I need you, I need you, I need you

chapter 80- if you want to stay

January 24th, 2020
Rachel's p/v
"I avoided him and slammed the door in his face. I don't know, Sage, something about last night felt so dramatic."
"I'm starting to think you belong in a movie."
I smile. "Declan promised me I'd be in one of his movies. I get to play the girl who saves all the men in the world."
"Can I be the girl who kills all the men?"
"Yes, you're the villain." I giggle.
"Your boobs are showing." Sage says.
I look down and start laughing. I pull up my tank top.
"Good thing Tyler isn't on FaceTime with you."
"Do not even mention his name." I whisper.
"Don't tell me you guys are in another fight. Didn't y'all clear everything up yesterday?"
"It's not that. Darry is in the living room and these walls are not soundproof."
"Because you live in a crappy house. And may I say, I feel extremely offended that you didn't tell me what was going on with you until 10 minutes ago. Declan knew but I didn't?"
"Declan knew because he likes Tyler unlike you who is just like my brother. I needed reassurance."
"Of what? Declan did a terrible job of showing you that Tyler is the problem, not you."
"If you weren't straight I'd totally think you were trying to make a move on me."
"I am trying to make a move on you now kiss the screen." Sage blows me a kiss.
"Rachel! If you aren't ready in 5 minutes I'm leaving without you." Darry yells.
"Jokes on you, I can always take the bus." I yell back.
"You're so funny. Now get your ass out here."
"You heard the warrant, I have to leave."
"I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that!"
Sage and I roll our eyes. It's nice to know that we both find my brother annoying.

Today's outfit is true to myself. White shirt with an angel graphic, blue mom jeans, white high top converse, blue denim jacket, my "Rachel" necklace that Tyler gifted me, and my Kanken. I need to find a way to style my white mittens too. That'll be for another day.

I'm not even going to look at Darry in the eye. He's staring at me with those ugly blue eyes but who cares, today is going to be amazing. I just can't stop smiling! Tyler did this to me.
"Who got you smiling like that? You don't smile like that at home."
I don't respond. Sorry, too busy thinking about Tyler's gorgeous blue eyes.
"Do you want to put a song on? The radio has been boring lately. Can't even jam to my rock songs anymore."
Tyler is so damn beautiful. He should be a model. I just love everything about him.
"Ms. Marlin had us role play as presidents yesterday. I got to role play as George Washington."
Tyler is so nice to all human beings. But he's mean to Miriam which is so unfair. I should confront him about it.
"Ok, you're clearly ignoring me. I know you hear me, Rachel."
"Oh, I hear you. Loud and clear."
"So why aren't you responding?"
"Because I don't want to? Kinda too busy thinking about other things."
"Of course, you're always daydreaming. You're not thinking about Tyler, right?"
I groan. "You're so lame. And what if I'm thinking about my boyfriend? There's nothing wrong with it."
"There's so much wrong with it. But I don't want to argue with you anymore. How about we change the topic?"
"How about we don't. I don't want to talk to you."
"You say that yet you keep responding to me."
"If I don't respond you're just gonna get even more annoying."
"You know me so well!"
I pull out my earbuds from my bag and put them on. There's only like 2 minutes left of this car ride but I cannot hear another peep from this dude.

Declan's p/v
Sophia should be here any minute. This is it. I'm ending my relationship with her even though it felt like we weren't even in one to begin with.
Sophia taps on my shoulder. "Hey."
"Hey."
"Your text said it was urgent to meet you here. Is this because of what I said to your friend? I don't know what happened to me, I'm sorry."
"It's not just about that, Sophia. I know you cheated on me. You can drop the innocent girlfriend act."
"Then ok, I did cheat on you. I cheated on you because you aren't romantic whatsoever."
"You knew that. I told you from the beginning that I'm new to all of this."
"But you didn't even try. I mean, you're much more comfortable with Rachel. You could've treated me the way you treated her."
"I'm confortable with Rachel because she's my best friend. And to be honest, I don't think I ever liked you. I am sorry for lying to you all this time. I thought I could start liking you in that way but it never happened."
"So we're both good?"
"Yeah, we're good."
"Cool." Sophia says as she walks away. Last time I'm
ever going to hear her voice.