(29): Ice Cream Talks

My exam today went absolutely horrible. I don't know what happened but I literally forgot about all the poems we've done. I forgot how to interpret them and find their deep meaning.

I feel horrible.

"Why the frown?" Kyle asks driving.

Luckily he wasn't mad at me for much longer about the whole Zorro thing. He woke up and greeted me and even engaged in small conversation, to my relief and surprise. Now we've just finished writing and are on our way back to the apartment.

"My exam was so bad" I murmur.

He shrugs "Join the club"

"Sure, thanks" I retort bitterly "That's not what you say to make someone feel better"

"Not if she answers me in that tone"

"Fine, sorry" I murmur apologetically. "Even thought you always do it to me"

"Do what?"

"Answer me in a rude tone" I say.

He glances at me "I stopped, remember? We're friends now"

I can't help but smile when he says that, even though he pretends to be disgusted every time he says it.

It's always nice to be reminded that I managed to get through his hard shell and convince him to be my friend.

"We are, aren't we?" I grin.

He shakes his head "To my dismay, yes"

"Can we get some ice cream?" I ask desperately "It will surely make me feel better. You want me to feel better, right?"

"I don't really care" He says.

"So is that a yes?"

He groans annoyed "Fine."

"Yay!" I grin squirming around happily in my seat and clapping my hands.

Before I can say anything else, he puts on the radio which signals that I should shut up now before he changes his mind.

He does that sometimes.

Luckily the radio station he chooses always plays my favorite songs so I don't really mind anymore.

Damn my AP going psycho

Lil mama bad like Michael

Can't really trust nobody

With all this jewelry on you

My roof look like a no show

Got diamonds by the boatload

"Do you really know every song?" He ask looking at me curiously.

I shrug "The good ones"

"This is good?" He snorts provocatively.

"Yes" I exclaim exasperated "This is what your peers listen to, Mr Old. You're not a normal teenager"

"I am twenty, so yes I'm not a teenager"

Right. He's a year and semester older.

"What I mean is, you're too different from your peers. I'm concerned" I feign worry.

"My peers are people who like songs about drugs and sex" He retorts "I like songs with meaning"

I tut amused "Kyle, Kyle, Kyle"

I don't notice that he's now parking and then exits when he's done. I do too.

"What is this place?" I ask as I follow him.

"Sundae's Palace" He answers pointing at the sign "They have good ice cream here"

I shrug before continuing to follow him. We enter the little palace and my eyes widen in awe. The place is nice and cosy with bright colors.

I look at the ice cream options and there's so many. They have chocolate, vanilla, choc chip, mint, blueberry, strawberry, cappuccino.

EVERYTHING!! This is heaven.

They have toppings too, rainbow sprinkles, jelly tots, wine gums, chocolate sprinkles. They also have sauces; caramel, vanilla.

EVERYTHING!

"I'll take it you like the place" Kyle chuckles looking at my star struck face.

I nod hastily "YES!"

The lady behind the counter laughs as she watches us "What can I get for you kids?"

"Chocolate ice cream, please" Kyle says before nudging and looking at me since my attention was on the different flavors "Chelsea-Anne?"

My eyes widen "I don't know. There's so many"

The lady laughs again "Well, can I interest you in the 'all-sort sundae'?"

"What's that?" I ask confused.

She smirks teasingly "You'll find out. So, are you interested?"

"Yes" I nod excitedly.

I make a move to take out some money to pay for myself but Kyle slaps my hand away and pays for the both of us before I can protest.

"Aww, your boyfriend is so cute" The lady coos looking adoringly at us.

I chock on my spit "Uh he's n..."

"Yeah, you should tell her to appreciate me more" Kyle replies interrupting my denial.

Idiot!

He sends a teasing smirk my way and I shake my head at him unimpressed but also trying to hide a blush.

Imagine Kyle being my boyfriend.

I mean, I would be one lucky girl because he is fiiine. But no thanks, I'd rather not. I can only imagine the amount of girls that would hate me if that ever happened.

"Okay well you two can go take a seat while I prepare your ice creams" She tells us.

I follow Kyle into a booth before narrowing my eyes at him "Why did you pay for me? And why did you say you're my boyfriend?"

"Come on, I didn't want to spoil her fun" He shrugs smirking.

"Idiot" I mutter, but I can't help but smile.

"I don't think you should be complaining, Chelsea-Anne" He tuts "It would be an honor to be my girlfriend"

Maybe...

