KIDS 1995

CHAPTER 5

TUESDAY
Me and Bella are laughing and doing our makeup. Me and her are getting way closer now, just like before. And I didn't really tell her about the whole Michael situation. But we've kinda stayed away from them anyways.

One thing I could tell is that she's like head over heels for Michael. She never shuts up about him. It's pretty cute to be honest. We're getting ready for some party. I've noticed the kids here do barely anything but party.

It's fun though, there's not that much to do here during the summer anyways. So we get together. Just 3 more days and I'll see Justin.

After like an hour me and her finally are ready. I won't lie, we look pretty hot. We put heels in her purse for later, but wear boots for now so it's more comfortable to walk. We grab our jackets and link hands walking to the nearest shops. Talking about stupid things like always.

I finally decide to mention, "oh yeah so my boyfriend is coming in a few days, he won't be staying for long but I get to see him anyways." She smiles too. "See, it'll go fine with you and him. I can tell you were worrying about whatever. If you guys really like each other it'll work out."

I nod. We buy ourselves some drinks and crisps. Eh, we'll go to the party eventually. We're just walking around and talking. The heat is almost unbearable at this hour to be honest, even if it's a little late. Still so fucking hot. We tie our jackets around our waists. I don't even know why we bring jackets at this point.

After a while we walk to Chris's party. I think. I don't know Chris, I don't think he's Michael's friend. But anyways all I heard was that Soph knows someone that knows Chris blah blah. I heard Michael and his gang are trashing it as well, dunno why that's necessary but whatever.

I've noticed this past week or 2 have just been pretty much repetition, parties, parties and more parties. Don't get me wrong, they're fun. It's just I've noticed kids don't have much else to do here.

We head into the building and wait in the elevator. She starts talking about Michael again. Makes me miss Justin again. Same thoughts always appear in my head, it's me overthinking the same shit all the time.

"So you guys are pretty serious yes?" I ask smiling. Her smile widens too. "Yep. We've been together for like 3 months now. I usually don't date so... this is kind of a big deal for me."

She sounds so happy, I'm happy she found the right guy for her. We head into the apartment where the loud music is coming from.

We come in without knocking, but anyways no one seems to notice. Me and her head to the kitchen and grab drinks. I look around and see some people I know.

Vanessa's gone somewhere of course. I take a shot and dance with a guy I met a few parties back, he's actually a nice guy. "Hey, ima get us some more drinks. I say to him over the loud music and he nods , going back into the kitchen I grab two more drinks and see none other then Michael kissing Diane. One of Bella's friends? Well oh my... so much for the convo we had earlier.

Suddenly I feel the many drinks get to me and run to the nearest toilet. You get what happened next.

I feel sick, so horribly sick right now. I get off the floor and look in the mirror. I'm a mess. My makeup has ran down my face at this point so I just wash my face and check in the medicine cabinet for some mouth wash.

How do I even get home? I'll never get used to these weird ass New York streets and addresses, I swear they make no sense. I go out and find Bella. She's sobbing. I frantically ask what's wrong. "Oh my god, are you okay?!" I ask sitting down on the floor next to her. "No... it's Mike. He just dumped me! You know I told him I loved him right ?!"

"Oh.. I'm so sorry Bella." I hug her tightly having no idea what to say in this situation. "Why? Because it makes no sense he would just do it for no reason."

"I swear I didn't do anything to him! I've done nothing but love him! Fuck I'm in love with him. I can tell how he doesn't feel the same way. "

"I... let's go home yea?" Still I have no clue what to say, I don't wanna upset her in any more way. "Oh and guess what?! He just stares when I told him I loved him! It was today ... tonight. And then he dumped me!" She starts sobbing harder.

I stand up, grab her hand and pull her up. "Cmon, let's go home yea?" I wrap my arm around her to support her." She keeps crying and I let her, so he cheated on her on the same day she told him she loved him. What a dick move, he seemed like a nice guy to be honest. Never mind I guess.

As we're reaching the front door that's when we see him, him making out with Diane, again. Fuck. I couldn't hold her back and she attacked Diane. She was meant to be Bella's close friend. That's what I heard. Diane is shocked as she's pulled off Michael. Bella doesn't hesitate and grabs Diane by her hair and roughly hits her head on the wall cabinet behind them.

Well... that escalated. Diane gasps in pain and pushes Bella back, grabbing her by her hair also and pulling her head down attempting to like rip her hair out or something.

Michael is very surprised also, the fight gets messy so he grabs both of them and separates them. Both look pissed as hell with half their extensions probably ripped out. "What the hell?!" Diane yells.

"You're saying what the hell to me?! You were kissing my boyfriend you fucking slut! You were meant to be my friend!"
"He doesn't want you anyways! Yeah that's why he left you, he wants me. How does it feel huh? I get the guy, for once the guy isn't fucking obsessing over you!"

"So that's what this is about huh?! You're fucking jealous? You try and steal my boyfriend because no other boys will fuck you?! That's kinda fucking low of you don't you think?!" She says half laughing.

Lots are watching by now and I am SHOCKED to say the least, Diane is fake and this "friendship" is clearly toxic, sheesh.

"Ok enough, stop now. Bella, go home you're not thinking straight." She gasps. "I'm fucking not thinking straight?! You fucking cheated on me! With Diane! You were using me the whole time or?!"

"I didn't fucking cheat on you! I broke up with you and then kissed her. That's not fucking cheating okay?!" Man what's this turning into? I just wanna go home, oh yeah I forgot to mention but I'm finally meeting Charlotte tomorrow, my other bestie. She's not really friends with Bella, they never really got along. She's not really rich either, lives further from us and is basically the opposite of Bella.

I guess that's why she doesn't like her, Bella doesn't like different. But Charlotte is such a good person. I really love her even though I haven't seen her in ages. We met a few years hack. I think it was at Starbucks or something, I don't really know but we clicked quickly, but of course I'm not closer to her then Bella.

Anyways, Bella starts laughing, an exhausted laugh. She's so upset right not but trying to hide it. "Fuck you, Michael." She gives Diane a disgusted look and storms out the apartment. Well... I go after her of course. She's running down the stairs, she's crying now, again. She's strong though, so strong. I can't imagine this happening to me.

"Slow down!" I grab her by her arm to get her to stop and calm down. "Shh, it's okay." I hug her tight. "It's okay." We get a cab back to my place, I invited her to sleepover to maybe make her a bit less sad or something.

We talked about watching a movie or something but as soon as we get to my room we pass out.