Desperado

part 48

elenas pov

i slowly eat my pizza and stare at joey, who's staring at lexi, and lexi who has her head down and is looking at her drawings

no one has talked in the past 5 minutes. joey seems to be annoyed that lexi is still here but i like lexi

she's fun to be around but i can tell that joey hates her, a lot. and i wonder why

my pizza was horrible, tasted like pineapples and i couldn't make a fit about it to joey because lexi was here

the kitchen is cleaned up now, lexi has frosting on her cheek and it makes me wonder if maybe joey leaned in too close to her and left that there

would he even kiss her? what if they had rough sex? why am i even thinking about this

i put my pizza down on my plate and take a deep breath before opening my mouth to say something

but i'm interrupted my lexi, "elena what do you think about hanging with ethan today?"

joey raises his brows "wha-"

i stop joey before he gets the chance to finish "i'd love too"

"great" lexi closes her folder and looks at joey, "you'd be fine with that right joey?"

"absolutely not"

lexi takes out her phone and i hear a ding come from joeys. joey picks his phone up and starts typing

lexis phone rings and she starts typing as well. i press my lips together as they continue to text each other

"joey" i say and his head turns

"yes?" he puts his phone down and walks over to me

i motion my finger for him to come closer to me, our faces are now a inch apart

"the pizza tasted like pineapple"

our foreheads touch and he starts smiling, a wide smile that makes me smile back

he has one of the prettiest smiles

he pulls away and study's my face, "please don't go out with ethan"

"why not?" i whisper

his eyes soften, "i-i don't know"

"why don't you like ethan?"

"he did a lot of horrible things to me and he knows that you mean a lot to me and he wants to take that away from me" joey breaths

"he wants to take me away from you?" i furrow my brows and joey nods

"you won't understand now but ethan isn't a good guy" joey lifts his hand and holds my cheek

it looks like he wants to say something but can't

"what is it?" why does he always hold back, this is his second time

"nothing" he shakes his head

"tell me joey, you can tell me" i assure him

i feel so comfortable around joey and i don't think he knows it yet. i can tell he's still upset that i only remember ethan but i want him to know that i care about him as well

i want him to feel the same way i feel about him

my heart races faster when joeys eyes lock into mine, "i cant"

he pulls away and looks at lexi

joeys pov

elena stands from the table and walks away. i put my head down in disappointment