𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐋 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄
𝐒𝐀𝐆𝐄 wondered how exactly she ended up at jesse's house, squashed between canelle and john on the couch. she also wondered why everyone was being so nice to her.
jude and bukayo had offered to take azelia to the new fair in finsbury park, an offer she couldn't refuse. while the two teens had taken her daughter out, jesse and marcus had shown up at her door, demanding a sleepover.
the three made their way to jess' house and found canelle, raz, jadon, declan, phil, john and kyle already cuddled up together.
the tv was paused on clueless, sage's favourite movie and there were about five bottles of rosé neatly placed on jesse's coffee table.
she thought mason was going to pop out and propose. she always thought the best of any situation, which has gotten her into some pretty shit circumstances. just like this one.
jude and bukayo returned and explained that his mother had taken azelia for the night. sage was fine with it of course, knowing how well his mother cared for both sage and her baby.
"movie timeee!" declan sung and he pressed play on the movie. marcus had gone to the front door to grab the domino's that had arrived.
he handed sage her personal pizza, just plain cheese, and poured her a glass of wine. she paid no mind to her friend's overly nice actions but was a little thrown off when mason hadn't shown up yet.
"wait, where's mase?" she whispered to declan, who had switched spots with john. the room fell silent, no one really knowing how to break the news.
canelle was ready. she had printed out screenshots of both mason's text conversation with sasha, and her instagram posts about him.
everyone thought it was best if marcus broke the news, since he had a way with words. jesse was behind his friend, trying his hardest not to bait him out.
marcus paused the movie before clearing his throat. "look, sage we all love you, you know that right? and mason does too-" he was cut off with a snort from kyle who quickly covered it up with a cough.
"anyway, we love you. so we wanted to tell you before you found out through an instagram page."
sage nodded her head, potentially thinking of the worst. yes, she was optimistic but how positive can you be in a situation like this?
marcus continued, stuttering a little while trying to find the right words to say. "canelle found some... interesting things on mason's phone while you guys went to pick up azzy from nursery."
he motioned to sage's best friend, silently telling her to take out the papers from her pocket. canelle obeyed, and handed the papers to sage. "we didn't want you to find out like this but-"
"some people didn't want you to find out at all," raz rolled his eyes towards phil. the blond said nothing and sunk into the large sofa.
"we want you to know that before you see this, it's okay to cry-"
"oh for fucks sake! your boyfriend is moving like toby from love island. he's cheating on you with some random girl named sasha and took her to vegas on the day of azelia's birthday. he lied to you, he lied to all of us."
jesse let out a long breath and grabbed the bottle of rosé. "look i had to fucking say it, you were all longing it out." he placed the print outs on sage's lap to let her go through them herself.
the room was quiet, except for jess' large gulping of wine. the whole situation made him mad and he needed to be atleast halfway drunk so he wouldn't be able drive over to mason's house and fight him.
sage looked over the text messages and the instagram posts, she saw the most recent one posted by sasha. reading one of the comments. she snorted a little and mumbled a soft, "she's right."
everyone was confused. half of the group thought she was about to laugh and the other half thought she was going to hurt someone.
sage was never one to cry, not in public anyways. she may shed a single tear now and again but full blown sobbing in front of a nightclub was never her thing.
"we're gonna need some context sage," raheem piped up, too scared to speak in a tone that might set her off.
"she said our relationship was never happy; and she's right. why did i think getting back with him for azelia would make any difference? he's still the same boy i met at his football games.
i sat waiting for a call from him every fucking night he was gone. i wrote out azelia's birthday card from him since he couldn't be bothered to.
how am i supposed to tell azelia that her dad missed her third birthday because he wanted to go gallivanting with a random instagram model?"
sage ranted for the next five minutes, all without a voice crack or a tear falling. all her friends had to admit, sage was a strong woman. they knew any other person would've been crying a river by now.
"is this why you guys were being so nice to me? with all the wine and shit?" she grinned and cuddled into dec's chest. they all nodded, making her smile even more.
"yeah, we thought if we did this then you wouldn't get as upset," dec answered while running his hands up and down sage's arms to warm her up.
he would never see sage as anything more than a sister. plus, despite mason being a dick, declan was still his best friend and could never do that to him.
he placed a friendly kiss on the top of her head as phil unpaused the movie. it was sage's favourite part, where cher and dionne meet tai.
she began quoting the film word by word, making her friends moan. "you always do this! just act like you've never seen it beforeee," raheem dragged out and reached for more popcorn.
sage had wondered how she got so lucky with her friend group. they all loved her and azelia, and they were always so supportive of all of her, always there for her when she needed it most.
the rest of the night was spent watching old 90's movies and filling up on wine, pizza and popcorn. it was basically perfect, except for the fact that azelia wasn't there with her.
she appreciated that her friends wanted sage to let go for a while, and not worry about azzy for a bit. hence, letting her stay at bukayo's house with his mum.
"i appreciate you all so much y'know. i know i don't say it a lot but i love you all so much. you lot are all like my 4lifers," sage spoke into declan's chest, yet they could all still hear her.
"AYE WHAT WE IS?" jesse screamed, quoting the viral tiktok sound.
"4LIFERSSS." the rest of the group finished for him.
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hey siri play she knows
by j cole 😟
but only 4* chapters
left besties :(((
