The Second Choice

Him and I

"Hey Micheal, I'm back." Jonathan says as he walks in the room with a surprised expression as he sees me too.

"Crystal! What are you doing here?" he says as he pulls me into a hug.

"I texted her...through your phone to come here to work on our project, since I don't have her number."

"Oh sure, lets' start I guess." Jonathan says confused but ignores it. He isn't really one to have trust issues.

As the three of us gather on the floor, we spend the next hour writing down 20 facts that no one except us and our teacher will read, but we have to do it regardless.

"So, babe, I was thinking that we go on a date to this restaurant my friend told me about, it's near here. Micheal if you want you and your girlfriend...Sarah was it? We could all go on a double date." Shit. I think to myself. There is no way I would want to spend an evening with the devil who makes my job miserable. I am hoping Micheal says no.

"Sure, we'd love to" he smiles and looks towards me. Life is amazing as I dread the thought of having dinner with Sarah, she will act fake towards me because what bitch doesn't?

"Great so tomorrow at 7:30?" Jonathans tells us and we agree.

I eventually decide to go home and Micheal offers to walk me out while Jonathan finishes up our mini project. This is the perfect time to bring up Sarah.

"I'm glad we've cleared things up with us." Micheal says and I smile at him but look down.

"What's wrong" he asks me immediately concerned. I then begin to tell him everything about Sarah, to when I had by job interview with her to when she moved me alone to the back in storage.

Micheals sighs. "Shit, I'm so sorry Crystal, I'll talk to her I promise. I don't want her messing with you." He assures me. It's weird to me how doesn't defend his own girlfriend and believes me in an instant.

But on that note, he pulls me in for a hug as I thank him and hop into my uber. Tomorrow night will be interesting.

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"Crystalllllll wakey wakey" I feel two arms shake me vigorously I open my eyes to see Julie looking over me.
I look at the clock and see that it is 9 in the morning and that Julie just woke me up early on a Saturday.

"What the hell Julie? Saturdays are for sleeping not to be annoyed by you." I tell her and roll over to the side of the bed facing away from her.

"Well you promised me that you would take me somewhere next weekend, and well, its next weekend so where are we going?" This is why I can't commit myself to Julie because she will pester me until it is done.

I sigh in annoyance. "Fine, get changed we're going to the Rockefeller center"

"The who in the what now?" she asks me confused but threatened to just change and not ask any question otherwise I wouldn't take her.

About an hour later we pamper ourselves up and have a simple milk and cereal for breakfast and begin to make our way to the center.

"Do we have to walk?" she complains to me, per usual.

"We literally live in Manhattan, so we are close to everything, quit your whining okay?" I tell her. I mocks me with her mouth and I roll my eyes at her.

Arriving at the Rockefeller center I immediately see what seems like hundreds of people there, as always. I heart jumps of the thought at ice skating here in four months.

I grab Julie and we go up to the observation deck where we get a perfect view of central park and the empire state building.

"Wow, its beautiful." Julie says astonished. I smile at how amazed she is and suddenly waking up early was worth it to see my best friend happy.