Last kiss // PAIGE BUECKERS

ELEVEN//THE ALCHEMY

(NARRATIVE)

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So IDK if I have said this already but the auriemmas live in Avalon, New Jersey. Geno and Kathy also have a house in Connecticut but Avalon is where the whole family lives.

Victoria's cousin Sarah was to be married on July 1st. Today is June 27th. She was leaving in 4 hours, the drive was about 4 and a half hours so it wasn't terrible but Victoria was driving alone. She was scared because she usually drove home with someone sitting in the passenger seat.

Her parents told her they had a surprise for her once she got there. She had her suspicions, she believed they were gonna have her best friend from home, Amara come to the wedding because she hadn't seen her in months.

Kate also went home today, it was sad to see her leave but Victoria knew she'd be able to see her soon. The first thing she did was go out to lunch with Aubrey, azzi, and Carol. Azzi and Carol had gotten onto campus the day Victoria left for Iowa and then, Kate came home with her so they haven't had time to hang out.

She had known Azzi and Caroline just as long as she'd known Paige and Caitlin. She was so happy they got to play together again. She loves this year's freshman class

"Come on Tori, you always make us late," Aubrey said standing in the doorway. "girl bye, because imma look good, thank you." Victoria answered, "You seem happy, if you are this happy about a wedding there's something wrong in ur head," Aubrey added and began laughing. "well I'm happy for my cousin, and I'm excited to see Amara" Victoria clarified grabbing her bag. "Amara? isn't that ur friend from home? wait I thought u didn't know who was coming?" Aubrey said moving out of the doorway and grabbing her keys. "yea, I don't but I know it's her, i have a plus one to the wedding but they said I can't bring anyone, so obviously they are bringing someone" Victoria says following close behind Aubrey.

Once they got in Aubrey's car, they played Victoria's playlist (basically the playlist for the story). The ride was quick but it was nice to chill and talk with Aubrey

"VICK!!!!" Caroline yells jumping out of the car and running towards Victoria and Aubrey. "Hey, care!" Victoria says as she hugs her.

They walked into the café and sat down. Victoria ordered herself her drink which was an iced white mocha with sweet cold foam, paige made her try it as soon as they got on the Uconn campus because apparently the café has the best coffees ever.

All the girls sat around the table, talking about everything, Caroline's boyfriend and how everyone thinks that they are getting married, basketball, academics and other things.

One topic made her a little uncomfortable though, Nick. "Oh Tori, you're still dating Nick right?" Azzi said taking a sip of her iced tea. She and Nick are still dating but it's weird, he's being distant and hasn't been himself lately, not that that's a bad thing though. Nick wasn't a mean person but he wasn't exactly nice, only to Victoria that is. Geno and Kathy loved him. He was so nice to them, he looked great on the outside but on the inside, he was very controlling of Victoria, he made sure that Paige and her cut contact and that the rumors of them two would stop.

Victoria realized she had dozed off so she answered Azzi "Oh uh yeah. yea," she said. "I haven't seen him, is he back yet," Caroline asked. "yea, he's been here a long time but he has been in the gym like every day" she lied. In reality, she didn't have a clue where he was but the only important thing right now is having fun with her friends-

*ring*ring*

(I'm sorry because this next paragraph or whatever makes NO sense so I'm sending prayers if you are reading this)

Suddenly, Victoria's phone began to ring. Despite it being from a random number, there was something oddly familiar about it. Ignoring her usual instinct to let it go to voicemail, she decided to answer it. "Sorry guys I'll be right back," she said getting up from the table and walking to the bathroom.

She answered it instantly ""Hello?" she said, her voice tinged with anticipation. "Hi," another voice replied, causing her heart to skip a beat. She was certain it had to be Paige on the other end of the line. You have to be fucking playing. "Before you hang up or anything, let me talk. What I have to say will... kind of benefit you, well, no..." Paige's hesitant voice trailed off. "Just talk, Paige," she interrupted, unable to contain her impatience. "Please don't talk until I'm finished because you're going to be mad," Paige blurted out. "Paige, just talk," she demanded, her frustration evident in her tone. "So, your parents were the ones who basically planned this whole thing and I tried everything to stop it from happening. Your dad told me that no one could come with you to Sarah's wedding, he said Nika is going to see her sister, your boyfriend or whatever can't make it, Kenna is going home with Matt for a weekend and that he was surprised I wasn't an option to come with you so he asked if I could come, I tried every excuse. I said we have practice and he was like 'Well I'm the head coach' and then I said I had a bunch of assignments for a class and then he was like 'Victorias in that class too and she said that she has no work for that class' and I didn't want him to think that I was tryna make excuses so I just stopped, he told me when you guys were going and what to pack. But long story short, I'm going" Paige says.

Damn, that was a lot. Victoria was so mad but she was trying to be happy about this, they could work around it, Pretending wouldn't be that hard. "Wow. Okay um listen we can talk later or something, I'm out to lunch" Victoria responded quickly and hung up. She walked back to the table to see her food was already there and casually sat down and started eating her food.

"Who was that Tori?" Aubrey asks. Victoria panics, "Kendrick, a friend from home" She responds. "Oh, I met him right?" Azzi asks her. "Yeah, when u and Paige came to visit me," she says with a big smile on her face. A lot happened that weekend for Victoria and Paige, but she can't get into that.

Aubrey looked at Azzi and Caroline as soon as Victoria said Paige's name. Obviously, it didn't seem like that big of a deal but after not associating herself with Paige at all, it was rare to hear Victoria talk about her. Victoria picked up on the exchange between Azzi, Caroline, and Aubrey, but brushed it off.

After about 20 minutes, the girls paid said their goodbyes, and got in the car.

Aubrey and Victoria started talking in the car and somehow Aubrey got her on the topic of Paige. "I know you told all of us that you didn't want to speak to or about her, I just have a question," Aubrey asked, "yea?" Victoria asked, she didn't want to answer it already and she didn't even know what it was yet. "honestly, did you guys actually just stop talking or did you just say that and just started talking less?" aubrey asked. Victoria was almost relived, there was a lot of other questions it could've been so this was nothing. "We just um stopped talking" she answered. Thank god they were back at the dorms and they got out of the car, said their goodbyes and went their separate ways.

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I'm back, jk probably not just here to post this(and i'm sorry bc this is ass) also idk if anyone listened to TSOU but it is actually so good. okay bye