Tamara looked different. She was still talkative and making her usual dirty jokes every time we talked about Matty, but she had a special look in her face. She wouldn't stop smiling, even when we were not talking and she wouldn't stop looking at he phone. Maybe she was expecting a call from Jake or something so I decided to break the silence. "Are you expecting a call or something? You've looked at your phone many times in the last minute. Is everything ok?" I was starting to wonder if there is anything more to the Jake/Tamara issue that I didn't know about. "Ummm yeah. I was expecting someone to text me but nothing important. Maybe we should start studying" she said. "Yeah" I replied "I haven't studied much. Iv'e been going out with Matty most of these days. Yesterday my plan was to study but instead Matty suggested me we could go to Guiseppe's" Tamara looked back at me like I told her the world was going to end or something. She soon composed herself and trying to sound nonchalant asked "Nice, did you guys have fun? Any special reason why you decided to go to Guiseppe's?" She looked like she was interested to know if we saw them at the restaurant. "Yeah we had fun. It was a very interesting night. We went out last night because you were coming over tonight and he was going to hang out with some of his brother's friends and I think Jake" I said. At that exact moment her phone rang and I got a text from Matty. "Jake is calling someone, see if Tamara answers her phone, Love you."

T took her phone out of her pocket and answer. "Hi how are you? I'm doing great. Yeah sure. See you tomorrow bye." They obviously tried to make their conversation as short as possible. Before she could hung up I said "Tell Jake I say hi and not to steal you all the time away from your friends". She turned back and face me with an extremely surprised look on her face. I quickly took her phone and said to Jake "Have fun at Matty's and say hi from me". At this point Tamara wasn't moving. I just started laughing at the look in her face and imagined that Jake's face would probably be the same. When I was done laughing I said "Ok, start talking. What's going on between you and Jake?" She still couldn't believe I knew everything. Her face was priceless. "Who told you? did Jake tell Matty and then he told you? How do you know?"

I think she didn't mind the fact that I knew but I maybe she thought I was going to be mad at her for not telling me. Anyway, I was going to get all the information out of her sooner or later. "I figured it out all by myself. But why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you tell me that you and Jake were going out? Why is it a secret?" I asked and then thought that maybe I was bombarding her with too many questions at once. "I didn't tell you what was going on because I am not even sure" she said with a kind of dissappointed look. "What do you mean?" I asked. Now I was sure that something else was going on. "Jenna I didn't say anything because I have no idea what is going on either. Jake and I have been hanging out lately. He has been telling me that he wants me to study with me for finals but I think its only an excuse to be around me. Or that's what I thought at the beginning." I was starting to think that she wanted to talk about it with someone but maybe she felt that I wasn't the right person to talk to because of all that happened between Jake and I. "What do you mean?" I asked. She took a deep breath and continued. "I enjoy spending time with Jake, and I am getting to know him better everydy. I am starting to like him but I'm not sure he feels the same way. When he is around me he acts like I'm one of his bests friends or something. I'm the one who is always suggesting to go out and do stuff. He always agrees but I feel like he is driving me to the friend zone. Everytime we get a little closer to each other or have a flirty conversation he moves back and changes the subject. And I think I know why he acts so strange sometimes." I think I knew why but I wasn't going to guess and make T feel bad. "Why?" I asked instead. "Because I think she still has feelings for you." she answered. I felt bad for her. I knew it was uncomfortable to talk about this subject with me, especially when she though she was fighting against Jake's feelings towards me.

It was obvious that her feelings for Jake were special. In any other circumstance, she would've directly asked Jake what was going on with him and confront him. instead, she was acting somewhat like me. She hasn't said anything to Jake about her feelings or what was bothering her. Instead, she was keeping everything to herself. "I think I know what you should do T. You should talk to him and directly ask him what his intentions are. Its obvious that he doesn't just want to study with you. But you need to get clearance. I don't want you to go through what I went through: being unsure about your relationship. Maybe, when you ask him, you will hear things that will make you feel better. Everything its going to fine. If there's anything I learned this year is that we should always face our problems and good things will always come out of it". I hoped that with the answer I gave her she would go back to her loud, funny self and start enjoying herself. "Thanks, J. That made me feel a lot better. Maybe I'm just overreacting and he is into me but has a very strange way of showing it" she said laughing and continued, "I haven't asked you how everything is going between you and Matty. Is everything good now?". I realized that many things had happened and that I needed to talk to T. I told her what Matty said about his family reunion, and that he loved me, and what he thought about my blog when he read it. "I've missed all that? We are going to have to start talking and texting more often. I can't believe that all that happened in less than two days, wow." She was surprised to hear all that and she gave me her usual advice. I was glad we spent this time together. We stopped talking and gossiping when we realized it was almost two in the morning. We decided to go to bed and maybe start studying early in the morning. Tomorrow maybe, after Tamara leaves, I would try to get Matty's perspective on the T/ Jake situation. Maybe Jake told him something that would give Tamara some hopes.