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I always feel better after I talk to my baby.
Well most of the time, we aren't fighting about things that seem so minuscule now.
This week has been amazing, as far as us talking. She's been like really making an effort to call and talk to me. And if she can't call she's texts.
Talking to her still makes me feel some kind of way.
Side eye.
Don't judge me.
Anyways...
We've talking all week and she's been great. Although neither of our parents will allow us to go see the other for this entire week of no school, we're okay. As long as we talk, everything is good between us.
Currently I'm on my way to Taylor's house with Madison and Jade to swim. Yes, they have been civil to each other all week.
Are you as happy as I am?
I'm really just happy to have my friend back.
"Spencer what'd your mom say when you asked to go see Ashley?" Jade asks me from the passenger seat, pulling me out of my thoughts.
"Hell no." I say simply getting a laugh from both Jade and Madison.
"Can you blame her?" Madison asks looking back at me briefly before turning back to the road ahead.
"Not at all." I shake my head and laugh along with my friends. I knew my mom would say no when I asked her if I could go to South Carolina for the week to visit Ashley. But I had to try right?
We pull up to Taylor's house and all head inside.
"What's up, bitches?" Taylor greets us as we walk into the kitchen, where her and Gabby are making drinks.
"Where is your mother?" I ask Taylor pointing at the blender where she's mixing...something.
"Out." Is all she says and smirks—turning the blender up higher. "Oh Spence, you got company." She tells me stopping the blender nodding her head in the direction of the pool. I make a confused face and she just smiles. I swear for like ten seconds I thought maybe it could be Ashley. But then I realized that it couldn't be her.
Sad face.
I walk out to the pool.
"Carlin." Frankie says getting up from the lawn chair and walking up to me and wrapping her arms around me.
"What are you doing here Frankie?" I ask her as she lets me go.
"I distinctly remember you inviting me Carlin." She says and smirks.
"No." I say quickly. "You texted and asked me what I was doing, I told you I was going to Taylor's to swim. I never said for you to come." I say pointedly.
"Yeah." Is all she says and walks back to the lawn chair she just got up from.
"How's that an invitation?" I ask confused.
"You told me where you were going and secretly hoped that I would show up." She smirks as she sits down.
"You know..." I start, walking over and sitting down in the seat next to her. "...your cockiness is really starting to turn me on." I say in my best seductive voice.
She clears her throat and sits up. "Really?" Her voice an octave higher than normal.
I bite the inside of my cheek to keep from laughing.
Like really Frankie?
You're so gullible.
"Mhm." I say and lay back on my lawn chair.
"So then..." She starts and clears her throat again. She's so nervous. Confident and cocky Frankie. This is hilarious. She gets up and positions herself on top of me where her body isn't touching mine. She's just hovering. "You wouldn't mind if I kissed you." She says and it literally takes everything in me not to just burst into laughter.
"What are you waiting on?" I ask and she smirks before leaning down. My hand immediately shoots up over my mouth and I can't hold back my laughter. She rolls off me and sits back on her chair. "I'm sorry." I say through laughter.
"That wasn't cool, Carlin." She tells me seriously.
"I couldn't resist." I shake my head and continue to laugh.
"You blonde girls are ridiculous." She says and then starts laughing herself.
"I can't believe you fell for that." I say, my laughter subsiding.
She shrugs. "Maybe I was playing you." She smirks and sits back on her chair.
"Right." I nod and smile and her. She returns the smile. I will never chose another girl over Ashley. Don't get me wrong. Frankie is very easy on the eyes. She's about 5'7, green eyes, tanned complexion with dark short black hair and an athletic body. Maybe if I wasn't with Ashley I'd...
Nah.
Still wouldn't date her.
She's infamous for being one of the biggest players King High has ever known.
She fucks straight girls.
Often.
I can't be with someone who I'd constantly think is cheating on me.
And don't give me that bullshit ass speech that people can change.
Not Frankie. Trust me. I would know.
"Don't think I couldn't get you if I really wanted you Carlin." She says and I get up.
"Mhm." I say and nod as I take off my clothes and jump in the pool. "And stop calling me Carlin, Frankie." I say as I emerge from under the water.
"I'll call you whatever you want me to." She says with a smirk and I shake my head and look away as my friends emerge from the house.
It's like they wanted all that to happen with me and Frankie.
Hmmm. I think as Frankie gets in the pool.
"Are you guys out here having fun without us?" Taylor asks smirking. I'm sure she watched the entire scene earlier from the window.
She's not fooling anyone.
"Fuck you." I say and give my friend the finger.
"I don't think Gabby would like that." Taylor says seriously, shaking her head.
"No baby it's okay. As long as I get to watch." Gabby says and kisses her girlfriend on the lips.
"Spence you hea-"
"Go to hell." I tell my friend, shaking my head and swimming to the wall. "Where's my drink?" I ask getting out the pool, sitting on the wall letting my feel dangle in the water.
"You didn't ask for one." Taylor says and shrugs.
See.
Asshole.
"Want me to go make you one Spence?" Jade asks from her seat on a lawn chair next to one Madison is occupying.
I shake my head and smile. "Nah. I'm good. I guess I see who my real friends are." I state and look at Taylor who just shrugs and sips her drink tauntingly.
"I'm a real friend." Frankie swims up in front of me and says.
"I'm sure." I say with a smile.
"No for real. We should have hung out forever ago." She says putting her arms up on my legs.
"You flirt too much, that's why we aren't close." I look down and tell her with a smile.
"Can you blame me?" She asks quirking a brow and I can't help but laugh.
"This is why my girlfriend hates you." I tell her causing her to chuckle.
"Nah. That's not the reason." She shakes her head.
"Enlighten me." I tell her and she smiles.
"I'll keep that one between me and your girlfriend." She smirks and I splash water on her.
"Don't do that again Carlin." She tells me as Taylor's door bell rings.
"Expecting more company?" I hear Madison say behind me. I don't hear what Taylor says before she gets up.
"Or what?" I turn my attention back to Frankie.
"Do it and see." She tells me with a serious look on her face and I'm so tempted to splash her again but I decide not to.
"Didn't I say to stop calling me Carlin?" I ask her, leaning back on my hands.
"Yeah, but you didn't say what you wanted me to call you. Does baby work for you?" There's that damn smirk again.
I lean down closer to her face. "Definitely not." I say and she wiggles her eyebrows before splashing a little water on me.
"Stop." I whine out.
"You can dish it out but you can't take it." Frankie smiles at me and I think it's the first time I've ever seen her really smile, like without all the bullshit flirting behind it.
"Spencer." I hear Taylor call out and I look in the direction I heard my name being called from and see Ashley.
My Ashley.
Immediately I feel two things: Disgust in myself realizing how this must look to Ashley and terror for how I think this may all play out.
I immediately get up and walk to Ashley. I open my mouth to speak but she cuts me off.
"Don't." She tells me before I can get my words out. I see her glance around me in Frankie's direction but I don't take my eyes off her. When she turns to leave my heart drops. I'd been doing all bitching about her and Emily and I turn around and build this relationship with Frankie when I know Ashley doesn't like her.
I chase after her but she's already in my mom's car and driving away.
Fuck my life...