The College JJ Series

jealousy

Summary: Your boyfriend isn't a big fan of your "new" friends.

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"Let's do dinner tomorrow night,"  Aaron says as you make your way back to the dorms after classes one afternoon.

"Can't. I have a meeting," you say, and he sighs, pinching the bridge of his nose.

"Okay, day after tomorrow?" he asks, trying again.

"I'm having dinner with the boys," you answer.

He scoffs. "I'm your boyfriend, you're supposed to go to dinner with me! How do you even know those guys again?"

"I told you, I grew up with them. They're from the Outer Banks." You look down at your feet as you walk. "They were my best friends when I was little."

"Convenient that they just happened to join the fraternity your new sorority hangs out with all the time," he says sarcastically.

"Aaron..." you sigh, trailing off.

"Is this how it's going to be from now on? You ditch me at every opportunity for all your new friends?" he scoffs.

"You're being ridiculous. I told you when I rushed that things would be hectic at first when I'm a new member, and I'm sorry that you feel like I'm ditching you, but these boys were literally my best friends in the entire world until I moved away to DC," you explain. "And I'm really excited to have them back in my life."

"If they were such close friends, why did they never visit? Why did they never call?" he retorts.

"I was eight, Aaron! I left when I was eight! What eight year old keeps in touch with their friends like that? I didn't get a cell phone until I was a freshman in high school, so it's not like they would magically have my number."

"It's just weird how obsessed you are with hanging out with them," he says.

You've arrived at the point where you have to split off and go to your respective dorms — his is one block up, and you're two blocks over. You debate on asking him to come to yours so you can explain everything to him so he'll understand, but at the same time, you just want to leave it. He's clearly worked up about this, and you don't have the energy to fight with him after a full day of class. You wanted a few moments of relaxation before you had to eat dinner and book it to the sorority house for your meeting.

"I'm not obsessed," you say emphatically. "You're being an asshole."

"Whatever. Let me know when you aren't too busy to see me, your loving boyfriend of five months." With that, he turns on his heel and stalks off up the street towards his building. You sigh and roll your eyes, heading towards yours.

~

You've been at the restaurant with JJ, Pope, and John B for almost two hours, and you swear your phone has been blowing up the whole time. Between the house group chat, your pledge class group chat, and Aaron, you had more texts than you could keep up with.

"Ms. Popular," John B jokes as you check your notifications for the hundredth time.

"Ugh, it's not even that. A bunch of girls from the house are going out tonight and I said I'd go, and they're trying to decide where to pregame and what time we're all meeting, everyone is sending outfit ideas in, it's a huge mess. And then my boyfriend has been texting me, wanting me to call him sometime this evening before I go out," you sigh and shake your head.

"Oh yeah, the guy who doesn't like us," Pope says. "No offense, y/n, but it's kind of lame that he hates us when we've never even met."

"You think I don't know this? He's jealous," you say, tapping out a reply to tell Aaron that you're nearly done at the restaurant and you'll call him when you get back to your dorm.