𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞

𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧

𝐬𝐤𝐚𝐢'𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐯

"absolutely fucking not!" natalie shouted, her voice bouncing off the walls of my living room. she sat on my sofa, looking exasperated. i had just finished giving her the rundown of my mischievous, unhinged behaviour over the past two months since she has been busy in london filming her movie.

"i leave for a short while, and this is what you're getting up to?" she exclaimed.

"i know," i said, my voice heavy with regret.

"you better start staying ten feet away from this girl, skai. i'm being serious." she began her nagging rant. sometimes i swear that natalie is a fifty-year-old trapped in a twenty-four-year-old's body.

"sorry, mommy," i joked, smiling slightly. but i didn't receive the reaction I hoped for. instead, natalie side-eyed me with a large scowl. "but don't act like you don't understand what i'm working with."

"what do you mean?" she asks, her almond-shaped eyes were expressive as it showed her confusion.

"dani is so hard to resist, like she starts doing her award winning smile and turns on her charm and i be forgetting myself!" i huffed.

"look, i'm not going to deny, the girl's face looks like it was sculptured by the gods. i mean her cheekbones are insane." nati starts but stops when she notices my raised eyebrow. she sighs before she continues, "but, no matter how hot, sexy, and unbelievably cool your ex is, what is the rule?" she placed a hand to her ear, and i sighed before repeating with her.

"they are an ex for a reason." she clapped like a proud soccer mom.

"in all seriousness though, skai baby, I don't want to see you get hurt. I'm serious, ni pensarlo." i stared with a slight frown at my equally short best friend. 

her dark, wavy hair that showcased her hispanic roots was tied up in a messy bun, with a few loose strands framing her doll-like face. her sharp, brown eyes softened as she looked at me, her lips set in a concerned line.

"i missed you though," i pouted. she matched my facial expression, moving closer to me on the sofa before pulling me into a hug.

"i did too. it seems like I can't leave you unsupervised, huh?" i heard a hint of humour in her voice and smiled sheepishly.

"i wasn't going to do anything stupid regardless; i just got carried away."

"plus, she is dating jasmine, so major yikes," natalie added to remind me.

"that as well. when i woke up the night after clubbing, i felt so weirded out by the memories. i may not like jasmine anymore, but i ain't no weird bitch either." natalie hummed in agreement.

"no, but on a serious note, jasmine is snakey for what she did to you. let's talk about that," natalie said as she leaned back on the sofa. one thing about me and nati is that we are ready to gossip and rehash the same topics over a hundred times, anywhere, anytime, no rest.

"i know, right? that was the same girl who was comforting me when dani and I broke up, all for her to start dating her behind my back, and I had to hear it in the blogs!" i exclaimed in shock as i recalled the day i was on a connecting call with nati and solána. 

we were all in shock since I had invited jasmine to my birthday vacation trip not even two weeks prior, and she didn't think to drop the news that she broke some major girl code which was the fact that she was fucking my ex. even though it's been a few years since dani and i broke up, everyone knew she was off limits if you wanted to stay friends with me.

my favourite ex on top of that...

and now they've been dating for more than a year. it's crazy to think that i even told jasmine that dani was my favourite and most impactful relationship. and since she was considered a very close friend, i would sometimes talk to her about dani post-breakup, but now i can only cringe at the memories as she was probably plotting the more i spoke about dani. 

"i'm going to be completely honest here, and give me a pass to be mean for one moment." i nodded, and natalie continued. "i always knew she was fucking weird since the time she started a talking stage with jaden smith after you confessed that you guys hooked up."

natalie threw her hands up dramatically as i hit her, remembering a memory that i had buried deep into my subconsciousness.

"oh my goodness, she really did that, and i let it slide!" i gasped.

"me and solána tried telling you girl, this nepo crybaby was out to get you!" natalie says as she clicks her tongue. i should have listened, especially to solána since out of all my close friends, she was the most intuitive one.

"yeah, what a mess. just leave two messy people together, skai, it'll be time before dani cheats on her since that's what she is up to these days. you've moved on from the whole situation, and that's the important part. now, let's watch some baddies!" she rubbed her hands together, and i squealed in excitement as baddies was a guilty pleasure. 

i had been holding off watching the new series since nati was the only person i could watch shows with. her commentary always had me dead.

i really appreciated my relationship with natalie. despite having no luck in love, i was grateful to have found my platonic soulmate. it just felt like we were meant to be friends. i did everything with her and told her all my secrets. she was the one i came out to first; she was the one i asked for sex advice when i was about to lose my virginity and locked myself in christain's bathroom. she and i were cut from the same cloth. or cut from the same cashmere cloth, as she likes to says it, with her expensive ass.

we had known each other since we were kids, our moms being best friends and all, which made our friendship extra cute. not to mention that we both had a burning passion for music, so when we became a duo and started posting covers on youtube, we quickly gained recognition and were recognized by beyoncé. yes, the beyoncé.

despite it being a while since we released music together and having branched out to become our own individual household names in the industry, we never missed a late-night smoke and link-up in the studio just to sing and spend time together.

she was also very protective of me, so naturally, when she saw how devastated i was with my and dani's breakup, she hadn't been dani's biggest fan since. she even tolerated christian from time to time, who was technically my first love. but even i did not cry as hard as i did when dani and i broke up.

after my much needed reunion with natalie, i made a mental note to stop entertaining something that will go nowhere. jas she is all yours. i nestled close to nati as she switched on the tv whilst I scrolled on my ipad, looking for some filipino takeout. 

sometimes all a girl needs is a night in with her best friend, and suddenly everything will be alright.

𓏲𝄢 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝!