g o r g e o u s • connor bedard

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the movie must have just ended, because i hear soft knocks on the door, "hey its layla, still wanna talk?" she says

"oh my god yes come in here" i say jumping up and opening the door. i invite her to join me on my bed and I just start telling her everything, from the day me and connor met, all the way to today, when we got back together after breaking up with jack.

"damn, more has happened in your love life in the last hour than what has ever happened in mine. are you okay though?" she understands how hard it must be for me.

"yeah, it's a lot but I think I'm okay, I mean i never really know to be honest." i say, kinda laughing, but also partially trying to not cry again.

"k so then here's the more important question. are you happy with your decision? to no longer be with jack and be with connor?" damn she knows exactly what to ask.

"uhh, yeah. I am. I think that i was really just pushing down my feelings about connor and tried to not feel them, but i just let them out today." i feel very content with what I did, it's not fair to jack if a small part of my heart will always belong to connor.

my bed is big enough for the both of us, so she joined me for the night. we stayed up nice and late talking, about anything and everything.

eventually we fall asleep, giving us a very short night, since we were woken up against our will. trevor swings the door open, books it into the room, and jumps on top of us.

"wake up guys!" he yells in my ear, in attempt to get me out of bed. "let us sleep" i groggily yell at him.

"no, it's the first full day at the lake house, we have to start doing things" he says while pulling the blanket off of us, "trevor zegras you better put the blanket back on us and leave the room" i say in a stern voice, but clearly that's not enough to get his attention. he walks over to the window, looks me dead in the eyes and opens the blinds and curtains, lighting up the dark room.

trevor finally leaves the room, so now that i'm wide awake i've decided to embrace it and just start getting ready. layla leaves my room so she can do the same. I put on my hot pink triangle bikini, with a pair of light denim shorts over it. i quickly text my family to update them on the connor jack situation.

i walk out of my room just as jack is walking past, as if on cue. "hey jack" I say happily, still hoping that we can be friends. "hey izzy" he says, sounding a bit sad. "are you okay?" i ask him, wanting to just check in on him and make sure he's not taking this too hard.

"i mean obviously i'm sad, but I'm happy for you and connor." he says, smiling through the pain.

"jack i'm so sorry, i never meant to hurt you, i just-" before i could finish he interrupted me. "isabel you didn't hurt me, you did what was right. It would have hurt more if you had led me on while you and connor snuck around. this is not your fault." he tries to make my feel better, but I will always feel bad for what I did.

i make my way outside and find connor sitting on a lounger, so i sit next to him. "how was your night baby?" he asks me, putting his hand on my thigh.

"it was good" i say smiling up at him. "it was weird tho- i had a dream about you"

"oh yeah? what about?" he asks, suddenly very intrigued.

"I don't know if I can tell you-" i pause and look around to make sure no one's in ear shot. I go to whisper in his ear "it was a dirty dream" i say smirking up at him

"oh really? wanna go up to my room and we can talk about it a little bit more?" he says smiling back at me, clearly horny.

I just look at him and nod. We very quickly speed walk to his room, trying to not look suspicious.
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Not after long, we come back downstairs, seeing everyone sitting at the table, giving us knowing looks.

As I was looking around, I couldn't help but notice how sad jack looked. I still felt so bad about yesterday, and everything that happened. but also, as sad as we both are, I am so incredibly happy with connor.

"what were you two up to up there?" trevor asks with a smirk plastered on his face.

"i think the question is what are you guys all doing in here and not outside?" I ask, trying to change the subject.

"well it's time to eat so let's just leave this conversation in the past." quinn says, clearly uncomfortable with this conversation.

"k so what are we eating?" I ask, silently thanking quinn for saving me.

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as the sun starts to set, cole and alex get a fire going so we can spend the evening around it. luke assigned me as the "ingredient gatherer," in his words exactly. So it was my job to make sure we had graham crackers, marshmallows, and chocolate. luke demanded milk chocolate, he said "none of that semi sweet shit," fully valid points.

all 14 of us gather around the fire pit. right now it's a pretty large group but once the college boys leave it will be the core 8. Obviously I sit next to connor, and layla on the other side.

"oh my god you guys I have the best idea!" Trevor exclaims, earning a collective sigh from the crowd, "how about we play truth or dare?"

"that's actually not a terrible idea," I say, thinking about it, "didn't expect that from trevor." Everyone laughs as a disgusted and offended look crosses over Trevor's face.

"I wanna go first!" luke pipes up, not letting anyone tell him no, "luca, truth or dare?"

"dude obviously dare," luca scoffs as if it wasn't even a question.

"I dare you to jump in the lake right now, fully clothed, and stay in those wet yucky clothes for the rest of the night." luke dares luca, with a satisfied look on his face.

"bro come on, be nice." luca practically begs luke to give him a new dare.

"nah, a dare is a dare." luke is not wanting to budge, and I am all here for it.

we all follow luca as he slowly gets up and walks across the dock, standing at the edge contemplating if he is actually going to do it, well that is until trevor pushes him in.

luca resurfaces and groans in pain, "trevor that really hurt, i landed weirdly. can you helo me get out?" there wasn't a ladder near where luca was pushed off, so he needed someone to assist him.

Trevor apologizes as he extends his hand out, willing to help luca out. luca grabs trevors hand, and with all his force pulls him in too. "if you're going to push me in you gotta deal with the consequences."

we all make it back to our spots, both trevor and luca wet and grumpy. a couple rounds go by and soon its my turn.

"truth or dare?" alex asks me.

"uhm, truth!" I feel like alex won't ask anything too bad, if it was trevor it would be a whole different story.

"how many people in this circle have you hooked up with?" he gags me, I was not expecting this.

I look around the circle, embarrassed to say my number. "3" I say confidently, and then nothing else.

The entire group goes absolutely crazy, trying ot figure out the third, everyone knows about jack and connor but there's one more, that no one is admitting to.

we go around a couple of more times, but I just choose dare every time, I would rather not share who the third is, at least not when all the college boys are here. I don't mind if it means doing a bunch of crazy stuff just to keep a tad bit of dignity. it came to be my turn again, this time trevor asking.

"this time isabel you can't say dare," he quickly says before I can say dare.

shit.

"so since you have to say truth, who is the third person in this circle you've hooked up with?"

i can feel all 13 people staring at me, jack and connor the hardest. I haven't told a soul about this, it is between me and him.

"quinn."

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Omg yall im so sorry it's literally been almost half a year since ive updated this is crazy

I swear i plan on doing more im jus rlly busy with grad and stuff

Let me know what you think of this one i love yall sm thank you for reading