Flaws

Chapter 17- Confessions

Chapter 17- Confessions

"You guys have to come" I said insistently. Sara grimaced and I huffed.

"You can't make me go on my own. Besides; you're both invited" I said persuasively.

Sam leaned forward, looking uncomfortably.

"Have you spoken to Spencer about it?" He asked.

I wrinkled my nose. "I've hardly seen him the last couple of days" I said honestly, trying hard not to sound upset by it.

Sam sighed. "I don't think he's coming Liv" he said.

"Did he say that?" I asked.

Sam nodded grimly.

"Did he say why?" I murmured.

Sam scrutinised me for a minute.

"He said he didn't feel like a party" He said.

I scowled, what a terrible excuse. Spencer was always game to go out. He was always the life and soul: not once in the time I had known him had he not wanted to go out.

"So you didn't tell him?" Sara asked.

I shook my head sadly, I had been so ready to tell him, but his attitude about Chris had prevented me. If he wanted me to be Chris's date then there was no way he felt the same.

Sam stared at me. "What were you going to tell him Liv?" He asked.

Sara touched his arm and he looked at her. Their intimacy made me jealous. I realised that Spencer touching my arm didn't feel like it used to. It felt like the way Sara was feeling now and that wasn't friendship. 

"You were right" She whispered.

He gasped and then the biggest smile spread across his face.

"I was?" He asked, looking incredibly smug.

"Well why aren't they together already?" He asked.

"He got annoyed at her about Chris so she didn't tell him" Sara replied.

"I'm right over here you know" I said, waving at them irritably.

Sam barely spared me a glance. "You're the only one who can make him come Liv. You know that" He murmured.

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I knocked on the door without knowing I had walked there. All I knew was that I couldn't leave things with Spencer as they were. Ever since I'd walked away from him I'd felt a profound sense of loss. I knew if I went to this party without him, we wouldn't be the same.

He didn't answer straight away and I was seconds away from knocking again when the door opened.

"Oh hey Liv" He said uncertainly.

"Hey" I said and I smiled despite not feeling like smiling. Caring about someone is never more evident than when you don't see them for a while. Especially if it's a stupidly short time because then you know you're being irrational. You can't miss someone you haven't seen for only 4 days. But I had missed Spencer all the same.

"Say you'll come tonight" I said, no longer caring if I was begging.

Spencer folded his arms across his chest and frowned at me.

"I don't feel like it" He replied bluntly.

My eyebrows shot up my forehead. He never spoke to me like this. I stepped closer as if to touch him and was further surprised to see him move away at seeing my intentions. I wrinkled my nose. I thought leaving him for a couple of days would have been a good thing. It seemed he had used the time apart to get even angrier at me.