Things I Could Never Tell You

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August 1, 6:32 pm.

Oh. My. God.

I could swear that right now, everything is spinning and spinning. Whenever I close my eyes, I somehow feel dizzy. I feel lost in everything that happened today.

I'll start explaining it, but not even I can convince myself that what I just saw is true. Okay, so some hours ago I started messing with my old phone. There were old pictures with me and Sophie in it. With me and you. Old notes I wrote and a bunch of stuff.

I thought about selling it and buying food with the money, but I decided I'd just mess around with it. I entered the Web browser and went on Facebook. My eyes widened a little when I saw that there was an account that was logged.

I clicked on the profile and let out a small gasp. It was Sophie's account. The little angel inside my head screamed for me to log off and just leave it. But there was a part of me that was desperate to look through some stuff.

And guess what?
That part of me won. Great.

I clicked on the messages. There weren't anything that called my attention. It was mostly conversations with me.
I looked at the end of the page, and saw your name written there. A never ending curiosity took over me. I know it was wrong to do that, but I just couldn't contain myself.

Conversations with Tyler Scott:

I frowned. It was six months ago. Right before she told me she had feelings for you.

Sophie Burke: Hey Tyler.

Tyler Scott: Oh, hey. Uh, do I know you?

Sophie Burke: We have history together. And math and French.

Tyler Scott: Oh yeah? I swear I've seen you around before.

Sophie Burke: I'm Stephanie's friend.

Tyler Scott: Oh, yeah...

Sophie Burke: She told me you two were best friends.

Tyler Scott: She did? I... I miss her.

Sophie Burke: Oh.

Tyler Scott: I mean, I haven't seen her around in ages.

Sophie Burke: Hey, you wanna be partners for that history project?

Tyler Scott: I can't, I'm pairing up with Lau.

Sophie Burke: Oh.

Tyler Scott: Gotta go. Ttyl.

Sophie Burke: Okay...

The next conversation was three weeks later.

Sophie Burke: Tyleeeeeeer.

Tyler Scott: Oh, hey.

Sophie Burke: I just found out something but you have to promise you won't tell anyone.

Tyler Scott: -_- What?

Sophie Burke: I think that Stephanie likes you. I mean, she didn't say anything but I know she does. I just can see it whenever she talks about you and it took me a long time to figure it out. But you have to promise that you're never gonna tell anyone or else she won't trust me again and I can't run that risk. She likes you. Trust me, she does.

My body didn't react to that. It just sort of shut down. My face went slack and my heart started thumping in my chest. I froze up to a point where I could hardly breathe. Everything was spinning in my head, and it still is.

Your response was brief.

Tyler Scott: okay.

That's it. That's all you responded. So you knew all this time. And all this time, Sophie pretended to be my friend.

I was surrounded by liars and I didn't even realize it.

How could I've been so blind to this point?