What about your promise ?

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'TELL ME EVERYTHING,' hoor ik de stem van Lisley zodra ze de deur opent bij Ivy haar thuis. We hebben afgesroken met de meide bij Ivy en zo te zien is Lisley er al.

'Ooh hello too! Yeah I'm fine, how about you? Good too? Oh that's great to hear.'

'Shut up and come inside you sneaky bitch.'

'Sneaky bitch?' herhaal ik.

'Yes, sneaky bitch. At least you're not deaf.'

'I really feel your love towards me, Lis.'

'Owww does this little girl need some love? Come here!' En voor ik kan reageren slaagt ze haar armen om me heen en geeft ze me een stevige knuffel. 'Didn't Jayden gave you enough love last night?' vraagt ze speels en ook al ze ik haar gezicht niet ik weet dat er een brede grijns op zit. 

'I guess that's the thing you want me to tell you about?'

'You're so smart woah.' Ze maakt zich weer los uit de omhelzing en doet teken dat ik me moet neerzetten in de sofa terwijl ze iets haalt om te drinken. Voor ze de keuken ingaat verteld ze me dat Ivy zich nog aan het douchen is. Ik ben al enkele keren bij Ivy haar thuis geweest maar toch ben ik elke keer op keer verbaasd. Ivy zelf is een prachtige meid die er steeds chique gekleed voorkomt. Toch zou je het niet verwachten dat ze in zo'n villa als dit woont dat haast een paleis is. Ik krijg een flesje water toegegooid vlak voor Lisley zich naast me zet in de zetel. 'So,' begint ze.

'So,' herhaal ik.

'Tell me about your quality time with that hottie calledJayden!'

'Really Lis?' lach ik. 'And I'm sorry for being such a bored person but nothing happened. You should ask Chay for the thrilling stories.'

'She'll be here in 15 minutes so no don't worry I'll interrogate her too. But to be honest, I'm more interested in you.'

'From where that honor?'

'Because Jayden fucking Evans, that's why!'

'I know you already have this picture of us kissing and whatever so let me first say that nothing happened.'

'You've got to be kidding me! Com'on Al! The two of you were walking alone, how is it possible that nothing happened?' roept ze uit.

'You're going to hate me for this but I just don't want that. I don't want to be that kind of girl towards him. The girl who just wants to make out with him because he already had tons of those girls.'

'Oh my god. Do you want a real relationship with thé Jayden?'

'NO! Oh god no! That's not what I meant!'

'Alice, please tell me then what you mean?' Een sluwe glimlach speelt om haar lippen.

'You know about our past right?'

'Honey,' begint ze. 'If I know one thing for sure, it's that you should leave the past where it belongs; behind you. I mean it, forget it. Forget what happened between the two of you and just start over. You know why? Both of you have changed and when you still have that picture in your head of little Jayden and little Alice who liked each other you'll end up comparing the situation every time. And when you see something has changed about the way Jayden reacts or whatever, you'll think that everything has changed about him and that will give you this feeling of "maybe this was a mistake and should I just move on" because no, that's not how it works okay. The two of you liked each other when you were kids and obviously, you both still do. So I tell you, learn each other know again, both of you have changed but I think that'll just make everything more interesting because now you have new things to find out of each other.' Dit is een verklaring dat je enkel en alleen van Lisley verwacht te horen. Deze meid is zo oprecht dat ze je elke keer recht in je hart lijkt te raken met haar woorden. Ik laat alles tot me bezinken terwijl ik over haar woorden nadenk.