I laughed silently. “You actually did that?”
“Yeah!” Ethan exclaimed from the other side of the phone. It was currently 1 am and we had been talking on the phone for the past hour and before that, we had been texting each other.
“You are so dumb,” I responded, laughter vibrating through my body. “I still can’t believe you and Michael raided Erica’s make-up. Where was Jared?”
“He was busy trying to touch up our faces with permanent marker,” he said, chuckling lightly.
“You guys are such idiots,” I mumbled.
“Don’t judge me! We were a bit tipsy,” he defended himself. “Besides, red lip gloss really brings out the color of my eyes,” he added.
“Uh huh,” I said sarcastically. “What did Erica do?”
“She drew inappropriate stuff on my face with the permanent marker and took pictures of me,” he responded as a matter-of-factly. “She still uses them as leverage. But I have enough embarrassing stories and photos on her to get back at her.”
“So typical of her,” I said, laughing.
I heard him clear his throat while a yawn slipped past my lips when my laughter died off. “So, I was thinking about you moving to Australia.”
I felt my mood drop instantly. “What about it?”
“Don’t you think you should tell everyone?” he asked. “And by ‘everyone’, I mean Erica, Abby, Michael and Jared.”
I played with the fabric on my blanket. “I-No.”
“Why?” he questioned without missing a beat.
“I already told you, Ethan,” I responded, tightening my fingers on a stray piece of thread and plucking it out.
He didn’t say anything for a minute, waiting for me to continue. When I didn’t show any signs of continuing the conversation, he said, “Enlighten me again, please.”
I sighed. “Because I feel like I’ve been bothering everyone with my problems a lot recently.”
“But we’re-they’re your friends,” he protested. “They’re not going to get irritated by you. You have every right to bother us with your problems. Besides, isn’t it better if you tell them now and give them time to bid you farewell and spend some time with you rather than telling them a day before you’re going to leave? There’s probably a chance that Erica and Abby might get pissed at you for not telling them earlier, especially since I know and they don’t.”
Yes, he did have a good point, but he wasn’t around when all of them were there for me when Austin…drugged me and he was mad at me. I don’t want to pile them up with more uninvited drama. Honestly, I don’t think I can take it; mom has already limited down our talks to only arguing about whether or not we’re moving and Ethan seems to be talking about to it to me quite a lot now, too. I don’t want my last days spent here with the rest of them constantly thinking about the fact that I will be gone in the next few days, weeks, who knows!
“I don’t know, Ethan,” I mumbled.
He sighed. “Think about it.”
“I will,” I promised. “We should probably go to bed. It’s late.”
“Yeah,” he hummed. “Sleep well, night.”
“Good night.” I smiled.
“I shall see you in my dreams,” he said and I could hear the smile in his voice.
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My Best Friend's Brother
Romance"Nice try," I said and the smile on his face grew wider. My eyes took in every inch of his face with pleasure. I continued, "But you've got to try better than that to impress me." A soft laugh escaped his lips. "Who said I was trying to impress you...
