𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐭 || 𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫

10

Cleo

Maybe I was avoiding Vinnie, and maybe I wasn't.

After hearing that girl over the phone the other day, it kind of halted anything I was possibly feeling for him. I didn't want to get hurt and I wasn't going to allow myself to be played so I just stopped responding to him. But when I did, the conversation was dry and ended after I would forget to respond.

Nessa and Mila both caught on after a few days because I guess I wasn't my usual "happy go lucky self," as they like to call it.

Honestly I wasn't stressing it though, I was just going to focus on me.

"When's the last time she's even spoken to this kid anyway?" Chris ask the girls. We were all sitting at a restaurant that I had found. I wanted to get lunch, and hang with my group of friends for old time sake, they call it running away from my feelings.

Whatever.

"You're talking about me like I'm not here. And it shouldn't matter. He was a friend and nothing more." I say defensively.

"Yet you stopped talking to him after you heard a girl over at his house." Chris retorts.

I don't say anything, mainly because he's right but I also am a very prideful person and will never admit that he was.

I had noticed that neither Mila nor Nessa seemed interested in our conversation, but more interested by whatever was in Mila's phone. "I'm sorry are we interrupting something." I say, making the two of them snap up quickly, Mila holding her phone to her chest.

"What?! No! I was just texting V-." She stops mid sentence when Nessa hits her on the back, making her quiet up.

"Texting who?" I question.

"It sounded like she was saying Vin-." Chris goes to say but Nessa hits him as well, making him shut up. "Nessa! Stop hitting everyone, and I swear to god if you're texting Vinnie." I warned.

"We aren't!" Mila says, however her voice goes up an octave meaning she's lying her ass off.

I'm quick to snatch her phone from her hand, watching as she tried to get up and get it back, but people around us in the restaurant started to look, making her back down.

I read through the messages and watched as Vinnie had texted Mila, wondering why I had been responding to him so late or never responding at all. He genuinely seemed concerned, but in the messages Mila told him that it was nothing, lying for me. But he kept being persistent so I'm guessing she just cracked and said that I got uncomfortable when we were on the phone the other day after hearing a girl voice.

He insisted that it was genuinely just a friend of his who had stopped by, but Mila told him that from the way it looks, how could I possibly believe that.

And it was true.

I don't want to be that girl who gets jealous but I can't help it, especially not after all the conversations we've had. I told him some personal shit, and silly me caught a bit of feelings, but that went away now. We were just friends, and it was going to stay like that. I can't let my stupid emotions get in the way of friendship. I just can't. Not this time.

I gave Mila back her phone without saying another word. They all looked at me, waiting for me to explode, I'm pretty sure, but I remained calm because I had nothing to flip over.

"So... you're not going to yell at Mila for telling him why you're really mad." Nessa questioned.

"No. It's not that big of a deal, and she was honest. I mean at first she lied but he had already saw my reaction to hearing the girls voice anyway so... it wasn't much she could do." I explained.