Jealous Games

By: KyleGranger342

Chapter Eight: Who To Choose

Later that night, Nikki walked in about a half past nine. She had just gotten home from her day with Will. After having to take Cameron up to the house and made sure that Ava could heal the small cuts herself, they spent the day in the park having a picnic.

She was on her way up to her room when she past by Bradin and Cameron's room and noticed Cameron talking to a sleeping Bradin.

"I finally realize what I did," Cameron said. "I completely ignored her while I was here. I don't wanna say this, but her plan all along was to make me jealous and it worked. Seeing her and Will walking on the beach hand in hand was shocking. I always thought I was the one that would be holding her hand.

"We planned to spend everyday together; just me and her hanging out. I guess I didn't do what we planned. We didn't do anything that we planned. I wish I could make it all up to her," he said. He put his hands in his face. From the angle Nikki was at, she couldn't tell if he was crying or not. But the thought of her making him cry made her feel really bad.

She quietly continued walking up to her room. She jumped on the bed and laid her face in her pillow. 'Why did I do that,' she thought. 'I got a boyfriend that I now love and I love Cameron as well. This is so complicating. I don't want to choose between them. I can't. But I have to. I started this whole mess by getting jealous myself and then wanted to make him jealous. I can't believe what an idiot I am.'

A tear ran down her cheek. She couldn't choose. She wiped it from her cheek as a dark shadow grew on the wall by the stairs. Ava soon appeared.

"Nikki?" she said. "Nikki, whats wrong?"

"Aunt Ava," Nikki began, "have you ever liked a boy so much that made you jealous by hanging out with other people, that you do the same to him and end up falling in love with the person you start to hang out with?"

"This is about the whole Bradin, Cameron, thing isn't it?" Ava asked, handing her a tissue as she sat down the bed beside her niece.

"How do you know?" she sobbed.

"You know Nikki, I was once a little girl and was very much like you," Ava said. "I had this friend that I really liked and I think he liked me back, but he started hanging out with this other girl, so I found myself another guy that I fell madly in love with. Then one day I found out he was jealous of me going out with that other guy that it made me realize how stupid I was to get that guy when I was trying to get back with my old guy."

"That was confusing," Nikki giggled as she sobbed. "Who was the guys you started going out with to make you other friend jealous?"

"Let's just say I dated him for a really long time and we still are friends today," she hinted.

"Johnny," Nikki figured.

"Yes," she said. "But don't follow what I did. What you need to do is you need to follow your heart. Don't do what I did, I was just following mine." Ava stood up and exited the room. Nikki stared out window at the couples walking along the beach. She pictured herself with both Will and Cameron, but she still could make up her mind.

'But if I break up with Will to go out with Cameron . . . no, that would be mean. God this is so confusing,' she thought wiping another tear with the tissue. She knew she had to set things straight somehow. But that was still hidden from her.

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