Tell Me You Love Me

17: When I Think Of You, I Don't Feel So Alone

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‘He’s so hot...’ gushes Pilar, her eyes, little blue crystal love-hearts as she flicks through an OK! Magazine, a full four pages on Jesse Phoenix while lying on my bed on her stomach. I lie next to her flicking through the pages of Shakespeare’s original Romeo and Juliet that we’re doing in English, my eyes brown love-hearts as I read through the most famous Shakespeare scene in all of history, aside “Dubble Dubble, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble” , it’s “O Romeo, Romeo, where for art thou Romeo?”

‘It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief, that thou, her maid, art far more fair than she...’ I quote aloud to Pilar, scoffing with my finger pointed at Romeo’s small speech.

‘Oh my God...’ Pilar cooes, melting slightly.

I snort and pull back from the book. ‘Are you kidding? It’s the corniest line in the whole play...’ 

‘Not that...’ She nods at Romeo and Juliet with her eyebrow cocked. ‘That!’ she says, jabbing her fingernail at a picture of Jesse Phoenix wearing only his board-shorts at the beach with his friends.

I roll my eyes.

‘Ay Me! She speaks. O, speak again, bright angel! For thou art as glorious to this night, being o'er my head, as is a winged messenger of heaven unto the white..."I trail off again as I hear Pilar moan and start she kicks her legs in the air.

‘Stop, you sound like you’re having...’ I mumble, trailing off.

‘What? Sex? Hahaha, yeah magazine sex with the sex God himself,’ Pilar just laughs.

‘Pilar...’ I mumble, a little irritated.

‘Bethie...’ She replies, stretching out my name as I had done to hers.

‘That’s my friend your talking about...?’ I say to her.

‘Speaking of the devil, has he texted you today?’ She asks, flicking the page and doing another little moan-kick.

‘Er...no. I haven’t checked my cell yet today,’ I reply.

‘Can you? I want him to come over when I’m here,’ She says. ‘Oh my God...how did you resist the urge not to just go up to him and take him to your bed when you first saw him?’

‘I just...I don’t think of him that way,’ I reply shrugging.

‘God, are you weird or what?’ Pilar responds. I roll my eyes and she chucks the magazine onto the floor.

‘Nah, just normal.’ I reply. ‘I’m not one of those sappy teenage girls who are invoked under Jesse Phoenix’s love potion. I just think of him as a friend,’ I say. 'He's really not that amaz--'

At that moment, my phone buzzes from my pocket, making me jump.

‘Maybe it’s Jesse!’ Pilar cries, sitting up straight.

I sit up. ‘Or maybe...it’s Mom telling us to go down to the pizzeria to get pizza for dinner. It’s her late night, afterall.’

I pull my phone out of my pocket. Pilar shuffles closer and squeals as we both notice that it’s from Jesse Phoenix.