meet me in the parking garage, i'll send you my location when I get back .

Vin

don't bother , you still have yours shared.

Level 2

I didn't bother responding. I just decided on a new wristlet I wanted, bought it, and walked down the sidewalk to the parking garage. I turned the corner into the elevator and pressed the level 2 button. Quickly ascending to the floor I needed to be on, when the doors open, I walked out and got into my car. I didn't see Vinnie's car anywhere I just played some music and sat there, crying, why? why was I so tore up about this. maybe because Vinnie was my best-friend before he was my boyfriend, so this hurts double. Maybe I wanted him to get into the car and tell me he still loved me and wanted to get back together. I knew that wouldn't happen though.

about 5 minutes later, he pulled in, and parked a few spots down from me. I instantly saw his blonde curls over the tops of the cars. this made more tears fall from my eyes, which is exactly what I was trying not to do. I clicked the unlock button and he opened the door. He looked at me, I could feel it, I couldn't look at him. I he'd know I was crying and I don't know what his intentions are for this talk, so I had to hide my emotions.

"can you please look at me?" he finally said. "I can't" I said, my voice cracked. "Rhiannon please." he said. "just say what you need to say." I said. "are you mad? do you not want to talk, because I can leave." he said. "quit being an asshole and just talk vinnie." I said. "I'm not trying to be an asshole, i'm genuinely asking if you don't wanna talk. Clearly this is hard for you because you're crying." he said. I looked at him, "how did you know?" I asked. "we've been friends for a while now, and you're really asking me how I knew you were crying?" he said. "also your voice cracked." he added. "yes this is hard for me vinnie, because no matter what I love you, with my whole heart, and it sucks that you think I was cheating on you because I wasn't. also, me and chase aren't anything, just friends.. with benefits, he doesn't mean anything." I said. "don't say that, chase is a good guy and I knew there is something there, so don't lie." he said. "ok he does mean something to me, but not as much as you." I said. "I understand, but we need better communication if we are gonna try this again, and I want us to go slow and make sure our lives out here are going to accommodate a relationship for us, if not then we knew this isn't gonna work yet, and we need to be able to accept that and still be friends, because I don't wanna lose you." he said. "I agree vin." I said.

"also you wanna try again?" I asked. "I do, but we need to discuss something first." he said. "anything! go ahead." I said. "you do drugs now?" he asked. "yeah.. just weed. nothing else." i said. that was a lie. i didn't want him to worry about me though and i knew he would. he never questioned my answer and we went on the conversation. "so... we made a truce. now can we start over kinda, maybe just rewind and try and work things out?" he asked. "i never thought we'd be having this conversation again." i said. "yes i'd love that." i added.

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a couple days had gone by since that whole conversation with Vinnie. Tonight was a huge party at the sway house and i was finally invited to it. everybody's been asking me for weeks if i was going and honestly i didn't know how to answer, because up until 2 days ago i was convinced everybody in that house hated me. i was digging through my closet trying to find something to wear. Vinnie was sitting on my bed, eyeing me. i turned around and looked back at him. "don't just stare.. can you help me?" i asked. "pick anything, i promise you'll look good." he said. "not true. i need serious help i feel like i'm meeting your family all over again." i said. "seriously don't be like that. you've met the guys so many times before you know you're basically one of us.." he said pulling his phone out of his back pocket and starting to scroll. "i know, but that was before we broke up, because you thought i was cheating. shit spreads like wildfire you know that." i said.

i ended up choosing a light pink satin dress with a slit on one side, my platform white doc martins and a distressed black denim jacket. i put some girls in my hair and did my normal makeup routine before adding my simple gold jewelry and walking back out to Vinnie. he looked me and up down. "damn i missed you." he said. "i missed you too." i said. we grabbed our things and we left for the party.

when we walked in, i was instantly greeted with all of the smiling faces that made me so happy. the first person i saw was noah. his eyes lit up, "RHIANNON!" he screamed. "NOAH BECK" i screamed back, making everybody turn there heads, we ran towards each other engulfing the other in a huge hug. he pulled away, "we missed you being here." he said. "trust me, i missed being here." i said.
i looked at vinnie. "i told you, you had nothing to worry about." he said. he grabbed my hand and we walked to his room. i put my jacket and purse in there on the bed and freshened myself up in the mirror. we walked down the stairs to the kitchen to make drinks, holding hands. I made eye contact with chase, he was looking at my eyes and then down to me and vinnie's hands. i have been ignoring him since me and vinnie decided to start talking again.  i just thought it was the decent thing to do since that's what made us break up in the first place. "you wanna drink?" he asked. "yes! surprise me." i said. "okay be right back." he said kissing my cheek and walking away.
chase immediately walked up. "what the hell?" he spat. "what?" i asked. "you weren't going to tell me y'all got back together? we were talking rhiannon. how could you do that to me?" he asked, i looked at
him. "chase we both know we weren't talking." i said. "then what the hell were we? tell me weren't just friends?" he asked. "friends with benefits." i said. "this doesn't make any sense." he said. "you knew i wasn't ready for a relationship. you knew i still loved vinnie and that wasn't fair for me to try and start a relationship with you immediately after." i said. "yeah damn right it wasn't. I can't believe you did this, he's insane and so are you. y'all deserve each other."  he said. i laughed. "okay chase." i said walking away to go find vinnie. I saw him walking towards me with two drinks. "thank you, thank you" i said. "of course, now time to get fucked up, also you're staying here tonight so drink as much as you want." he said. we clinked our cups together. "cheers to starting over. i love you vin." i said. "i love you too." he said.