Girlfriend's Best Friend
CHAPTER 41
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“You three go after Brooke,”
I told Jace, Mattie, and Duke. “We’ll go after
Kelli. This fighting is such bullsh.it, just get them back here
so they can talk it out.”
They started running after Brooke who was pretty far down the
boardwalk. Kelli didn’t go far at all. She sat on a bench
outside just outside the store, crying into her hands with her
long dark hair covering her face.
“Babe, don’t do this,” I sat down and pulled
her in close.
“I just lost my best friend, what am I supposed to
do?” Kelli cried.
“I thought you didn’t even care about Brooke? You
always said she was an attention wh.ore,” Carter
said.
“Oh no, she is,” Kelli said. “But she’s
always been there for me and we’ve been best friends
since fourth grade and once Cody and I started dating, she
didn’t understand that I couldn’t focus all my time
on her anymore.”
“Being completely honest Kelli, you didn’t focus
any attention on her at all. You focused it all on Cody,”
Graham said. “She probably thought you forgot about all
those times she was a good friend because you made Cody your
everything and her your plan B.”
I expected Kelli to give some bullsh.it excuse, but she
surprised me when she said, “I know. And then we started
fighting and I said things I didn’t mean out of anger and
then she said even meaner things and now I just don’t
even want anything to do with her. Now I just want you
more.” She turned and faced me, giving me a long
kiss.
“So what?” Carter interrupted it. “I say
d.ouchey things all the time to my friends, they get p.issed
off and then we get over it the next day. Why can’t you
guys just do that?”
“Because the difference is you’re probably just
saying what’s on your mind. The things she said were out
of spite because she was knew it would hurt me,” Kelli
said.
“Like the fact Cody’s the only guy you’ve
ever gotten with?” Graham asked.
“Brooke’s just jealous that I don’t go around
giving every guy a piece of me. Why would I be jealous of a
girl that’s been used more times than a public
restroom?” Kelli tried to defend herself.
“Because you think that girl’s getting with your
boyfriend,” Carter said.
Graham and I exchanged looks for half a second before I looked
away. Kelli didn’t say anything, and it’s because
Carter was right. She always got quiet in the fight when she
realized she was wrong. But she never got quiet in the fight
with Brooke, and that’s because she didn’t think
she was wrong.
She wasn’t wrong. Brooke wasn’t wrong
either.
I was wrong.
