My Drug-In Editing

Tommi

Edited July 2, 2016

Evie's POV

Leaving the office, I practically run to my class. Ugh, Chemistry. It's not that I don't like the class, or that I'm bad at it -- I'm actually somehow sporting an A- in the class -- it's that none of my friends are in this class with me. Finding my seat, I quickly take out my notebook and write down what I remember from the post-its on Mr. Martin's desk.

"Hey Evie," Tommi said sitting in the seat next to me. I said none of my friends were in this class. Tommi, the guy who Alex might be cheating on Liam with, is not a friend.

"Hey Tommi," I reply, not paying him a whole lot of attention.

"So, trying to finish the homework from yesterday?" He asks, gesturing to my scribbles in my notebook.

"Uh, no... just jotting down some reminders for myself." That wasn't a total lie, right? I needed to remember this stuff. I felt a little uncomfortable as the two of us fall into silence. I wanted to ask him something, for Liam's sake. "So, Tommi, is it true?"

"Is what true?" He perks up. If Liam was the gossip queen, Tommi was a gossip princess.

"Are you and Alex ... ?" I start, hoping he would catch the drift. This was really uncomfortable when I stopped to think about what I was doing. I was practically asking 'Hey, are you currently fooling around with my best friend's boyfriend? '

"Alex Thatcher?" He asks. As if he needed to clarify which Alex I was talking about. He knew what I was getting at.

"Yes. Him." My response a little annoyed.

"Um, well..." He blushes and lets out a nervous laugh. Looking directly at me, he starts rubbing the back of his neck, a clear sign he was just as uncomfortable as I was.

"Mhm, of course." I roll my eyes. Liam deserved better than Alex.

"We're not like that." He says seriously, his face losing any sign of embarrassment.

"Oh?" I ask, raising my eyebrow.

"Well, I know he and Liam have a thing. I don't want to get involved with that, but we do text and we do flirt. I will continue to only flirt with him unless he becomes available. I'm not one to steal another man's man." I only nod as I take in this information. That's nice, Alex was using a guy with morals to try to cheat on his boyfriend. We didn't talk the rest of class, mostly because I didn't want to get caught up with another awkward conversation. I had decided that it would take more than one class period to tell Liam about this, so I text him, telling him that we needed to talk.

Me: We need to talk

Liam: about what?

Me: Alex

Liam: what?!

Me: I'll tell you later

Ignoring the rest of the 'tell me right now's from Liam, I open up a new text, this time to Ben.

Me: You were right about the IDs

Ben: I know

Although I couldn't see him, I knew he was smirking. The sass in this text practically oozed out my phone.

Me: Can we meet after school?

Ben: Sure- my house- I'll buy some snacks

Me: I'll bring some too

Ben's POV

This is it, I need to tell Evie everything.  I know that I'm not supposed to, but maybe she could help.  I've already gotten into an argument with Tommi about it.  He doesn't think it's a good idea because Liam and Alex are friends with her and this could all blow up in his face.  I don't want Tommi's bad love life choices to affect Evie in any negative way. I know about him and Alex, sorta.  All I know is that Tommi is gay and likes to have a little fun every now and again.  He cares a lot about others, so he doesn't really want to lie to anyone, or make anyone cheat for him.  He gets emotionally invested in his flings though, if anything were to happen to them, he'd be the first to ask if they are alright.   So this argument will be over before 10 o'clock tonight and he'll be all on board again. I am a little curious as to what Evie found in Principal Martin's office that would lead her to admitting that I was totally right and asking to go over something later.