Not Yet

chapter 8

"Hey Steph, Avery with you? Oh well good, can I talk to her? She doesn't want to? Steph I really need to talk to her. You're mad at me too?! Steph I would have told you both at lunch bit I didn't have the chance to prepare. C-c-an.. Steph! I know I did something wrong, give me a chance to make it right. Let's meet up at the beach in one hour. Okay? Okay! Okay, see you." And with that I close the phone and look at the person right next to me in watery eyes. He holds me tight to his chest by the side with one hand.

I ask Alex to drop me off one block away from my house so that mom doesn't get suspicious too. We hop on his motorcycle, hug him from behind, and just wait until we get our destination. He drops me off and I run home to quickly finish my homework, get into my comfy flowery overall, and get out of the house. My mom let's me out of the house anytime, as long as I finished my homework and I return before my curfew. My house is on a golden location. It is near my school and near the beach, so I just run to the beach reaching there in about ten minutes. Whereas, my friends need a little more time to reach here so I wait for them.

"Avery! Steph!" I shout out and wave for them making my existence a bit more noticeable. They walk towards me making their "very mad/disappointed at you" face. They have furrowed brows, their eyes are narrowed, and they look like they just ate the most disgusting meal in that modern restaurant.

"Hey?", I said hesitantly. "Say what you want to say and we'll consider it." You can see that they've prepared what they'll say for they said in sync. I tale a deep breath knowing that this will be a tough fight. "Avery, Stephanie, you know you mean the world to me. Actually, I wouldn't have known what the world means. We had discovered this planet together since we were in our mom's wombs. I know you don't live much near me as in physically, but mentally and psychology you were with me at all times. I knew that getting the cat out of the bag would make you so mad at me. I'm sorry but I was really planning on telling you guys, but then miss crazy here made it a little hard for me." I look at her when o heard her chuckle. I know that she is replaying the scene on and on in her head. I look at the setting sun and continued, " I'm really sorry you guys, telling you was a really hard thing for me to do, but I knew I had to tell you." I look at the ground then at them wondering if they'll really forgive me for keeping such a secret away from them.

I walk away after I finish my speech. When I reach about one meter away from them, I get a phone call. I stop by to answer it, not looking at the caller ID, " Hello?", I answer. "Come back dummy." I heard a familiar faint voice. I look behind me and retrace my footsteps until I reach their location and hug them endlessly. It's been only a couple of hours, but I've missed them.

A hand on my shoulder just interrupted our moment. I look over my shoulder to see who that was and was surprised to see that it was Alex. What is he doing here? "I watched everything. I was a bit worried you wouldn't forgive her so if anything went south, I wanted to be around." He wraps my waist with a single hand and winks at Avery. What was that all about?  I then remember that I should be home soon, so I ask Alex to drop me, Avery, and Stephanie off, yet Avery oddly declines saying that she'd rather take a cab.

When I reach home, I saw my dad and mom sitting on the sofa cuddling like two teenagers. For some reason, I remembered Alex and wished I could tell either of them about him. But my parents are harder to please than my friends. Suddenly, I get another phone call, speaking of friends, "Sup Avery?" I salute. "We need to talk." She seriously replies.
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"So you're telling me, that you want me to break up with Alex, leave him be, and you'll not even telling me why?" I text Avery back with a confused emoji.

"Cass, I know this will sound crazy, but believe me I know he is not a good guy!" I can imagine her tone through this text message.

"Avery, I know you're just looking out for me, but this is messed up at least tell me the reason and I'll look it up from all its sides." I try to reason with her.

"You trust me, right?"

"Of course!"

"Then trust me on this. He is no good."

"I like him Av... I don't know how but I do. And I trust you more than I trust myself. But without any good reason, I'm not pressing a button." I keep my stand.
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A month later

"I'm beautiful, I'm smart, I'm brave, I'm his girl, and it is going to be a good day." I added one sentence to my morning ritual. I felt so optimistic after my friends accepted the fact that I actually do like Alex even though we hadn't known each other two months ago.  Yeah it is one of those fast going relationships, but I'm all about exploring through experiments.

It is our one month anniversary! I'm so excited for today! If he had planned amazing dates before we even started, I can't wait to see what he has plans for today. He hasn't said anything but I know he remembers us. I just know, okay. So I wear my fabulous clothes preparing for anything that might strike. They're formal for a one month anniversary but also casual enough for a normal day at school, and they're not white nor black so if anything spills on it, it won't spoil that much. I want today to be perfect.

I reach the school, say hey to my friends and kiss them like we do every day. I tell them the event of the day and for the first time I got the reaction I wanted from Stephanie not from Avery. If you're still wondering, Stephanie had her 5 year anniversary with Shawn about a week ago. Im so happy for her. And so whenever there's something lovey-dovey around me and Alex, I tend to spill for Stephanie before Avery knowing that she'll give me a satisfying reaction. Avery is still happy for me at some points, but not like Stephanie. I look over at him and wave with a smile from ear to ear.

At the end of the day, i head over to his usual hang out with his squad with Stephanie. I call him out because I don't want to talk to him in front of his friends, he hates that because they'll call him names and some boy stuff I probably won't understand. "So any special plans for tonight sweetie?" I chirped at him. "Special plans?" He answered in a confused way. "Well yeah, anything for tonight?" I furrow my eyebrows at him in confusion. He has no clue about what I'm talking. "Baby you don't remember anything about today?" I try one more time but was absolutely shook when he suggested that today was my birthday. I do not answer him, I just leave him, grab Steph by the arm, and get the heck out of there before he sees me watering. He didn't remember.
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Here I am at home resting on my bed after being completely forgotten about. I don't know if I should face him tomorrow. I'm texting Avery and as I'm about to tell her that Alex totally forgot about today, I hear that familiar knock on my window. Umm timing?  I wrap myself completely with my bed sheets. I'm not letting him see me once again in booty shorts. I open the window ajar just enough for him to slide a long box through it.

"I love it." I open the window completely allowing him to enter and I hug him tightly. Tight enough so that the sheets won't fall. We sit on my bed and he slides a silver bracelet up my arm. "How about to thank me with a kiss?" His voice cracked. "In your dreams loverboy." I chuckle.

"Come on just one small kiss for daddy!!", he gives me his 'being obnoxious face' then winks at me... Oh how much I love him..

"Not a chance, just give up", I reply laughing and he pouts at my answer. "Then when?" He asks. "Not just yet." I mysteriously say leading him out of my room.
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I'm sorry I was a little off by the timing guys. I was just a little busy today.
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