Sierra

We sat in silence.

Just a comfortable silence.

I tapped on my phone to see it was almost three. I want to go home and be in the girls' arms, but I don't wanna leave just yet. I want him to answer my question.

Are we friends? Best friends? Enemies?

I guess my mind has been occupied lately. Kaydon, volleyball, grades, and family. I've been in my room days not spending time with family or friends. Volleyball has been messy but a couple wins gave me joy. I just need answers.

Our friendship has been rocky, no, very bumpy. Arguments, dry texts, and just silence when we're near each other. The guys and girls notice and try to not make things awkward but it always turns out to be just nothing but silence.

"This is why I don't get us," Kaydon laughs. He throws a rock and I watch it go down.

"We're just confusing aren't we?" he turns and looks at me with a goofy grin that I missed. How could I not smile at that?

"We were always confusing since we were little." I replied quietly.

It's true. We were the most mischievous and loud ones to be around. Well, besides Parker and Blake being together. We never made sense with our conversations and always sung around together in costumes that my parents had. Scarves, hats, sunglasses, and long dresses.

People never understood us, but we understood each other.

Kaydon stands up and looks down to me. "Come on." he says and I furrow my eyebrows. Grabbing his hand that was out, helping me up, I brush off the dirt off of my dress.

"Where are we going?" I ask and he just leads me down back the path we came up from.

"We're just heading back." was all he said and we walked.

For the few minutes we talked, we talked about our friendship. We both agreed that we both need to just be civil and to be better. He also talked about Sarah. They dated for a bit, his school's famous couple.

Gags.

I realized how happy he was when he talked about football. His eyes light up like light bulbs and he uses his hands to exaggerate what he's saying. Him, Ty, and Blake were over the moon for football and it was all they did.

After school, football. During breaks, football. Everything was football and my hatred for Harry grew. Their parents didn't fucking care then, they trusted Harry and all he did.

"Hey, you okay?" he nudges my shoulder and I get out of my trance.

"You guys really only did football?" I asked quietly. He stayed silent.

Then he nodded. "We worked for hours after school. I'm glad it didn't ruin my liking for football but it sure ruined my mental health."

I blew out a breath and we stop. He turns to me and we just stared at each other for what seemed like forever but actually it didn't last long.

It was like all of our memories. The memories used to be our forever but they didn't last. That was our downhill. We lost each other, we didn't know the way back to each other.

The lies around us started consuming our minds and we started lying to each other too.

That hurt like a bitch.

"I have an idea." he says giving me a mischievous look. I raise my eyebrow in question and he sits down on a bench nearby and I follow.

"What's your crazy idea?"

He chuckles and I sit down next to him giving us a bit of space. Kaydon turns to me and started looking down at his hands, fidgeting with his bracelet. A habit he always does when he's nervous or scared.

"Why don't we have a bunch of rules for our friendship so we don't break them." he suggests and I gawk at him. Rules? Like a list?

"Yes, like a list." he laughs and I realize I said that out loud.

"How many rules are you thinking" I ask. He shrugs and I just keep thinking to myself about these rules. Is it to protect our friendship? Will the group need to know? What is the group doing.

"Let's have three."

I immediately think of one in my head which will get a laugh out of him. "Melly's every Saturday night!"

He cracks his iconic grin at me like a little boy and nods reluctantly. "Of course. Just like those days."

He's right, just like those days. When we were little, we would sneak to Melly's with our older cousins to just sit in a booth and talk to each other. It's how we bonded. Maybe it can bring us together again, you know?

I nod, "Yeah just like those days. Come on, give us a rule!"

"Be civil."

"Boring!" I lean back and my cheeks hurt from smiling so much. He rolls his eyes and leans on his right arm, still looking at me.

"Oh, come on. It's a good idea, plus you said we needed to be civil!"

He is right. Again. I shake my head anyway and we talk about a a few more for our last rule. While he rambles on about how he should get AUX every time we drive to Melly's, I keep thinking about our last one. What could be enough?

"You can't fall for the other person." I say, cutting him off. He looks at me and his mouth is partly open. He's speechless.

"That's our rule."

He gulps nervously and leans forward a tiny bit still giving us space. "Are you sure?" it's like he was hesitant to agree.

I nod, sucking in a breath. "Yeah. That's not so hard."

Now it's an awkward silence. I shoot out my hand for him to shake to ease the awkward tension and he looks at it like he's never seen a hand before.

"We gotta shake on our rules, Murphy." I chuckle and he laughs shakily. Shaking my hand, he stands up and at the same time our phones go off with notifications.

It was the group chat asking us where we were.

"Come on," he grabs my hand leading me back to the group. "Let's play some volleyball by the beach."

We spot the group nearby with bags in their hands and towels. Parker runs up to me and shoves me a swim suit and a beach volleyball.

"Come on! Championships are coming up and I desperately need to smack someone in the face with a ball." she yanks me away and I hear Ty calling out to us.

"Us against you guys!"

Cameron smirks and turns around shouting back at them while they kept on dragging me to the car for our drive to the beach.

"Game on!!"

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