Pretending

Chapter 12

Hey guys! Sorry, I haven't written in a long time, but we have been moving in a lot lately and we are leaving for Hawai'i on the 22, so I will try my best for updates :)

Thanks for your guys understanding :)

Ok on to chapter 12.

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"Your ex?" I ask turning around.

"Yes." He says. He sounds mad, I look and see his jaw was clenched and he had balled fists, I tried to calm him down but he remained frustrated.

We both watched as his ex walked up to us, everyone around us was dancing, smiling and having fun, while we were confused and angry, well, me confused, and Antonio was angry.

The girl was still walking up to us and I observed her appearance, she was beautiful, long light brown hair, brown eyes, long legs, and confident stride, she was wearing a light pink cocktail dress with pink high heels, complete with a silver clutch. She walks up to us and I feel Antonio stiffen up beside me. She stands in front of me and smiles mysteriously, I frown.

"Hey, Antonio." She says batting her eyelashes.

"Crystal," Antonio says behind me, I feel him inhale and exhale quite dramatically.

"Oh, cmon that is no way to say hello to your girlfriend now is it?" Crystal says doing a puppy-dog face.

"Ex, ex-girlfriend." He corrects her.

She giggles, even though I know it was a fake giggle. "Right, I forgot."

The silence that follows is so awkward I almost want to walk away from the situation, between Crystal batting her eyes and smiling a sickeningly sweet smile to Antonio frowning and practically steaming from the ears, I just want to go back to the table and eat the chocolate ice cream.

Finally, I brake the silence, I stick out my hand to her and say: "Hey, I'm Phoenix."

Crystal looks shocked, I assume she just pretended I was invisible until now, she slowly puts out her hand and shakes my hand. After we shake there is once again an awkward silence, before I go back to the table to let them talk, Crystal speaks up.

"So Antonio, have you told Phoenix here about the game?" She says smiling evilly.

I feel Antonio stiffen up even more, as if that was even possible and immediately I am confused.

I turn around to face Antonio and his eyes go to me, they are as big as saucers and I quickly look back to Crystal.

"No? Care to explain Antonio?" She says putting her hand on her hip.

Next thing I know, I feel Antonio grabbing me by my arm and dragging me away from Crystal, we walk off the edge of the stage where we stood before, he dragged us back to the tables, he starts grabbing his and my stuff without saying a word. He is going so fast and I am trying to stop him to ask him what was going on.

"Antonio," I say standing by the table watching him grab his jacket and phone.

He doesn't say anything and continues to pick up, he was picking up the most random things such as napkins and folding them, he was stalling.

"Antonio," I say again a little louder. Still no answer.

Finally, I stop him, he looks up at me from his lowered position and I can see fear in his eyes.

"What is going on?" I ask, slowly lifting him up.

His jaw clenches and he looks away. "Nothing, everything's fine."

I shake my head." No, it's not, your upset and I can tell, what is wrong?"

"Everything's fine! Ok?" He yells. I step back shocked at his outburst.

He immediately regrets yelling at me, I can tell by his eyes, I blink trying to fathom what just happened.

"I'll take you home." He says grabbing my hand and leading me to the car quickly. As soon as he takes my hand I let go, him hardly noticing, he walks faster.

"What about-," I start, him cutting me off without even looking back.

"She's going with my parents." He says rather coldly.

We continue to walk to the car silently, I want to go back, away from him, what mood he is in right now, I have never seen before besides when Noah came to his house to study with me, and I do not like this mood of his.

We arrive at his car and we get in, still silent. He starts the car and we drive down the highway, me looking out the window with my arms crossed and him looking at the road.

Finally, I can't take it anymore. "Antonio, what is your problem? What did I do to you? I don't recall doing anything to you so why are you so mad at me?" I ask looking at him.

He quickly looks over, but just as fast as it happened, his eyes went back to the road. He is ignoring me, well, two can play at that game.

"Seriously? You're not going to tell me? Fine then, have it your way." I say looking back out the window.

When we get to my house, he parks and I get out without saying anything, before I close the door I look at him. "You know, tonight was really fun until this happened, I'll see you later." And with that I slam the door and stomp into my house, locking the door behind me, and watching his car leave the driveway and disappear into the night, leaving me with more questions than ever before.

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Soooo I know this chapter was kinda bad but it was a filler.

Cheyenne<3