I groan as Charli, Addi, and Vani pull me into yet again another store, this one to get dresses/nice clothes for whatever summer parties they're going to drag me to. I sit down on one of the benches and get on my phone and let the girls pick out whatever they want for me. I look up as Charli comes running over with a hot pink dress in her hands. I cringe at the color and can't picture it on myself.
"Oh my gosh Mads! Isn't this soooo cute?!" She squeals, showing me the dress. I laugh a little.
"For you? Of course!" I say, hyping her up.
"Uh... no! For you, silly!" She says, holding the dress up again. My eyes widen in disbelief, not even able to comprehend that Charli wants me to wear that dress. I pause for a long time, and right when I'm about to reply, Vani comes and shoves Charli out of the way. I laugh as she pushes fabric into my arms.
"Go. Try it on! Don't look at it fully until you are wearing it!" She says, pushing me into the changing room. I smile and try the dress on, not surprised to feel it fits perfect. Vani just knows me like that. I turn to the mirror and smile lightly in relief that Vani knows my style way better then Charli. I start examining it from all angles. I love it.
Thedress:
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I step out the dressing room and the girls all cheer.
"You. Look. Stunning!" Addi says, a proud look on her face.
"YOU'RE SOOO PRETTY! IT'S EVEN BETTER THEN MY DRESS IF YOU CAN BELIEVE THAT!" Charli yells, jumping around like a child. I laugh at her childish behavior.
"I'm so good." Vani states simply, looking me up and down. I smile at how true that statement was.
"Thank you!" I say before I go back into the dressing room to change back into my normal clothes and fold up the dress so I can purchase it.
Time skip, 1 hour later:
I sort of tune out the girls as we walk through the mall, to the exit, just staring at the ground lost in my thoughts. The girls have like at least 4 bags each and I only have 2, one with a swimsuit they forced me to buy and the other with the clothes I came to the mall in. The girls made me change and forced me to model my new dress so modeling is what I'm doing. I can't help but think the girls are up to something though. They're being really secretive and forcing me to wear this dress is sort of unlike them, but whatever. I'm interrupted mid-thought as my body collides with someone elses. I look up, a string of apologies falling profusely from my mouth. I look up and my jaw drops. There, right there, stands one of my best friends who I haven't seen in like, 2 years.
"Corbyn? Is that actually you?" I say in disbelief and realization dawns on his face.
"Mads?!" He engulfs me in a hug and I return it, smiling at the familiar feeling of Corbyn Besson's arms. "I didn't know you were in LA! I've missed you so much!" He says as we break apart.
"Oh my god! I've missed you too! And yeah, believe it or not, I'm part of the Hype House now!" I announce and he smiles. "Congrats! I knew you'd get far!" He turns a little and his eyes fall on the girls who are staring at our interaction. I know he knows who they are because his face brightens with understanding and he throws up a small wave, them returning it much more enthusiastically. I laugh.
"Thanks Corbs!" I say and he groans, he hates that nickname. I look a little to the right of him and see Christina, his girlfriend. I automatically hug her and she returns it, looking at me with happiness in her eyes. "Christina! I missed you too! How's YouTube going?" I ask when we break apart.
"Oh, pretty well! And god, I've missed you more than you know!" She exclaims and launches into an explanation about how she got a new phone and forgot my number, so we re-exchange numbers and the three of us plan to make plans sometime soon, and me and Christina decide in the near future, we can meet up with Gabbie, Kay, and Tate also. When we finally part ways, the girls want to know everything so I fill them in on how we met at one of Daniel's parties but sort of lost contact and soon I'm sitting in the passengers sear of Addison's car, driving off somewhere. I thought we were going back to the Hype House, but at a fork in the road, Addison takes a left instead of right and soon we are off to the beach.
"Uh... where are we going?" I ask, confused. But they don't respond, just giggle and Addi keeps driving. I sigh and sit back and once we're parked, I look around and see we are at the beach.
"Get out!" Addi says, and I get out, wondering why we're going to the beach. But then I notice none of the other girls have gotten out when I hear the lock click, and before I can say anything, they're off, driving back to the Hype House in giggling fits. I stand right where I am, completely confused and in shock. Is this their way of leaving me? Of kicking me out? Do they dislike me that much? I groan and turn around, deciding a stroll on the beach might help me think better. I slowly walk down, closer to the water, ditching my Doc Martens and socks further up, and walk down by the water when I see a rose petal. Then another. Soon, there is a whole trail of rose petals, leading me to a clearing in the middle of a clump of palm trees. I look around somberly, taking in the candles, lanterns, and fairy lights surrounding me, the canopy strung between two trees, and a food cooler with two beach chairs on either side. I smile and slowly start to turn around, knowing this is a place for a very happy couple to spend the night, not my place to be. I'm about to leave when I hear a voice and steps coming out of the other side of the clearing.
"Mads." I whirl around quickly and lock eyes with the boy I never wanted to see again standing right there with a bouquet of roses in his hand. I glare at him, wanting to retort, wanting to run away and never come back, but my feet seem glued to the sand and my tongue feels tied. He steps closer, taking that as inviting. "Hear me out." He continues, and slowly, hesitantly, as if waiting for me to go crazy, he holds out the bouquet. Realization hits me like a sack of bricks. This is for me! Do not take the roses, do not take the roses- I feel myself unwillingly reaching out and taking the roses. I inwardly groan, but still can't move or make a sound. Josh grins, apparently feeling more encouraged by this.
"I'm so sorry. I never meant to hurt you. I wasn't fully aware of my actions with Nessa, she was like this black hole sucking me in against all my will-which is of course, no excuse for my actions and behavior or anything I did," He adds when he sees the look on my face. "The guilt has been eating me alive. There hasn't been a second of my waking hours where you haven't crossed my mind, and I have been so miserable, just wanting to, forcing myself to, pay for my mistakes. Everything I did was wrong. Everything you have done, in your whole life has been amazing. Responding to my comments, liking my posts, and still following me even after what I did because you didn't want to bring light to our breakup so social media could have one more thing to gossip over and that is really mature of you, something some of the strongest people couldn't have done. I strive to be like you. You truly are an amazing girl, an amazing human being, and I don't deserve you in the slightest. But in time, hopefully you can forgive me for my dumb mistakes. You have every right to hate me, you can turn around and run right now, never turning back, and I won't blame you, I completely deserve that, but maybe we could go back to how things were. How they were before. Not even how they were during our relationship. Back when we were only friends. I just want to start over."
(A/N: Oop- cliffhanger! How will Mads respond? How would you respond? Really long chapter, making up for what I missed! Anyways, thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed! K, bye bby's💖✌🏻)
