Girlfriend's Best Friend
CHAPTER 33
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“I don’t have a
boyfriend?” she said defensively. “Who told you
that?”
“Who do you think?”
“Kelli,” she rolled her eyes. “You just said
it yourself—she’s jealous of me! She’s
telling you guys I have a boyfriend so that you don’t
talk to me!”
“She’s making it up? So for the past two weeks when
we had her text you to hang out you said no because you had
plans with no one?”
She denied it and I completely lost any patience I had left for
her. “Brooke!” I yelled at her. “Stop playing
stupid! It’s not cute, or believable, or anything!
It’s aggravating as f.uck, you know exactly what
I’m talking about. She texted you multiple times to hang
out and you told her no because you were with him!”
The next thing I knew, Brooke’s phone was hurling towards
me, hitting me straight in the chest. “Check my
messages!” she yelled at me. “See if my boyfriend
texted me! See if Kelli asked me to hang out! Check every
single message—you’re not going to find
anything!”
As soon as she said that, I had a pretty good idea that I was
wrong. She wouldn’t have me check her messages if there
was something there, because she knew I wouldn’t think
she was bluffing and that I actually would check. The last text
she got from Kelli was two weeks ago. She didn’t know
that I knew about this ‘boyfriend’ so she
wouldn’t have thought to delete the messages.
“I’m sorry,” I said quietly and handed the
phone back.
“So that’s why you invited me here?” she
scoffed. “To yell at me for ‘having a boyfriend and
cheating on him with you?’ Sounds pretty f.ucking
hypocritical if you ask me.”
She started to push past me but I couldn’t let her leave
until this was all sorted out. “I invited you here to
apologize, and try to convince you to not bother with me
anymore.”
Her eyes widened and her face dropped. “Not bother with
you? What do you mean?”
“Don’t hook up with me anymore. Do you know how
guilty I feel looking at Kel and seeing how happy I make her
when I know I’m cheating on her? Your
‘boyfriend’ would’ve been crushed if he knew
about me. Graham already knows and he yelled at me for it and
made you cry. Like, I really like you Brooke, but this
isn’t going to work out. Not while I’m still dating
Kel,” I tried to let her down easy.
“So I guess you’re going to have to pick one of us
then.”
“I’m not doing that. I like both of you. I know you
don’t understand how I could like Kelli, but you’re
not there when it’s just me and her. That’s when I
like her the most. But I can’t see you if I don’t
see Kel. If I break up with her, you can’t hang out with
me because I’m her ex-boyfriend. If you stop being
friends with Kel, I can’t hang out with you because
you’re my girlfriend’s ex-best friend. If
we lose Kel, we lose each other.”
