God has given you one face, you make yourself another.
Ashley's POV
"Till we meet again in the next class." Miss Brooke waves to the class before leaving.
I'm relieved. Ha!, thought we would act the play but it turns out we didn't. Heaven knows I was so nervous. According to Miss Brooke, the play would be on hold for now till further info is given out. Most of the students were disappointed at this whilst others- like me, like me- were relieved.
"So are you going to tell me what's exactly going on with you?" Cam asks as we head for the Cafeteria. Exactly!, I'm going to have lunch today, no hiding. I'll have to face my fears one way or another and what better moment is it than now? Can't afford to starve myself today too, so I'm having lunch today.
"Nothing," I answer her.
She cocks her head to the side as she looks at me from head to toe. "There! She's doing it again. Lying. Am I even your friend at all?"
"Of course! You are. Why would you ask me that?"
"I highly doubt, because off-late you don't act like we are. Always hiding things from me."
Okay, so this is getting complicated.
"I want to tell you..." I start but she cuts me off.
"Yet you aren't doing so."
"That's because it's not as easy for me to say."
"So are you telling me it's easier to hide it from me? Wow!!" She shakes her head.
"Cam!"
"No, it's okay I get it. Don't..." she looks me dead in the eye, "talk to me unless you're ready to tell me what's happening in your life." With that she brushes past me, leaving me standing there by myself mouth hung open at her words.
She's never acted this way before.
Throughout lunch, she ignores me. And weirdly, Grayson didn't come to the cafeteria. Pierson and Cole did yet he didn't. I wonder where he is right now. I wanted to ask Pierson yet I couldn't utter a word.
Immediately school closes Cam rushes out without waiting for me. I quickly put my books in my bag and rushed to follow her. I walked out of class only to see that she was nowhere in sight, so I rushed to where I remembered her parking her car. And there she was right beside her car.
"Cam!" I say once I get closer.
"What?!" She snaps.
Okay! So now it's time for the bomb. So help me, universe. I'm telling her everything, it's now or never.
"Grayson and I nearly kissed." I blurt out, and once these words hit her hearing senses she halts immediately, taking her time to process it.
She then watches me, a smile at the corner of her lips. "Wait! What did you j-u-s-t say?"
I sigh, "That Grayson and I almost kissed."
"Omg! Omg! OOOOh my Gosh! Tell me you're not kidding?" She literally starts shaking my shoulders.
"I'm not." I roll my eyes at her drama. Drama queen!
"Yaaaaaaay!!" She squeals so loudly that students start to look in our direction, gazing at her like she's crazy. She realizes it yet doesn't give a heck as she continues to scream and squeal in excitement.
"I can NOT believe this. Jeez! I'm driving you home today." She drags me to the passenger side of the car and she opens it. "Hop in." She demands.
"What about Lucas?" I question.
She scoffs."He's a grown nigga, I'm definitely sure he can find his way home. Just text him that you're riding with me. We've got lots of stuff to talk about anyway. Girlie stuff, if he decides he wants to know."
"If you say so. But don't be too excited, you might get disappointed at the end." I say before entering.
"Whatever!" She says rushes to the driver's side and enters. "All I know is that I'm rooting for you and Grayson being together and I'm not stopping, not now, not ever." She flicks her hair.
She revs the engine and drives us out of the school. And then she turns to me, "Aha! Just as we were talking about. What happened? How did it happen? Tell me!" She squeals again.
"We didn't kiss. We nearly did though."
She looks at me like I'm crazy. "See honey berry, that's all that matters, the fact that you nearly did. It means that there's something."
"Mmmm....."
"Wait a minute! So that was what you were hiding from me?" she scoffs unbelievably, "You're funny, really. See! You can deceive yourself for all I care, deep down you know what you're doing to that guy isn't right. Not one bit."
"What am I doing?" I raise my brows in confusion.
"You know he likes you, don't you?"
"Does he?"
"Of course! Tell me you're not that dumb."
"But...."
"Oh shut the hell up. You're beginning to piss me off big time. Why would he want to kiss you if he didn't like you? Tell me huh?!" She yells.
She ignores me throughout the ride.
"Get out of my car." She says once she drops me off and drives off without saying a 'Bye'.
She's really pissed I can tell but what am I supposed to do?
I texted, 'I'm sorry' to her when I was about to go to bed.
Don't let the sun go down on your anger.
'Tell that to Grayson, not me.' She replies after a good ten minutes. I nearly fell asleep but a ping was enough to shake me up.
'Really?', I text back.
'Uh-huh.'- Cam.
'I don't know why I'm to tell him sorry. What have I done wrong?'- Me.
