I walked into my room, having just gotten home from class, not expecting Jai to be sitting right there on my bed.
"Jesus, Jai, you scared me half to death," I said.
"Sorry babe, didn't mean to."
I had felt both ecstatic and awkward when he called me babe. I felt awkward because he was with Ariana and even if we are best friends, it was unusual.
"So how long have you actually been up here waiting for me?"
"Since 10:43 and it is now 1:14 so about two and a half hours."
"Well what's so important that you've needed to wait that long?"
"I didn't think you'd have class today and I wanted to hang out since Ariana is just flying back over from LA today," he said, shrugging.
"Well, what'd you have in mind?" I asked, playing with my necklace.
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Much to my dismay, Jai had dragged me out of the house to a little cafe where we were getting lunch and then he had something planned.
He parked his car on the side of the street and once I got out of the car, he grabbed my hand and pulled me into the cafe with him. He chose a two person table in the corner of the cafe. I had decided on a salad and a smoothie whereas Jai wanted a sandwich and a soda.
After we had gotten our food and started eating, we were almost completely silent, only sending smiles back and forth. I set my fork down on my plate, sipping my smoothie while looking out the window. Once I looked back, I saw Jai with my fork in one hand, full of salad and nearing his mouth, and the other was holding his phone which was pointed at me.
"Jai, that's my salad," I whined.
"Here, have a fry," he said, feeding me a french fry.
I noticed girls in the cafe a few tables away with their phones pointed at us. I brushed it off, figuring it would be no big deal.
About a half hour later when we were finished eating, we walked out of the cafe, me laughing at Jai's stupid joke. We stopped walking for a moment, allowing both of us to take out our phones.
I check twitter, noticing that Jai tweeted a picture of me drinking my smoothie and looking out the window. I also got a lot of mentions and tweets about a picture that someone tweeted of Jai feeding me a fry.
I honestly got worried that Ariana would see this and start World War III which was not something I wanted.
"Jai fans got a picture of you feeding me fries," I said, sounding worried.
"Oh well, fuck it."
All I could do was laugh and go along with it. He dragged me back to the car where he told me our plans.
"I was thinking that we could go to Melbourne Central and you could help me shop for a gift for Ariana."
"I love shopping and everything, but why exactly does she need a gift?"
"She's been a trooper lately, travelling back and forth between the states and here just to spend some time with me and I couldn't be more grateful so I wanted to get something for her," he explained.
It made me a little bit sad because I could see how much he cared for her and wanted her to feel special.
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"Jai get back here!" I shouted, chasing after him in the store.
I was helping him pick something out for Ariana when he wanted me to try them on (they were shoes and I'm the same size as Ariana), he took my boots and ran away from me.
