- Just Friends - C.S.

• Chapter 18 •

•Thursday•

Briana's POV-----------------

I woke up to laura shaking me lightly and waking me up. I went to the bathroom and brushed my teeth and stuff and went back to the kitchen to make some waffles before the flight. It was 5:15 so i wasn't super hungry.

Chris, matt, and nick all came up the stairs at 5:30 with their suitcases. Nick was wearing his green pythia hoodie with dark blue and grey pajama pants and slippers. Chris was wearing a lyrical lemonade hoodie, blue plaid pajama pants, and his green birks. Matt was wearing s random hoodie with grey sweats and his air forces. I a bunch of waffles and they come over and go theirs and started eating.

Madi came down shortly after wearing an oversized hoodie with sweats and slippers. I quickly put my hair in a messy bun and felt chris's eyes on me the whole time i did so.

" You guys ready to go?" Laura asked grabbing her keys off the counter. We all nodded in return, too tired to talk.

We all got in the car. Laura was driving and madi was in the front. Chris and i were in the middle seats and nick and matt were in the very back. The whole car ride was silent except tiktok sounds and music. I could feel chris glance at me every now and then but i couldn't bring myself to look at him. Everytime i look at him the kiss replays of him and i and that girl.

We got to the airport pretty quickly and headed to the gate. We all sat down and waited for about 30 minutes until they called us to board.

" Bye bri" Madi said smiling but tearing up a bit. We both knew that i probably wouldn't be coming back soon so this was really sad.

" Bye madi i'm going to miss you so much" I said crying a little bit at the end.

" I'm going to miss you too" Madi said with a slight voice crack.

" Bye laura. Thank you for everything" I said hugging laura, still crying a little bit.

" Oh honey don't thank me. Make up with chris for me okay? I can tell it's killing you both" She said bringing me in closer. This made me cry even more because she's right.

" I will" I said smiling. The triplets said their goodbyes and we headed onto the plane after waving goodbye. We found our seats and were seated the same way as when we flew here.

We sat in our seats and i grabbed matt's hand for takeoff since he gets scared. He gave me a smile and started squeezing as the plane took off. Once we got in the air, i put my headphones in and leaned on matt's shoulder and quickly fell asleep.

I woke up to nick tapping my shoulder and the speaker saying we were about to land. I went to lift my head off matt's shoulder when i felt a head on mine and someone's hand wrapped around mine. I looked over to see chris asleep on my shoulder and his hand on mine.

I carefully sat up causing matt to wake up. I grabbed his hand and he started squeezing it. Chris slowly woke up and lifted his head off my shoulder and looked at his hand then met my eyes. Everything stopped around us. It felt like it was just us in that plane. That was until he broke it and put his hand back in his lap and looked out the window. An instant wave of sadness washed over me.

We landed and got out of the plane and waited for nick. Once nick got out we got our luggage and went outside to wait for marylou. Once she pulled up we all got in the car with chris in the front, me and matt in the middle, and nick in the back.

" Did you guys have fun?" Marylou asked smiling at us through the rear view mirror.

" Yeah it was nice" Matt said smiling.

" Bri took me to summersmash" Chris said keeping his eyes on his phone. No smile or anything.

" I'm happy you guys had fun and thank you bri for taking him. He's been begging for the longest time" Marylou said smiling looking between me and chris.

" Don't thank me. I'd do anything for chris" I said smiling then opening my eyes at the last sentence. That totally slipped out. Chris looked back at me quickly then went back on his phone.

We got back to the house and i started putting my shit in my car.

" Bri you're leaving already?" Marylou asked with a frown.

" Yeah my parents want me home" I said smiling a little bit and pulling her into a hug. I really wanted to say that it hurts to be around chris and i really don't want to but that's his mom so i can't.

" Bye bri drive safe" Madylou said smiling and heading back inside.

" Bye thank you" I said waving which caused her to wave back.

" Bye guys" I said hugging matt and nick. They both said bye then i got to chris. I just stood there not sure if i should hug him or not.

" Bye" Chris said trying not to make eye contact with me. I could tell he felt guilt by his body language.

I didn't say anything but got in my car and instantly started tearing up. I quickly sped away trying not to let them see me crying. It hurts so much that i'm loosing my best friend. He doesn't even want to look at me anymore. He's fucking pushing me away and i don't know why.

I got to my shit out and hauled it up to my room noticing my parents weren't home. I quickly got out my phone and texted cameron.

cameron🙈

Me
hey i just got home!!

I sent the text and quickly knocked out. This is really going to mess up my sleep schedule.

Authors Note-----------------

• I feel bad making chris and bri not talk but i promise they'll make a comeback

• Doctor strange is hot i don't care.

• ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!