Setting Ourselves Up

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                                             Jade

It's been three days since that whole disaster with James.I've made it my life mission to ignore him -after getting my check of course -while he has made showing up everywhere i am his.

The worst part about this whole situation is that now i have to deal with the operation on my  own .

And i hate to admit it ,but James did have some pretty decent ideas.Hell,he even recruited some random students to help out with my film project and got some solid shots of Avery and Xander while they weren't looking.
That's kinda what the film is going to be about.

James thought it was a "brilliant" idea to make the whole film about them -something about how it would explore risk ,friendships and how we'd be the heroes for setting this whole thing up and getting them together .He ,quote on quote ,said:
"The girlies will eat this shit up"

And with that slighlty misogynistic comment i had to remind him -yet again- that "the girlies" were not going to watch the film and deciding my future at Elite Arts. To which he repsonded by giving me a thumbs down and calling me a dream crusher .

His premise isn't entirely wrong, though.The stakes are high for Avery and Xander as they fear our friend group would go downhill if they tried something .
And we -being the best friends ever - experiment and make them belive that there is nothing wrong with what they are doing.

And honestly ?

This whole film just proves that i do have a social life,and that my social skills even come in handy.

The bad part is that in order for me to do any of these things-means i have to respond to the enormous amount of texts James has sent me over the course of a week.

And yes ,yes i have been ignoring his texts long before our fight too-the guy is a lot okay?-

My fingers trace the last one he left before he actually apologised for bothering me and said he'd leave me alone .
"You were never charity -in fact you're doing enough charity by just still talking to me ."

Somehow I could roll my eyes and ignore all of his texts except this one.It's honest ..and so unusual of him .He hasn't even once joked about my temper or how I look like an angry duck while walking away -belive me these are words I have heard from him before .
I would much rather get those weird remarks then anything real from him -problem being that I don't even know if he's being honest yet -

As soon as I'm about to hit the lights of myroom -a weird flicker comes from the window across from mine -this fucker .

I flicker mine too, twice -half hoping he gets the message-half out of spite .
What can I say ?-I can be petty when poked.

He doesn't stop though ,probably enjoying himself,knowing he got on my nerves .His flashes get even more obnoxious.

Then -my phone brightens up briefly ,sitting in my desk near a new romance novel i was reading .

I pick it up ,not helping the smile on my face .

"Almost halfway through that book you told me about-this Wes guy is an absolute legend "

Then after a beat -"I know you need your space but I couldn't help it ,you'd wanna know about my commentary eventually "

I hate this -hate that he thinks he knows me so well just cause we shared some conversations about one specific book and my cheesy movies recommendations.I hate that he's right ,I haven't shut up all last week ,asking about his thoughts.

I don't respond -regret washing over me just at the idea of opening it .

Then my phone buzzes .Loudly .Jesus -he has no intention of stopping that does he ?