OCEAN EYES ━ steven conklin ✓

𝟭𝟲 taylors' back

      Jeremiah cupped her face, bending down to kiss her as she sat at the snack bar stand, Steven directly in front of them, wiping the counters in disgust, she opened her mouth just enough for his tongue to find its way inside, really going for it, weirdly enough it was meant to be a 'good bye' peck not a make-out session "okay! I don't wanna see that" Steven mur-mured, a part of him was jealous of the fact that it was Jeremiah and not him "I'll see you later?" Jere said.

"Movie night? Angie might come over!"

"Movie night yea," Jeremiah responded before taking off, Steven narrowed his eyes, no longer wiping the counter "so...are you guys like a couple now?" he followed up, asking.

"No, why?

"Good," he spoke under his breath.

Solange sat up on the stool, sipping from her cherry slushie, her head turned slightly to the side. She knew what he said, her eyebrows furrowed "I heard what you said, don't do that Steven" it was a hint of irritation in her voice, and she stopped drinking the "I didn't do anything."

"Yes you did, I'm not stupid and you really can't whisper, you wanna be friends? fine, but that's all it is, a friendship" Lange expressed, the usual playful tone in her voice left, "right, right, most definitely" Steven repeated himself.

She opened her mouth to speak but his boss came around the corner "someone must like you kid" he spoke, handing him a card.

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Solange stood with the moms, filling her face with the snacks the three were eating, she was high, they were high, it was just a circle full of munchies "can you pass me the jelly" Laurel asked as she bit down on gram crackers, the darker girl nodded, handing her the container she scooped from earlier "Solange?" the blonde called out her name, earning a 'hm'

"I know it's you eating my edibles" Susannah sloppy spoke, laughing as if it was funny, her eyes widened "don't be mad, please, I-I was snooping and I didn't know until like, a day after" Solange responded, her nerves spiking.

The two began to laugh "oh my god Beck, you remember when Morgan accidentally ate those brownies we made freshman year of college and she went to that class seeing things?" Laurel bought up a past memory, Susannah smiled and widened her eyes "oh my god yes, she started crying and she called Abraham and was like 'i'm dying, help me even though it was just pot" the two were now dying of laughter.

Abraham, that was the second time she'd ever heard his name "I remember how badly she was freaking out" Laurel sighed "I miss those days, you look so much like her Sol, god."

Laurel pulled the younger girl into a side hug after she saw how her expression shriveled up, Taylor spruced into the kitchen, Belly hand in hand with Jeremiah following shortly behind him them "why do y'all have so many snacks" the dirty blonde asked, approaching the counter as Jere walked towards Solange.

"Hey Taylor, can I ask you a genuine question?"

She looked over at Belly before slowly nodding, digging into the bag of potato chips "what is your purpose? like, what purpose do you serve?" Solange rudely asked, she was truly confused about why the girl was there as she laid her head on Jeremiah's shoulder, chewing "okay girls, let's not" Susannah parented.

Taylor looked as if she took offense to it, forgetting that she told Isabella about her knowledge in the first place, when the girl came to visit originally all went well, but then she backstabbed her after Solange did her a genuine favor, the dirty blonde scoffed, leaving the kitchen "was that needed?" Belly asked.

"Um, kinda?" Solange replied, holding up the fruit bar to Jeres' mouth so he could bite into it, Belly didn't say anything and decided to follow after her friend "Jere, you gotta try this" she mumbled, it was a cracker with peanut butter on it.

"Ew, I'm not eating that" he responded.

Her eyebrows furrowed, trying once again to force it into his mouth-Jeremiah sighed, opening his mouth to eat what he felt was the second most disgusting thing he'd ever tasted, his hand shot over his mouth causing Susannah to laugh, watching her son run towards the bathroom once it was swallowed "what's his deal? I thought it was good" she shrugged.

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Solange sat in the silence alongside Conrad and Angela, her feet kicking in the water, she loved how quiet it was late at night, he passed Angela the blunt, blowing out the smoke.

"Okay say you had to text someone that told you to stop texting them but now they suddenly wanna talk to you for some odd reason, what do you say?" Solange broke the silence, her head laying on Angela's shoulder, she could feel the boy's stare on her "you're talking about Ezra right?" Conrad questioned her, and she nodded.

"I think you should do it, you've been wishing for a relationship with your mom since you could think, Ezra might be a piece of shit but what's the harm in trying?" Connie asked, taking the item from the ginger once again, they were the only ones smoking due to the fact that the country club did spontaneous drug testing and she'd already been buzzed, it was called maturing, Angie sat and listened, taking in the information "yea, yea you're right."

"This might not be my place, but knowing him could hurt, I have first-hand experience in shitty fathers, you're better off not knowing him especially if he told his own daughter, to stop contacting him, it says a lot" the ginger spoke from her heart,Henry, her father was scum, he was a horrible person and she personally felt as if her mother deserved four times better.

"But what if in the future she wants to know him and what if the opportunities not there forever? I don't like my father either but I'm still happy that I at least tried" Conrad opened up, it was the most he's done in over a year, to Solange and to a complete stranger "I see where you're both coming from, I wanna do it but I don't know what to say in the first place" Lange answered.

"Just say hi, say who you are, keep it casual if you really wanna do it, babe, don't stress yourself out over it" Angie replied, stretching her arm out to rub the girl's bare arm, it was comforting, relaxing, Conrad stared over at the two, admiring the advice given by the ginger, it wasn't hard to say you hated either one of your parents but to say it and mean it, that was a different type of acceptance, hurt, "so, you guys wanna go to Putt-Putt and blast Chase Atlantic?" Solange asked, sitting up.

"I'm starving, can we listen to Into it first?" Conrad asked, standing up and holding his hand out for the girl to take, Angela put the blunt out, rubbing it against the concrete "what's a chase Atlantic?" Angie asked.

"The sexist band ever, musically at least, we're gonna listen to every song, I swear you're gonna love them," Solange said, taking both Angela and Conrad's hands in hers, the three walked around the garden to get to the garage "no, not all of them, we have to actually sleep tonight, remember volleyball game?" he said.

"Fine, just most of them" Solange cheered.

𝐂𝐫𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠
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word count: 1269
I love Angela in this book
she's the cutest, also Conrad
and Angie? this is kinda a
filler but ehh

the next few chapters 😍

EDITED.
interact.