It All Started With A One Night Stand

Reality Check

I got back home, ready and excited to tell Jasmine and Victoria about how I met Nathan's friends. I would probably not mention what Bella said, as I did not want to bring up how bad the differences were in status or ruin the mood. However, as I got to the living room, I could already tell that the mood was different.

"Hey guys! What's wrong?" I asked as I see Victoria and Jasmine fuming. They both looked upset and furious.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? Do you even know what day it is today?" Victoria asked me while putting her hand on her face.

Today. What is today? It's not either one of their birthdays or any holidays, I won't forget those. What could today be? And it instantly come back to me.

"Oh no!" I said feeling guilty and embarrassed that I would forget our weekly tradition, of spending our Thursday's together.

With me being busy in school, the newspaper and volunteering, Jasmine being part of drama and cheerleading, and Victoria being invested in several social activist clubs, we do not have that much time to spend together. So we agreed that every Thursday will be our girls night, the one day that was just ours.

"I am sooo soooo sorry." I said while putting my hand over my face. I am such a horrible friend! I promised myself I would not be that person, the kind who forgets her friends when I got a new boyfriend. But I failed badly!

"Yea! We are sorry too!" Jasmine said as she looked like she was going to come hug me and decided against it.

"I am such a horrible friend." I said as I went to go sit on the couch and started to tear up.

"No you are not!" Jasmine said deciding hugging me was the right decision.

"But it's not only that you are not spending time with us! When is the last time you went to your club meetings or you went volunteering! How bout school, you are barely studying!" Victoria said while pinpointing every thing that I missed in the last week.

As I tried to come up with a defence, I realized that I had none. I did miss out on all my extracurriculars and on school to be with Nathan. I mean it's only been a couple of days, but if they haven't mentioned anything, would I have even noticed? Or would I only notice when it becomes too late?

"We are just worried that you are forgetting about everything in your life for Nathan. I mean he is gorgeous from what I can tell you guys are really sweet and real and romantic. And that's nice." Jasmine said while putting a stray hair behind my ear and started wiping my tears.

"But he is not the only one that matters. The most important thing for you, should be you. It should be everything that you worked so hard for, like being a volunteer assistant coordinator, being part of residence council and working on the newspaper. They should matter too." Victoria told me as she came down to hug me on the opposite side. She kissed me on the head.

"I get it guys. I mean who am I now? Before I was Alyssa, now I'm just Nathan's girlfriend." I said as I hugged them tight. "I should get back to those things."

"Yea and we miss you too. So you should come back to us." Jasmine said.

"I would. But you are Jasmine and Victoria! You know that i will never ever really leave you." I said as I kissed Jasmine and Victoria on the cheeks.

"Ok great. I'm sorry that we had to be harsh on you, we just knew that we had to tell you the truth." Victoria said looking guilty.

" No I'm happy you told me. I really am! Now I just need to know what to do." I said as I looked into the air and pondered my choices. Should I tell Nathan that I don't want to spend as much time with him? Would he take it wrong? Or should I lie? But no good relationship every started with a lie?