Lost

Best of Friends

"RO! Finally you're here! What took you so long?" I ask my best friend in the whole world when she walks through the door that connects the band hall to the hallway that the color guard sits in.

"Sorry Layla, my mom was running late.", Ro said as she set her stuff down next to mine. 

In the mornings the color guard I am a part of at my school has practice, so we have to be at school early. Sometimes it sucks, like all I want to do as a normal teenager is sleep in. Why can't our instructors see that? I know we have our winter guard competitons and all to prepare for but really, this early in the morning? It is currently 7:03 a.m. and Ro just showed up. Like seriously, I was starting to worry because she wasn't answering my texts or phone calls. Ro and I have been best friends since like half way through summer band. 

"Layla, why were you so excited to see me?" Ro asked me, snapping me out of my thoughts.

"Well you weren't answering my texts or phone calls and you were late, but didn't tell me. I thought you died!" I answered honestly.

"Ok chill, my princess, I am not dead. We are all late a few times in life, there is no need to freak out. I'm sorry I wasn't answering you, I wasn't on my phone." Ro says.

"Ok, I forgive you child." I say as Ro's boyfriend walks into the hallway. Ever since James asked Ro out I've been left out more. It's all about "James did this, James did that" and so on. It's not that I am not happy for them, believe me I am, its just I wish that Ro and I could hang out more often without him around.

"Hey babe" James says as he kisses Ro on the cheek.

"HEY! Hands off my best friend!" I yell being the protective best friend I am. 

James just laughs and sits down next to Ro and pulls her close, putting his arm around her shoulder. I glare at him and he chuckles. I love that Ro is happy with James, but seeing them together makes me so jealous. I just wish that I could have a relationship like theirs. I am as single as a pringle. It's quite sad. All of my friends are in a relationship except for me. It's like I don't exist when they are together. I am just a shadow that no one cares about. I wish I could find someone like all of my friends boyfriends to love me like they love each other. 

This time it was no diffrent. I sat there with Ro's stuff between me and her as she listened to some stupid story James was telling her. I bet that if I were to get up and go to the cafeteria right now, even though we don't have to be there for another 40 minutes, they wouldn't even notice that I would be gone. So, that's exactly what I did. I got up and walked out of the hallway, grabbed my flags from the room we store them in and walked to the cafeteria. 

I sat in the cafeteria for a good 20 minutes before I got a text message. I thought this was going to be a message from Ro finally realizing that I was gone, but it wasn't. It was from my friend Jayla. 

"where r u????" she asked me.

"i'm in the cafeteria already, cuz Ro was with her boyfriend, so i left to see if she would notice that i was gone, obvioulsy she hasnt, so dont say anything to her. can you come to the cafeteria though i'm lonely??" i answered her back.

"oh ok, yeah i'll be there in a sec." she answered me.

Jayla walked through the doors of the cafeteria, set her stuff down and came and sat by me.

"hey girly" Jayla said as she sat down.

"what's up" I said as I laid my head down on the table.

"tired?" Jayla asked me.

"yeah kinda, and just wondering why i'm such a shadow that no one cares about when they are with their boyfriend. You know ever since like all of my friends got into relationships i've just been pushed to the background." I say to Jayla who is paying close attention to each and every word I'm saying.

"Is that true? They really just, forget about you when their boyfriends are around?" She asks, sounding concerned for me.

"Yeah, but I've gotten used to it. It's fine, really it has happened so much that its basically normal." I say like its no big deal.

"Layla, that's so sad. You should never have to feel that way with your friends. If they were you're true friends then they shouldn't forget about you the minute their boyfriend shows up." Jayla says.

"Well that's true but even my best friend does it, and I know for sure that she is a true friend."

"Maybe you should tell her how you feel. It's the least you could do." Jayla says.

"Yeah maybe, but I don't know if it will change anything." I tell her.  Maybe I will tell her, but I don't know. I just don't want to seem selfish, so I'll think about it.

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Hey y'all. This is the first chapter of this story! I hope you guys liked it. Go check out my other stories. I love y'all! Byeeeee!!!!!