Neighbours, Friends, Lovers

6. B****y behaviour

The day after

Here I am, all dressed up with a black shirt dress that has a V neckline and it's making me feel like a little princess/ barbie doll.
I put my boots on even if the tutor is on the way.
"Are you ready?" my sister asks while I'm putting my favorite lipstick on.
She enters and when I see her in a sparkly dress I get mesmerised by how gorgeous she looks.

Even if everyone says we're the same person but just with two different hair colours, I see her 10 times more gorg than me.

"Wow Char, you loook stunning." she says disbelief.
"Oh shut up, look at you." I say while I'm putting on the necklaces around my neck.
"No, you shut up. If nobody flirts with you tonight..." she stops herself "there's no way that doesn't happens." She says so sure of her sentence.
I roll my eyes and then I grab my purse and the crutch.

Vee drives us to the restaurant with our dad's car since she still doesn't have her own yet.

When we enter everyone's face drops in a disbelief look.
"Oh my  God what happened?" Martha ska literally sprinting towards me.
She hugs me and her sweet scent fills my nostrils.
"Nothing, just fell while I was running." I explain looking at the concerned faces while, I see the indifferent face expression on Gaia's face and that makes me think Charles told her what happened, of course.

It's even stranger to not see her things on the seat next to her, saving up it for me, but I don't even waste my time wondering why she didn't do that since there is a free spot right next to Riccardo there is the joker of the group and I will be laughing all the night so I sit next to him and Ver sits right next to me on the other side.

I give a quick look at Gaia,  sit right next to the birthday girl, Marta and  of course next to her boyfriend, Charles.
He looks gorg as always.
He's wearing a white button shirt, light blue jeans and Dior at his feets.

He looks up and gives me a quick look in some way it seems to screen a 'Sorry' to me.
He knows that she's  treating me like shit in the last couple of weeks but I am not thinking about her behaviour anymore. I don't care honestly.

I really got sick about her wondering just about her problems and never asking me how I am or how  am I doing, so even if Vee suggested me to mind my business and do not really care about her or her private life.

Like Charles, I don't understand why she's behaving like this and also why she is such a bitch to me or even just not thinking about me.
That's why I didn't told her about the injury about Charles taking me to the ER, I just didn't call her because every time she calls me it's not because she missed me or she was wondering how I was doing but just because she needed to talk about her problems and how she's feeling or shit like that.
Yeah, maybe I'm not a really good friend anymore but I don't give a fuck about her problems anymore because it's always just about her and that's not how friendships works.

I've completely ignore her and focus on having a really good time with the rest of the group I wish happy birthday tomorrow to give her the present bed me and Vee for her. By her face expression we can see there she really loved it.

After the dinner we go to a nightclub where everyone start to get wasted after the second drink but as usually, I don't drink much I just take one drink a gin tonic.

Thomas comes up to me like that last time, he sits next to me and orders his Negroni and then I ask him "Hey, how's the workout went yesterday?" He looks up to me takes sip of his drink keeping his eye contact.
"Oh, good even if after the call Charles called me right after and dumped me saying that he had something like a meeting related to business. So I have to be honest, I got really mad at first but then I thought that it's his work, you know? It's hard to be him so I can't be mad at him for not coming or cancelling the gym session at the very last minute." he explains and I get shocked.
Charles never went to the gym even if he told me he did.
But then where he was? Did he really went to a meeting? He was in casual clothes when I got out from the ER so it can be... but why lie then?
Didn't he wanted to make me feel guilty about him missing his gym session?