Ariella and Alex have been hiding their relationship from the one person who might tear them apart. Her best friend, Jessica, who also happens to be Alex's sister. They do everything they can to hide their relationship from her, but will that be eno...
*I highly HIGHLY recommend listening to Stolen by Dashboard Confessional during this chapter. Seriously keep it on repeat.
Ariella (Present)
It was now the day of the BBQ, also the day that I'll talk to Alex to see where we stand. I had seen him outside once when Britt and I went for a walk. That was the only interaction that I had with him for a whole week. When we both saw each other we couldn't keep our eyes off of each other until I had walked a far enough distance away.
My stomach has been in knots since I woke up this morning. They weren't the good kind of knots either. What if today goes bad and we aren't together anymore?
Britt left yesterday because she had some friends to visit up in Seattle. I really wished she was here so she could've gone with me for emotional support. But she told me to text or call her if I needed her.
I've been so frazzled today to the point where I don't know what to wear. I've looked at all of the summer dresses I have and none of them look cute in the slightest. After at least ten minutes of over procrastinating I finally settled on a navy dress with pinkish white flowers on it.
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I style my hair into messy yet cute beach waves. My makeup is left natural with just some foundation, powder, bronzer, blush, mascara, and pink gloss.
I know I'll end up getting cold later so I grab a white cardigan just in case. Grabbing my purse, I put my phone, keys, and lip gloss to touch up in it. My whole family is waiting downstairs for me. My mom and sister is wearing dresses like me while my dad is where capris and a polo shirt.
We leave the house locking the door behind us as we make our way over the The Martin house. We walk through the front door and there's quite a few people here. Most of them consists of their family and people from school.
Jess is sitting on the couch by herself looking extremely bored. When she sees me she immediately runs up to me and wraps her arms around me.
"Thank god you're here I thought I was going to die in like two seconds." She whispers in my ear and I laugh.
"I'm sure it wasn't that bad."
"Oh yes it was, my great aunt Pam was asking me if I had any boys in my life. Then she went onto say you better stay protected." She says with her hands on her hips and my eyes widen. I stifled our a laugh and she playfully punches my arm.
"It's not funny! I told you I was dying."
"Well I'm here now so you can calm down." I said patting her on the back to calm down.
