ex - j.g

six;

gilinsky;

"so, what happened? how was it?" i asked nate, while sammy and johnson were outside with isabelle.

he shrugged, "it was fine? we hugged, talked about the type of stuff we're doing now, i told her how good she looked, she said the same, then she said she missed having me around."

my heart probably stopped for 0.02 seconds, "wait.. what?"

"yeah." he nods.

myself and nate decide to go outside with the rest of the group so it isn't weird that we're gone.

"where are they?" nate asks, completely reading my mind.

"i have no idea." i shrug, looking around our yard.

just at that moment, nate and i hear a basketball banging against the concrete ground and johnson and sammy's voices yelling.

we walk around the corner to where we usually play basketball. isabelle is on the ground, sitting there watching the two, and johnson and sammy are playing one on one.

"c'mon isabelle, i totally blocked that." sammy argued his side.

"no you didn't, right izzy?" johnson defends.

nate and i chuckle, "can you guys just shut the fuck up?!" nate groans.

isabelle began to laugh, "now you see what i've been dealing with the past, what, twenty minutes?" she playfully rolls her eyes.

"i'm going out to get food. what ya'll want?" i ask.

"chinese, bro." nate adds his opinion.

sammy thinks, "i don't know man. chinese, pasta, anything."

"yeah, whatever." johnson shrugs, "hey, why don't you take izz with you? she's just sitting here watching us, anyway."

"isabelle, you wanna come?" i ask her.

she shrugs, "sure." and stands from the ground, dusting off her ass.

"make a decision of food choice and text me what you guys want in ten minutes, or else isabelle and i will pick and get you all shit food." i smirk and make isabelle follow me to my car.

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"so, have the guys changed to you at all?" i ask her.

she laughed, "no way. they're still all crazy and dumb."

i laughed at her words, "yeah, just know... i have to live my daily life with that."

"true, true. in that case, i feel very bad for you." she laughs.

"i missed you, eh? we all do." i tell her.

"yeah.. i'm sorry for leaving you guys how i did. i just remember being so pissed off at nate, i didn't want to have to go through all the twisted shit with being close with his best friends." she awkwardly says.

i nod, "nate didn't hate you, though. he was the most upset out of all of us. none of have ever seen him so upset over a girl leaving him."

she sighed, "i wish i wasn't the reason, jack."

"at least you came to visit us, or him. we all love seeing that beautiful face of yours." i smile.

she smiles back at me, "stop with the compliments, jack."

"so what's going on with you and cameron?" i decide to ask. especially after watching that talk show with the boys the other day, i've been wondering about this topic.

isabelle shrugged from the passenger seat, "honestly jack, i think it's just a little fling, thing. i have no real feelings for him, and he's hung up on my best friend, anyway. cam's a great guy, don't get me wrong, but i just.. i don't feel that way for him, you know?"

i nod at her words, understanding exactly what she means.

"yeah, i understand completely.. and i ain't just saying that."

she smiles, "it was nice of you to welcome me back as easy as you did, jack. i wasn't expecting it. even ask nash, when we were rehearsing for the awards and i saw that all of you were in one category, but also so many more, i thought it was going to be the most awkward thing. all the talk shows were going on and on about the possible tension and blah, blah, blah."

"you didn't do anything to me, isabelle. there was no reason for me to treat you in a bad way." i tell her, as i pull into the parking lot for chinese food, "i've always known you were a great girl. whether you believed nate cheated or not, it was a hard thing for you to go through. no one can blame you for reacting the way you did."

"thank you so much, jack." she smiles and unbuckles her seat belt, me mirroring her actions.