Day one of senior year check. I get out of the car and walk towards my house when my front door swings open. I jump but realize it's just Carrie.
"How on earth do you beat me to my own house?" I walk past her into my living room and lay my book bag on the counter and take out my binders. Carrie walks over and snatches my binders out of my hands.
"You just got home and you're already doing homework?" She grabbed my wrist and dragged me to the couch which means she has something to say. I hold up my finger and walk to the kitchen. I open my cabinet and grab a bag of barbecue Lays chips.
I plop down back onto the couch and stuff a large deformed chip into my mouth. "Go ahead"
She grabs my bag of chips and sits it on the table.
"Hey!"
"Trust me, you won't have the appetite when I tell you this"
I cross my arms and brace myself. "What? You're scaring me"
She studies my facial expression then says "I think Gavin has a girlfriend"
I stayed frozen for a minute. Gavin has been acting weird lately and he tried to tell me something today at school with his awkward face. His awkward...gorgeous face. I try to recover and grab my bag of chips back from the table. And stuff another handful in my mouth.
"What does that have to do with me?"
"Don't pull that, you've had a thing for Gavin since sophomore year"
"I did not and do not have a thing for Gavin"
She crossed her arms and smirked at me "Alright"
There was a long silence, too long. I looked at her and she was still smirking at me. I rolled my eyes and threw my arms in the air "Fine, I have a small tiny ity bity thing for Gavin" She giggled in response. "How do you know he has a girlfriend?"
"Rumors"
"Well rumors aren't always true"
"But rumors have to come from somewhere"
"How do you know that the cheerleading squad didn't just come up with some ridiculous rumor to spread around for fun?"
"You're in denial"
"Am not. I just don't believe it." I grabbed my phone from my back pocket "Ill call him right now and ask"
"NO!" she snatched my phone back. "Are you crazy?"
"What?!" I reached for my phone but she stretched her arm further.
She rolled her eyes and sat on my phone. She looked at me straight in the eyes. "I don't know if you're just blind or if you really don't know but Gavin treasures your opinion. If he wanted to tell you he would sit you down and tell you face to face. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't want to tell you over the phone. Out of everyone, your opinion matters the most. If you told him to dump her, he would."
"You're full of it" I grabbed for another chip.
She snatched the bag out of my hands "Quit taking my c-"
"Ally, I'm serious"
I sighed and walked to the kitchen, Carrie is starting to suffocate me. I decided not to tell her about me and Gavin's talk this morning. Then she'll be completely convinced, he could have wanted to about his dad's new girlfriend or about something stupid Dez did over the summer. Or something that HE did over the summer, Gavin was gone for the whole summer down at his mom's beach house in North Carolina. How can he meet a girl down in North Carolina for one summer then bring her with him back to California. Ridiculous.
Also Gavin would never keep something like that from me for that long. He would never do that.