Joshua Bliss

Chapter 13: Josh's Friends

"Hey, you finally made it!" Sophie exclaims, as she noticed Josh in the room. I knew it was Sophie because that was a girl name and she was the only girl in the room at the moment, so it was pretty obvious.

"Yeah, I finally did." He laughed, as Sophie gave him a welcoming hug.

Dustin and another guy, Carter I suppose, stopped playing and greeted Josh, and then they both turned and faced their attention on me. "You're Kathryn McIntyre, aren't you?" Sophie asked, cocking her head to the side slightly.

"That's me," I confirmed quietly, suddenly feeling extremely shy about being around Josh's friends right now. I was starting to regret my decision of coming here, but I had no choice. I mean, I didn't want to be alone at home and start freaking out, and I didn't want to be a clingy girlfriend and take Jason away from his day with Amanda. Maybe I should've did that though, and just explain to him why. Maybe I'll just call him and tell him to get me, because I doubt I'm going to fit in here or even like it. It was really nice of Josh to actually let me come here with him, and it was nice he didn't laugh at me for being desperate and everything, I really do appreciate that. I think it's because of the fact that he likes me, but I'm still finding it hard to believe that - a very hard time. I'm really ever so thankful for him doing that, but I don't want to be here anymore; anything is better than being alone, but being around them doesn't feel comforting or inviting and I don't want to stay. I probably sound like a kid complaining, but I don't care, because I know that I'm complaining. I just really hope that I could find a way out of this though; I'm really regretting this whole decision so much.

"Is she still dating Jason?" Carter wondered, but directing the question at Josh, obviously.

"You can ask her that," He supplied simply, and I could tell he was hiding his irritation there. Maybe he was still feeling a little bad about what I admitted to him, so he didn't want to start the Jason argument again. He gets mad by just the mention of his name, I've noticed.

"So are you?" Carter stood up straight from his game and looked at me; it was Dustin's turn right now. I don't see why it's so interesting that I'm dating Jason though, because it's not even that big of a deal. Maybe it's because they're Josh's friends they were interested in it, considering Josh's whole ordeal about him using me.

I nodded kind of awkwardly, "Yeah, I am, why?"

He chuckled, and then it was his turn to go, so he turned away from me to play. "How are you even okay with that?" He wonders with a small laugh, as he used his pool stick thing to hit the white ball to one of the coloured balls, making it go into the hole at the side of the table.

"What do you mean?" I asked him, confused about what that means. Is he asking me if I'm okay with dating Jason? That is a really stupid question, because I'm dating him, so of course I'm okay with it.

"Oh leave her alone, Carter," Sophie laughed, rolling her eyes at him. "I doubt he'd tell her anyway,"

"Tell me what?" I asked her, still feeling really confused.

"He's using you, you know that, right?" She told me, with a smile on her face that showed she found this funny.

"I tried to tell her that, she doesn't believe me." Josh told Sophie, dropping onto a couch that was braced to the wall.

Sophie chuckled, running her hand through her long blonde hair. "You should trust him; he won't ever lie to you of all people."

"Shut up, Sophie." Josh snapped at her, but he meant it in a joking way, which is proved by his smile. I was getting madder now that he got his friends in on this whole thing about him using me. I wasn't even close to believing that, but how is it even true? I didn't say anything though, because I didn't wanna snap at his friends or anything. So I just shrugged with a fake smile, playing with the sleeves of my hoodie.