Happy Everly After

Plans and Promises

     "Heyyy, Trinity... Umm listen, I don't really remember us making plans." Caleb scratches the back of his neck anxiously while I stand there awkwardly and Trinity pretends I don't exist. This bitch. 

     "OMG! babe! You forgot about our plannnnsss? Hunny?! We had these for literal WEEKS. You promised me you would take me out and now you're just DITCHING me? For what? It's not like you have anywhere else to be. I'm your ONLY priority. Aren't I?" She says this with a soft little puppy dog look that quite honestly looked more ugly than cute. I raised my eyebrows watching her child-like behavior play out in front of me. 

     "Listen, Trinity, we aren't together, you know this by now. We haven't been together since the eighth grade. That was over four years ago. Make like Elsa and Let It Go. I'm taking Eve out tonight." Big mistake. He mentioned my name. Oh shit. Trinity's head snapped so quickly I thought it was going to break off her damn head.  I quickly met her piercing eyes, refusing to give her any power over me. I was not going to back down from her petty ass, gimme a break. 

     "Ohhhh, so THIS is the little perfect thing that everyone's been talking about... I guess you aren't 'as' ugly as they've all been saying. It is a shame that you cover up your beauty with that horrible attitude, I mean, what kind of SLUT takes someone else's boyfriend?" She looked at me innocently but I could see the harshness behind her words. I took a step forward. My eyebrows raised almost to my hairline. By this point, a small swamp of onlookers had gathered around the popular girl and her new 'prey'. I was ready though.

     "You know Trinity, I don't really know what happened to you to make you this annoying but, you have really nice eyes, although you should really try using toothpaste once and a while, or maybe just don't put your face so close to mine next time. Actually!" I reached into my binder, pulling out a pack of gum. I always keep gum on me. This is almost too perfect. "I happen to have just the thing to fix your problem, well, this one at least," I handed her the piece of gum."Here you go! Have a great day babe!" I spoke the last word with the same sickly sweet smile and tone she had used on Caleb. Blowing her a kiss I waltzed away, glancing back only to see Caleb smirking and staring directly at me. 

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     After my little fiasco with Trinity, I hadn't really had the chance to speak with Caleb about what was going to happen this afternoon so, when the bell rang signaling the end of the day I walked out like usual and waited for Jackie to drop me off. However, as I was scanning the parking lot for her black Sedan I watched as she got into her car and drove away without me. What the fuck. I took out my phone to text her but as I turned it on a large hand snatched it out of my unsuspecting grip. 

     "Hey! Give it back dude!" I giggled as I realized it was only Caleb being annoying and not some random stranger attempting to rob me. As I went to reach for it he held it up over his head. Leaving me jumping around like an imbecile due to his obvious height advantage, short lives matter, amirite. Just as Caleb and I began laughing and having fun there came a shrilling shriek that sent us jumping away from each other. I turned my head to see who was being stabbed only to find medusa herself glaring into my soul. I'm almost certain that Caleb saw me physically cringe at the sight of her. Yuck.  

     "O M GOSH!" Trinity's voice had risen about twelve octaves as she smiled fakely and stared at us. "You guys would tots make a cute couple if Everly was prettier. I HAVE to come along on your guys' date. I can't WAIT to see how cute ya'll act around each other!" 

     I scoffed and looked at Caleb, waiting for him to retort some smooth comment about how annoying she is but instead, he just looked at me with an apologetic look before sighing. "Yeah, sure, whatever, get in the damn car." I snapped my head to look at him with a bewildered expression on my face. That little traitor. Why would he want her to tag along? 

     As I walked back to the car, defeated, Caleb shimmied over to me and whispered: "She won't last more than a minute, watch." I was confused but trusted that he knew what he was doing. I was actually quite excited to see where he'd take us so I put all pettiness aside and walked over to the front passenger door. As I went to open the door and hop into Caleb's 1992 Volkswagen gti I realized Trinity had already stolen her spot beside an annoyed Caleb. She smirked at me and I scrunched my nose in disgust before clambering into the backseat and glaring out the window while awkward silence enveloped us.

     As I watched the trees blur by I happily zoned out to the tune of Caleb's trash music. I wonder if Trinity and he were ever really serious, I mean, from the looks of them together now, it doesn't seem like it. But, hey, I could be off. Maybe deep down in that ignorant selfish body of hers she's a good pers-  "Hey, Eve, I hope you don't think I hate you, It's just like, I would unplug your life support to charge my phone. Ya know?" Trinity gave her signature fake smile as I copied her facial expression and rolled my eyes in disgust.

     "I do know, I also know that you, Trinity, happen to be made in China. Fake hair, fake tits, fake smile. Ya know?" She glared at me while muttering 'at least I have tits' under her strawberry scented breath. I looked back to the window, content with my comments as Caleb silently chuckled. Point to Eve. 

     About a half-hour later we pulled onto the side of a road. An empty road. With no buildings in sight and trees surrounding us on either side. I gripped my phone, if Caleb was gonna murder me I was gonna have the police on speed dial. Trinity looked up from her iPhone for the first time since she'd sat down in the car, she glanced around at where we were parked at shot Caleb a confused look. He just smiled and stated much to enthusiastically "We're here!". My eyebrows came together as I tried to figure out what in God's name were we going to be doing out in the middle of no where but before I could question him about it he hopped out of the car and started to walk towards the woods. In hopes of not being left alone with Medusa I reluctantly got out of the backseat and trotted after him. As I caught up to him he simply looked back at the car and said "Told you she wouldn't want anything to do with this. She would never ruin her precious shoes for a walk in the woods, we're pretty much in the clear now." He chuckled after saying this and I nodded with a smile on my face.

     "Impressive pretty boy, you got Medusa all figured out don't ya?" Just as the words left my mouth we heard the revving of an engine and turned just in time to see Caleb's car taking of down the street. Well shit.

     "SON OF A- god dammit. Well, looks like we're alone together princess." He winked at me and took my hand, leading my deeper into the woods. Oh god Eve, what did you get yourself into?