Broken

Chapter 4

Listen to "rain on me" by Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga.

Ciara

"Are you even listening to me?" Shanya asked as she hit the table to get my attention.

I moved my gaze slowly back to my best friend. We've been friends since middle school.  We're  two opposite people except the fact that we're both females and we both kinda love the same stuffs. She was more outgoing than I and she's also more girly . I mean she does her makeover, attends parties, but she's never had a boyfriend. That also made us alike.

We were at the cafetaria and she has been talking about her dad's new girlfriend. But I was not paying attention. I was busy looking for Salvatore. Not like I wanted to see him, but I wanted to know something about him in order to impress his sister. She told her mom that she wanted me to always babysit her, so, she won't be needing a nanny.

And I accepted gladly for two reasons.
First, babysitting Sofia was easy and the money I'll gain was way more than what I gained working anywhere else.

My second reason was a little secret.

When Mrs Castillo returned from her trip that day. She was surprised that Sofia was already in bed, I was asleep next to her and no glass was broken.

She had told her driver to drive me home.

"Nothing. Just wanna look around. Anything wrong with that?" I replied my best friend with a smile.

Probably my first smile at school today.

"No, of course not, I just want you to pay attention to what I'm saying," she said and dropped her hands on the table.
"You've been smiling a lot today, I can't count how many times," she continued with a small smile. Then she said "I'm happy for you," and she took my hands in hers and squeezed lightly.

I released my hand immediately "are you gonna talk about your dad's girlfriend and quit talking about me smiling? It's akward,"

"What's making you smile so much, it's unlike you. I'm happy that you're happy, don't get me wrong, I'm just a little bit surprised. Do you mind sharing the good news with me ?"

"What good news?"

"The news that has turned my best friend into a blushing baboon"

I widened my eyes and touched my face. "Am I really blushing?"

"You met your true love, didn't you?"

This is getting out of hand.

I hit my forehead with my palm repeatedly as I spoke. "I said let's not talk about me smiling, you're making it sound like I've always been a sad bitch"

"Oh. Sorry about that"

"About the new girlfriend"

"Yeah, right, remember that night I called and told you to _"

"Son of a bitch"

"Ciara?"

" uh"

"Who's the son of a bitch?" she asked following my gaze.

My eyes remained fixed on him.

"That motherfucker"

"Sal?" She asked looking at me.

"What?" I replied snapping back to reality, blinking.

"Is Salvatore Castillo the son of a bitch," she asked narrowing her eyes, lowering her head a little to the table, then she smiled as if she just met her true love.