Life as I Know It

Chapter 10

Previously...

"It's not. Relationships are work, but if it's with someone you care about, they're worth it." She smiled and pulled the brown elastic out of my ponytail, making my curls fall past my shoulders. "You are worth it."

"Yeah..." I didn't know what else to say. My mind went back to being the little homebody that spent so much time on the computer writing stories that fandoms only read. "I'm going to bed. I'll yell at Alice tomorrow for those texts."

"Cut her a little break. She was just looking out for you."

"Yeah, whatever. It was still a dick move. Goodnight," I kissed her cheek and hugged her.

"Goodnight, angel."

~oOo~

The next morning, I got up and called Alice. She answered at the third ring.

"Hey, boo. How'd your date go?" she chirped.

I scoffed. "You should know, you were texting both me and Edward those nasty texts."

"I wasn't nasty. I was just letting him know what would happen if he messed with my girl."

"And you didn't think it would scare him off even more? He was already nervous." I sat up, itching my bedhead.

"I was just trying to help."

"Help with what?! Everything was going fine. In fact, he'd almost kissed me in the theater before you did that?"

"What? For real?!"

"Well... it was more like leading up from a joke, but yeah. I had to pee last minute, so I stopped him early. And then after I came back from the bathroom, he'd shown me your texts. What the fuck, Alice!!" There went my high-pitched screams again.

"Ok, Jesus. Calm down!! He's still your boyfriend, yes?"

"He's not my boyfriend! We had one date!"

"And clearly he wants more dates, right? Right?! So my texts, which I'll admit were a little... nosy, didn't do shit if he still likes you." I could sense her smirk through the phone.

I grumbled under my breath.

"Exactly!!" she hollered. "So don't go off yelling at me when he still wants you."

I sighed silently, trying to calm myself down. "At least we had ice cream afterward."

"Ice cream does make everything better. You did kiss, right? Afterward?"

"I'm not telling you."

"You told your mom! She put it on her Facebook!"

"What?!" I got up fully and scrolled through the Facebook app on my phone. She indeed made a status update about my date last night.

My youngest daughter just had her first date last night. It ended with a kiss. J <33333333

Grumbling even more, I switched back to my call with Alice. "I'm gonna kill her."

"No, you won't. If you do, she'll kill you. And then you'll go to jail and I won't have a best friend anymore." She giggled.

"I should've known better than to tell her anything. She has such a huge mouth."

"Better her than me. I would have put it all over Instagram."

"True."

"Are you going on another date?"