Loving You ~ Drew Starkey / Austin Butler / Jacob Elordi

thirty-two

"Drew's been talking to Jade."

"Excuse me?"

Lo widened his eyes briefly, "Maybe I shouldn't have told you out here in the open."

Addie pushed his comment aside, "Why? Why are you telling me this?"

"Because we both know what Jade did to you."

"I just, I don't, what? I don't understand, Lo-"

He sighed, "Trust me, neither do I."

"But I don't, I don't, uh, how do you know?"

"He gave me his phone earlier to show me something and then a text from her popped up." He replied, "And then I snooped more than I probably should have."

"You're sure it's Jade? Like my old Jade?"

"Considering the contact name was Jade Tanner, uh yeah, I'd assume so."

"What the fuck." Addie muttered under her breath, "Does he know that you know?"

"I don't think so."

"How long?"

"Hm?"

"How long have they been talking?"

"There were a lot of messages, Addie. I don't get to go through them all."

Her heart sank.

"Right." She sighed, "Why would he be talking to her if, if he-"

"If he likes you?"

She nodded, "Yeah."

"Trust me, I have no fucking idea."

"Is it because we have never became more than friends? Is it because of me? I've been super busy lately, and yeah we've grown apart a bit, but not much, it's just because I don't see him everyday anymore and-"

Lo cut off her rambling, "It's nothing you did."

"How can you be sure?"

"I can't, but I'm sure it's not."

"I just don't understand, Lo. Why Jade of all people?"

He shook his head, "I don't know, Addie."

"What do I do?" She asked as he spun her around again, "Tell me what to do."

"Let me think this through and I'll get back to you-"

"You don't have a plan on how I approach this?"

"No, I probably should have thought of that before I told you." He grimaced.

"Yeah, I think so." She huffed.

"Look, give me like twenty minutes, okay?"

"To do what?" She asked.

"Do you trust me?"

"Uh, I-"

"Addie!"

"Yes, yes, okay, I trust you."

"Okay, go have fun and I'll be back."

What the fuck did Lo find on Drew's phone?

What kind of talking? Because talking can literally mean anything.

Talking as in friends, or as in more?

She needed to know.

Pushing it aside, she forced herself to mingle with Brooke and Mack as Lo talked to Drew, or whatever the fuck he was doing.