Are You Afraid of Musicals?

Chapter 2.6: Opportunities

Gina's pov:

The last month has been interesting to say least.

Dani's always been someone very reserved and good at keeping appearances, even with me. I'm her best friend and I don't know much about her private life, and sometimes it's difficult for me to know what is going on with her.

You can't really tell when something is bothering her, she's always wearing that mean girl facade making everyone be afraid of her, but I know she only does it cause she does not want to let anyone to actually know her.

Cause when you get to know Dani, she's the sweetest and most protective person that you'll ever know, but for some reason, she keeps people as far away from her as she can.

Talking about emotions with her is almost impossible, when the conversation starts to get too deep she'll just make a joke or laugh it off. I try to get her to talk to me, but sharing her feelings is something she's still working on.

That's why she's never been on a relationship, as far as I know she uses guys like tissues, never actually getting attached to anyone for long.

But this last month... I knew something was up and that's not normal. As I said, you can never tell when something's bothering Dani, but this time even EJ noticed that she had something on her mind.

I didn't give it much of a thought at first, it happened a few times before and in one or two weeks she was her normal self again, so I let her know that I was there for her if she needed me, but I didn't push her any further.

But then the party came and she was completely out of control. To that moment it had been two weeks since I noticed something was up and then, when Hanna spoke, everything clicked.

I was left speechless like everyone else, but somehow it made sense. Then Dani left and all the drama happened, but call it coincidence, call it destiny, Gabby was the one who found her.

And she could've called us and leave "the problem" for us, but she took care of Dani and she drove her back home after all the mean things that Dani said about her at the party.

So next morning when I woke up, I made up my mind. With all the information I had, there was only one thing I could do: give them a little push and see where things go.

I didn't really know how to do it without dragging a lot of unnecessary attention, things needed to flow naturally and I couldn't just go and invite Gabby to come with us with no reason.

But then on Tuesday the perfect opportunity came. Jave was heading towards Gabby's table, she was alone and things were about to get ugly for her, so I elbowed EJ making him aware of the situation and we went to help her.

The excuse was perfect, we wanted to thank her in person and she was alone, so inviting her to join us was just the polite thing to do. That day was the start of something great, cause even if my plan ends up being a failure, at least I won a friend.

Cause I consider her my friend now. It's been two weeks and a half since Gabby joined our friend group, and she won my heart in that little time. Everything's been amazing.

Of course she was shy at first, but she ended up getting along with everyone very easily, and of course she did. She's funny, smart and very generous, she's even been helping EJ with maths, and I just can say that things are flowing smoothly.

I thought the problem here would be Dani, but it ended up being Big Red. Those two are still not very comfortable, but nothing we can't work out together.

Dani and Gabby are... let's say improving. Things are nice but Gabby is still a bit shy and I can tell that Dani is keeping her distance. There are moments like the first day when Gabby's jealousy got over her and she ended up beating the men's soccer team asses, but since then, nothing big happened.