One Drunken Night

Chapter 27 (Photographic Memory)

The first half of the next day went by in a blur, I barely remembered anything that happened. Only Dylan's words from last night filled my head.

After Dylan told me last night, he left with a quiet goodnight. I probably only slept half the entire night with Hailey snoring peacefully on the other bed. I barely said a word to Hailey this morning, I couldn't even look at her straight in the eye. My friends also noticed something was off about me today but I just shrug it off everytime. Dylan tried getting my attention as if he didn't just admit anything last night, does he know how much I'm hurt? No, obviously not since he doesn't even know about my feelings so I can't actually blame him.

I know that the right thing is to accept that Dylan likes my cousin, that it's wrong for me to think that I could have Dylan. I know that I should just give up because whats done is done already. Dylan likes Hailey and it's selfish for me to wish that they wouldn't end up together.

But the thing that made me really hopeless, is the fact that Hailey likes him too. It doesn't take a genius to find out that it wouldn't take long for them to start dating. In all this five months that I've liked Dylan, just now did I really give up on him. I still had the optimism when Hailey said she liked him because I thought that it was nothing, nothing more will come out of that situation. But now I felt like I just lost, I know it's wrong to think of this as a damn competition but my competitive side kicked in when Hailey spilled.

Another thing that I'm not looking forward today is that I have to go to Dylan's house for tutoring. He won't give up until he knows what's wrong with me today, I won't be able to avoid him for long.

"Earth to Steph," someone called, snapping their fingers in front of my face.

I looked up and saw Matt giving me a weird look. "You've been spacing out a lot lately today, everyone already left to go to their classes, we've been trying to reach you for the past five minutes until everyone gave up on you and just left. Did anything happen yesterday?"

I gave him a fake smile. "Nothing, why would there be anything that happened?" I let out a chuckle.

He crossed his arms across his chest. "I may be an idiot but I know a deep look when I see one. What happened?"

I sighed, I have to give this guy some credit. He's right, sometimes he just acts like an idiot but sometimes he can notice things that others don't. I don't really talk to Matt much except for when I make fun of him. Despite not talking to him much, he still sticks by my side. "I just had a really rough night." I said vaguely.

The corner of his lips quirked up a bit. "Rough as in tough or rough as in...."

My eyes widened and I slapped him on the arm. "Ew! Disgusting you dirty minded freak." He laughed which made me smile and roll my eyes.

"Don't worry Steph, you need advice in case you want to get rough-"

I hit him with the book in my hand. "Shut up! Just because you had sex with half of the female school population doesn't mean you have to right to interfere with mine." He laughed harder, I kicked his foot which didn't affect him much. "Besides," I added after he sobered up a bit. "You're a guy, you can't exactly give advice to a girl."

"Well..." He thought about it with a smile on his face. "Technically, there-"

"Shut up!" I walked ahead with him laughing behind me.

Matt caught up to me and placed an arm around my shoulders. "Relax, I was kidding Steph. But seriously though, something has been bothering you lately." He stopped in front of a classroom and looked at me dead in the eye. "And I plan to find out about it."