Girlfriend's Best Friend
CHAPTER 1 x x x .
“Cody!” my best friend Carter punched my arm.
“What? Bro, what the hell?” I hit him back.
“Did you even hear what I said?” he asked. I tried to think back but to ten seconds ago to recall whatever he was talking about to me and my other four best friends Jace, Mattie, Graham and Duke. “What were you staring at?” he started looking in the direction I had just been looking in.
“Nothing,” I quickly said.
“You were staring at those college girls?” he smirked. “Yo, Arizona State!”
The girl wearing the college t-shirt standing with her friend by the ice cream cart looked over in our direction and smiled. “Yo, she’s so hot!” Mattie said. “You know her, Cody?”
I’d seen her before, many times actually. But it’s not like I’d tell the guys that because then they’d make fun of the fact that I noticed her multiple times and she never once paid attention to me. Don’t get me wrong, I loved my friends but they’re the biggest a.ssholes when it came to girls. But I’ll admit though, I am too.
Her name was Brooke and she lived here in North Carolina, but that was all I knew. Every time I saw her she was with a bunch of different people, and always the center of attention which is why it was hard not to notice her. I’d always wanted to talk to her, but I just never knew what to say. And I definitely did not want my friends to help me talk to her. I’d freeze up because she was so intimidatingly perfect- my friends would never let me hear the end of it.
“Yo, she’s coming over here!” Graham high fived Duke which broke me out of my thoughts. Sh.i.t.
“Guys, why would you do that??” I quickly yelled at them in a hushed tone so Brooke and her friend couldn’t hear me.
“Code, I’m helping you out!” Carter said back in the same tone.
“Bro, you knew I wanted to talk to her!” I yelled back. He smirked, because he knew he took the girl I wanted. Now I knew what I had to do- show her why she should take an interest in me instead of them. Carter didn’t have a chance to answer me because Brooke sat down on the ground in front of us, “Hey.”
None of my friends answered, making us look like complete losers. “Hey,” Duke was the first to say.
“One of you called us, I believe,” she laughed and ran her fingers through her curly, light brown hair. I raised my eyebrows and clicked my tongue slightly in a half smile which I always unconsciously did whenever a girl did something hot. She was so gorgeous.
“You go to Arizona State?” Carter asked her. “What are you doing in North Carolina?”
“I live here, just toured there. I’m trying to go to college far from home,” she said. I noticed her clear blue eyes looking around at all my friends, but never once did her eyes land on me. That’s when I noticed her friend sitting next to her. Her friend was definitely pretty, but not nearly as pretty as Brooke. She had really long, dark brown hair and dark brown eyes to match. Her white Soffe shorts made her sunkissed legs look ever tanner, and she wore a baby blue t-shirt with our school mascot on it. Did she go to our school?
Her friend looked off into the distance, probably feeling the same way I did- unnoticed. I heard Brooke say they were currently sophomores but were going to be juniors soon- they were one year younger than us. Then she mentioned she thought we all went to school together and I hoped we did, but our school was huge- it was impossible to know if they really did. Brooke looked at me for a second and smiled with her eyes, right before looking right back at my friends.
“Maybe,” I butted into the conversation, wanting to get her attention back onto me. “But why are you trying to go to school so far away?”
“It’s different. I like adventures,” she showed off her perfectly white teeth, but her eyes were still looking at my friends. No, no, no! This isn’t how this was supposed to go! She was supposed to notice me. Want to get to know me. I was so mad at my friends.
“Maybe you’d like to come explore with us then,” I flirted, trying to win her back.
“We’d love to,” she stood up and grabbed her friend’s hand.
“What are your names?” I asked, leading the way from the park we were sitting in to the beach. I looked at my friends to try to silently brag that they didn’t completely steal Brooke from me.
“Brooke Cooper,” she smiled. “And that’s Kelli Carson.”
“Cody Hayes,” I finally introduced myself.
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