The Community Service Project

Chapter 11: News at the Senior Center

I woke up the next morning, with a massive headache. I don't even remember how I got home. I just remember Francis saying she was going to call us all a cab. I look around me and see Francis and Lucy sleeping on Francis' bed, and Izzy and Sofia sleeping on her pull out couch in her room. I'm sleeping on a mattress on the floor with a bucket next to me.

Slowly, all the memories of last night begin coming to me. The creepy dance floor dude, Matthew and Valeria, and then the whole kiss with Nathan.

I decide to view sleep as my way to escape reality, so I rest my head back on my pillow and drift off to sleep for a couple hours more.

"Guys let's go get breakfast, we've been watching the Vampire Diaries for the whole morning." Lucy states as she gets off the couch. After we all woke up, we went downstairs and watched TV and now we're here, watching the best show ever.

"Do you have food here?" I ask.

"Nope unless you guys want oatmeal." Francis answers.

"Yeah, going out for breakfast it is..." Lucy declares.

Once we all pile into Sofia's jeep, we start deciding on where to go for breakfast.

"There's a little crepe place down the street, does that work for everyone?" Francis asks. We all nod our heads yes.

Once we order, we all sit down at the nearest booth.

"Ellie you good?" Sofia asks me. I guess I hadn't noticed that I hadn't really been contributing to the convo going on. I guess my brain was just busy thinking about the events from last night.

"Yeah." I assure them.

"What happened last night?" Lucy asks me.

And so I tell them. Everything. I tell them about Matthew and I. I tell them more about the creepy dude on the dance floor. I tell them about the kiss between Nathan and I. And I tell them about the kiss between Valeria and Matthew.

To say they were all shocked would be an understatement.

"Let me get this straight, you kissed Matthew Haze?" Izzy asks me shocked.

"Yes. And I really liked him and I thought he liked me but he obviously still isn't over Valeria." I sigh. I thought things could have worked out between him and I, but I guess I was wrong.

"That doesn't make sense to me though. I mean we all know how close Valeria and Matthew are with each other. If they've been having an on and off relationship for years now and he finally decides to end it, why would he get right back with her again. Why would he even bother to have ended it in the first place. It just doesn't add up to me." Sofia blurts out.

"Well it looked like they're feelings were pretty clear with each other last night when they were kissing." I growl.

"What a dick." Lucy says.

"I'm more curious to talk about you and Nathan. So you finally get over him just when he starts to like you. The timing ruined it." Sofia says.

"I know. Should I feel guilty about the kiss between Nathan and I last night? Should I have felt like I cheated?" I ask them all. It had been a question that had been bothering me and I needed a little reassurance.

"Hell no. You guys weren't even together in the first place." Sofia says.

"And you were literally drunk and sad and emotional. He kind of sprung that kiss on you when you were vulnerable so..." Izzy adds.

"And even if you were together, he kissed someone else first so it's fine. You are not in the wrong here, Matthew is." Lucy exclaims. I guess they're right but I still can't help but feel like I did cheat.