one more chance - p. bueckers

09

real life

August 1st

Paige

I feel like I am being punished. Should I have kissed her? No, I shouldn't have. But I just couldn't control myself. I can't keep my emotions in check when it comes to Charlie. But I need to learn too, especially since I'm going to be seeing her so often now.

"Charlie! Come in come in sit down!"
Aaliyah says as Charlie comes into the living room.

We immediately lock eyes. But she says nothing. I can't help but stare at her. She looks beautiful. She's in this UConn black sweats and a grey crop top. We are almost matching. God I miss her.

"So Charlie tell is about yourself," Ice starts. "Yes! We learn about our new teammate."
Amari says.

"I wouldn't say I'm your teammate, I'm just a photographer." Charlie says looking down, I can tell she is nervous from the way she is playing with the rings on her fingers.

Charlie was never the best at making new friends, she is very shy. But she's going to love the girls, they really are amazing.

"You are a part of our team, you're family now." Nika says.

"Yes sadly you sadly getting rid of us anytime soon." KK says laughing a bit.

Charlie goes on to tell them about her childhood and high school memories, leaving out me and our relationship.

She told them about the time she went on a safari in Florida and got chased by an ostrich. Leaving out the whole reason why the ostrich started to chase her was because I dared her to throw food at it.

She told them how she got into photography, but left out that I was the first person to model for her.

She told them a lot about herself, things that I already knew. I know everything about her. Or I did.

The rest of the night is filled with everyone sharing embarrassing story's of themselves. My favorite was when Nika told the story of how we lost Ice at 6 flags and couldn't find her for like 4 hours because we had her phone.

We played Uno and tried to play poker but KK kept cheating. She tried counting cards and failed. Then got mad when she was accused of cheating. So we gave up on poker and decided to put on a movie.

Charlie and I managed to avoid talking for most of the night, but that didn't stop me from steal looks at her all night. I could tell she was getting tired because she was rubbing her eyes during the movie.

In typical us fashion, everyone got bored of Mission Impossible 3, and decided to go to the gym and shoot around.

Charlie decided to head back to her room because she was tired. It was almost 12am at this point.

"Thank you guys so much for having me over but I think I'm going to head to bed." Charlie said as she slipped on her shoes.

"Are you sure you don't want to come to the gym with us, I could teach you how to make a 3-pointer." KK says to her.

Too bad I already tried. Many many times. Her form is horrible. She will never be able to.

"I'm sure, have a good night you guys!" Charlie says as she starts to head out the door.