Read Best Friends for Life? :: Chapter 5

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The alarm goes off on my phone. ugh fuck off I mumble and get up from bed. Can’t wait for another day of absolutely nothing. I ride my bike like every day and attend classes like every other day until I hear a string of conversations on my way home. Two girls walk by me

“Did you hear Alexander is throwing a party tonight?”The blonde one said

“Oh, no, I didn't, are you going to go?” the brunette one said

“Hell yeah and you better come with me,” said the blonde tugging the other one along. Aren’t we supposed to go on a date today? Whatever it's not like the day could get any worse.

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At home, I get a text from Alexander.

Alexander

Come outside, I've been waiting for you for the past 5 minutes.

I double checked my outfit. A blue buttoned shirt and white shorts and leave my room. I get in the car next to him. We don’t speak, we never really do. This is awkward and it still is as he starts to drive. I watch as the trees pass by my window. Then houses and we stop. I’ve never been to one before but it is BIG. How rich is he? We walk in and there are people everywhere. Somebody is drunk on the stairs. Several people are playing some kinda drinking game I never heard

of. The DJ has some club songs playing. In another corner, there are people with cigarettes smoking who know what. Ugh, this is disgusting. I already hated it here.

I walk next to Alexander into the kitchen.” What the hell, Alexander this isn’t a date. It’s a fucking frat party.” I'm a little mad.

“No it's a date” he scoffs. “ Are you blind or something?” he says and hands me a drink. I roll my eyes. This dipshit clearly has never had a stable relationship.

“What is this?” I ask peering down at my drink.

“It’s some jungle juice, Tim made it. I have no idea what's in it but you should try it, it tastes good. He takes a sip and peers down at his phone. This shit looks nasty. There are chunks of something green floating in there. I pour it down the sink and get some water from the tap. We sit in silence as he plays a game on his phone. I look around and somebody catches my eye. Laura’s here? Alexander gets up and I follow him not knowing where he’s going but I didn’t care I just wanted a better view of Laura. We ended up on the other side of the house and Alexander ended up with a girl on his arm. She’s flirting with him, the girl from the hallway. She must be desperate if she's going for Alexander. Everyone knows about his attitude and that's why he has so few friends despite being one of the most popular people at the school. I want to get out of here. The atmosphere is horrible and looking for Laura to see if she's okay is getting exhausting. Why do I even care? It's not like we're speaking. Yet then I still pick her out of the crowd and sometimes I catch her eyes on me. Every time I do a feeling goes through my body that I can’t explain. What is going on? I thought I shoved those feelings away. I don't

want them to come back. I don't want to ruin our friendship again. Push it down like you did before. Don’t let it come back.

Amid my thoughts, a girl pushes me off the couch to get closer to Alexander. That was the breaking point.

“Alexander” No response

“ALEXANDER” no response

“ALEXANDER” This time he looks up at me.

“Oh my god women what do you want, can’t you see I’m talking?” He shouts at me. I pull his arm outside and bring him to the front porch.

“Bring me home,” I say

“But we just got here” he detested

“TAKE.ME.HOME”

“WE.JUST.GOT.HERE”

“That’s it, I'm breaking up with you” he freezes “ You treat me like shit, you’ve cheated on me multiple times. Not to mention you are a stuck up asshole that nobody likes. I told you again and again to take me on a real date but you continue to ignore my plea.” I shout. “I didn’t even like you in the first place” I mumble. I freeze, I look up at him. He didn’t seem to hear me.

“So you're going to break the perfect little image your father has of you? Then go right fucking ahead. I don't need a slut like you in my life anyway” he scoffs.

”TAKE.ME.HOME. I don't care what you think of me or what my so-called father thinks of me I just want you to take me home. NOW.” I say a final time and he obliges and drives me to my house. The ride was quiet on the way back. I slam the car door and rush into my house. Home at last. I sigh. I shower and lie down. I finally don’t have to deal with his bullshit anymore. I block him on everything and go to bed. Hopefully, everything will get better.

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It didn’t

Somebody recorded me yelling at Alexander and posted it on TikTak. Great just fucking great. I sigh.

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LAURA POV

FRIDAY NIGHT

I watched it go down. The break up between Alex and Sisi. Honestly serves him right for being an asshole to her and for no reason to. I feel kind of bad about the whole thing, it shouldn’t have ended up the way it did. I sit on the couch where Alex once was and out of the corner of my eye I catch a glimpse. Syd? What is she doing here? I didn't know she was coming. I'm going to go say hi. I follow her as she makes her
way up the stairs. She has a guy in tow, is that Tim? The one who made the disgusting juice? They walk down the hallway, and I follow.

