The next day at school Polo and Carla are at Polo's locker talking when suddenly Ander and Polo turn the corner seemingly deep in conversation. Christian can't help but feel a little jealous. Ander looks over at Christian and smirks then starts flirting with Polo to get a reaction from Christian. Carla notices this and suddenly Ander's plan makes sense. Polo's face quickly starts to flush bright red and he stutters that they should get to their class. "But we have like five minutes," Christian states. With a sudden confidence Polo turns and says "Yeah but Ander and I have some business to attend to," and turns to Ander grabs him and pulls him away. Christian turns to Carla to see her watching him with a smirk "What?" He askes "Why are you giving me that look" she just huffs a laugh and walks in the direction Ander and Polo just left in. He follows behind quickly.
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The next couple of days Ander continued to be overly affectionate with Polo just to get a rise out of Christian. Christian and Carla have had two dates sans Polo and they are wondering if their relationship can work without him. Polo on the other hand felt good he and Ander were getting closer and they are having lots of fun. He has stopped worrying so much about Christian and if he likes him or not. He realized that he is good enough and that anyone who thinks otherwise or doesn't want him is not someone worth his time. Polo and Carla have talked about what's going on and she told him she's sorry that she didn't realize what was happening sooner.
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The four are in a little corner in the hallway. Ander has his arms around Polo's waist and talking to Carla while Christian watches Ander and Polo with a jealous glint in his eyes. Polo is leaning his head back onto Ander's shoulder with his eyes closed till he feels a squeeze on his waist. "Hmm" he breathes eyes still closed "Come on we are all going to Carla's and getting food," Ander says with a nudge with his shoulder. Polo moves to leave but Carla stops him with a kiss. "Ok, now we can go," Polo flushes, grabs Carla's hand, and walks towards the doors of the school.
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Christian doesn't understand why things are affecting him like they are. He doesn't have feelings for Polo. Or maybe he does he doesn't know anymore. All Christian knows is that watching Ander and Polo together makes him want to punch a wall. He doesn't understand why Carla is ok with this. "HEY!' Someone shouts' we are here" Christian comes out of his head and gets out of the car and follows the group. Tonight is the night of Luz's party and they are all going together. They decided to eat and get ready together then head over to her place.
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At The Party
The music is blasting with a beat that everyone can feel. People are everywhere drinking and smoking and dancing. Polo is dancing with Carla while Christian and Ander watch. Ander without taking his eyes off the dancing couple says "How are you feeling? You seem to be uncomfortable with the agreement." Christian is perplexed at the question because he didn't think anyone had noticed or cared at all "I just don't understand the agreement is all. I don't understand why y'all do it." He responds "We do it cause it gives us pleasure. Don't you like pleasure? Why do I even ask of course you do. What I don't understand is that you seem jealous when I touch Polo which makes no sense cause you have reiterated multiple times that you are not into him or even boys. So why do you think that is." Ander became more confident in his words the more he spoke because Christian shows all his emotions on his face. "I- I don't know. I just- it's hard to explain." "From what I understand you need to figure it out and soon cause you are gonna lose him if you don't." With that he walked over to Carla and Polo and whispered into their ears something that made Polo blush and made Carla smirk. Christian watches them and thinks over what Ander had said. He downs the rest of his drink and heads over to dance with them.