TAISSA'S POV:

He was staring right at me...God I loved how he always looked at me... NO! I can't get into this again. I have a boyfriend.. I mean, he's great, kinda. Evan was with Emma. Even if she was an absolute bitch to me, I couldn't let myself fall into this hole again.

'Evan I don't have time for this.' I started, pulling my phone from my pocket to try and gain a distraction.

'Tai, can we just talk?' He responded in his silky voice, taking my phone right out of my hands and holding it above his head.

'No!' I found myself blurting out, nearly coming to tears.. Here I thought I was all cried out. 'No..' I continued. 'You don't get the right to call me Tai.' I responded coldly, jumping to reach my phone.

He simply raised the phone higher up and placed his free hand on my shoulder to keep me still. 'Tai..Taissa. please this is just stupid. Can't we just be friends?' He asked, clearly with some determination behind his question.

Friends..Friends. I repeated over and over in my head. That hurt like hell, I thought I'd already been there..clearly not. I was just staring down, just staring at his shoes.. they're the same ones he wore when I first met him, the same old scruffy converse that have the same hole in the right side of his left foot.

'Same shoes huh' I responded, lifting my head to actually look him in the eyes.

'What?' He asked confusingly before he realised and looked at them himself. 'Oh.. yeah' he laughed charmingly. 'Em doesn't like them, so I wear them when she's not around.' he added.

'Well she is around.' I responded right away.

'What? where?' he inquired, looking around in what I could only say was nervously.

I laughed to myself for a few seconds before fulfilling his question. 'She's in there.' I rebutted, turning around and pointing into the olive garden.

'How do you know?' He quizzed, clearly trying to turn this into a conversation. If I were to actually talk to him, like hell would it be about his girlfriend.

'I, have the absolute pleasure of having lunch with her and Gabourey. She kinda intruded, don't mind me saying so.' I snickered.

'Oh.. So I assume asking you to lunch would be absolutely crazy?' He replied, handing me back my phone in which to be honest, I completely forgot he had..And trust timing, it started to ring.

He looked at it before he passed it back and his spirit just dropped, discreetly of course. 'Its Jake.' He groaned.

'Yeah it is.' I replied, staring at my phone for a little while. 'Well aren't you going to answer it?' Evan muttered.

I answered it as soon as he said it.

'Hey Jake.' I sang, looking at Evan ever so slightly. He couldn't take his eyes from my face. So at this point, I couldn't decide whether it was Jake or Evan making me feel giddy. The answer was obvious.

'Hey babe, I know I was supposed to pick you up in an hour or so but uh.. something came up.'

'What? what do you mean something came up?' I asked, getting protective of my image right now. I couldn't let Evan know that Jake lets me down on a daily basis. He can't know I've never had anybody better than him.

Evan's interest was growing. It was growing quickly.

'Its just, uh, I mean, my mom wants me to take her to the doctors.'

'The doctors? I guess so then. give her my love.' I sighed, feeling a bit of relief. God knows I always expect the worst after what happened to me.

'Will do babe, love you.'

'You too.' I responded.

The call ended and I just sighed and put the phone in my back pocket.

'I should get back in there.' I spoke up, turning my back to walk in, until he grabbed my arm, which sent so many fucking sparks up my spine and it even made me tingle where I wish it didn't.

'Taissa, please. Can we just go to lunch? I don't even care if Em knows, I just want a chance to make things right.' He pleaded. His eyes looked desperate.. Maybe I aught to give him a chance. It couldn't be worse than this fucking lunch so far.

I sighed and looked at his hand on my wrist, just looking at it made me tingle even more. Fuck. I'm going to regret this.

'Fine.' I responded, pulling my wrist from his grip, I actually missed his touch already. 'I'll be out in a minute.'

I started walking back and just before I got to the table I turned around and I could see him. He was jumping around throwing his fists in the air, I couldn't help but smile with absolute admiration. He was beautiful.. but he wasn't mine.

'TaiTai you took so long!' Gabourey exclaimed when I finally returned to the table.

'I know right, were you constipated or something?' Emma laughed lightly, taking a sip from her lemonade.

'Not at all.' I shot back at Emma, in a friendly manner. I was about to go and eat with my ex boyfriend and her current boyfriend, after all.

'Well aren't you gonna sit?' She asked back.

'Actually guys, something came up. I gotta head out.' I smirked to myself. Grabbing my bag I didn't give them a chance to rebuttal my decline from the table, I rushed past newcomers and waved to the table. On the way out I accidentally bumped into Josiah who was carrying our food.

'Oh shit!' I exclaimed, making sure nothing was damaged or dropped.

'Oh hey.' He laughed, gaining his balance back. 'Are you leaving?' He questioned when he balanced himself and the plates properly.

'Shit, yeah, sorry.' I added, looking at my spaghetti in his hand. 'Here.' I rushed, pulling out 10$ from my pocket and I tucked it in his shirt pocket behind his waistcoat.

'Its cool its cool.. hey look, before you go could I, maybe uh..' He stuttered, taking far too long.

'I'll be back another time Josiah, but I really have to get going, I'm sorry!' I piped, rushing out of the door.

'Hey!' Evan smiled, spinning his car keys around his finger. 'You ready to go?'