﹙ HURTS ME TOO ★ ﹚

ESTRELLA STOOD IN FRONT OF DYLAN'S TRAILER!

He'd insisted on changing his shoes for the third time to make sure they matched his outfit. "Hurry up before I leave you!" She told him and made her way to the front of the studio.

She stood beside the gate and thanked the driver for being so patient.

"Didn't think I'd show?" Dylan grinned, appearing beside her.

"Prayed you wouldn't." Estrella confirmed.

"Painful."

"You'll be fine."

They filed into the car and made polite small talk in front of the driver. They arrived at the restaurant where the rest of the crew and cast were waiting for a dinner party.

When they stepped out of the car, Estrella held her phone up to snap a photo of the restaurant. Dylan narrowed his eyes when he saw the notification from Malachi that appeared at the top of her screen.

She swiped it away too quickly for him to read. He held the door open and pretended like he hadn't seen the message.

What was she doing texting Malachi? The last time he checked, she didn't even have his number. He wanted to snatch the phone out of her hands and read the messages exchanged between them.

Malachi was an idiot. Before knowing her name, he'd called her his black-haired friend. Estrella's hair was brown. A dark brown. He knew this fact very well because it'd become a habit for him to watch the way her hair glowed under the sunlight instead of paying attention to math sometime in his sophomore year.

Dylan had burned to correct him, but he probably would've been accused of being seconds away from an exact hex code color.

Malachi was the figure of Dylan's irritation and he didn't even know it. When they'd been together at the ice cream parlor, Dylan had gone ahead to order for him and Estrella, when he overheard his friend's conversation.

"Are you into Dylan's girlfriend?" Ariana narrowed her eyes at him, waiting for an explanation.

"I think any guy with even the slightest degree of heterosexuality is into her." Malachi tried to shrug off her question. "I'm not gonna make a move. She's just pretty. That's all."

"So why are you talking to her?"

"I can't be friendly?"

What Dylan wanted to do was take his ice cream cone, turn around, and smash it into Malachi's nose. But he didn't. Instead, he smiled and returned to Estrella's side, both ice creams in hand.

He spent the rest of the hangout unintentionally glaring at Malachi. When he wasn't doing that, he was trying to catch his fake girlfriend's attention.

It didn't really work. Even if she was smiling at him, it wasn't real, which wasn't a surprise. Something about the way her lips had been against his fundamentally changed him and it infuriated him that it meant nothing to her.

She hadn't even so much as looked at him twice. Nothing. Every second after that, he'd been tongue-tied, racking his brain for something he could say to impress her.

His attempt to get her to stay a while longer was to insist he walk her back to her trailer.

As they found the crew at their reserved table, Dylan pulled out one of the chairs. Estrella sat down and offered a smile so practiced it was almost real and he felt his heart almost thump into his throat.

He was into her. He was so into her that it was embarrassing and obvious. Everybody knew it. Just how long had he been into her? It didn't feel like a new thing.

Maybe he wasn't. It was just the kiss. It had to have been the kiss clouding his brain.

"Smile." Estrella told him, gesturing for Dylan to pose for a photo.

She giggled at his stone-faced expression and he knew immediately his feelings for her was not a new thing.

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estrellagonzalez ✓ hungry for your love

xenagomez i know he wakes up and starts immediately thanking god
⤷ estrellagonzalez ✓ lmfao
⤷ xenagomez why don't u hate ur bf 🥀

estrellasgirl baby that ain't a bf that's a stalker

julietbaker i don't like his attitude
⤷ estrellagonzalez ✓ me neither he could've at least smiled
⤷ julietbaker yeah if i was next to u i would be grinning
⤷ estrellagonzalez ✓ thanks

dylansfavorite why is he acting all difficult?
⤷ estrellagonzalez ✓ trying to impress me

fresitalol queen is he bothering you
⤷ sanrio always
⤷ xoxogossipgirl i want them to break up

⤷ dylanseditor if he fumbles her that's generational
⤷ oliveolive that'll put a curse on his family
⤷ ilovebaggyjeans she's so pretty

jeffbuckleyfan hater final boss
⤷ gojosgf when i found out they were dating i was depressed
⤷ jeffbuckleyfan he doesn't even know u
⤷ gojosgf i wasn't depressed about him
⤷ gojosgf i was like her first listener and now she's dating someone
⤷ jeffbuckleyfan it should've been u

realdylanhoffman ✓ my girl
⤷ estrellagonzalez ✓ talking bout my girl my girl
⤷ realdylanhoffman i can hear ur vocals
⤷ estrellagonzalez ✓ can u actually

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⤷ malachibarton ✓ yeah nevermind

As the crew members chatted away amongst each other, Estrella looked up from her phone. "Why'd you like my post from last year?"

"Obviously because I liked what was in the picture." Dylan replied, trying to act casual.

"You can just say you think I'm hot. You didn't need that vague sentence."

"Don't flatter yourself."

"You're the one staring at me. Also, I don't need to flatter myself when your friend is doing it for me."

Dylan glared at her from across the table and took a sip from his drink, offering a smile to one of the crew members. Both of them decided to lower their voices if they were gonna argue out in public.

He looked up, trying to find a subject they wouldn't argue about.

"Did you have fun the other night?" He asked, picking at his food with his fork.

"I did. Your friend's funny." Estrella nodded.

"Yeah. He's so fucking funny."

"What?"

6:04 PM

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9:46 PM

thank you

sorry i was at dinner

no worries

with who

nosy

curious

tell me

say please

may u please tell me

dylan

are u aware that gossip is a sin

go confess

that's catholicism

i'm christian lol

nice to meet u christian

that was funny

did you laugh out loud

no

but i laughed in my head

good enough

can i ask u a question?

u just did

ur on a roll with these dad jokes

i try

ask

i listened to some of ur songs

were they fire

i liked them

but who are they about?

it sounds like ur in love with this guy

is it a guy?

i don't wanna assume

it is a guy

is it dylan?

yes

who else would they be about

okay i get it