affair II ; jack gilinsky

twelve

i hurried towards the elevator that was just about to close, until someone quickly held their hand against the doors before they could.

i entered and came face to face with max, who gave me a small smile before i stood on the other side of the elevator as it went up.

"so, are you going to ignore me forever?" he spoke, turning his head to me. "we work together, you're going to have to talk to me sooner or later".

i tried my best to focus on the numbers going up above me, but he spoke again.

"i don't know how many times i have to say sorry".

i closed my eyes and sighed, before finally facing him, "you don't. i at least need someone to talk to, since jack and i aren't even on speaking terms either".

"how comes?".

"we argued about europe, then about you a—".

"wait, about me?" max inquired, cutting me off.

i nodded my head, "jack's not very fond of how much time we spend together and how we talk to each other everyday".

"but we're co-workers and friends, what does he expect?" he snickered.

"i know but he doesn't realise that, so i yelled, he yelled, i had enough and went to bed without a word".

max held his hands in his pockets and shrugged his shoulders, "i feel like this is partially my fault".

"it's not. jack and i have been at each others throats for the last week and i don't know, maybe i just need to stop keeping secrets from him".

"hey, you need to stop blaming yourself all the time" max rubbed my shoulder. "there's two people in every relationship".

"no, it's fine," i brushed off, not wanting to get upset right now. "i'm just not even sure that i still have a date to this event tomorrow".

he bit down on his bottom lip, "well, you could come along with me and my date".

"you have a date?".

"yeah, i asked this women named maya yesterday and it tuns out she was last minute too, so she said yes" max reluctantly replied.

"oh. well i guess that since theo and kendall are going together, it'll just feel like a group thing" i shrugged, before the elevator dinged and more people began to come in.

i guess this is kind of what i deserve, since max asked and i blew him off, then i argued with jack, which didn't better my chances of him agreeing to come with me at all.

but i mean, having no date won't be that bad right?

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later in the day, i got a message from kendall telling me to come to the stylist department, so we could try different dresses for tomorrow.

we were both standing on two individual podiums, as two ladies altered a dress on our bodies with a bunch of pins to hold them together.

"so, jack isn't going with you then?" kendall questioned, as the ladies worked on the bottom half of our dresses.

"we're not talking, so it looks like it" i told her.

"so this means that you're going with max?".

i shook my head, "actually, he's already got a date".