Chloe walked into her house answering her phone
"Hey birthday girl!" she greeted sweetly to her old friend.
"Hey Chloe! I just wanted to make sure you were coming tonight, you should've told me you finally moved here, I mean we don't go to the same school but I'll take neighboring towns! I've missed you!" the two girls giggled and awed into the phone.
"I've missed you too Heather! And of course I'll be there!" she smiled into the phone, she missed her outgoing summer friend. They had met at the county wide 'Veterans Day' picnic. Stiles had introduced them and they had been friends/pen-pals ever since.
"Great!... I also called to ask you another question?" Heather asked and Chloe could hear the uneasiness in her voice that was going to accompany the following question, how bad could it be?
"Yeah sure, what's up?" she asked walking into her house and up the stairs to her room.
"Are you bringing Stiles with you?" heather asked. Chloe rolled her eyes at her dramatics, See? Everything is fine. Chloe chuckled before answering
"Of course, we're next door neighbors, and best friends."
"Great! Because I kind of planned something to happen tonight…" answered heather with a devious tone.
"What are you planning Heather Monroe?!" Chloe accused as she shut her bedroom door behind her after entering her room.
"Well…" Heather hesitantly said "I'm seventeen now, and I am sick of being a virgin, so I wanted to lose it to Stiles…" Chloe literally fell to the floor because her knees gave out form shock, told you this was bad. Chloe felt all the air go out of her lungs for a moment. "I mean, it's better than doing it with some random guy, I know Stiles, and because we're friends I know he'll respect me" she said trying to justify her plan. Chloe's world stopped for a moment as she tried to catch her breath…Heather was gonna sleep with Stiles, I was gonna lose him… She knew he didn't like her the way she liked him but she still felt betrayed that Heather would do that to him and their friendship; I mean how would it NOT be awkward afterward for all of them?!
"Chloe?" Heather asked over the line. She let out a long breath before answering
"Do you really think this a good idea, I mean for your friendship and all?" she asked. Heather sighed before answering
"I've thought it through and this is the way I want to lose my virginity, my way…" Chloe sighed and ran a hand over her hair still on the ground too stunned to move yet.
"…Chloe, your opinion does matter to me, so if you think this is a really bad idea please tell me now?" Chloe's heart constricted in pain, but she knew deep down she would want the same thing for her virginity, but it would've been different because she was in love with stiles… she wouldn't use him like that. She took a deep breath before answering
"I mean… if you really feel comfortable with this plan, but I've gotta be honest and say that using Stiles like that isn't okay." She heard heather go silent on the other end of the line for a moment before saying
"I'm not really using him per-se… I do love him, as a friend, and our "first time's" should be special and with someone you love… right?" Chloe covered her mouth so hold back the cry of pain she was feeling in her chest…this was gonna happen, oh god. Chloe took a calming breath before saying
"If you think it's a good idea" she barely choked out.
"Thanks Chloe, I knew I could count on you, I'll find you after the party and we can have a sleep over and just talk about it ok?" that would be pure hell. Chloe offered a weak goodbye then hung up the phone on the ever flamboyant Heather who was going to take her crush's virginity.
She knew she was being dramatic but she felt heart broken. She laid there on the floor for a few more minutes before she finally got up and decided that she shouldn't care, if Heather could hook up with Stiles what was stopping her form hooking up with other guys? She went over to her desk and worked on the miniscule amount of homework she did have trying desperately to take her mind off of the whole situation that was going to go down in a few hours that would break her soul. She decided to get ready with a new attitude, thinking about all the cute boys she could flirt with and that would check her out in her 'Lydia-esque' outfit.
She turned her radio on as she gently danced while she got ready starting with her hair, slowly taking it out of the braid and blow drying the kinks to give her soft waves and volume. Then she put on her 'power outfit' as Lydia called it. Slipping on her skirt, crop top sweater, and heeled shoes. She added her own personal touch of her golden great-grandmothers necklace that she always wore and simple earrings.
She smiled and vainly admired herself, she would have to give Lydia props for knowing her stuff in fashion. She then went to the bathroom to put on some concealer beneath her eyes, some mascara on her lashes, then brought out her special occasion eyeshadow and put a light shading on so it was subtle but made a difference as to how dramatic her eyes were. The green of her irises popped and she smiled to herself and felt her inner Lydia come out, those boys won't know what hit them.
She cockily thought as she then texted Stiles and told him she was ready to go, he replied that he'd be over in a bit then they would go get Scott because Stiles needed a wingman. Chloe rolled her eyes Not necessary bro, you're already gonna get laid! She threw her phone in her small shoulder bag purse as well as some gum in case she ended up making out with any hot guys. Speaking of which…. Chloe quickly ran to the bathroom to brush her teeth.
She then went down stairs to tell her dad she was leaving to go to Heather's party. Her dad did a double take at her and she felt self-conscious suddenly and looked down at herself
"What? Do I look bad? Am I slutty looking-" her dad cut her off my standing up and she looked at him nervous now about leaving.
"No… it's just… you look so, grown up and… you look beautiful" he ended on a smile. She smiled warmly back
"Really?" she asked feeling her heart flutter in happiness, she had never been called 'beautiful' before.