I bark out laughing "Yeah right. Have you ever even had one?"

"No, but that's not the point" He retorts.

"See?" I laugh "You are not boyfriend material"

"Sure I am" He argues.

I raise an 'are-you-serious' brow "You literally just said you've never had a girlfriend. I really doubt you can commit"

"I won't know unless I try"

"Do you want to?" I ask curiously.

He shakes his head "No. Relationships are for suckers"

"You think everything's for suckers" I can't help but laugh "Even luck. You always say that when I wish you luck"

The lady brings our ice creams before he can reply "Enjoy, love birds"

Oh my gosh.

Kyle smiles politely "Thank you"

My eyes widen in excitement when I see my ice cream. I think it has about five different flavors and a few sprinkles. There is caramel and chocolate sauce too.

Candy!

Kyle looks disgusted "Will you be able to finish that without throwing up?"

"Yes" I nod excitedly as I get right to it "Oh my gosh, it's so good"

"That's what she said" He snorts causing me to shudder in disgust.

"Gross"

He looks at me for a while not really saying anything before I give him a pointed look to spit it out "Do you wanna tell me why you're still a virgin?"

Uhh.

I squirm uncomfortably "Why?"

"I'm curious" He counters, leaning his chin on his hand "It's just... it's rare to find those in college so I want to know why"

"I'm not ready" I reply quickly.

He looks at me confused before I continue "Sex requires you to be ready and I've never been so yeah I've never done it"

"Does it now?"

"Yes" I exclaim. "Weren't you ready?"

He shrugs "Maybe. I don't remember"

"How old were you?" I ask skeptically.

"Freshmen year so fifteen, I guess" He shrugs nonchalantly.

My eyes widen in disbelief "Fifteen? I was still watching Jessie and scared of boys, let alone having sex"

"You're a late bloomer"

"No. I'm a normal child" I defend.

Fifteen, really?

He shrugs "Whatever. Anyways I thought you were going to say you're saving yourself for marriage or something weird like that"

"Why?" I laugh unsurely.

"Cause you're weird like that" He answers.

I shake my head "How specific could you get, huh. Anyways I've never really thought about that. I just wasn't ready"

"Interesting"

"So how was your first time?" I ask curiously; coyly, hiding myself behind my ice cream.

"I don't remember" He tells me "I just know the girl was older than me. She was a senior"

"Kyle" I shake my head unimpressed.

He just laughs "I can see this is making your virgin ears uncomfortable so we should probably speak about something else"

I can't help but happily dwell on the fact that he actually told me something about himself. It wasn't what I wanted to hear but it was something.

Progress.

"How'd you and Nathan become friends?"

"I didn't say we had to speak about me" He deadpans.

"You asked me a question so I get to ask you too" I defend "You should be glad it's a simple one like this because God knows what I actually want to ask you"

He rolls his eyes "Fine. We met at drag racing. Hated each other and then eventually became friends"

"How come he doesn't know about your father and brother and things like that, even though Nick and Winnie do?"

He gives me an unimpressed look.

"It's the last question, I swear" I say.

"Because I didn't tell him. He didn't grow up with me like those two" He answers after a while "They know things I wouldn't want them to"

"Okay" I squeak thoughtfully.

We continue with our ice creams in an oddly very comfortable and content silence. Normally it's a tense one.

Again: Progress.

I hear a faint bell ring which signals that someone has just entered the place.

"I don't think you'll like this" Kyle says looking straight ahead. His seat his facing the door and mine isn't.

My heart quickens alarmed "What?"

He doesn't say anything and my curiosity gets the best of me as I look behind.

Fuck my life.

It's Noah! And he's here with a girl! I know that girl. It's Lisa. The first girl Kyle brought home when I started living with him.

Betty's friend!

She probably put her up to this to mess with me.

Noah finally looks up after ordering and sees me watching him. I'm too shocked to look away. His face immediately tenses and that smile he had is replaced by a deep scowl.

I can see his eyes look behind me to what I think is Kyle and his face hardens even more. To the point that I'm kind of scared.

I sigh before looking away from him.

"Wow" I breathe annoyed.

I know that I broke up with him and I don't feel that way about him anymore. But this still kind of hurts.

So much for still being in love with me.

"Is it a coincidence that that girl is Betty's friend?" I ask to no one in particular "This is probably her doings"

Kyle shrugs "I don't know"

"Hey, you guys" The girl, Lisa greets.

Luckily (and unluckily), she walked to our table alone and not with Noah. I actually don't even know what she wants here.

