Take me out of the past | Paige Bueckers

6: brianna

Jules stared at Brianna and then the envelope and then Brianna again. She knew something was wrong but she didn't understand what. In Jules's eyes, getting assigned the women's basketball team would be a dream to many of uconn's students, including her. But Jules knew those weren't tears of joy but that Brianna was actually on the verge of a mental breakdown, so without a word Jules wrapped her arms around Brianna, Brianna's muffled sobs humming out every once in a while. Jules heart broke for Brianna and she didn't even know what got her so upset, but Jules didn't like seeing her best friend upset, so she knew it must be serious.

Once Brianna had calmed down, she left Jules's embrace saying thank you, she sat silently for a minute before quietly mumbling, "why am I being so dramatic, this is so stupid."
"Don't invalidate your feelings Bri, something has upset you and that's fine. Do you want to talk about it? And if your assignment is really bothering you, you could talk to your professor about it, I'm sure he would understand." Jules said gently while pulling Brianna's hand into her lap and rubbing her thumb in the inside of Brianna's palm.
"It's a long story" Brianna proceeded
"I have the time" Jules announced
"It all started junior year of high school. Me and Paige went to the same high school, Hopkins, we never really spoke to each other but she was in a few of my classes. We got paired up to do an English project, we started becoming friends because the project took nearly a whole semester. At this point, slam was filming Paige and her life at high school, so they would sometimes film me and her working on the project and even would interview us, the video is still on YouTube if you look it up. This brought us closer and we learned so much about each other, it was a really weird experience, getting filmed while trying to do our homework, so I guess we kind of bonded through that. I don't know how she managed it all, because I was getting overwhelmed by just getting filmed a few hours a week, but she had to put up with it all day everyday. Anyway after the project, we continued to hang out, almost everyday, I would go to her practices, watch her games, I even made sure she was eating and brought her food when she didn't have time to get any herself. Well fast forward around two months later, we're both at this party and I'm trying to find her, I find her but she's with her teammates so I decide to leave her because I didn't want to interrupt, when I begin to hear my name, I turn thinking they must be talking to me but turns out they were talking about me. Pretty shitty things too, about how I'm way too clingy with Paige, even though half the time Paige was the one that wanted to hang out. Paige just giggled which really sucked, I know she was probably just doing that because those were her friends and she didn't want to cause any problems, but it hurt, it really hurt. We made eye contact and I walked away, she tried to grab me and talk to me but it just made me more angry. There and then we argued over god knows what, both saying horrible things to each other, and then she swore that she would never speak to me again if she could help it so I did the same. We've not spoken since, not even in class and now I'm going to have to fucking interview her and spend all day with her and her team and my professor won't let me change, so now I'm stuck with this shit"
Jules took all of that in, she was shocked and felt sorry for Brianna, she couldn't imagine how much that would affect her if it happened to her.
"Damn Bri, I'm so sorry that happened. That was really shitty of her, I feel really bad. If there's anything I can do please tell me, girls night? And if you think about it, you'll have so many other people also there so you won't be alone with her, so it will be less awkward and you'll only talk from business point of view. I believe in you, I know you can do this, and I know that the documentary is going to be fucking amazing.

With that, both girls snuggled up on the couch and watched too many episodes of Gilmore girls, and then they headed to bed.

Brianna updated Lily and Maizie on the situation, as they already knew everything that happened with Paige, they both said the same thing as Jules. Brianna missed her friends from home so much but she was glad she had found Jules or she would genuinely be a hot mess right now.

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Guys please like if you are enjoying so far, this is my first story so I'm not sure if it's good lol. More parts coming soon I promise!! I only started today (14th September), so stay tuned for more parts during the week. I'm open to any suggestions so please let me know, thanks xx