Enemies With Benefits

EWB 32

Caleb

I stared at the now closed door that Hailey just walked out of a second ago, and suddenly my place felt so empty again.

I sighed and headed to my kitchen to take out the food I got.

I even got lasagna since I knew it was her favorite, but fuck me I guess lmao.

I decided to just shake the disappointing, kinda bummed out feeling out of my head and just suck it up. I don't even know why I'm doing all this, to be honest.

Am I doing too much?

Look at me, thinking I was doing too much all because I got lasagna for Hailey and she didn't even give it a second thought. Its's so dumb, I know. Honestly kind of pathetic.

That I was doing all of this for someone who has a fucking boyfriend.

I mean, its my fault that that happened anyway, but still.

And in my defense, I would've taken her back to her place and left her there but given that I absolutely had no idea where she lived, that was just not possible.

And leaving her in there in that state was definitely not an option.

Can't say this was the first time I had to take care of her while she was drunk, but I wasn't complaining.

It's not my intention to steal Hailey from Dean. I just wanna be friends again.

Just friends.

Definitely just friends.

Definitely.

Just friends.

Actually scratch that.

Even if we don't end up on that level of good terms, anything was better than being completely out of her life.

I mean think about it.

What if, for some goddamn miracle Casey and River gets to end up together and get married? Of course, Casey's gonna get Hailey to be her maid of honor, and when that happens, I want me and Hailey to not be ignoring each other like we haven't spend almost our entire lives breathing the same air as each other.

So as I took a bite out of the lasagna while being too deep in my thought, I decided that I was gonna do whatever the fuck it takes to do that.

I mean, I already told myself that before, but right now that there is visible progress, I was gonna use that to work on it.

Starting with not bringing any girl home with me every weekend. I was already in the middle of dialing Casey's number anyways as I thought out my plan ahead for my weekend.

"What's up?" Casey answered her phone

"We need to talk" I told Casey, and from the other line, I could hear her sigh.

"I knew this was gonna happen eventually" Casey said as I readied myself to have a long ass conversation with my twin.

Days passed with nothing unusually crazy going on.

I haven't seen Hailey since she walked out of my apartment, and I haven't seen her around my neighbor's apartment either. She also never showed up at Starbucks around the same time as me, so to keep my mind off things, I drowned myself in work.

It was fine though, I was loving my future job more and more, even though majority of the time it was stressing the fuck out of me.

As soon as the five o'clock mark hit, I started getting my stuff ready so I could leave, while my co-workers started to swarm around my desk for their usual "where we hitting tonight" question.