the bet

seven

When I go back inside Charles is sitting in the living room.
"What are you doing?" I ask.
"I'm sitting what does it look like?" He asks rolling his eyes.
I just roll my eyes and sit on the opposite side of the couch.
"Why?" Charles suddenly asks.
"Why what Charles?" I ask.
"Why don't you wanna be with Joey?"
"Because I just don't want to be with him. I never wanted to be with him Charles." I start to rant. "This is all just a stupid bet! I didn't even want to do it! I tried and tried to get out of it. And now I might kind of have feelings for the ass hole but I'm not supposed to like him. And he won't stop asking me out. I'm supposed to make him fall in love with me."
"Are you serious?" Charles glares. "That's terrible. Madison you're the worst person I've ever met."
"No." I shake my head. "You don't get to say that."
"I don't get to say that?" He yells standing up and coming closer to me. "You are trying to play my best friend!"
"No I'm not! I don't want to do it! Did you not listen to a word I said after 'this is just a stupid bet?'" I yell back at him getting frustrated. "I said I was starting to like him! And I do! I like Joey like a lot. But I can't date him because it wouldn't be fair to him. I'm losing this bet Charles. And maybe if he still likes me next year I'll go out with him, but not now."
When I turn around to go to the girls room, I see Joey just standing there looking at me.
I don't say anything and walk past him. I close the door and walk in to see the girls just sitting there on their phones.
"Sup." I say.
"Was it seriously just a freaking bet?" Aaliyah asks angrily.
"Yes." I say. "But I didn't want to do it."
"Then why did you?" Kaylee asks.
"Katie kind of made me. She acted like she would ruin all chances I had with Blake if I didn't. But it doesn't matter now, I don't even like Blake. I like Joey and now he hates me."
Aaliyah just gets up and goes out of the room slamming the door behind her.
"Well that's just fucking great." I say. "Not only does Joey hate me but now Aaliyah does too."
"Why does she care so much anyways?" Kaylee asks.
"Well she liked Joey for a while until he asked about me or something like that." I say. "Now I feel terrible she obviously still likes him."
"I would say go talk to her, but I think I want to talk to you about Joey right now." She says.
"What about him?" I ask her.
"Tell me what you like about him." She says.
"Seriously? Have we turned into those girls?" I ask. She just raises her eyebrows. "You know, the girls who talk about boys instead of themselves."
"Well in that case yes we definitely have turned into those girls." She says. "Okay, well I absolutely love his hair." I say. "I like how it's blonde and brown and yeah I'm not really good at describing hair but I love his hair. I love how soft it looks. His hair just makes me wanna touch it. I live for his eyelashes. They're so great, I wish I had them. He has nice eyebrows too. And the thing I love most about his appearance is his smile. I know it's cliche, it's like the most cliche thing out there. But I love it. It's so adorable and yeah. Well not that I've talked about what I like about his looks, maybe I should go to personality.
I love how he makes the stupidest jokes and I love his facial expressions to them. I love how he always says gang gang and it seems like he says it every five seconds. I love how he's not afraid to be himself around everyone. It's actually kind of refreshing, knowing someone can be themself around what seems to be everyone. I love how he doesn't stop trying to get what he wants.
I love how he would stick up to his best friend for a girl he met about a week ago. I love how he just came here for me. I just I don't know."
"You so love him." She says.
"I so don't." I say. "We're only 14 for one. And for two we've only known each other for about a week."
"Love is timeless." She says.
"Stop trying to be tumblr." I say rolling my eyes but smiling. "Let's watch some Stiles then go to sleep."
She nods and turns on teen wolf.

