Beautiful Disaster

Ch.24

I was currently sitting across from Dina as I see her face break out into the widest grin I've ever seen in my life. "What?" I asks.

"You're in love with Alec?" Immediately shaking my head I look up from my tray of food.

"What? I do not love him. I like him but love? No. That's far off the scale right now." I say picking up a fry. "Besides, I'm pretty sure it's just a stupid crush." I shrug.

"If it was a stupid crush you wouldn't have told me about it." She points out. "You probably would've just kept it to yourself. No, you've been keeping it yourself and now you've finally come to terms with it. That's why you just sat here and told me you like him." She says with a smirk.

Dina and I were currently sitting at the food court in the mall after last minute Christmas shopping for the guys. She decided to get Marco a guitar pick that has his initials on them along with a new guitar case that said Marco across the top.

This was the first Christmas I have ever seen her buy gifts for someone she was involved with so even though she wouldn't admit it I knew they were far more deeper then she would like to admit.

I, on the hand was struggling to figure out what to buy Alec. It was crazy how I basically knew almost everything about him and slept next to him for months but I was struggling to find a simple gift.

I wanted to get him something that I knew he would love but didn't know what to get him that would make him happy. I had thoughts of buying him some new boxers since I stole majority of his but I doubt he'd be ecstatic to open a box of boxers that I'll probably end up stealing that same week.

Groaning, I place my head on the table. "This is so bad. What am I going to do? I can't like him D. He's Alec fucking Carlson. Only bad things will come from this." Grabbing my head she lift it up to look at her.

"Hey! You don't like Alec fucking Carlson. You like Alec- the one you cuddle with and sleep next to. The one who calls you sugarplum. That's who you like so don't bring his reputation into this when we both know him better than that."

"He'll break my heart. I can't let myself go down that road again." I say furrowing my eyebrows.

"So don't but if I'm being honest here even the blind can see that he loves you and vise versa. The other night at your house I saw how you guys acted towards each other while changing. I've never seen you look that comfortable with someone not even asshole Carter." She says rolling her eyes at the last part.

"Yeah but-" I start but she cuts me off.

"Uh-uh no buts. Come on let's go we still need to decide what to get for Alec." She says and we both make our way to the garbage throwing out the rest of our food.

We walked by the shops on the third level when I noticed this jewelry store. Walking around the store I bumped into Kayla and the two bobbleheads she calls her friends now.

"Hi Skyler." She says and I ignore her. "You know you can talk to me right? It's been months you can't still be mad. I didn't know you were that much of bitch." She says rolling her eyes and her friends giggled.

I was going to be the bigger person today and ignore her. Dina on the other hand had a different idea.

"And I didn't know a girl who stuffs her bra with toilet paper could actually be able to show that much cleavage so I guess anything is possible." Slightly laughing I stare at a bracelet that has longitude and latitude numbers written across it.

This is the one. He will love this.

Hearing Kayla gasp I look up to see her face red.
"You know what I'm so sick of you two bitches. You guys both hate me just because Carter chose me over little Miss Perfect over there." She said looking at me with disgust.

Deciding I was fed up with her little rant I give her a blank look and say, "Your tissue is showing ma'am." Even though they weren't but she immediately looks down at her chest that is currently being squeezed by a T- shirt 2x smaller then her.

It's basically below 0 degrees outside but she'd rather freeze and show her chest rather than put her damn coat back on. What a disgrace.

Rolling my eyes I turn to walk away when I hear her say, "One of these days you're going to have to get over the fact that Carter left you. It happened and that's life. Stop thinking you're better than everyone." Deciding that this new found path of being the bigger person was going to have to wait until next year I turned around.

"Listen I don't give a flying fuck about you or him. You think I'm so bothered by you but honestly I think it's the other way around." Tilting my head I take a step closer to her. "You say I think I'm better then everyone else but I don't. You think I'm better than you so don't put your insecurities on me. I'm trying to buy my boyfriend a Christmas gift and you're really messing with my holiday spirit." I say with a fake smile at the end. She scoffs.

"You and Alec are still together? That's a shocker. I'm surprised he hasn't dumped you with the rest of them. I wonder how long you two were fooling around seeing as you got right into that relationship soon as you and Carter broke up. That's a low, don't you think? They used to be friends." She smirks.

"Once upon a time so were we." And that was enough to make her face drop. "Have a nice day Kayla." Grabbing Dina's hand I walk towards the man behind the counter.

"Hi, I was wondering how much the bracelet over there was." I say pointing to the bracelet that caught my eye earlier.

"The one with the longitude and latitude design? That's $50. You can design it with different numbers or you can put your own spin on it if you don't want to get the number and just change the plaque on the bracelet."

"No, I actually want the numbers. My boyfriend is a geography fanatic. It's our first Christmas together so I'm a little scared of what to get him but I really think he'll love that."

The clerk nods his head before guiding me back to the stand where the bracelet was kept. Pulling it out, I stare at a little closely and I get more certain about this gift.

"We have the color in black, gold, rose gold, and silver. Are there any specific numbers you would like to put on the bracelet? We can always make an engraving on the inside of the bracelet if you also wanted to make a little note for your boyfriend."

Nodding my head I think for a little while before deciding what I wanted to do. After telling the clerk what I wanted it to say, the color, asking when it'll be ready and paying we left the store. Mentally reminding myself to remember to come pick it up on Christmas Eve which was in 3 days.

"You know all day you've been referring to Alec as your boyfriend without even second guessing yourself." Dina so casually points out.

"No I haven't." She shoots me a bored face. "You called him your boyfriend to the clerk. I get why you would say it to Bitch Face Kayla but saying it to the store clerk just came naturally for you."

"It's a habit I guess. It's not that big of a deal."

She simply replies with a eye-roll and I decide to change the direction of conversation by dragging her to Auntie Annie's. After grabbing our cinnamon sticks we head home to decorate my house.