we finish hugging and i can hear him giggling. "what's there to giggle about?" i ask smiling. "i can't believe you actually did what i thought you would do" he says. what does he mean? i have a confused expression on my face.
"i know you've liked me since the start of 6th grade. i always knew, from the start" he reveals. HUH? "what are you talking about?" i say letting out a nervous laugh. "don't act like you don't know what i'm talking about, i'm not stupid" he says, actually- never mind.
"let me explain... i always knew you liked me, since the start of 6th grade, the problem is i didn't really know you so i couldn't tell you i liked you back" oh? he continues... "at the start of 7th grade i find out stacy likes me and i wonder.. 'wait, what if it was stacy the one who liked me all along and not olivia?' so i stopped thinking about you" oh this is so messy.
"as you know, me and you started becoming friends and all the lydia stuff happened, weird how you got mad because i kissed her, right? that made me figure out you actually liked me. so i decided to plan a little something to make you get with me." he says.
"what?" i ask. he doesn't have time to answer my question, i feel someone sitting next to me on the edge of the pool.
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"ashtray?" i look at him confused and gasp as the stars in my head align. that's just crazy i don't even know what to say. andy starts talking again "i reconnected with my old friend Drew, knowing he is exactly your type, and told him to be at the club you were staying at. casually, i was there too! i was there kissing kym and casually you saw that!!" he says.
DREW?!? i knew ashtray couldn't be his real name! "so all you did, all you said, it was all a lie?" i ask ashtray, i mean drew. he looks at me and giggles "no, i actually really like you, just not in that way, i think you're great but you're not my type" he says kindly. if only i could throw a chair in their faces-
"but how? how did you plan all this? and how did everything go according to plan?" i ask panicking "because i'm a mastermind" andy responds. "but i don't get one thing, why would you bring drew to me knowing i would fall in love with him?" i ask.
"because i knew you wouldn't be able to decide who to pick and he would tell you to come to me. that's so easy, you're so easy to trick" he says with a mischievous grin. "so liv... do you want to be my girlfriend?" he asks
THE AUDACITY?!? "no way!" i say standing up and leaving. i run to the beach. i sit on a rock and start thinking and realizing a lot of stuff.
that's why ashtray knew i like andy and that's why the backyard gate was open... that's why drew invited us to this party, he knew i would invite andy too... that's why he helped me ruin andy, so he could run away and i could go talk to him...
they're just two assholes. i would never get with andy now that i found out he gaslighted me. i truly liked ashtray, he made me believe he liked me too but it was all a lie. i thought he was the perfect boy but he's just a liar and a jerk.
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i hear someone walking up to me.. "stace?" "hey livvy, what happened?" stacy asks me. she sits on the sand, next to me, and i explain her everything that happened. "well maybe he did that cause he's so deeply in love with you" she tries to make me happy but that's just not working.
"no, you don't get it, he's like obsessed" i say "oh come on, give him a chance, you've liked him for more than a year now, he's all you ever wanted and now you finally got it, last year you would slap you right now" she makes me laugh. "yeah that's true, she would slap me so hard" i say giggling.
"i'm just really sad about ash, i mean he was literally perfect for me" i say. "see? that's how you realize perfect people don't exist!" she says. "that's absolutely not true, think about Timothée Hal Chalamet" i say making us both laugh.
"i think we should go home, imma call an uber" i say calling the uber! "he's going to be here in five minutes" i inform stacy. "perfect, let's go back to the house, we're perfectly on time" she says.
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in the uber, i take a look at my phone and see a lot of missed messages and calls from both andy and drew, i don't even know how to call him, drew feels so weird. 'what did i do wrong? i thought this would make you happy, i showed you how much i care about you' is andy's last message. 'we'll talk tomorrow, be at mines at 10am' i text.
i see drew's last message being 'look i'm so sorry, but we could still be friends, right?' is he fr? i reply with 'listen ashtray, drew or whatever your name is, you made me believe you were someone you aren't and i liked you, i really did, and you gaslighted me into thinking you liked me back, i'm done with you'
i hear my phone buzzing. 'please let me explain, i was paid to do it, i didn't want to' i reply be at mines at 10am tomorrow' i'll confront them together. 'girly i'm not google maps, i don't know where you live' he replies. oh. i send him my address. uh men. so irritating but at the same time to fine.
i really don't know how to feel about tonight but i just know i'm never forgetting ashtray (not drew but the character he was playing) i mean drew is still hot tho, i could think about it, i just need to find out if old money is his actual style or it was just for his character.
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𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑'𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐄 stvrnil posting twice in 3hrs??? that's my apology for not uploading for 6 days.
