2023

Chapter 8: Mili's POV

"This is the best food I've ever eaten in my life.." I said, before taking another bite of my breakfast burrito.

"I still can't believe you never had Taco Bell before," Kaleb chuckled as I embarrassingly struggled eating the burrito.

"Seriously, this is-"

My phone rang, causing me to jump from my deep sleep. I sighed sadly seeing that it was Kaleb, whom I was just dreaming about.

"What?" I whispered not wanting to wake the girls up, even though they were in different rooms than me.

"There was a change of plans, I need you to do it today." I felt a lump in my throat and took a deep breath to get rid of it. "Mili?" I guess my silence was longer than I thought.

"Um, yeah. Just go over what I need to do once again."

"Find Levi, say your name is Samantha and that Kaleb sent you, he should give you something. Don't open it, handle it with gloves on, and make sure no one suspects anything about you, don't do anything stupid to get attention."

"Wait, who is Levi."

"He is the guy from the skate park that ran into you." He said quickly, as if he were hoping I wouldn't get upset if he said it fast enough.

"That was planned? That fucking hurt you asshole. I thought you only needed me to put the packet of whatever it was by the bathrooms," I remembered that I sneakily hid it as the girls took me to the bathroom to clean my knee.

"Sorry, I had to get you to know who he was discreetly, plus I didn't think you were gonna be that rusty. It's as if you hadn't skated since we broke up." He said, and I could hear his evil smirk over the phone.

"We never dated, and I haven't been skateboarding since I found out, um, about your street life." I whispered the last part even quieter, as if the girls could hear me.

"Street life? You can just say gang life, you know." He said, and I quickly turned down the volume on my phone to the lowest, even though it wasn't even on speaker.

"Where will Levi be and what time?" I ask, not wanting to be reminded what it is I'm helping with.

"Go out clubbing tonight at Emily's favorite place." That sent a chill up my spine, has he been stalking my friends now too?

"How do you know her name and her favorite place to go clubbing?" I demanded the answers, and regretted all my life decisions. I don't want my best friends to be involved in this..

"I did some research. I have to go, bye."

and with that he hung up, and I shook my worried head telling myself to go back to sleep knowing this is the last thing I have to do with Kaleb.

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Later that day, Emily decided to take us to the Museum of Art, in which we spent our time there being immature about all the portraits of naked people.

"Why is her nipple so oddly shaped?" Mikaela asked, with a completely straight face. Emily and I examined it and nodded in agreement.

"Yeah it's definitely deformed." I replied as if it were a mediocre thing to talk about. Emily looked at us and was about to say something but began laughing, causing us all to burst out laughing and people to stare. Eventually we got kicked out for being inappropriately loud and disrespectful to the artwork.

"Whatever, I don't need to see this porn anyway." Emily replied as we were ushered out of the building. We strutted out sassily making it seem like we're too cool anyway and not to look embarrassed, like we really were.

"Let's just go to TBell." Mikaela said after we got into Emily's car, in which was blasting the AC to cool us.

"Better than THIS SHIT!" I shouted towards the museum, as if the people could hear me.

"savage." Emily said from the driver seat. She finally pulled out of our parking spot and began to drive to our (sadly) favorite restaurant.

On our way there, we blasted Meghan Trainor, One Direction, Troye Sivan, and 5 Seconds of Summer, because we are still as obsessed as we were in High School.

"HEY GUYS!" I screamed over the loud music, causing Mikaela to turn down the music.

"What's up?" she replied, turning a bit in her seat to face me.

"We should go clubbing! We are in Cali, and I haven't even been clubbing yet!" I pretend-whined.

"Dude yas, we can go to my favorite place! I've been dying to take you guys." I forced a smile, knowing this was part of my plan.

"Oh my god, I'm so in. I got this dress the other day that I've been waiting to wear!" Mikaela concluded, turning up the music again. The music was so loud that the girls couldn't hear me sigh and whisper three words.

"I hate me."

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I shivered as we entered the room. The floor vibrated and there was the smell of alcohol in the air. There were people dancing all around. I quickly scanned the night club to find Levi and found him at the bar.

"Hey I'm gonna get us some drinks!" I screamed over the music and the girls nodded and began heading to the dance floor.

I walked up to Levi, and tapped on his shoulder. He turned, his eyes that were a beautiful hazel color last time I saw him were now red, and even the excessive amount of cologne he had on couldn't conceal the smell of weed he carried.

"Um, Hi. I'm Samantha, Kaleb sent me." I said this all in one breath, and rushed.

"I'll give you it but only if you kiss me first." He smirked, revealing a dimple and pointed at his cheek while winking. It took every ounce of my self control not to roll my eyes at him.

"Sorry, I have a boyfriend." I tried to keep things in a calm mood, although I had no respect towards him. Smoking marijuana is disgusting. He looked at me and then looked behind me, as if he were looking for someone.

"Well, I don't see him anywhere." He said, once his eyes met mine again, and I sighed.

This is not going to be as easy as I thought.