Maybe

27- I Like Me Better

Felicity's POV

"And the next thing I knew was cold water on my face" Summer says dramatically and we both start laughing crazily.

We came up to my room as soon as everybody left. Guess mom and dad will only notice Summer in the morning then.

We ate and watched a few episodes of Dynasty on Netflix and right now we are pampering ourselves with peel-off face and eye masks. We've been talking about absolutely randomly crazy things.

"So your brother really didn't let you have any boyfriends when he was here?" I ask her in between our laughs. I can't look at her because we still have our masks on.

"It's not that he didn't let me. It's just that he was really known by everyone in Skyline High. And boys were legit scared of him. So no really had the guts to ask me out"

"Umm hmm"

"What about you? What was that idiot's name who cheated on you?"

And without thinking about it, I tell her.

"Nick. Nicholas Hedges"

"Sounds like a douche"

I laugh and ask her "how does a person sound like a douche just by the name?"

"The kind that cheats on my friend"

And just like that, we talk for hours and hours about literally our whole lives. And yes, I do tell her about everything that happened in Sacramento.

 Everything that happened that night.

And everything that happened after that night.

***

I wake up to the sound of 'I like me better' and I look around the room to see where the sound is coming from.

Summer's leg is on my stomach and my head is halfway down the bed. After I told her my story last night, we spent two hours talking about just that. She told me that she thought I was a really strong person and that I can count on her in any situation whatsoever. I also told her that she can't let my parents get the hint that she knows anything about this. 

"Ugh that's my alarm" she says as she gets up.

"Snooze it. Nowww" I say while I close my eyes again.

"Doing it babe" she says and then sudddenly yells "aaaaahhhh"

I quickly get up "what happened? What's wrong?"

"We're late for school"

"What time is it? And why did you yell like someone was killing you?" I ask andd this time I yell.

"Because it's 11:40 and our school starts at 8:30!" now she yells again and after that I yell "whatttttt? Why didn't anyone wake us up?" 

We both run around the room getting ready.

"How would I know?"

"Oh my god"

***

"So it's good that I didn't get to meet your parents right?" Summer asks me. We are done with all the lectures. We were in the school by our third last lecture.

"Ya. You would've been fired with questions if they would've met you" I tell her.

"City, I've met you two months ago and I already believe you. How could they not?"

"I've stopped asking that question to myself"

"Tell me again why are you gonna keep seeing that, Penelope, even though you know you don't need help?"