ALISSA'S POV
I slammed the door shut and clutched Paris closer to me. It was a short "conversation", but I think it was fair. Everyone knows Ricky's been acting weird lately. Ever since I visited my therapist and told her about what I thought was going on I'd noticed Ricky acting more and more strange, distancing himself from me, avoiding been at the Clout house and a bunch of other things which just seemed completely out of the ordinary.
I know that we don't have to tell each other EVERYTHING, we're in a relationship but of course some things you just want to keep to yourself. But I deserved to know about this, especially since Chantel was involved. I knew both of them were acting weird....but I never thought it had anything to do with each other. And all the signs, they weren't just strange Ricky was acting extremely secretive. It's like they were keeping this from me, doing it behind my back.
Yeah, it was two text messages, did I take things out of proportion? No, I kept telling myself, no I didn't. The text messages alone were sketchy but Ricky's response to them made things worse.
"You right there?", a soft, sultry voice awoke me from my thoughts. I vaguely recognised the girl from somewhere.
"Oh! Sorry, Lilly", she says after noticing how confused I was. "Kiara's friend...best friend", she adds for clarification.
"Ohhh right.", I say shaking her hand awkwardly pretending to know why she was here.
"Rice let Kiara have me here.", she adds, reading my mind, "he said he would fly out one of Kiara's friends."
I nod my head, I really wasn't in the mood to have a conversation with anyone, especially this random girl.
"Lilly! Oh my goodness, have you seen Paris?!", Kiara runs out of Rice's bedroom and grabs Paris out of my arms and hands her to Lilly.
I reach over to grab Paris back, but Lilly gives me a death look.
"I-uh", I start before Lilly hugs Paris tighter, "Where's rice?"
"In his room.", Kiara states not looking up from Paris.
"Why're there so many girls everywhere?", I ask Rice who was sitting on his computer playing fornite.
"Kiara's friend."
"Oh yeah just fly out her whole family next time why don't you?"
"Relax, it's temporary"
"Oh yes I'm much calmer now", I reply sarcastically.
"Banks?", Rice asks after an awkward pause.
"I don't know or care."
"Oh shit.", he says putting his headset down and turning his game off. "I saw him get picked up by Chantel's car and they were stuffing like something rolled up or something", he says adding to my stress.
"Great."
Am I just gonna sit at home and try and solve this stupid 'mystery' all day and have it constantly worrying me? I didn't do anything to have this, so why put up with it?
"I'll be at Sommer's", I say after considering my options.
"Are you sure?", Rice asks looking at me extremely concerned.
"Yes, I'm sure, okay."
"Well, i can't change your mind...just stay safe, okay?"
I nod and walk out to get Paris and leave.
"Anything to tell Banks?", he asks one last time.
"I'll be back in a few days and he better stop with all this bullshit."
Rice nods and goes back to his game.
A few days should be all it take till Banks realises he better go back to his old self or else I won't go on this way.
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