'I assume you don't know, so let me do the honors of telling you. Because you guys almost kissed, you decided to ignore him the whole of yesterday and today too, that's where you're wrong. So apologize to him, tell him you didn't mean it. Oh! and don't speak to me if you've not done that. Speak to me, only if you have. Have a nice evening. Goodnight!'
Wow! So she's doing this to me.
- -
I thought she was joking but guess what, she hasn't been talking to me since I arrived at school today. I've tried talking to her but she keeps ignoring me like a plague. She has never been like this with me. Never!
When it was break time she headed out of the class without me. I didn't even notice the time she went out but before I realized it, she wasn't beside me anymore. Cam's ignoring me, never would I have imagined she would.
I honestly thought by lunch she would have sobered up a little and would probably warm up to me but guess what? I was totally wrong. She smiled with everyone else at the table but me. Grayson was at the table today, and so was everyone else including Dylan. Even Dylan! I wonder which side of the bed we all slept on for him to have joined us on the table. They both, Cam and him kept up with their usual banter while the rest of us ate while making small conversation.
Just when I was eating, I felt someone's gaze on me so I lifted my head, only to come in contact with Grayson's eyes on me. I force a smile on my face, which he returns with a nod.
- -
'I know you've still not apologized to him. It's okay, I know you're shy which is not an excuse. I can help you apologize to him, though, in return for something.' I receive this text from Cam whilst driving home with Lucas.
'What thing?'Â I quickly text.
'A sleepover.'
'That's easy.' I text back.
'Not at your place?', she texts back.
'Okay.'
'Good.'
It's at her place then, I guess, probably.
_ _
I can't believe she asked for a sleepover, I mean, that's nothing hard. At all!
She's been talking to me today, more cheerily if I may add, throughout the day. She's her old self around me, her usual crazy self and I must say I'm relieved. It's better than the silent treatment she was giving me the whole of yesterday, way better.
I asked about the sleepover but she just looks at me like I'm senile.
"Don't you know what a sleepover is anymore? I don't get it."
"Okay, okay fine." I lift my arms in mock surrender, "Let's end it here."
"Yeah right! Invite Lucas and Dylan, they might want to come."
"Will do!" I say.
_ _
"Lucas, Dylan, Cam's here," I yell loudly. Cam texted me a minute ago that she was here. I went straight to their room and told them before returning to mine to pick up my bag but then I get downstairs and they were not there. That's why I'm yelling on top of my voice, Cam has started honking her car already and I know it's going to get louder by the second.
"Lucas," I yell again, "Dylan."
"Coming." I hear them both utter at the same time as they descend the stairs, each with bags of their own.
"Finally! I would have left without you guys, you know. Besides you're guys so what at all were you packing, if not one or two pairs of clothes?"
They both snap their head at me at the same time, Dylan cocking his brows at me and Lucas asking me "Really?"
I laugh awkwardly, "Cam! She's waiting." I motion to the door, and with that, I dash out to a honking Cam outside. I open the backseat and enter.
"Why are you not in the front seat?" She cocks her brows at me.
"I want to be in the back."
"Okay." Just then Dylan and Lucas emerge from the house and walk towards Cam's car. Cam looks at them as they near the car and she asks me. "What was taking them so long?" I shrug.
Lucas and Dylan opened the door to the backseat, each at different sides. When they both realize I'm there, Dylan is about to shut the door and Lucas is about to sit in, but I push him with all the force I have and I turn quickly to the other side and pull Dylan in and shut Dylan's side of the door.
I turned to a confused-looking Lucas, who was looking at me intently as if waiting for an explanation.
"I want to sit with my brother. Sit in the front." I smile sheepishly, batting my lashes at him.
He shakes his head at me before shutting the door and taking the front seat. Dylan and Cam chuckle at this, like the crazy partners they are.
When Lucas is finally seated, Cam drives off to wherever we're headed.
While Dylan and I were busy watching funny videos together in the backseat, Lucas and Cam were in the front having an interesting conversation- that is if my guess is right- and they seemed to be getting along pretty well, laughing in between as they chatted on and on.
I look out of the window. But then the road seemed too familiar. This particular road leads to Grayson's house and not Cams'. I just hope it's not what I'm thinking.
"Cam," I call but she doesn't seem to hear it so I voice out louder. "Cam" I mention her name again, hoping she would hear me this time, and she actually does hear me.
She cocks the side of her head to me, "You were calling me?" She asks.
"Whose house are we headed to?" I ask. And she smirks.
Like literally smirks.
So who is the senile one, now?!! Me?
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