2023

Chapter 6- Mikaela's POV

"I think that I should go check on Mili, she's been out there for a while and I'm worried." I said while Emily and I were watching Mulan and the match maker's butt started on fire. She diverted her attention from the TV and nodded at me. I opened the front door to see nothing. Mili wasn't there, which worried me because she would have told us if something was up. So I ran into Emily's apartment and turned off the TV. "Whyyy!" protested Emily and glared at her. "Mili. Is. Gone." I said and her eyes widened. 

"Is she going to get in trouble again?" she asked and I shrugged. If our thoughts were right she could be in trouble. But there wasn't anything that we could do. "We will just have to let it go, because we can't accuse her of anything, we don't know for sure." I said and she shook her head. "No, if she's going to get in trouble then I want to confront her." she said and I locked the door. "No. She will have to deal with it herself now." I said and turned the TV back on. 

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A couple hours later Mili knocked on the door because she must have forgotten her key. I opened the door and she fell on the couch. We decided that we were going to ignore her for a little bit, maybe she would open up. "Hey guys" she smiled at us and we continued to watch our movie. "I said, HEY." she said and we each took another slice of pizza. She reached over, but before she could snag a slice we closed the box and put it on the coffee table next to Emily's arm. "Is this 8th grade all over again?" she asked and we laughed at a joke. "Ah! You know I hate this, STOP IT!" she shrieked. I walked to the door and locked it again, not giving her any glances on my way. 

"Please stop ignoring me! What did I doooo?!" she pleaded and Emily faced her, a glare on her face. "How about you stop being sketchy and tell us where you have been for the last 3 hours then?" she retorted and Mili was taken aback. "Jesus Em, are you on your period or something?" Emily rolled her eyes. "You're just as bad as middle school Gary." she said and turned her attention back to the TV. "Ugh whatever, I'm going to my room, when y'all decided not to be so salty then you can talk to me." she said turning on her heels and stalking away. 

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Later that night I got a call from a UK number so I answered, hoping it was my best friend from there, Grace. But when I answered it was a male's voice, whom I didn't recognize until they told me their name. "Hey Mikaela, um, it's Luke." he said and I laughed. We had been friends ever since Grace and I moved into the apartment next to his. "Hey Luke! What's up?" I said and the connection was crap so I didn't hear what he said because he was mumbling. "Hey, can you speak up? The LA connection is horrible with my phone" I said and he laughed nervously. "I said, what are you doing?". He seemed nervous and I think I know why. A couple months back he asked me on a date in this sort of fashion, but I was busy because my parents were coming over the week that he had free. "Oh nothing, just feuding with one of my best friends over something that is stupid." I said with nonchalance. "That sucks. So anyway, I was wondering when you were going to be back from LA." he said bluntly and I picked my brain. "Okay, well I'm coming back next week for a couple days because Grace and I have to do some stuff with renovation. We have an important meeting that she booked while I was here."  I said and he laughed. "Do you think that maybe you would want to have dinner sometime then?" he asked and I thought for a second. 

I put it on speakerphone so Emily could hear the conversation. "Sorry can you say that again? Connection problems." I lied, it was just that I wanted Emily to hear the conversation. "Oh yah, ha ha, I was wondering if you wanted to go on a date when you're home?" he asked and Emily stiffened a school girl giggle. "Oh yah! That would be great!" I said and I smiled bigger than I ever had before. I developed a crush on him the minute I moved into the apartment, so I was happy that I was finally getting my way. "Great! I'll see you soon then." he said. "Bye Luke." I said and we both hung up. 

"Oooh Mika's getting it ON!" screeched Emily and I laughed. That's when I heard a door open, and out came Mili. "What? I just wanted something to eat." she fumed and I smiled at her. "Have some cake, you are pissy when you're hungry." I said and she huffed and got the cake from under the dome. "Fuck you." she mumbled and dug into her cake. 

"So what's happening?" Mili asked after a couple of minutes. "I got asked on a date. By that one guy I was telling you about." 

"Nice."

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Yah I don't know. 

xx -mika