New Boy [Daniel Seavey]

eighteen

I walk into Bailey's house forty minutes later ice cream in hand. "Bailey I'm here!"

"I'm in my room," I faintly hear her shout.

I walk up the stairs, two at a time, and then walk into her bedroom. "Oh, Bailey." My best friend looks like a mess. She's all wrapped in her blanket, hair a mess, tissues everywhere.

"I miss him so much," she confesses blowing snot into another tissue.

"When was the last time you got out of bed?"

"Well, I've been in bed since after he broke up with me."

"I had assumed." See I don't know if I'm a shitty person or if I'm not, because right now I don't feel bad for Bailey. She was cheating on Daniel with other guys, but he was cheating on her with me. Yes okay, for the helping him cheat part, I'm shitty, but he had a good reason to break up with her.

"Why did you do it?" Bailey asks snapping me out of my life reflection.

"Do what?"

"Tell him I was cheating?"

Well Bailey, my best friend for the last amount of countless years, I caught feelings for him. Then proceeded to fool around with him, so then when I found a way to get him to be just mine I jumped right on it. "I don't know, but I feel bad. He meant a lot to you. He was your first. And... And I just didn't think about the outcome of what would happen-" yes I did- "and I'm sorry I'm such a shitty best friend."

Bailey sits up. "You're an amazing best friend, Ashlyn, but I just wanna know how you figured it out," she says laughing.

I nervously laugh, "well you gave me that advice to try stuff with another guy, that wasn't Phillip, and I started thinking how randomly you got super confident around Daniel. So like, I just kinda jumped to conclusions that you were doing it. Or did it."

I sit on the corner of her bed and hand her the ice cream and a plastic spoon. "Well, we actually broke up."

Bailey gasps, "why?"

"He uh... slept with his ex," I admit.

"Like his ex Hannah?"

"Yup that one."

"Well shit."

I raise an eyebrow, "well shit what?"

"He lost his virginity to her, so I guess he went back to what he knows best."

"Haha... That's so funny."

She looks at me, "did you really even like him anyway?" Not really, I just thought he'd make me forget about my feelings for Daniel.

"Did you really even like Daniel?" I shoot back.

She acts like she's hurt, putting a hand over her heart, then drops it, "honestly I don't know."

"Exactly."

"But you never did anything serious with Phillip..."

"And that means my feelings weren't the same?" I scoff.

"No that's not what I meant," she starts out. "I just mean like you guys never had sex, so like, was it really a thing?"

I scoff again, "it was a relationship, but you know what? Call me when you're done being a bitch. Enjoy your ice cream." I get up off her bed, walk out of her room, down the stairs, and out of the house.

Once I'm in my car I sit there and think about my next move. Ma's at home so I really don't wanna go home. Daniel's busy doing something with his brother. Phillip... well he's not my problem anymore. I back out of Bailey's driveway and start driving towards the main road.

As I turn on to the main road my phone starts ringing. "Hello?"

"Hey." It's Thomas.
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