𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐨𝐟 𝐮𝐬 | 𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫

19

Valeria

I guess you can say I was starting to feel better again. I wasn't as sad as I use to be, I was happier, seeing things for what they were... Everything was just going great. But it was nearing the time for me and Willow to head back to New York and it was always something I hated doing. Packing was light but leaving my friends hurt and bothered me. It's not like I won't be able to see them, but I know it will probably be a while until I do see them.

"I don't wanna go." Willow whines, as she closes her suit case. "Me either." I say, pulling the hoodie of my sweatshirt over my head. "Then why can't we just stayyy. We both love it here."

"I have a lot of summer college work to catch up on and so do you. You're worst than me with being backed up on work." I laugh. Me and Willow both attended college, however mine was online while Willow actually attended school. We both went to Hunter College, a pretty good college in New York that was located in Manhattan. (a/n: i applied to hunter for the fall of 2021!! lol)

"I'm not that bad! You're just being dramatic." She says defensively making me laugh even harder. Willow let out a huff before she went to move her suitcase by the door, so it was out of the way. She came back into the bed next to me and sat there scrolling on her phone, while I was also doing the same thing. I was scrolling through my Instagram and saw a picture of me and Vinnie and then a picture of me Nick, Dixie and Ryland which caused me to frown.

"So... What are y'all gonna do now?" Willow speaks up.

"Huh?" I say.

"You know, you and Vinnie. Y'all talked a few weeks ago didn't you?"

"Yeah... But we didn't really say anything about that. I just assumed he knew that at the moment I don't want a relationship because he's going to need to earn my trust back." I shrug. When I talked to Vinnie that last time we met up at the diner we didn't speak about how we were going to move forward, we just talked about everything that went on and that was it.

"That's very... nice of you to assume that." Willow says. "You sound like you're being sarcastic as fuck and I don't like that." I tell her.

"I just don't get how y'all went out to talk and completely forgot to mention that you two are practically in love with each other and how y'all plan to move forward." She shrugs. "We are not in love with each other!" I say, pushing her shoulder. "Don't push me! You know it's true. He wrote you that whole paragraph on his instagram basically confessing that it's always been you and you're telling me you can't tell that he loves you?"

"He doesn't love me Willow! We barely know each other!"

"You've known him since September of last year you liar! You two know almost everything about each other, so don't give me that shit. You're just too scared to admit that you love someone who's not Mason!" Willow tells me. In all honesty I was shocked that she would even bring up Mason or that fact that I could still be holding back from Vinnie because of him. "Why would you say something like that? I can admit when I love someone, I tell you I love you all the time." I say defensively.

"That doesn't count. I mean like you loving a boy, or girl, I don't judge." She states holding her hands up.

"Well what do you want me to say? That I possibly love Vinnie? Well it's not gonna happen because I don't. Maybe as a friend yeah... But I don't... Know what my feelings are for him at the moment. I care about him, a lot but I just don't see us working out." I tell her truthfully.

"Why don't you see what I see? When we went out last week, just me , you , Vinnie and Nick I saw the way he was looking at you. He only looked at you. He had this look of passion in his eyes tha-."