Infatuated

twenty one.

I arrive to the cafe about 15 minutes late. Stupid traffic. As I get out of the car I see Amara and her glowy pale skin waving at me through the window. I wave back and walk inside. The smell of coffee immediately wakes my brain up and I walk to Amara's table. "Hey Mar." I say sitting down on the chair across from hers. "Hey Kat, I ordered you a hot chocolate, extra cinnamon." She says before taking a sip of her Cuban coffee. "My favorite." I say and tuck a piece of hair behind my ear. "So, how did it go with Matt?" She asks. "Actually it went really well. I did what you said and I told the truth. He didn't get mad at me but he did get mad at Xander." I say and sip my warm hot chocolate. "That's good at least. Levi is an asshat he deserves it." She says and calls over the waiter. "Hey, can I get a plain bagel with some cinnamon cream cheese and..?" Amara looks at me. "Um a chocolate croissant would be nice." I tell the waiter and they nod and walk over to the kitchen.

We talked for about an hour about random shit and ate our breakfast before we ended up leaving to go to the skatepark. We get in my car, me driving of course, and we go to skate park.

We arrive at the skatepark about 10 minutes later and I take our boards out of the trunk and handed Amara hers. I lock up the car and we walk into the skatepark. It was empty thank god and Amara and start working on some basic skating moves. I did fall on my ass a couple times before we finally decided it would be best if we took a break. We sit on a picnic bench near by and relax a bit.

"Hey Kat, look what I got." Amara says and I turn in her direction to see her holding a bag of my all time favorite chips to ever exist. Flamin' hot Cheetos. "Oooooh gimme someeee!!" I beg and Mar actually decided to share the bag of hot Cheetos. About 29 minutes later of talking about random shit I hear a familiar voice yell my name. "Katalina." It was Xander. "I cannot believe he is here, I'm gonna give him a piece of my min-" Amara says until I interrupt. "I got this. He's yelling my name. Let me talk to him." I say and I walk over to him.

"What do you want dork?" I ask Xander. "So did you make a decision?" Xan asks while he bites his lip. "Actually yes." I say and tuck my hair behind my ears. "Which is." He asks and takes my hand. I slide it away and his smile begins to fade. "I love Matt. I want to be with him. You're with Cara and I would never hurt her. I'm sorry." I can see tears forming in his eyes. "Is this really want you want?" He asks his voice breaking on multiple occasions. I look him directly in his eyes "Yes." A tear rolls down his cheek. "Okay. If that's what you want." He says and walks away and leaves the skatepark. Fuck. I feel bad but at least this went better than expected. I walk over to Amara and tell her everything.

"Look everything is fine. Or at least going to be. Want to work on some skate stuff?" I ask Amara. She nods and she teaches me how to skate. After about 2 more hours of learning how to skate I hear my phone ring. "I'll be right back." I say to Amara as she's skating all around the park. She nods. I walk over to my stuff which is at the same picnic table as we left it. I pick up my phone to see Cara blowing my phone up for the past hour saying messages such as "Hey, get here now, something happened." "Please call me back" and other things. "Shit" I say out loud but didn't mean to. "What Kat?" Amara asks and I immediately start getting my shit together. "We have to go. Cara needs me ASAP. Can you come?" I ask Mar and she agrees. We grab our things from the skate park and put them in my car.

Off we go to the house.