Beatiful Strangers

6~Heaven's P.O.V.

I'm cuddled up with Luke in bed scrolling through my phone when my phone rings.
I see the name bestie flash on my screen and I don't let it ring for more than a second.

"Babe who i..." Luke starts to ask but I quickly shush him

"It's Jesse." I mouth

"Sup Holden?" I ask sitting up in bed and crossing my legs

"I think Jenny just broke up with me or we're on a break or something." Is the first thing he says and I immediately grow tense
"Oh no what happened? Are you ok?"
I get that Jesse wasn't ready to commit to Jenny but he actually really liked her so this must hurt.

"Funny thing is, I thought she was one of the most understanding persons I'd ever gone out with." He says sounding angry

"Tell me what happened Jesse."

"She isn't ok with the fact that we are best friends; she's never been ok with it and she's just been pretending. I know many people would be uncomfortable with our relationship but Luke gets it doesn't he? Why am I always unlucky?"

"Oh Jesse you're not unlucky." I say pitifully
I know I sound patronizing and he hates that but I can't help it. I don't know what to say about any of this. It's not the first time a girl has complained about our friendship and I've never known what to say; and he really liked her out of all the others so I'm at a complete loss for words.

"Girls are just weird. You'll find one that isn't so insecure about your relationship with other females outside of herself one day I promise." I add

"What?? No. No." He says sounding shocked that this is the conclusion I drew
"We didn't break up. We took a break cause she finally said what she'd wanted to for a long time; that she wasn't comfortable with our friendship."

"Oh."
Well this is awkward. Now I have to retract that entire speech and say I support their relationship and things will get better

"But that isn't what worked me up the most; I kind of expected it sooner or later. She said you told her about Paris."

The line goes silent and it seems he wants me to explain myself
"It just came up in conversation. It's not that big of a deal. I was just explaining how I like her a lot better than a lot of the other girls you've been with."

"I have a lot of things to say but you prefer her to your own sister?" Jesse asks laughing semi-angrily

"Not necessarily. I just thought she was the most understanding person you'd ever been with. Not anymore though."

I don't like that something I told Jenny in confidence she went ahead and told Jesse.

I didn't mean to bring up Paris. I was calling a lot of names that barely meant anything to Jesse and I thought it would make more sense if it was a girl he was really into.
And I wasn't talking about Paris as my sister, I was talking about her as one of his love interests. The whole she's my sister thing came at the very end.
It was like: "...yeah he was really into her. I don't know, it's hard to kind of see them long term but at that time they were really into each other. But it couldn't have worked out...she's my sister and he's my best friend so..."

And then she started worrying about stuff like if Jesse still had to come around when she came back from school for the holidays and what if their feelings suddenly came back.
But I assured her that it wasn't a possibility cause we'd been down that road before and it was a long, pointless and stressful road and we'd all decided it wasn't worth it.

"I don't care that she was pretending to be understanding Heaven. Why would you bring up something that was ages ago? Why would you make her worry for no reason?" He's barely yelling but I can feel that he's mad and it pisses me off