secreto de amor . (SLOW UPDATES FR)

chapter 10

you had work the following morning but when you got off, connie had different plans for the both of you.

"you know your brother has other friends, right?" connie brought up as he started to spark a lighter to the blunt in his hand.

"don't light that shit in here. you know i hate that smell." connie quickly put it away. "but yeah, i know. just never really cared for meeting them before." the only friends you cared about or was forced to care about was sasha and connie. the other ones you weren't even sure how close they were to jean.

"you wanna meet them?" you were tempted to say no but you were trying to explore more words these days.

"sure." you shrugged. "just let me change out of these clothes." connie nodded as he watched you go down the hall. as soon as you were out of sight, he stepped outside to light the blunt from earlier.

you had changed and was ready to leave but didn't see connie until you went outside to see him smoking.

"aww aren't you considerate?" he turned to you.

"of course, c'mon."

when connie asked you if you wanted to meet jean's other friends, you assumed they were mutual to connie too. but that's all you knew. so when you pulled up to a house you've never seen before, you were curious.

"who's house is this?"

"eren's." connie responded as if you were supposed to know that already. he got out the car and went around to open the door for you before heading to the house. when you got in, you saw familiar faces like sasha and the mikasa girl from the party but the three other people were unknown to you.

"yo con," a long haired dude walked up to connie and dapped him up. "who this?"

"oh this jean's lil sister, y/n." eren furrowed his brows as his eyes scanned you. "step-sister. y/n, this is eren." eren held his hand out for you to shake and you took it, smiling politely.

"not you babysitting?" the other dude commented which sent everyone else laughing but you.

"fuck you. i'm not babysitting, she's just tagging along for today and she wanted to meet yall." you could care less really but connie insisted on properly introducing everyone in the room. the dude with the comment was introduced as onyankopon but they called him ony. you already knew sasha and mikasa, and eren from a few seconds ago. there was another girl there named zina who didn't talk all that much, to which you didn't blame. all of those people were jean and connie's friends so you didn't put them in your mind as total strangers anymore. the more time you spent around them, they weren't a bad group. the only thing was that they were all a few years older than you so of course you felt small.

while you were sitting under connie, watching him smoke with the guys, zina walked up to you and asked to go outside to talk with you. you got up reluctantly because you still really didn't know the girl so you weren't sure why she was asking you to talk to her. but you followed her outside to the backyard nonetheless.

"so connie is staying with you?" you nodded.

"yeah jean asked him to look over me like i'm some child." zina laughed.

"he's just trying to make sure you're safe, he trusts connie. more than he trusts any of us." you knew that already because connie was the only one jean allowed to come to the house so frequently. "i'm just surprised he's not suspecting anything."

"what?"

"connie is trustworthy but when it come to girls, he's sneaky. i thought he'd try to fuck you by now, you're so young and naive." you were beginning to get uncomfortable with this conversation but you were also curious as to why zina was even talking to you about this.

"it's not even like that. who are you to him anyway? you talking like you're more than a friend." this was one of the few times that you said exactly what you were thinking.

zina laughed. "me and connie used to fuck around but we don't anymore." that made sense but you still didn't understand why you needed to know that.

"oh."

"yeah." as if on cue, connie came outside to join you.

"you ready to go?" you nodded before standing and zina stood with you, following you and connie back inside.

"it was nice meeting you, y/n." zina smiled and you automatically smiled back just to be polite because you didn't know what to make of that conversation. but you did ask connie about it on the ride back home, just to help yourself out.

"so...i talked to zina." connie nodded.

"i saw."

"i knew you had bitches, i just didn't think she was one of them." connie quickly glanced at you.

"what?"

"she told me yall used to fuck around or whatever but i don't know why she felt the need to tell me that. but is it true though?"

connie hummed as he gripped the steering wheel with the one hand while his eyes stayed focused on the road.

"yeah. i don't know why she said anything either, you want something to eat?" you knew that he was trying to change the subject but why? you were sure it wasn't that serious.

after you stopped to get a pizza, connie dropped you off at home.

"you're not staying?"

"i gotta do some things so i'm staying at my apartment tonight. i'll see you in the morning though." you nodded before closing the door and locking it behind him. you went to your room and checked the time, wondering if you should call tia tonight. you ended up calling her and talking about what happened that night.

"was his friends cute?"

"i guess? i wasn't really paying attention."

"aww...you were all up under connie, weren't you?" you hadn't noticed at the time but maybe you were. you just blamed it on sticking with what you're familiar with.

"maybe, but that's because i didn't know anyone."

"yeah...but the zina girl talked to you. about connie of all things?" you nodded, which was visible from your end of the camera.

"yeah! she was like 'i'm surprised he hasn't fucked you by now, you're so young and naive'. mind you, the bitch don't know me."

"i guess she's seen it happen before."

"i told her it wasn't even like that and then she goes and says that her and connie used to fuck around. like why do i need to know that? connie is not my nigga. he's my brother's best friend and jean would literally kill him if he tried something with me." all tia did was hum and you knew that meant her thoughts were loading.

"is that the only thing stopping you?"

"what?"

"like is connie not your man because of your brother or just because you genuinely don't want him. because i lowkey think you starting to catch feelings." you dismissed her statements but deep down, there was a possibility she was telling the truth.

"i can't do that."

"why?" you shrugged while looking down at your comforter. "yeah...i think you might like that man, just a lil bit. it's okay though, what jean doesn't know won't hurt him."

"i guess. but i'm sleepy, i'll call you later tomorrow."

"kay, bye!" but you didn't sleep right away. tia's words rang through your head for hours that night.