main hoe - gd

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zoë walker hooper

"girl you need to get here in like 15 minutes! nate offered to drop us off. well, me, off but he can't say no when you're already there, am i right?"

fleur's voice blairs through the phone as i set it on speaker phone and scan through my closet. once again i'm lacking.

"hey, fleur what are you wearing there?"

i yell across my room to the phone that's laying lazily on my bed. i hear her hum softly before she answers me. just by the way she's said it i can tell she's been waiting to wear this her entire life.

"well, you know how i told you about that molly green bikini i saw but it didn't fit so i returned it? well when i went to return it i saw a better one, it's like a navy blue bodysuit thing and girl it is everything."

i laugh to myself, scanning throw some of my drawers until i pull out what i think will do. i know i'm not actually getting into the pool unless i have another jade incident.

"okay, i think i'm going to wear that crochet top that we got at brandy and some shorts."

"what shorts?"

she says this while still muffling and i know she's trying to put on her bodysuit just by the way she's gasping and breathing in.

"maybe the levi's that are ripped."

i say this less confidently then i want, but then again i'm glad fleur is giving me advice. she wants to major in fashion and enterprise, anyway. i hear silence on the other end and pull on the crochet crop top quickly.

"wear the denim high-waisted ones so your stomache isn't showing that much & that way you'll still get an excuse to show some thigh."

she says this so nonchalantly that i'm shocked. she's going to be the best fashion designer in the world, i can already tell.

"that is good. okay and what shoes?"

i quickly shuffle through my drawers and pull on the shorts. i analyze myself in the mirror and automatically thank god that i have a friend like fleur.

"i'm just wearing some sandals. wear your flipflops just in case they get wet."

i nod lightly before sliding them on, they were already laying on my bed. how ironic. i hear the doorbell ring, or maybe it's fleur's doorbell? she squeals answering my question.

"girl get here now!"

she says this quickly before hanging up and i practically sprint down the stairs. i pull my bangs up into a bun (a half up-half down bun) and hop into my car.

i don't even have time to think as i scroll through my phone for fleur's address. once i plug it in, i start driving. it was like ten minutes away so that would give nate and fleur some alone time.

as i turn into her subdivision i glance at the house numbers hoping not to miss hers. i continue driving through and stop when i see a boy exit a car not too far from mine. i hesitate getting out, thinking it's nate.

instead it's grayson walking up to the door. as usual he's looking good, his hair slicked back with a pair of shorts and a cameo sweatshirt on. i duck down when he looks back, thanking the lord that he doesn't look at the car.

he barely knocks on the door before a girl walks out and into his arms. my instincts tell me it's just his sister or something, my mind tells he's cheating and that is confirmed when they kiss. right there on the front yard.

i pull off without them noticing. i don't recognize the girl and thank god i don't or else she'd end up with a concussion and two broken limbs. i try to act like nothing is wrong when i park at fleur's house.

turns out it's harder then i think. fleur and nate notice something is wrong when i knock on the door. we walk to the car and i explain to the both of them what happened and they scoff.

"grayson is an asshole, but i don't think he would just kiss like six girls in the span of two days. he's not that sleazy."

nate says this as we drive down the street. i sit in the backseat, obviously. fleur sits in the passenger seat and looks at nate like he's a king.

fleur looks back at me as if she's questioning something and then her face goes blank. she looks at nate, his eyes still intent on the road. she motions me towards her and i lean in immediately.

"you think, maybe he knows."

i shrug and pause for a second, reflecting on every time i ever spoke to grayson. i never gave him hints. i never faltered. i couldn't have told him. and there's no way he found out by himself. that's when the realization hits me:

"jade told him, last week."

i feel my cheeks burn and anger boils inside of me. she played me, he played me. he made me look dumb, cheating on me consistently with all of my "friends".

and here i was thinking i had this all under my control. i feel my fists clench together. i was more embarrassed, than anything. i had gone around parading like i was hurting him. when in reality he was only hurting me.

"well then we've got to set the record straight, now don't we."

fleur says this, her voice barely above a whisper but i can tell she's as angry as i am. because her friends didn't just betray me, they betrayed her as well.

"of course."

i look instantly down at my phone, i didn't have a plan. every plan i thought i had had now failed. but i did know that a little drama never killed nobody. or was it, party?

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