"Yes you do, I'm just not used to the skirts… I'm so used to you dressing semi-like a tomboy" her father confessed. Her phone buzzed in her pocket, she checked and it was Stiles telling her that he was waiting outside
"That's Stiles, we're carpooling to Heather's birthday party together, I gotta go but I won't be out too late, love you!" she called as she began walking away from his office, through the kitchen and down the hall to the front door
"I love you more!" her dad called back
"I love you to infinity and beyond!" she quipped back laughing as she reached the door.
"Be safe" she heard him say in a regular voice, "I will, bye!" she then opened the door and walked out, she was assaulted by the headlights of Stiles' jeep as soon as she turned around and held up a hand before making her way down her front two steps in her heels and over to the waiting jeep. She opened the door and smiled
"Hey Stilinski" and He was kind of gawking at her for some reason.
"Hey… uh, Turner" she smiled at him again before moving the seat forward to get in back
"Whoa, what are you doing?" Stiles asked in confusion which just made Chloe confused
"Aren't we going to pick Scott up?" Stiles looked at her then nodded
"yeah?" Chloe rolled her eyes
"Well then it makes more sense if I crawl in back, so when he pick Scott up we're not playing musical seats" she joked, confused by Stiles' logic. I also don't wanna have to sit next to you knowing I was going to lose a part of you in a few hours, I wanna sit in the back as far away from you in the vehicle as possible.
"Yeah… I mean, that makes sense, I guess" Stiles said, after a second he bounced back into his playful ways
"As long as it's not just you not wanting to sit by me" Chloe laughed as she continued to move the seat forward so she could slip in back, you don't know that half of it. She then pulled herself up and awkwardly crawled into the back seat and finally sat down and pulled the passenger seat back into its up-right position. She clicked her seatbelt into place and finally looked up at him, he was staring at her in the rearview mirror.
"What?" she asked him trying hard not to hold his eye.
"…Are you sure you're ok? I mean like with your head and all, I'm still sorry about that? And I mean, we can totally bail and just do a 'movie night', I know today was rough" Chloe shook her head to cut him off
"Yes I'm okay, physically and emotionally; and no, let's go to Heather's seventeenth birthday party and have a good time" she smiled at him. In all honestly she wasn't ok with what they were heading towards but it was for Heather and Stiles to choose. She sat back and stared out her window as they drove through the night; she barely noticed when they picked up Scott and didn't catch what they had talked about on the drive there. When they arrived Scott hopped out of the jeep quickly pulling the seat forward for her to awkwardly crawl out of. Scott held out a hand to help her right herself as she climbed out. She smiled at Scott warmly
"Thanks Scott, how gentlemanly of you" she commended as she did a curtsy for him in her skirt. He smiled warmly back and chuckled
"Anytime Chloe." They heard Stiles' door shut and watched him walk around the jeep. Chloe's breath caught a little as she watched Stiles walk around and saw he was wearing the most attractive sweater that set off his caramel eyes. Damnit, Damnit, Damnit! She nodded as a silence came over the three of them. Chloe looked between the two boys and took it as her cue
"Well, I'm gonna head to the party, you guys do your wingman/bro-mance thing or whatever and I will see you inside?" She smiled at the both of them. She heard Stiles say behind her
"We'll see you in there" no you won't stiles! She cruelly teased herself. She turned around with a flirtatious smile
"Hopefully I'll be too busy with some hottie to notice!" she saw Stiles raise his eyebrows in shock as she turned back around and walked towards the party confidently; once her back was turned her smile fell.
She wanted to give the guys their space to give themselves a pep talk or whatever, she could tell Scott wasn't over Allison and didn't want to meet new girls. She also didn't wanna be anywhere near Stiles when he got to the party in fear of seeing some of the Heather and him action. She walked in and saw people she didn't know, for a second she was uncomfortable, she thought fuck it and confidently strolled into the party until she ran into Heather
"OMG you're here!" she cried and jumped over and gave her a hug. Chloe hugged her back and forced a smile, she was breaking fast
"Of course, and I brought Stiles just like you said, he's outside talking to his friend Scott, who is also very cute" she gave a wink as her sad attempt to try to deter her friend from ruining everything. Heather smiled at her then said "I have missed you so much, we have to catch up after the party… You. Me. Sleepover. This weekend" she proclaimed. Chloe gave her a fake smile, she saw that she was wearing a strapless peplum shirt that made her chest look awesome and some skinny jeans that showed off her legs.
"You're gonna knock'm dead girl" she whispered, trying to sound playful but really she was dying for a distraction. Heather smiled at her then said
"…and don't think I forgot about you, blue tee shirt over there is excited to meet you" she pointed and Chloe followed her line of sight till her eyes landed on a cute boy with a blue tee shirt smiling over at her. Chloe smiled back perfect, just what I was looking for…a distraction. She then wished Heather a halfhearted 'good luck' then made her way over to the boy channeling her inner Lydia.
Chloe didn't look over at the door when Stiles came in because she only had to see everyone else's reactions to know what was going down. Chloe's heart broke before she even saw it happen and she didn't want to be here anymore. She turned to the flirty boy she had been briefly talking to and said
"I have to go make a call quick, be right back" he nodded at her as she walked out the back door to breathe.
*Boom! questioning morals and friendships and so much angst! how did you feel about this? i'm not one of those authors who begs for reviews but i'd like some opinions on this situation... i'm asking for a friend ;)*
