'What?' I thought as Connor shuffled to get his jacket off and hand it to Troye. 'Where did this immediate confidence come from?' My ears were blazing red from anger. But why was I angry? I should be happy that one of my best friends likes one of my other best friends and he's trying to see if there's any interest. Why am I feeling a spark of jealousy? I turn the direction of Connor to my right. Connor's face was stuck facing forward, like his eyes were glued to the passenger seat. I then looked past Connor, at Troye. His face was red and he had a faded, but visible, smile. Just as I was about to turn back to what I was originally looking at, Connor saw me and made a face that pretty much said, "Oh my god look at the progress I'm making." I made an encouraging face back to Connor and then turned away. I guess I still do like Troye.
The ride back to Caspar and Joe's felt like the longest car ride I'd ever been in. I couldn't even imagine how slow the rest of the day would go. When we were parked outside the flat, I asked Joe how long the car ride was and he said it was only twenty minutes, although for me, it felt like twenty hours. Caspar paid the taxi driver and the rest of us filed out of the car. Troye and Connor left out of the same car door, of course. I got out of the left side car door with Joe. I began to walk to the apartment building and I felt the others trailing at their own pace behind me. My hands were in fists and punching into my jacket pockets. The wind was rustling my hair, ruining my quiff, and making me shiver like crazy. In the distance I heard Connor and Troye laughing about something. I turned around to see what was going on and they were walking next to each other and laughing a little nervously, but not in a bad way, in an awkward 'I like you a lot' kind of way. I then realized that Caspar was running to catch up with me. 'I really don't feel like talking to anyone.'
Caspar greeted me by patting me on the back. "Hey man is everything alright?" He could tell I was pissed, I looked pissed. I nodded. "Mhm, yeah....just really god damn cold." We finally entered the flat after freezing outside for a good couple of minutes. I needed to get over this stupid attitude. I'm usually so hyper and outgoing, but when I'm in a bad mood, it all pretty much gets flipped over. This makes it so much more noticeable that I'm upset. I went to sit on the couch by the TV. Caspar then began to speak, "So do you guys want to do anything....? Or like go anywhere for dinner?" I took my phone out and pushed the home button to check the time. 'It's already 5:30? What the hell?' Joe added, "If you guys don't wanna go out we can order pizza or something." Troye and Connor made eye contact. 'When will it end?' I rolled my eyes behind the screen of my phone. "Let's just stay here and hangout." Connor said, smiling. Troye looked at him, grinned, and added, "Yeah I mean pizza sounds great too. Do you have nutella in the pantry?" Joe laughed. "Um, of course we do." Troye smiled, teeth showing, and walked towards the pantry. "Awesome."
The pizza arrived at around seven thirty, and I'm glad it did, because I was starving. Caspar brought the pizza boxes to the couch area and set them on the table. Connor and Troye were sitting together on the middle sofa. 'I really hope Caspar and Joe leave the lights on.' I thought. I was sitting on a singular couch by myself, which was extremely comfortable. Caspar sat on the double seated couch by himself and Joe sat on the opposite end of the middle couch, away from Connor and Troye. I wished Joe would just sit in the middle of them so they wouldn't be right next to eachother. "Horror movie!" Troye exclaimed. Everyone laughed, except me. "How about Carrie?" Caspar offered while scrolling through Netflix." Joe looked at Caspar and said, "I've seen Carrie, it really isn't even scary." Connor glanced at Joe, "Hey I haven't seen it." Troye threw his hands up jokingly and said, "Let's just watch Carrie, Ansel Elgort is pretty hot too so like......" Everyone laughed again, I even grinned, Ansel was hot. "Alright," Joe started. "but I'm telling you, it isn't even scary." Caspar smirked, "I guess we'll see then."
Caspar started the movie and I reached in the box for another slice of pizza. I'd already eaten two slices, I was going to get so fat. Joe stood up all of a sudden. "Oh I almost forgot! No horror movie is even remotely scary with the lights on. Give me one second." I didn't watch where Joe was going, but facing the TV screen, I felt the room gradually grow darker and darker as he switched off lights. 'Great,' I thought. 'Now Connor and Troye are gonna be all cute and shit.'
As the movie went on, I looked back at Troye and Connor to see if Connor was trying to make a move. Every few minutes or so, they would get closer to each other. Then, it all happened. The first jump scare popped up and Troye immediately placed his hand on Connor's hand. I kept looking back to see if anything was changing between them and soon enough, maybe ten minutes later, they were holding hands. Were Connor and Troye getting too close? Yes. Was I jealous? Yes. Was I mad at Connor? Yes. 'My best friend has a crush on my crush........okay, cool..........I guess.' Troye was still wearing Connor's jacket. 'He needs to take that off..........' I faced back to the TV and crossed my arms. 'Too close.'
