Northern Lights

Chapter 8

A week later, Zoe and Sienna were facing off in a verbal confrontation while everyone pretended not to look lest they end their conversation before anything exciting happened. She scoffed at them. But her irritation was splashed away from her as if hot water was dumped on her because she caught Zoe's next words and they were about her.

"Everyone knows Rose has been best friends with Skye since they were in diapers, Logan. Get your facts straight before you decided to call out a big fat lie out of jealousy—just like what you like to do."

She tried to ignore the stares that suddenly turned to her and looked for her obnoxiously stupid best friend before finding him a few yards behind Sienna with his arms crossed looking irritated and confused.

She made a beeline to him. "What the hell are they talking about? Why are they talking about us?"

"I didn't know Sienna was jealous of you." Skye murmured. Aurora rolled her eyes to heavenward. Sienna was a girl for goodness's sake. Of course she was jealous of another girl, especially the best friend.

"Shut the fuck up Zoe and stay away from my boyfriend." Sienna snarled.

Zoe just smirked and popped her hip. "Are you going to say that to your boyfriend's best friend too? God forbids if she even touches him or makes him laugh."

Skye intervened again when Sienna looked like she was ready to pounce on the cheerleader like a deranged women or some wild animal. Sienna's blue eyes seem to darken that they were black pools of anger then a flash of gold through them. 

Aurora blinked.

For the next couple of days, she needed to avoid Skye because his damn girlfriend was jealous of her. She hated it. She hated it even more that she had to pretend that it didn't bother her. Best friends since kindergarten didn't mean jack shit to him or what?

She had the twins to distract her once again. They barged in the morning and started to carpool to school together with Jace's Mercedes. They took her away to afterschool excursions whenever they were free like eating out at restaurants, food trucks, and museum, bookstore, and record haunts. They introduced her to Kid Cudi and Kendrick Lamar and even introduced a couple of indie music they listened too. She still missed her best friend.

But Skye had come up to her, telling her that he talked to Sienna and that it was all solved. He assured her that she was only his best friend and nothing more. As if that would actually stop a girl, especially someone like Sienna from thinking that anymore. But she had to be the bigger person and pretend everything is fine and dandy. To prove it, she was suckered into hanging out with them whenever she was free.

The Half-and-Half was the unofficial hangout of the Moore High students. This artsy-fartsy café was loud but homey with its tinted windows and abstract paintings. The café had another floor upstairs with the view of the entire town but the trio preferred to sit near the entrance in the direct view of counter. As they settled down in their claimed seat, unraveling scarves and yanking off gloves, Skye immediately snatched the cookie that Aurora bought from a next door bakery from her grasp and stuffed it all in his mouth.