Girlfriend's Best Friend
CHAPTER 34
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After hours of talking, finally sorting
everything out, and hooking up a little bit, we came up with a
plan: I’d get her back into the group, get everyone to
like her again, and then we’d act like we hate each other
so no one else thought anything was going on between
us.
This worked for a while, and it made Kelli treat both of us
better knowing I ‘hated Brooke but knew how good of
friends they were' just how she knew Brooke
‘didn’t like me but still supported Kelli and I
dating.'
“I kind of wish we would go back to hanging out just the
seven of us like we used to,” I said when Kelli and
Brooke walked up to my friends and I in the park one day.
“Nice to see you too, Cody,” she rolled her crystal
blue eyes, only to have them land right back on me.
“Be nice,” Kelli kissed me. Her entire attitude has
changed once she realized how much I actually
‘hated’ Brooke. I wonder if she realized I only
‘hated’ her because Kelli lied to me to make me
think she was a huge sl.ut.
I thought about that a lot actually. Not Kelli lying to me, but
Brooke being a sl.ut. When I first met her, that’s all I
called her. I tried to even convince my friends she was one. I
acted like I hated her, but really I hated that I was so drawn
to her when she had no interest in me. Then I thought maybe it
was for a reason, that reason being Kel. But now I ended up
with both of them. What was the reason for that?
“How’s the G.F?” Brooke flirted with
Mattie.
“It’s pronounced girlfriend, you aren’t
texting, you can’t say G.F,” I said, and Kelli
tried not to smile.
“You know, I can’t just leave if you want,”
Brooke threatened.
“Yes! Go!” I told her, but every single one of my
friends begged her to stay.
Brooke’s ego grew bigger with every beg. I realized
that’s why she and I were so compatible—we were
c.ocky a.ssholes but the difference was, I acknowledged it.
Brooke brought up the time that Graham told her to go home, and
you could immediately see the embarrassment on his face that he
was so mean to her. “How many times do I have to
apologize? I was in a bad mood and I thought something that
wasn’t true,” he said.
“What did you think?” Kel asked. I couldn’t
tell if she was annoyed or actually curious.
“It can’t be that important because I don’t
even remember,” he lied. “I’m just sorry,
okay Brooke?” Brooke flirted by not accepting his apology
and he said he’d make it up to her. He put his skateboard
out for her to stand on and took her somewhere else.
If I said it didn’t bother me that every guy loved
Brooke, I’d be lying. It made me insecure, and
that’s not who I was, and definitely not someone
I wanted people to think I was. I knew she had to act
that way to feel better about herself. I think the problem was
that everyone wanted to be like her, rather than be
with her. To have everyone at your fingertips, be
incredibly attractive, and all the friends you’d ever
need—who wouldn’t want that? But being around that
all the time, you get outshined or you don’t know if you
could keep up with it. So eventually, you stop hanging around
it. I think she knew that, and that’s why she acted how
she did.
She made everyone love her so it was harder to leave
her.
