walk me home // crygi

sixteen

Crystal's Pov

March 25th
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  It's been three days since me and Gigi talked. Which is probably why I've hardly seen her at all these past 3 days of school. She only sits with us at lunch, but even then she focuses her attention on her phone and only looks up when one of us says her name.

Jaida says it's because she's going through a lot right now, but she'll come around eventually. After Jaida told me that, I felt sick. I wanted to apologize for adding more bullshit to her situation, but I knew it would probably just hurt more.

So I gave her space.

Which sucked.

"Earth to Crystal" Jaida says, waving her hand in my face. I snap back to reality, realizing I've been staring at her the entire time I was zoned out.

"Sorry, I didn't sleep much last night. I'm tired" I reply while stretching. We were sitting at our usual spot for lunch, which was unusually quiet because Jan was coming late. Gigi skipped lunch today, according to Jaida she wasn't feeling well.

"Are you good girl?" Jaida asks.
I nod and try to tell her what happened with me and Gigi, but am interrupted by a tall and slightly intimidating Naomi standing at our table. I didn't even notice her walk up until she was behind Jaida. Naomi was probably the prettiest one out of her friend group, besides Gigi anyway.

"Hey girl!" Jaida says when she notices Naomi. I looked at her confused, I thought she was friends with Violet?

"Mind if I sit?" Naomi says, and Jaida moves over and makes room for her. Naomi pushes her hair out of her face as she sits down and smiles at me. I return the fake smile, and look back down at my phone.

"She's not very talkative today" Jaida explains to Naomi.

"Where's Jan?" I ask, rolling my eyes to Jaida's comment.

"I see her, she just walked in" Naomi says, looking behind me. When I turn I see Jan's smiling face walking towards us, her purple hair is in a long ponytail that's swinging behind her, and she has at least 6 books in her arms.

"What did I miss?" Jan says overly excited as she plops her books down next to me, and sits.

"I wanted to tell you guys about last night" Naomi says. Jan and Jaida look at her excitedly, which still confuses me. Do we like her now? Is this going to be a permanent thing?

I mean, I don't not like her, I don't know her. All I know is she was one of Violet's friends, which so far doesn't give her a good reputation. As far as I was concerned, she was as bitchy as Violet. However Jaida and Jan seemed to like her, so maybe she wasn't that bad?

"Okay so, Violet is pissed at me. Obviously" Naomi says proudly. "And she called me screaming about how she could ruin my life, and how i'm going to regret dropping her". Jan and Jaida laugh and Naomi rolls her eyes.

"Why is she so toxic?" Jan asks flatly.

"Seriously, she's such a child and she's 18 years old" Jaida adds in.

It did make me wonder, why Violet is such a bitch. I mean from what I knew about her, she was rich, she had a nice boyfriend and was pretty popular at school. I didn't know anything about her home life though, which could possibly explain a lot, which is why i tried to refrain from judging.

But she is SUCH a cunt.

"Well, the poor girl has a lot more issues than she tends to let off" Naomi says quickly. "But I basically said if she talks shit, i'll tell Chad about her cheating on him". I nearly choked when I heard that.

"What? Violet is cheating on Chad?" I say concerned. Jaida and Jan look at me and Naomi giggles.

"I didn't tell you that?" Jan asks.

"No, how could you forget that part?" I reply giving her a dirty look, which only makes her laugh.

"I thought everyone knew that" Naomi says matter of factly.

"Well everyone except Chad" Jaida says, like it's funny.

"That's not funny, he should know. That's so fucked up" I say sadly. I only met him a few times, but he was such a genuinely nice guy. When I first met him, I knew Violet didn't deserve him, and now I know that I was actually right.

"Do you wanna get your ass handed to you for telling him? Be my guest". Naomi says in a serious tone.

"Well I think he should know" I say sadly.

"Listen Honey, it only happened a few times and she's stopped, which doesn't make it any better" Naomi starts, reaching her hand out to me. "But Violet is a snake, and Chad is whipped. He probably wouldn't believe me if I told him anyway". That also made me sad, that Violet managed to completely manipulate him when he seemed like a really nice guy.

"But it was enough for her to let it go, and let me cut her out of my life in peace" Naomi says simply.

They continue to talk about it, but I zone out again, looking at my phone. Naomi is nice, I'm glad she's not a raging bitch like Violet. I've also learned that I cannot stand Violet, my blood was boiling the more Naomi talked about her. I mean I didn't really care what Violet or anyone thought of me, but she was such a bitch to everyone, especially to Gigi.

I hated her.

Finally lunch was over, and I walked ahead of Jan and Jaida who were on both sides of Naomi and were caught up in one of her stories. I liked Naomi, and I could tell she was serious about getting away from Violet's bullshit. I take out my phone as I walk and text Daya.

Crystal: I've literally had the most emotionally draining day ever, meet me after school?

Daya: I got you girl.

It sucked not seeing her at school, she has been my bestfriend for as long as I can remember. She switched to online school before highschool so she could focus on her art, but since we were neighbors it didn't interfere with our friendship at all. If Daya went here though? She would make Violet look like a joke. I smile to myself at that thought, as I turn the corner to walk up the steps to my 5th class. On my way up, I bump into someone which makes me look up from my phone when I hear all of their books fall down the stairs.

Yeah, I probably shouldn't be texting and walking. Oops.

I turn around to pick up the books and start to apologize.

"I'm sorry, I wasn't looking" I say softly, looking up to see Gigi grabbing her books as well.

"Yeah I noticed" She says as I hand her the book I picked up. She puts her earbuds in and looks back at me. Her brown hair was curled today and her makeup looked really good, except she looked pissed.

It was totally a cliche moment we just had, but it was more awkward than anything else.

She quickly turns around and walks away coldly. I nod and turn to walk back up the stairs. If it wasn't obvious before, I know now she's definitely avoiding me completely. I don't know what I expected, I told her we shouldn't be friends, but I didn't think she would shut me out completely.

If anything, I should be the angry one.

I shrug it off, and walk into the classroom and pull out my phone. I scroll through my instagram and see a picture of Jaida, Jan, Gigi and Me from the night of my first party here. We were all smiling and dressed in denim, I don't even remember taking the picture. We all looked pretty happy. I liked the picture and clicked on the tagged people. I ended up clicking Gigi's account for some reason, only to find out that she removed me.

What the hell?

I shake my head to myself. Completely amused yet sort of angry that she removed me, like I was the one that did something wrong. I turn off my phone and try to start paying attention to class, but couldn't stop thinking about my interaction with Gigi.

Why did it seem like she hated me? And why did I care so much?