《《》》

"Wake up!" Kaylee screams jumping on me.
"Nooo" I groan rolling over.
That was when I knew that I fucked up because I fell off of the bed. "Aye tuts would you throw me a pillow?"
"No!" Kaylee yells.
Then I groan and just lie on the floor. I hear her leave the room and then I hear someone else come in. The person that comes in sits on me.
"Get up daddy, we're going to see a movie."
"Get the truck off of me Michael." I say. "I don't wanna go. I wanna sit here and sleep and when I wake up cry because I didn't wake up."
"You leave me with no choice but to bring Joey in here." He says.
"I could honestly care less. He already hates me so why not make him come in here to get me up?" I ask sarcastically.
"Joey." He yells.
I hear a sigh and someone come into the room while Michael walks out.
"Madison get out of the bed so we can go to the movies." He says.
"No. You don't like me anyways and Aaliyah is mad at me. The only people that aren't mad at me is Kaylee and Michael. And for some reason I feel like Michael is mad at me even though he just called me daddy." I rant then I close my eyes and kay my head on my hand. "Joey will you help a girl out and hand her a pillow?"
"No I want you to get up and go watch a movie with me and our friends." He says. "Do you think I care that I'm a bet? You said you didn't want to and that you like me. Madison you like me and I like you."
"You still like me after the bet?" I ask him.
"Of course." He says. "Look the person I'm mad at is Katie so how about we get her back? Because she doesn't seem like a good friend if she would ruin your chances with someone to break someone else's heart?"
"True." I say. "I'll get up if you pick out my outfit."
He nods and I sit up. He takes out black skinny jeans, white converse, a white t-shirt, and a red flannel.
"Here." He says.
"Thanks." I say then I go into the bathroom.
I change into my clothes and brush my hair and teeth. I put my hair into a ponytail and walk out.
"Joey will you tie my shoe?" I ask.
"No." He says.
"Please."
"No."
"Fine." I say then I walk up to Kaylee. "Daddy will you tie my shoe?"
"Sure." She says, then she ties my shoe for me.
"Let's go." Michael says grabbing his keys.
"Wait how are we all gonna fit?" Aaliyah asks.
"By sitting on laps." I say.
She just rolls her eyes and walks beside Michael and Kaylee. Charles was walking by himself so I walk up to him. "Hey friend."
"Hi."
"Do you still hate me? Because I don't hate you and I don't want you to hate me. I mean you're Joey's best friend and I really like him like a lot."
"I never hated you. I just don't want you to hurt my best friend. I mean you're a fuckgirl." Charles says.
"What the hell why does everyone keep freaking saying that?" I ask. "I'm not a fuckgirl!"
"Okay whatever F girl." Charles smirks.
I smack the back of his head and walk over to Joey.
"Hi." I say.
"Hey." He smiles at me.
I smile back and poke his cheek.
When we walk out to the car we had to figure out the seating situation.
Michael was driving and Kaylee was was in the passenger seat.
Charles was by the door with Joey on his lap, I'm in the middle, and Aaliyah is beside me.
"I don't understand you and Joey." Aaliyah whispers.
"Oh are you actually talking to me?" I ask sarcastically.
"Well not anymore." She says rolling her eyes.
"Look Aaliyah, I'm sorry that I made the bet. I didn't want to do it I was just bluffing then I got pressured into it. And I know I shouldn't make excuses but it's true. I didn't know you liked him or like him." I whisper. "I'm sorry that I like him now."
She sighs before turning around. "It's okay I guess. Besides Charles is a lot like Joey and stuff and he's really sweet."
"Yeah sweet." I scoff.
"I think I might start to like him if we spend more time together because I only like Mario because of his looks."
I laugh and we don't talk anymore until we are the movie theater.

《《》》

"Can I talk to you privately for a minute?" Joey whispers.
I nod and we walk away from the group and out of the line to pay for tickets after I tap Kaylee to show her to save our spots in line.
Once we get out of hearing range of our group Joey takes my hand and starts to play with my fingers.
"Will you go out with me?" He asks.
"I'm out with you right now." I say playing dumb.
"I should've known you wouldn't make this easy." He rolls his eyes smiling. "Will you be the other gang to my gang gang?"
"I thought that was Charles."
"Well..." He trails off. "You're making this extremely difficult."
"Making what extremely difficult?" I ask smirking.
"Asking you to be my girlfriend." He says.
"Yes I'll be your girlfriend." I laugh. Then I walk to the line without him.
"So what'd you talk about?" Kaylee asks smirking.
"We talked about deez nuts." I say smiling at her.
I couldn't stop smiling and I know my cheeks were red.
"Did he ask you out?" She whispers.
I just smile and see Joey walking over. He walks up to me and grabs my hand. I don't say anything and just hold his hand even though I'm pretty sure that my hand was sweating even though it's freezing outside. Then since I realized it's freezing I started to shiver. Joey takes his hand out of my hand and I frown before realizing he was giving me his sweater. He hands it to me and I smile at him and put it on. Then I wipe my hand on my jeans and grab his hand again before we get up in line with our group. Michael had the money for everyone and he was gonna buy all the tickets.
It wasn't all his money of course we all pitched in for it.
We all waited in the cold for Michael to hurry up and when he finally got done we all went into the movie theater and gave the guy our tickets before he told us to go in whatever direction.
"So Madison." Michael whispered. "After this some of us are gonna hit a party." He smirks. "Wanna come?"
"Nope you know I don't do parties." I say.
"Joey is going." Michael says.
"Well that's cool, make sure he doesn't flirt with anyone." I say. By now we were behind everyone and the rest of our group was in the actual room to watch the movie while we were just in the hallway talking. "Is Kaylee going?"
"Nope. She hates parties and she doesn't know I'm going. So I need you to come so she isn't suspicious. It'll be me, you, Joey, and Charles." He says. "Please Madison, why do you think Joey got you a party ready outfit?"
I look down at my outfit and realize that half of the girls wear clothes like this to parties.
"It's not really party ready." I say. "People wear nicer clothes."
"Eh not really." He says.
I roll my eyes and shake my head.
"I'll go, but if Kaylee asks I thought we were going wherever you said we were." I say. "Wait! And you have to buy me a gram."
"What?" He asks surprised.
"I want you," I say pointing at him, "to buy me," I say pointing towards myself, "a gram."
"Really? I didn't know you were like that." He says in surprise.
"Everyone is like that around here." I say. "Well except for the kids that just really hate it."
"Really hate what?" Joey asks coming out of nowhere.
"Cannabis." I say.
Then I turn around and walk into the room to watch Sing for the third time.