Girlfriend's Best Friend
CHAPTER 37
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“Stop the car, I want to get
out,” she said.
“Brooke, calm down, you’re not getting out, where
would you go?” I tried to calm her down, realizing how
wrong I was in this whole thing. Even though Brooke was the one
to kiss me first, it was me who suggested we keep this going
even after she said we could just pretend that nothing ever
happened.
She kept yelling and cursing me out, but I wouldn’t let
her leave and walk alone almost two miles back to her house all
by herself. She kept telling me she hated me when I got a call
from Kelli.
“It’s her,” I said.
“I wouldn’t expect it to be anyone else,” she
spat. I yelled at her that she was the one who wanted me to
continue dating her, but she yelled back that I said I had to
date Kel if I wanted to see her. I answered the phone so I
didn’t have to answer Brooke, because she was right.
“Hello?” I answered, expecting an apology from
Kelli.
“Cody, can we just forget this whole fight?” she
asked.
“Babe, it’s only been half an hour, you miss me
already? I miss you too,” I said, starting straight at
Brooke to p.iss her off.
“I didn’t say that…” Kelli said.
“I said I want to forget this whole fight. You’re
right—I’m too dependent on you and I have to let
you be your own person, just like how I have to be my own
person.” We kept talking for ten more minutes settling
everything out, and the whole time I was pulled over talking to
her, Brooke sat there, looking down.
I
cancelled the date I was supposed to have with Kelli tomorrow
because I was ‘busy’ a.k.a I wanted to spend time
with Brooke. She wasn’t even paying attention to my
conversation, but she also never got out of the car. I told her
that had to mean something.
“It meant nothing. I guess you’ll be spending your
day alone tomorrow,” she actually got out of the car this
time. I turned the car around and drove up next to her, my car
going literally one mile per hour. She said she was going to
have Jace pick her up, and I knew she picked him because he was
an idiot just like me who would do anything for her. Brooke
played with people, adjusting and using them like players in a
game to benefit herself. Yet I still felt bad for her.
“Well then I’m staying here until he does.
I’m not leaving you alone at night in the middle of the
park,” I parked my car across from the bench she sat down
on.
“You better go,” she warned me. “He’s
going to see you and then he’ll figure everything
out.” Jace would call when he was close, I knew I’d
have time to leave.
“We both know eventually they’ll find out. We
can’t expect to keep us a secret forever.”
“But keeping us a secret for as long as possible would be
nice,” she said. I smiled. “So you do still
care,” I got out of the car and walked over to her.
She yelled at me to get back in the car so I sat down on the
bench and put my arm around her. She moved the other way so I
did too, apologizing, “Brooke please, just hear me out.
I’m sorry that I said that to you and I’m sorry
that I yelled at you. I want this just as much as you do but
you know what we have to do to keep this going. And I
just—” I didn’t know what to say. I thought I
loved Brooke. She was your favorite movie, your favorite book,
your favorite song. The one you swore you were sick of yet you
couldn’t stop watching, reading, listening to.
She kissed me and I didn’t even try to stop her. No
matter what I said about Brooke, I was only trying to convince
myself I didn’t love her. But I did. I loved her. I loved
her. I loved her.
A
car door slammed and Brooke and I both pulled up. Jace stood
across the street, staring at me in total shock.
“Uh-um, Jace, hi,” Brooke tried to break the
silence. “Did you..um..” She didn’t even know
what to say.
“Yeah…” he judgingly looked her up
and down. “Sorry for interrupting.”
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