"Hi" I answer quickly.

She smiles "How are my favorite roommates?"

"What do you want?" Kyle deadpans.

"I just came to say hi, jeez" She defends smugly "Well it was nice seeing you. An ex for an ex, right?"

"What?" I ask confused and sharply.

"You're with my ex so I'm with yours"

Yep, definitely Betty's doings.

"Okay, first of all, Kyle is not your ex. You guys just had sex" I reply harshly "And secondly, what game are you and Bethany playing at?"

"No games" She smirks sickly "Bye now"

I shake my head when she's gone "Can we leave, please"

"Sure" Kyle mutters "It's like I keep attracting psycho clingy girls. I don't know what I'm doing wrong"

"You sure know how to pick em, huh"

He gets up and starts to walk, I do too.

"Bye, lovebirds" The lady exclaims loudly.

Oh great.

I don't miss the death glare and betrayal on Noah's face when she says that.

"Bye" Kyle replies because I can't speak.

He takes my hand in his and drags me out because apparently I couldn't walk either.

I'm sure this just adds salt to the wound.

I can only imagine what Noah is thinking. Kyle and I are out, just the two of us, and eating ice cream. The lady called us lovebirds and now we were just holding hands.

Except, there is a valid explanation to all of this. And unfortunately I can't give it to him because he looks like he's going to kill me.

Nice.

"Told you relationships are for suckers" Kyle says when he starts to drive away.

"Apparently" I mutter.

***

"You knew! You guys fucking knew!"

Oh lord.

Kyle and I have just reached the apartment after the whole altercation, only to be greeted by another one.

Winnie is sitting down against our door, face puffy and wet with tears.

She must've been waiting for us.

"Winona?" Kyle asks concerned.

She gets up angrily with a look I can't quite decipher. All I know is that it's similar to the betrayed one Noah gave me.

It sends chills down my spine.

"You two knew" She sobs, jabbing a finger on Kyle's chest "Thats what you two were hiding from me, isn't it?"

I know what she's talking about.

"Speak!" She screams when we're both quiet.

"Winnie, we wanted to but it wasn't our place to tell you" I try to explain.

"Yes it was. You're my friends. That's what friends do" She cries "I can't believe this. You guys watched me get attached to her by the day and didn't tell me. How could you?"

"Winona" Kyle says calmly "It wasn't our place"

"Stop! Stop with that stupid excuse" She shouts "Who else knew, huh? Did you all? Did you tell everyone except me?"

I don't want to drag the others down with.

"No one" I lie.

"Chelsea. I thought I could trust you! You made me believe I could" She shakes her head "Why didn't you tell me? Why?"

"Dee!" I defend meekly "She kept saying she would do it, Winnie, I swear"

"Well she did" She cries "Are you happy now? This is what you wanted right?"

I gulp hurt "No"

"Let me tell you, it would've hurt way less if it came from you two than it did when it came from her" She says "I hope you know that. Your stupid plan didn't work"

Ouch.

"Winona..." Kyle trails off.

She shakes her head, looking all kinds of betrayed and defeated "Yeah, well, I hope you two have a very fun life"

She starts to walk away and Kyle holds her back by the arm roughly. I'm guessing he's also losing his patience with her.

"We're not the ones you should be mad at, Winona, and you know it"

"It's been weeks, Kyle! You two didn't say anything!" She defends sobbing even more. "I would think you of all people would try to protect my heart from getting hurt but no, I was wrong"

"You don't think I fucking wanted to tell you?"

"You could've told me on the spot" She snarls bitterly "It would've hurt less."

"Sorry, okay?" He screams.

She shakes his hand off her arm "Bye"

And then she walks to her room and slams the door loudly.

Could today get any worse?

I breathe shocked "Sorry"

"Fuck" He screams frustrated, kicking the door.

Oh god.

We're about to walk in but before we do, Winnie's door opens again and I sigh in dread.

"Oh and Chelsea" She spits "I know you're lying. I spoke to the others and they told me that they knew and that you told them not to tell me"

"Win-"

"I hope you're proud of yourself"

And with that, she slams the door again.

So much for not wanting to throw people under the bus.

"Fuck, this is all too much" Kyle breathes.

I swallow a lump before pushing the door open and we both enter. We immediately make a dash for our room because I'm sure that we want to digest what just happened.

Just when I thought my day couldn't get worse.

First my exam, then Noah and then this.

Fuck.

***

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