The Truce

Chapter 13

Considering the day I'd had, I wasn't in much of a mood for a make over. After crying all over Natalie, we hung out in my room, half-watching a movie while she, annoyingly, refused to tell me what to do about either Sebastian or Scott.

I knew my relationship with Scott wasn't the best, but we did have fun together. Or we used to anyway. Lately, we had to try harder, and I wasn't sure that was something you should have to do. And despite what he said before, it was obvious that he didn't trust me not to do something with Sebastian behind his back.

Although, now I wondered if I'd deserved that mistrust. I hadn't asked Sebastian to kiss me, but I definitely responded to it. Something that still kind of baffled me. How could I have feelings strong enough for that when I couldn't trust him?

He was right though. I did give Scott a pass on a lot of things I shouldn't. I never really thought about why before, but I think I'd just never expected much from him. When we met, I decided to like him and date him in spite of the fact that he could be thoughtless and self-absorbed. I suppose I thought that was just how guys were. I should demand better though. If Scott cared about me, he'd want to do better. But was it fair for me to suddenly change the rules?

At the end of the night, I still had no idea what to do. Scott called at one point, and I mostly hurried him off the phone, telling him it was because Natalie was with me, but I didn't want to have to pretend everything was fine when it wasn't. I was grateful that he was going to be occupied all day tomorrow, so I could put everything off a bit longer. Part of me felt like I had to tell him about the kiss. The other part thought that first part was insane. He'd lose his mind if he knew what happened, but I'd be lying if I kept quiet about it, and I didn't want to lie.

Around eight, Natalie got a call from Wes and she was practically glowing. Happy as I was for her, I was a little jealous too. I hadn't felt like that for a long time. I'd barely even had one of those sweet, shy, totally awkward but amazing periods with Scott. I'd been kind of shy at first, but that settled pretty quickly and then things with him were just normal. Comfortable. I honestly couldn't remember a time when his kisses sent my head spinning and made my knees weak, the way Sebastian's did.

Natalie hung up and grinned at me.

Choosing to set my problems aside, I smiled back.

"Looks like we have somewhere to debut your new look," she said.

"What?" We hadn't officially said, but I assumed we were putting the whole make over thing off for now. And what was that about a debut?

"We can just pick it up tomorrow instead," she said. "I don't have to babysit for once and Wes asked us to a party."

"He asked us?" I said skeptically.

"Well, me," she admitted. "But he knows we're a package deal."

"Wouldn't you rather it just be the two of you? You won't need me to keep you company like at the game."

"If it were a dinner date or something, yeah, but I want you to come with me. If, for nothing else, to show off all our work, getting you pretty."

Because apparently making me presentable would be back-breaking. I stuck my tongue out at her. "If you'd rather wait till later, we can," I said. "I don't want to take up your whole day off. Especially not for such strenuous work," I added sarcastically.

Natalie laughed. "Oh no! You wanted to do this, and I'm now I'm looking forward to it. Plus, it'll be fun to see everyone's reactions at the party."

"If you really want to," I said, giving her another opportunity to back out. I wasn't sure why I was suddenly nervous about changing myself. It was a good thing. I was excited about it.