15: Roasted Garlic

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Chapter 15: Roasted Garlic

Emma: I am freaking out here. I am definitely getting caught. In fact they are gonna call my mother ANYTIME!

Hailey: Emma chill. They are not gonna come after you. The guys handled the matter well.

Emma: Okay you are right. I am just overthinking this a lot. God I need a break.

Hailey: Why? Don't you have Leo the sexy Italian to keep you entertained? ;)

Emma: -_- No. besides he isn't even home!

Hailey: Hey why don't you and George come over to my place? We can all hang out. It's been long since we have done that! Besides Mom and Dad went to meet my uncle with Ian and Reese. So we have the house all to ourselves.

Emma: That sounds fun! Okay coming over asap.

I was excited to go over to Hailey' s place but I was also anxious to meet George. He was so upset these days, I decided to not bring up that Sebastian matter just yet. I knew there was definitely something going on between them, the kiss they shared made it obvious. But what about Hailey? On the other hand, Sebastian kept on seeing Hailey. Hailey deserves to know the truth but not yet, I need to confirm what is going between Sebastian and George first so I refrained from saying anything to her. I was feeling guilty for hiding this to her, so I needed to confront George today.

After showering and changing into my most comfortable clothes I went over to Hailey's place.

Emma: Going over to Hailey's place. The main door key is in the third flower pot from left. Btw you alright?

Leo: Okay.

Juat okay? Leo seemed quite aloof from last night. In fact he left really early in the morning and hasn't returned yet. I asked if he was alright but he just muttered a hasty okay, taking off somewhere. He seemed quite stressed and burdened about something. I had this urge to ask him if he was okay or not. But I decided against it, maybe I will ask him about it when he comes back.

After few moments I was at Hailey's place, George was already there. He seemed fine but I knew inside he was hurting.

"EMMA!" Hailey wrapped her arms around me. "I finally get to have my favourite bitches together", she beamed.

"George is your favourite too?",
I grasped dramatically since they always used to pick up silly fights here and there.

"Yeah he is unfortunately", Hailey shrugged, smiling coyly.

George just returned her a weak smile.

"Let's just watch a movie okay?" Hailey chimed in.

"What are we going to watch? You decide Hailey", I suggested plopping myself on the bed beside George.

"How about Clueless?"

"I already saw that".

"But I didn't neither did George", Hailey said.

"Okay I don't mind re-watching it".

.............

After we were done, we were all lying in bed eating chips and salsa. Of course I had to convince Hailey to order a pizza. In fact it's going to be here any minute.

"I would love to lick chocolate sauce off Ryan Gosling's abs", George said. George was in a better mood than before. Maybe he just let go of his worries now.

"Sure! I will join with you. We just have to kidnap him first", I teased.

"But you don't have to right? You have the sexy Leo Arsen living with you. Apparently he has washboard abs", Hailey quipped.

"Yeah he does", I muttered. "But it isn't all that great". Images of Leo Arsen shirtless clouded my mind. Okay they were perfect. I shook that thought right off. Snap out of it Emma.

"Oh really? I am surprised you are not drooling", George teased seeing the unfocused look in my eyes.

I pushed him, playfully. He just laughed along with Hailey who was almost at the verge of crying from laughter.

"I am gonna go get the pizza", I yelled hearing the sound of the doorbell to get out of the awkward situation.

I took the pizza from the delivery boy, it was from Pizza Hut so sadly there was no smirking Leo Arsen waiting on the door porch. I don't even like Pizza Hut that much but it was too late since George was already finished ordering.

Before I could go upstairs with the pizza box, I was interrupted by George's phone which wouldn't stop vibrating.

I picked up the phone, unlocking it ( I knew his password since it was "Ryan Gosling". Yeah very typical of George).

"You have like 67 notifications!" I said handing him the phone once I got to Hailey's room, not scrolling further but it seems like all of them were from Facebook.

"Looks like George is famous", Hailey said

George took the phone from me, he stared at it intently his expression. All the colour drained from his face, he looked pale dropping the phone on his lap.

"George you okay?" Hailey asked, but George didn't say anything.

Hailey took the phone in her hands scrolling through the thing George saw. My eyes widened as I caught a glimpse of what was written. I was appalled.

"I am sorry Hailey. I was about to-", George said frustratingly running his fingers through his hair.

"Explain this to me", Hailey said with a straight face but I can see that she was hurt. I was seething now, Jules had the audacity of uploading a picture of Sebastian and George kissing with a caption underneath "Looks like both the best friends love sharing one guy and congrats on coming out Seb". It was perhaps seen by all the people in our batch as it already had 200+ comments on it.

"Sebastian and I like each other. A lot. Believe me we didn't want to play with your feelings- I tried to back off. But-", George sighed. "I am sorry".

"And not once you didn't mention this to me. Not even Sebastian".

"Seb wanted to but I told him not to. I didn't want to hurt you...".

"As if that's making me feel better. You guys just played with my feelings", Hailey cried out. "I think you can show yourself out", with that she slammed the door behind her, leaving us alone.

"George I-", I couldn't think of anything to say to him.

"Hailey is right. It is my fault. But I tried my best to get over him. I just couldn't. He wasn't even ready to come out as bi so I thought he was leading me on. So I told him to get over me and go out with Hailey", he was almost on the verge of crying.

"Oh god. George calm down. Let me fetch you some water-".

"No. I will be leaving now", he got up and headed downstairs. I followed him behind, looks like Hailey was locked up inside her parents room.

George took his coat, "Tell her that I am sorry", he said ruefully, then taking off.

"Take care George. And please don't be hard on yourself", but I was talking to a departing figure of George.

Closing the door, I rushed upstairs to Hailey.

"Hailey please open the door", I knocked.

"I am fine Em. I just need some time to myself. You go home. Besides it's quite late", Hailey said from the other side of the door.

"You sure?" I wasn't willing to leave her alone but I was willing to respect her privacy. From all these years of friendship with Hailey I have understood to let Hailey be for sometime that helps her calm down.

"Yeah. Go home".

"Okay", I took my jacket from the rack, locking the door behind me I took off to George's place.

I knew it was quite far from Hailey' s place and it was chilly outside today but I was adamant on going there. I needed to be with either one of my best friends. The only thing they need to do is properly communicate with each other to solve this matter. They cannot break their friendship over a guy. I clenched my fists at the thought of Jules. She just won't stop. Won't she?

My phone beeped inside my pocket, I took it out in the hoping that either of my best friends have texted me or something. But turns out it was from an anonymous number.

I am back in town Rose. Still missing you. We should definitely meet up soon.

All the blood drained out of my face as I stood motionless on the ground. He is back. He is coming to get me. Oh no. All the memories of my dreadful past came rushing back to me. That isn't possible. He cannot be back. But Rose? He is the only one who calls me by my middle name. It's definitely him.

My heart started beating erratically against my chest. I realized I was too far off from Hailey' s place and George's place was quite a few blocks away. So I ran towards my home, the cold air hitting my tear strained cheeks.

This. Can't. Be. Happening.

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I am sorry if this is a crappy chapter but I was facing a major writer's block so I had to let something out.

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