I'm in Love with my Best Friend's Boyfriend

Chapter 6~ Slipping Down the Landslide Slope

>>>>>>>>>>>>> Meet Luke <3 (Drew Roy)

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----Sloane's POV----

Jesus Christ, I thought that damn movie would never end. Why I'd even agreed to see it...well let's just say Logan didn't give me much of a choice. And judging from how silent this car ride is right now, I think it's safe to assume that, that fun evening alone at my place, isn't gonna happen anytime soon.

I just don't understand why she has to get so pissy about a fricken movie. I mean Jesus, she went and she got to see it, so I don't see what the big deal is. I mean, it's not like she didn't know that I wasn't interested in seeing it, I'd made that pretty obvious. No, her deal is that she has to be in charge of everything and I'm getting pretty damn sick of it.

The only reason I'd agreed to date Logan, was for Zoe. And yeah somewhere in between, I guess I started enjoying myself around her more. But lately she has just gotten out of line; always telling me what to do, what to wear, who and who not to talk to. I mean, be serious, I'm a guy. I'm a social guy. I don't like when people restrain me and Logan knows that. So why is she trying so hard?

You know, sometimes I just don't understand what she wants from me anymore. I've given her everything that I thought she wanted and it seems like none of that even matters. I told her I didn't want to see the movie, yet I still went with her - mostly so that she wouldn't keep whining about it, but that's not the point - and I may have fallen asleep somewhere in there, but is that really such a big deal that she has to go all "silent killer" on my ass? I mean come on! Grow up a little!

I could tell that Logan was about to say something, and honestly I wasn't in the mood to hear what I knew would be her endless ranting until I dropped her off. It was the same thing every time I did something she didn't like; the same routine on a never ending loop of her yelling at me, and me pretending to care. I could feel the little muscles in my ears tense up, just waiting for her voice to invade my ear drums, but nothing came.

I was instead, met with not her eyes on my face, but her eyes bugging out of her own face and plastered to something near the gear shift. Me, being confused enough as it was, looked down to see what her spasm was about, only to find that my phone as slipped out of my pocket while I was driving and it was ringing with Ellie's name on the caller ID. I didn't see what the big deal was, but Logan looked like she was about to lose her head. So I did the only respectable action any guy would do in my situation, silence the phone, tuck it in my pocket, and pretend like the whole scene didn't just happen. 

And I will say this, probably not my smartest move, but I had to hand it to Logan, she was keeping whatever thoughts she had in her head and staying with her silent killer attitude. The only thing that scared me about that, was the fact that her fists were clenched to the max, and she was somehow trying to hide them under the folds of her dress. I knew a storm was coming, but I didn't want to think, I didn't want to have to try to do anything about it until it was an actual problem. So I let her brew, and I let her plan her conniving idea of fun. But I couldn't help but feel like I'd made the worst decision of my life right there and then, and I couldn't do anything to change it because the damage was already done.

But that whole time, I just kept asking myself, why couldn't she just be happy for once? Why couldn't she just learn to enjoy other people and learn to talk to other people about stuff going on, instead of always ranting and whining and scheming and what-not. It had gotten to the point that I didn't even know how to handle her anymore.

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I'd just decided that the best thing to in this situation was to drop her off at home and let her cool down for a while and then I'd just call her up later. But when I pulled up to her driveway she looked even more pissed then before.

She was getting ready to say something, I could tell by the way she kept opening and closing her mouth, but she decided against it. Which resulted in two heavily slammed doors. 

Though I had good intentions about dropping her at her house...I could tell that she was just going to marinate in her own bitter thoughts. And that storm that I'd dreaded...was coming a lot sooner than I'd anticipated.

About to drive home, my phone went off again and before I managed to get it out of my pocket bleeped for a second time. Two messages were displayed, both from the same person.

[11:47 AM] Ellie is my Babe: Sup cuz, I see you didn't answer your phone (turd) :)  just a reminder, DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE WEDDING REHERSAL!

[11:48 AM] Ellie is my babe: and forgot to mention that you still need to respond about bringing a date! Maybe this girl that you've been seeing for a while wouldn't mind seeing you in a tux champ ;) 

...Well shit. That's why she's mad.

~~~~Zoe's POV~~~~

So I'd say I had quite the interesting Friday, and before I'd even gotten home, my phone was lighting up with messages from Luke about the next time we should meet. I could tell by how fast he responded and what he responded with that he was most likely still with Marcus and trying to sound cool and casual while making it seem like he wasn't all jitters. I should know, I was doing the same thing and with Lexi by my side coaching me, I'd say I was exceeding her expectations.

And for me, it was good to know that someone not only liked me for me, but also that we could bond over the awesome subject of cars. Which meant we had mutual interests; he likes my things and I like his. And again that's great because we probably wouldn't run out of things to talk about anytime soon.

The only thing that was putting a damper on my mood was the fact that I couldn't talk to Logan about these things. For so many years she was my go-to person. And now that space has been filled with Lexi. Don't get me wrong, I love Lexi and she's a great friend. It just makes me sad that things ended the way they did, over something so stupid. And I know Logan well enough to know that she knew what I said was true, and she just couldn't except that someone finally saw through her little game. In the end, there's no one for her to blame, but herself. All she had to do was say okay, I'm sorry, I will try to be there for you more.

I guess that's the killer part of it all, even when we were still supposedly "friends", she wasn't even around that much for the past three to four months. So I guess our downfall was inevitable. It was always gonna lead up to this, I'm just sorry I didn't catch it any sooner. Maybe I could have saved myself from some of the trouble she put me through. 

If I know anything about myself, it's the fact that I don't need to grovel to keep people around me. If they like me they can stay, if they don't...well then they can get the hell away before I shove my foot up their ass.