you're the one.|| vinnie hacker

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i was still in the pool speechless and confused about what just happened. emily or addison, or maybe both, pushed me into the pool, but why?

i knew i wasn't one of emily favourite people, and she wasn't mine, but the way she was behaving and talking to me made me think we could actually get along.

on the other side there was addison, one of the first people i met and i could consider a friend, or at least i thought.

i slightly shook my head to make all these weird thoughts going out of my head, because before going straight to false conclusions, i wanted to hear them talk.

"what the fuck is wrong with you two?" i saw vinnie on the poolside right in front of me. "why the fuck aren't you helping her?"

both emily and addison looked at each other and didn't move, they were simply standing there with their arms crossed. what the heck?

vinnie lowered himself and held his hand out to help me to get out of there. i got closer to the poolside and grabbed his hand and vinnie helped me out also by grabbing my waist.

"hey you're good?" he asked me trying to be the nicest as possible, but i could tell he was extremely mad.

"yeah, i just need to go home now since i'm soaking wet." i said as vinnie was helping me to stand up.

"i'll take you home, just wait a minute." he reassured me and then turned around to look at emily and addison. "would you mind explain what the fuck just happened?"

"nothing! i don't know we were just talking when.." addison started talking but charli interrupted her.

"nothing? addison you've been acting weird all the week, specially with anna, and you barely talked to us, what's happening?"

addison was a little surprised by charli's words maybe because she wasn't expecting charli to defend me. was addison jealous of our friendship? nah that was impossible.

"look addison i don't know what's happening and i'm not trying to force you to be my friend, but at least talk to charli and clear things up." i said sticking up for charli since she always does for me.

charli looked at me smiling appreciating what i did, but then she said: "now we're not talking about me, it's about you!" then she looked at addison: "now tell us why all of this happened."

"i didn't do anything char. i was just talking to anna when emily came and pushed her!" addison defended herself and as soon as she said that emily's face changed.

"excuse me? now you're blaming me? this whole thing was a plan of yours!" emily said visibly angry.

this was all a plan of addison? why would she do such a thing?

"is it true addison?" i asked her incredulous.

"of course it is. she's been complaining all week about your behaviour with bryce and i couldn't care less honestly, but she convinced me when she told me what you actually did." emily said it all.

my behaviour with bryce? what i actually did?ever since i came here, all i've been trying was to get along with as many people as possible and not to get in trouble. but guess what?

"what the hell are you talking about?" i asked confused.

"yeah what does bryce have to do with this?" vinnie was even more confused than i was.

"i saw how you are always close to him, you guys laugh and joke with each other. like, when we had lunch together you didn't even care about me, you still let him hug you even if i was there.." addison said looking like she was about to cry.

as i heard addison's words i was speechless. was she really mad at me simply because me and bryce were friends? also i was sure my intentions with him were pure and i considered bryce only as a brother.

"look addison there's a big misunderstanding. me and bryce are just friends and we're literally like brother and sister, trust me!" i said to reassure her. "but i understand how you might feel, so i'll step back a little if that makes you more comfortable."

honestly i felt bad for her, but she could have simply talked to me and we would have handled things better instead of this stupid thing.

"thank you and also, i'm sorry for freaking out and doing this, it's just.. i don't know.." addison said and it seemed like she truly meant it.

"it's okay, don't worry." i said faking a smile. now the bryce part was fixed, but i still had to understand what emily meant. "but there's something more i should know, right emily?"

she looked at me surprised since we were talking about bryce now and she thought she could avoid it.

"yeah tell us emily." vinnie said clearly bothered by her.

"oh i didn't know she needed you to defend her." emily said. "but yeah i'm happy to tell my side of the story."

"i don't need anyone to defend me because i can do it by myself, you should know vinnie is very protective of the people he loves." i said teasing her. "now go ahead."

"fine, i just should have known you were just a bitch and i shouldn't have trusted you, but i still did because, you know, i'm a good person." she said and in this right moment all i wanted to do was punching her.

but i did not because i was already in the spotlight and i hated it here, so i simply said: "okay emily i already know what you think about me, get straight to the point."

"i trusted you and still you told everyone that mr clark is my mom's boyfriend!" she almost screamed causing everyone to get closer to us.

"i did not! why the heck would i do such a thing?" i said. "i know we don't get along, but if you tell me a secret of yours, i can assure you i won't tell anyone."

"yeah don't pretend to be a good person now, just admit it." emily said and honestly she was getting on my nerves.

"jesus christ emily just stop for a minute!" i raised my voice a little. "who told you i did that?"

"she did." emily pointed out addison.

again addison. why did it seem like she couldn't stand me? i didn't even understand why.

"i hope you're joking." charli said surprised. "please tell me it's a joke."

"why did you do this addison?" i asked her. "what did i do to you? just tell me because i can't literally stand neither you nor emily right now."

"it's not what it seems like i swear!" she looked like she was about to freak out. "yes i told her, but i did because i was mad at you for being close to bryce."

"and who told you that? because i didn't and for sure neither vinnie." i said trying to understand more about the situation. "so emily, why don't you think addison actually did tell everyone your secret instead of blaming me?"

i expected emily to say something back or to get mad at addison, but she did not. what in the world was happening? now this whole thing was giving me headache.

"emily talk!" vinnie raised his voice.

"addison already knew about it, she just told me she heard you talking to other people about it, so we set all this up." emily said not even looking at us.

as i heard this, i didn't even know what else to say. i thought addison was a friend of mine, but apparently she wasn't. after i had been comforting her all the times she was feeling bad for bryce, after the great time we had at the hype house party, still she managed to set all this up with emily.

i took a deep breath and looked at vinnie almost whispering: "can we just go home, please?"

"of course." vinnie nodded and placed his arm around my shoulders making me place my head on his chest as we were walking away from there.

i didn't even say hi to charli and the others because honestly it was the last thing i was thinking about right now. all i wanted was to go home and remove this shitty party from my head.