"Pillow Buddy" ✔

Friend's List

Chapter eighty-eight: "Friend's List"

The girl named Abigail was taller than me and shorter than Nikki, she was thrilled to see Cloud across the train station that she ran and hugged him. Nikki, Nick, and I looked at each other with confused faces

"It's been a long time" she grabbed both of Cloud's hand and squeezed them, her eyes showed more than warmth, it was filled with love
This Abigail is in love with Cloud and it was very obvious

Her eyes were twinkling and her face has a pink blush, Cloud smiled at her "You've grown"

Abigail chuckled "So do you" she used her hand to compare her height to him, she glanced at us and grinned widely "Hi I'm Abby, and you guys?"

Nikki waved at her and Nick decided to introduce the both of them "I'm Nick this is my twin Nikki" Nick puts a hand on my head "And this is Cloud's girlfriend Penelope"
I was not even planning on telling Abby my status with Cloud but Nick decided to draw the line so she wouldn't cross over, don't get me wrong but I am feeling weird inside the moment I saw Abby being close with Cloud

My chest tightened a bit and my hand that was playing with my scarf is now clenching it that my knuckles hurt so bad, this is a new feeling that I have yet to experience now with a new person but I know all too well
Is it jealousy?

I almost laughed at myself for even thinking such a thing, why would I feel jealous of Cloud being close to a girl that he knew. Even Nick; his closest best friend didn't even know the girl before, Abby talked to Cloud like they had a history together

"So what brings you and your friends here?" She hooked arms with him and Cloud didn't seem to mind her intimacy with him, Cloud would never allow a girl to touch him unless he has formed a strong bond with them. Forming a strong bond with Cloud is like forming a strong bond with a cat

It will take a long time and you just assume you have formed that bond once you feel like it has warmed up to you
I'm gonna put an emphasis on assumed because it's hard to tell if he considers you a close friend

Like how he chooses his clothes he is very choosy with his friends which garnered him a small amount but loyal group of people which are the majority of my friends
I will be baffled if he even added me to that 'friend's list', I'll just think he will add me in the 'possibles' and throw out the possibility of even becoming my friend

He harbors hate feelings towards me and he wasn't even hiding it when we were kids and yes I am that petty so I am not letting that experience down, I know people can change but goddamn I dig up the past much better than paleontologists these days. I still don't know why he even hated me before and acted as if nothing happened when we meet again

We all stopped at the front entrance of the train station

"Do you guys have a ride and a place to stay? Because I know someone who can" Abby happily offered her help to us but Nick declined and Nikki follow her brother

He showed the hotel logo to Abby on his phone "I already booked an overnight in one of the hotels near the train station, it's only a 5-minute walk"

Her eyes went wide in shock "That's the hotel where I am supposed to refer to you guys! I know the owner cause I am his adopted daughter" she proudly said to us as she skipped closer to me and grabbed my luggage "I can help you" she said before putting an arm around me
Abby is a bit too nice to me for a girl to know that I have a (fake) relationship with the boy she likes

But like in the books and all the drama that I have absorbed throughout the years, it is telling me not to trust this girl. Call it mean but it is a preventive measure