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play pretend

"that smells delicious." I compliment the maid's cooking but she just looks at me and back at the pancakes she's cooking. Rude. "she only speaks Spanish. My dad is Spanish and he hired her so we should always be talking Spanish to her." Clyde says. I nod. Wow, Clyde is Spanish?

Then Clyde suddenly starts talking Spanish, making the maid laugh and turn to me, smiling. I smile back. She says something back in Spanish, making Clyde blush. "she says she thinks you're beautiful." he tells me. This time I blush, saying "thank you." then the maid puts out breakfast on the table, walking away after asking if Clyde needs anything. "so, how's your love life?" if I want to be his girlfriend, I've gotta check if he's single. "I'm single. But there probably is a special someone. I'm not sure if I actually like her though." he says, playing with his food. I look at him as a gesture to go on, "I mean, she makes me smile, just hearing her voice makes my day. If she is hurt, I'd also hurt. I'd do anything to make her feel happy. Even if it is leaving her." awh, that's so sweet. Wait no, what am I thinking? He's Clyde. He's so similar to Seth. Once he got me wrapped around his finger, he'd do the same as what Seth did to me. And I won't let that happen. It's time I got him wrapped around my finger.

So I've got to pretend.

"Clyde, I'm sure she will like you back. Any girl would be lucky to be with you. You're kind, strong, you'd do anything to protect someone who you care." and you're rich. "you really think that?" no. "yeah." I've got to get used to this pretending shit.

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"so Phila, you up to having a date with me? How about this Friday?" Clyde asks. I smile widely, but not because Clyde asked me out, but because I'm starting to have him wrapped around my finger.

It's been a month of me being all "lovey dovey" with Clyde, "trusting" Clyde, telling Clyde all my "secrets", just being all fake with Clyde. And all that has payed off.

"yeah, this Friday sounds good. So where are we going?" hopefully a rich ass restaurant which he gets to pay for. "it's a surprise." he says. I hate surprises. "great!" I say after Elliot comes by to walk us to class. Some people look at us, some gossiping about us, some talking about how hot Clyde is, some talking about Clyde's last hockey game when his team won, some talking about how cute Clyde and I would be together, some talking about rumors of Elliot liking Clyde, some talking about Elliot, Clyde and I had threesome, which we didn't. I'm a virgin.

Clyde, Elliot and I take our seats at the back, Elliot sitting next to me and Clyde sitting behind me. No one else is in the class since we're always too early for classes.

"how about we play a game of truth or dare?" Elliot asks out of nowhere. I look at Clyde seeing that he is also looking at me in the same expression. "why do you want to play truth or dare? It's so sudden." I ask Elliot. She shrugs. "I mean, it kills time." she says. True. "okay, I'm down if Ophelia is down." Clyde says. I nod. "okay, we'll start with me. We'll go clockwise." she says. I nod. "truth or dare Elliot?" Clyde asks. "truth." she says we nod, "who's your crush?" I ask. Elliot just suddenly turns red, "Um isn't that too sudden?" I honestly only asked that question so no one else will have to ask me that question. "nope, answer now." Clyde says. "if you tell anyone, I'll kill you both. Even if you're not the one telling someone." Geeze. "Matt." she says and her face turns a deeper shade of red, if that's even possible. "Matt? Why?" Clyde asks. "well that's another question. But now it's your turn, Clyde." Elliot says. "okay, truth or dare?" I ask Clyde.

He picks dare, "I dare you to tell your crush you like her today. And we have to be there. We could be hidden it's okay." I honestly don't know who his crush is but I'm hoping it's me. "okay, I'll do it. But not now, later." he says. We nod. "now Ophelia, truth or dare?" Elliot asks. I picked truth. "do like like anyone at the moment?" no. "yeah, I do." I say after pursing my lips.

hello there my fellow minions, i know i know, this chapter was very boring, but i'm planning for the next to be hella exciting. so be prepared for your popcorn. till then, see yaa.

lots of love and jelly sandwiches, gabii 💞💋💋