The Trio: A Dance Moms Wattpad Story

Thinking out loud

I stayed in the car when we got home. It was normal for me to sometimes linger back in the car even when mom and Kenzie had left. Sometimes I'd stay in the car for hours. I'd tilt the seat back and for once I'd have time to myself. It was a little chilly in the garage but I had my black ALDC jacket on which kept me warm, the same jacket I wore the night I met Gino. For the remainder of the car ride home I'd told myself I'd take this down time to figure out the whole Gino thing. For some reason even thinking about it made my head hurt. I had every reason not to like Gino. He could've texted me, it's not like it was all my fault that we never spoke again. Before my brain could explode over my overthinking about Gino, I felt my phone buzz. I pulled it out of my pocket to see that it was Kendall.

"I'm so sorry Maddie. Everything I said today I regret it all. I should have never yelled at you or even said that stuff. I know you don't like Gino and I was just being crazy as usual. Your my best friend and I love you. I hate when we fight and we have this dance coming up and we have to focus on that but I don't wanna let anything come between us...especially not a dance or grody Gino."

I laughed to myself. Kendall was such a good friend. She was so good that sometimes I felt like I was using her. It was like I could do anything to her and somehow she'd always end up being the one to apologize.

I typed slowly, "Its my fault too. I'm really a bad friend sometimes without even knowing it..if that makes sense. And I dont want anything to come between us either."

I saw that she was typing but quickly wrote something before she could.

"And also idk if Gino likes me. I really dont think he does but it doesnt matter because I don't."

She typed back, "It'd be crazy for either of us to like him LOL! It's not even like he's cute or anything.

I don't know I thought to myself, I think he's cute. But of course I couldn't tell Kendall that. Then she'd probably automatically think I liked him no matter what I said.

I pulled the seat back up and got out the car. I shut the door slowly because even though my mom knew i was out here I didn't wanna make a lot of noise. It was getting late. I texted Kendall back while climbing up the stairs, "I gtg to bed my head reaaally hurts I don't even know why but I should prob go to sleep"

She answered back quickly, "Kk night see ya tomorrow <33"

I walked past Kenzies room and saw that the light was still on. She was probably on instagram or snapchatting random fans, something I'd never do. Because you never know who's behind the screen. I laid down on my bed. It was stiff and not very comfortable to most people but I loved it. I remember Kendall had told me one time after a sleepover to get a new one. But I never did because it was my first bed and I don't like to change things, especially if they already work just fine. I rest my head on the nearest pillow and felt myself drifitng off into a sleep. Just when my head finally started to feel better my phone buzzed loudly. It shook on my leg annoyingly over and over until I finally picked it up. What could Kendall want? I thought to myself. But as my eyes adjusted to the brightness of my phone screen I saw that it wasn't Kendall who had texted me. It was Gino.

MY GOSH! WHAT COULD HE POSSIBLY WANT!?

I was in no mood to deal with him.

I read the text to myself, "Hey"

Hey? Why was he deciding to casually start up a conversation at 11 o'clock? Especially after everything that had happened today. Was he just trying to make my day worser than it already had been?

But of course, of course I couldn't reply with all these unanswered questions. I had to play it cool.

"hey" I replied after a good few minutes to show I had other things to do.

He on the other hand wasted no time and shot back an answer in a second, "I gotta ask you something"

I got excited. Why did I get excited? Ew stop it Maddie. Stop.

"What" I answered. I was now sitting up in my bed wide awake.

"Well actually i just have to say that im really sorry. I heard u and kendall fighting after i left the room and i didnt mean for that to happen" he wrote back.

It seemed like everybody was apologizing to me.

I answered, "It's fine really we already made up"

We texted back and forth quickly, I stopped taking long pauses in between because I was starting to get tired and was afraid I might fall asleep.

"Oh okay great cuz I was really worried about that and felt like a total jerk" he replied.

"Ur not a jerk haha"

"thanks but I am"

Before I could reply yet again that he wasn't he interrupted my typing, "Should I text Kendall and tell her I'm sorry?"

I waited. I didn't know why I was hesitating. Obviously he should've texted Kendall! He owed her an apology just as much as he owed me an apology. But for some insane reason I said, "No she went to sleep a few hours ago so prob not."

"Oh okay thanks I wont then."

I felt bad but slightly happy that Gino was listening to me.

"And also um I heard what Kendall said about me and you and stuff...Did you tell her?"

I had wished, hoped, and prayed he hadn't heard what she had said. But apparently that hadn't been enough.

"No...I promised I wouldn't tell anyone and I didn't." I answered back quickly because I didn't want him to think I was lying.

"ok I haven't told anyone either..and thats so weird than that she'd think that haha"

It wasn't that weird I thought to myself. Looking back on it a lot of what Kendall had said was true, Gino had been following me around a lot lately and doing stuff that i dont know did kind of make it seem like he might possibly like me.

"Yeah really weird lol" I gave him what he wanted to hear because I just didn't feel like going into this in depth conversation about my feelings, his feelings, our feelings. I texted him back that I had to go to sleep before he could bring up anything else having to do with that subject. I quickly shut down my phone and turned the light off. After all that... at least my head felt better.