Friendships Don't Last~ lrh • • • Discontinued

Chapter 37

After we reached to our houses, we didn't talk much. We just said goodbye and said 'see you tomorrow' like normal friends, which hurt.

A lot.

I opened the door to my home and the scent of vanilla filled my nostrils. I smiled a bit because of essence. I heard some pans clanging together and I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion.

"Mom?"

"Yes, sweetie?" She called out, peeking her head out of the kitchen so she could see me.

"What are you making?" I asked, setting my bag down on the couch and jogging towards the kitchen.

"Shortbread cookies" she showed me the pan of weird, deformed cookies. "I think I put too much vanilla"

I nodded. I grabbed one and brought it up to my lips. I took a bite and surprisingly, they weren't bad.

My mom is great cook, but not baker. She once tried to make a cake for me on my 8th birthday and the cake ended up so burnt that there were fire trucks that came to house because they thought we had a fire. That's when I asked her to just buy me one.

"Well, I'm going to go upstairs" I told her, grabbing another cookie. "Also, aren't you suppose to be at work?"

"I told them I wasn't feeling well" she smirked.

I nodded and headed upstairs. I opened the door to my room and closed it behind me. I plopped down on my bed. I sighed and thought about what happened today. Tears rolled down my cheeks.

I grabbed my phone from my pocket and called Angelina.

It rang a few times before she finally answered.

"Hello?"

"Hey, Angelina" my voice broke.

"Flora? What's wrong?" She asked.

And then I told her what happened at the mall and what happened between Luke and I. She was silent until she finally spoke.

"This is just getting out of hand" she responded.

"I know"

"This is awful. I am so sorry that this happened"

"Do you think we should break up?" My voice cracking while saying that.

"No!! You guys are so cute together!! I think you guys should just stay away from the public and social media" Angelina suggested.

"Yeah, you're right" I sighed. "Our relationship is falling apart because of this"

Some tears ran down my face. There was a silence and then I heard shuffling.

"Angelina?"

"I'm coming to your house with ice cream. See ya"

And then she hung up.

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I heard a knock from downstairs and hurriedly trotted downstairs. I opened the door to reveal my best friend, Angelina.

She was dressed in a black hoodie with the white 5SOS logo in front of it, in black sweatpants, and light brown Uggs. Her long, wavy brown hair was in a messy bun and she wore no makeup.

She was holding 3 pints of Ben & Jerry's ice cream. Cookie & Cream, Chunky Monkey, and Mint chocolate-chip.

She smiled and I weakly smiled back. I lead her in and we went upstairs.

"Mom!! Angelina is here so I hope you don't mind!!"

I hurriedly went upstairs before my mom could respond, Angelina trailing behind me. We went to my room and closed the door when we entered.

"So, the plan right now is that we are going to watch stupid romantic movies on Netflix and eat ice cream. Deal?"

"Deal" I smiled at my best friend.

I felt 100% better.

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"Why.. Did he do.. That?" She sniffed.

Sadly, we couldn't watch any stupid romantic movies because we basically saw all of them, but we were watching Switched At Birth.

I wiped the tears off of my face and wrapped my blanket around me. We were sitting crossed-legged in front of my TV in my room, in sweats, and eating melted ice cream.

"I don't know!" I blew into the tissue and cried. "Stupid Emmet"

"Yeah! Simone is such a bitch" she cried.

I brought my Mint chocolate-chip ice cream to my lips and took a bite, more of slurp, of the melted, yet delicious, ice  cream.

"Agreed" I agreed.

Suddenly, we heard a ring. We both widened our eyes. Angelina took out her phone and pressed the phone to her ear.

"Hello? What? Why? I'm here with Flora. I cleaned my room already!! She's in a crisis right now!! Ugh. Fine. Bye" she hung up her phone.

"I have to go. My mom is making me clean my room, again" she groaned.

"Oh. Okay.. I wish you can stay" I said sadly. "Plus, we have to find out what happens next!! Hopefully, Bay finds out"

She got up and gathered her things.

"We'll watch together some other time" she pouted. "Don't want the episodes without me"

I put my hands up in a surrender form. We both chuckled. I gave her one last hug and said goodbye. She left my room and I was all alone, again.

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The rest of the night, I basically did nothing. I just sat in my room and stared at the ceiling for hours while 5SOS played in the background.

I didn't bother to touch my food. I was too alone and hurt. The happiness when Angelina came and watched Switched At Birth with me, was drained out of me. My mom asked me a million times what was wrong, but like always, I told her I was fine.

Later that night, I decided to take my bike and head out to a lake that I always went to when I was younger. It wasn't too far. Only 4 miles long, but damn, I was not in shape.

I set my bike down and heard all the bugs buzzed, the sound of the frogs croaking, and the smell of wet grass and funky moss.

I walked on the dock, hoping that I wouldn't fall over. I sat myself down in front of it and watched the beauty in front of me.

The sky was a nice dark blue sky that white stars that was patched on the sky.  The dark blue water was rippling by all the fish and frogs swimming gracefully in the water.

I closed my eyes and lied down. I didn't care if the mosquitos were biting right now. It was too damn peaceful to care and I wanted to enjoy myself.

That soon ended.

"Flora?" I heard a familiar voice behind me.

HEY GUYS!! So, I've been updating everyday which I hope you guys love. We had a garage sale today and only like 6 people came. :( Angie was suppose to come so we can get tickets for the next year concert. Boo, you whore. ;(

Jk. Ily.

Q: Are you getting tickets for SGFG for next year?

A: I hope I can with Angie BUT YOU KEEP GETTING YOUR PHONE TAKEN AWAY. Get skype hoe so we can chat on there. Also, I'm hoping to get sound check passes so pray for me

Well, I hope you like this chapter. :)