How I cope || Wilbur Soot

Chapter 3~ not so fast

As soon as I stepped outside Madison smirked at me whilst raising her eyebrows. "No Madison. Not so fast! It's not like that!" I slapped her slightly on the arm.

"Oh come on! They way you looked at each other, you totally like him!" She squealed down my ear. I rolled my eyes at her. I've never been the type to rush into a relationship so what made her think that would change now?

"It's been a week since I lost Noah, Madison, and I spoke to the guy for what, ten minutes? I don't like him like that." I walked ahead of them both. My peace didn't last long when they both came rushing back to my sides.

"Don't tell me because Noah's gone you're never going to give any other guy a chance? You wouldn't do that if it was just a break up, would you?" Madison nudged me as Harper laughed, amused by the conversation.

"I never said that, did I? But you tell me Madison, since when have I been the girl to fall in love with the first guy I come across or rush into a relationship that I don't even know will last long? It's been a week Madison! A week!" I began to get slightly annoyed by her constant accusations.

I loved them both, they were my best friends but they knew I weren't that type of girl and just because I lost the person I thought I would spend my life with does not mean that that's going to change. Why couldn't they understand that?

"So!? 23 more days and it would've been a month! Why does time matter Mackenzie!? Move on as soon as possible and it will get easier!" Harper jumped in.

They were both taking this more as a friendly conversation than a serious one and I knew I wasn't getting my point across to them.

"What do you two not get!? I go out ONCE and meet ONE new friend and all of a sudden you think I like them!? Just because I lost Noah does NOT mean I'm looking for somebody else! I'm not ready for another relationship!" I raised my voice as I lost my patience with them.

"Kenz-" Madison went to speak but I wasn't in the mood. They had already ruined my mood now and I just wanted to go home and lie-down on my bed.

"No Madison! Both of you can go home now, I want to be alone. I'll see you another time." I walked off in the direction of my house, not bothering to even wait for a reply.

Once I finally got home, I took off the green jumper, knowing it would just make me more upset if I kept it on.

I jumped on top of my bed sighing in relief as I lay down on my back, finally being able to relax. Even though I hadn't been out for even an hour, that argument has drained out all of my energy.

I was about to read a book when my phone went off revealing a message from an unfamiliar number I had never seen before.

Unknown number:

xxx-xxx-xxx
Hey Mackenzie! It's Wilbur, not sure if you'll see this yet but just thought I'd say hi!

Mackenzie
Oh hey Wilbur! You actually have a great sense with time lol!

xxx-xxx-xxx
Are you free to talk? I've only just got home and am quite bored really

Mackenzie
Yeah I m free! Let me just change your contact name though, otherwise it'll get on my nerves😂

xxx-xxx-xxx
Ok fair enough 😂

*You changed xxx-xxx-xxx contact name to: Wilbur🎶*

*Wilbur🎶 changed your contact name to: Mackenzie🥤*

Wilbur🎶
You're really stuck on the fact I called myself a musician aren't you? 😂

Mackenzie🥤
What can I say? I like music 😂

Wilbur🎶
Lucky enough for you, I can relate. Anyway how did things go with your friends? Did they stop arguing?

Mackenzie🥤
Unfortunately not. It actually got worse, I ended up arguing with them myself.

Wilbur🎶
Oh I'm sorry.

Mackenzie🥤
It's not your fault. Let's change the subject, shall we?

Wilbur🎶
Ok then! You didn't get to tell me anything about yourself earlier so here's your chance!

Mackenzie🥤
Ahh, you've been waiting to ask me that, haven't you 😂

Wilbur🎶
That's for me to know and for you to never find out!

Mackenzie🥤
Alright then in that case, I'm a dancer, I don't talk very much so feel lucky and I guess I'm still finding myself since , well, I don't want to give you my life story so I'll stop there 😂

Wilbur🎶
No, no , it fine if you're comfortable telling me, I'm here to listen!

I spoke to Wilbur for at least another hour. I didn't open up to him much, I have only known him for a few hours and although I felt like I can trust him, I didn't want to take any risks.

All I told him is that my parents died a few years back in a car crash and I had been through a lot recently due to an unexpected turn of events but apart from that we just spoke, laughing a joking with each other.

You could tell we spoke for a long while because we had even planned to meet up again in a couple days. I feel like Wilbur and I would be good friends.

Once I had said goodbye to Wilbur I was about to go to sleep when yet another notification came through on my phone. I looked over at it to see a shining bar saying:

new message: Trio⚡️💛 -Madison

I sighed knowing that both Madison and Harper were about to spam my phone all night so I turned my phone on silent deciding I would talk to them in the morning but for now, I needed rest.

I would never usually tell myself that but I couldn't deny it this time plus I was tired anyway.

I thought about my conversation with Wilbur, slightly chuckling at some of the stupid jokes he had made and after a couple of minutes I had drifted off into a deep and peaceful sleep.

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