“Sy-” I stop, my cup drops to the ground as Syd starts making out with Tom right in front of my face. I watch in silent horror as he opens the bedroom door and slams it behind them clearly not caring who around them can see them. I slump to the ground. I can hear all the noises inside. I need to get away. I get up on shaky legs and walk my way to the front door and out of the house. My heart is hammering so hard. Everything around me is frozen as it feels like all the blood in my body stopped working. I slump on the front porch steps. I called an Uber to pick me up. They don't say anything as I get in and I'm thankful for it. Everything else passes in a blur and somehow I end up in my bed. That is when the tears start falling. It started small and slowly worked its way up to heart-wrenching sobs, as I lay there thinking about all the good times I had with her like when she took me all the way to watch an NWSL soccer game with my favorite team or that time she surprised me for my birthday and took me to the beach. All the good memories fell down the drain and all because she cheated on me. Everything stops again.

Sisi was right, she was right all along I knew she was right and yet then I didn't want to believe it. I fucked up badly this time and I don't know how to fix it. I have all weekend to think and then I'll work up the courage to apologize to Sisi on Monday! That sounds like a good plan!

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ONE WEEK LATER.

So I haven't apologized to Sisi yet, but I plan to today! I hope she can forgive me for not trusting her. Which reminds me, I haven’t broken up with Syd yet either but I’ll do it…. Eventually. Listen I just can’t bring

myself to do it. So I was thinking if I had Sisi by my side it would be a WHOLE lot easier to do. Now how do I win her back is the question. I think for a second.

A thought hits me. Perfect! I think. that’ll definitely make her forgive me.

I park my bike next to Sisi’s. She's already in the building so she doesn't know I’ve done it.

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I go through classes like I normally do until art which I skip and dash out to our bike where I camp out until I see Sisi’s lanky frame stalk over. I hold my ground and she stares at me wide-eyed. She turns to leave until I brace her hand and I'm not letting go.

“SISI I'M SO SO SORRY” I yell, tears forming. “YOU WERE RIGHT AND I'M SO SO SORRY FOR MAKING YOU SAD. I MISS YOU” I squeeze my eyes closed.

I hear a soft chuckle from her. She turns around and looks at me and gives me the biggest bare hug of the century. “I missed you too fluffy,” she says and squeezes me even harder. I wheeze.

“Oh shit, I'm sorry” She lightens up her squeeze a little.i look in her eyes once more and see they’re glossy.

“Let's go get some ice cream”

SIENNA POV

We make it to the ice cream parlor and order. Her signature strawberry and my mint chocolate. We sit outside and watch as the clouds go by. We were in silence but it was not like the awkward I'm so used to around Alexander but a warming kind of silence. I look at her, there's ice cream all over her face and some in her hair too.

“Hey Laura, look at me,” I say in amusement. She complies and I wipe the ice cream in her hair off with a napkin left on the table. Her face seems to blush in embarrassment as she mumbles thanks and returns to look at the clouds above. I stifle the laugh that comes up with the back of my hand. We finish our ice cream and head to the car.

“Where should we head next? Maybe the woods? We haven't been there in a while,” I say looking at her.

“Let’s go to the woods and see if our old spot is there,” she says. I nod in response and we get on out bikes. We ride our bikes till we reach the designated spot. Memories flooded my mind since the last time I’ve been here. The laughter of Laura and I as we danced through the trees pretending to be knights and dragons. My house used to be right in front of the woods. I look across the street. My house looks different it was the house we lived in before we moved in with my 'father'. The color has changed to white instead of the deep rich green it used to be. It was Dad's favorite color before he died. My mom painstakingly painted the whole house in honor of him. There were no longer the millions of plants lying on the railing to the stairs. A tap hit my shoulder.

“Sisi, are you okay?” Laura looks up at me. I feel a tear reach my eye and fall to the ground.

“Truthfully, no I'm not okay,” I say and she wraps me in a hug. My heart pangs with sadness as I hug her back. My head rests on top of her head. We let go of each other after a while. She takes my hand and we silently enter the woods. Our spot was an old abandoned shack. We hadn't put anything in here since we were eight years old so to walk in and see none of it was stolen was a surprise.

“My old comics are still here” Laura gasps “ and my figurines. I’ve been looking for these everywhere” She fluttered from one place to another checking out all our childhood items.

“Look! It's a polaroid of us! God, I wonder how old it is” She hands me it. The picture depicts a younger me and Laura with the caption ‘The first day of school!’. My heart grew warm, I stuffed the picture in my back pocket for later use. I look up to see Laura spread out on the floor.

“I remember we fell asleep here and your mom was so scared when she couldn't find us” I lay down next to her. “ She got the whole neighborhood looking for us" she laughs hard holding her stomach.

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