Jealousy > Marcus

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"Hey Amelie we HAVE to talk about Sophie Sanchez" Maxine says walking to the counter. "Uh Max I'm working at the minute" I say bringing coffee over to a table. "She's so hot and honestly we've been texting and she actually cares about things like the planet isn't that so amazing" she rambles on following me behind the counter.

"Max, you're not meant to be back there" Joe says. Maxine ignores Joe and continues to follow me. "How are you and Alex?" Max asks me. "I don't know he's seemed off lately. I'm sure it's nothing but I'll check up on him after work" I say grabbing plates of food and bringing them to tables as Maxine helps.

"Honestly I just wanna talk about Sophie 100% of the time" she says as I put two plates down in front of a pair of customers sitting at a table. "I got two ham and turkey sandwiches, one with brown bread and one with white" I say to the customers. "Thanks" they say back to me as I walk back behind the counter to Maxine.

"Max I love you but you need to go, I have to work but I'll text you when I'm done okay?" I say giving her a hug. "Okay don't worry about me I'll just be dreaming about Sophie. Bye hate you, kidding!" she giggles as she leaves the cafe.

Many hours later of taking orders and making food, my shift was finally over. It was about 2pm now as I started working at 9am. I rang my mum telling her to come pick me up.

.....

I met up with the girls at the Battle of the Bands. They were standing with Ginny, I didn't really know Ginny that well. She mostly hung out with Sam and her friend group, but Ginny's boyfriend Hunter usually talked about her a lot to us. She seemed nice but as I walked over to the girls she acted awkward around me, but I thought nothing of it.

"Um Max what are you doing?" I ask looking down at her. "She's hiding from Sophie" Abby says. "Oh no. Why, what happened now?" I ask. "Abby over here accidentally liked one of Sophie's posts on Instagram from 2016" Maxine says rolling her eyes. "Ahh so your hiding from embarrassment, got it" I laugh receiving a glare from Max.

A few moments later Maxine starts tugging on my shoulder. "Omg omg omg" maxine says. "What?" I ask confused. "Sophie just liked my post from 2016" she replies looking up at Sophie. "I'll be right back" she says to me making her way towards Sophie.

Watching them from a distance someone behind me grabs my hand. "Hey" to my surprise Alex says. "Oh hey, how have you been you've seemed distant lately?" I ask him. "Oh uh just busy with school and stuff but I'm here now" he smiles as I smile back. Something seems off.

He puts his arm over my shoulder as Hunter gets on stage. Everyone cheers and when I look to my left I see Marcus walking in through the entrance. I wave at him as he returns the gesture.

"Ginny Miller, this song is for you" Hunter says as I nearly puke in my mouth. He's not going to sing a song for her, seriously?

I can barely breathe when you are near. And I'm really, really, really scared you're gonna disappear. I can't breathe when you are near...

I nearly burst into laughter listening to the lyrics of the song he wrote. I look over to Marcus catching his attention as he is trying to control his laughter too. I had to look away from him or we both would've laughed out loud from the cringe singing.

As the singing went on I felt so uncomfortable. I watched Ginny smile and dance to the 'music' as if it was her dream come true.

(I'm sorry but if a boy did that for me I'd leave him so fast LMAO. It was so cringe oh my life)

After my ears nearly fell off from the torturous noise. The song was over and everyone cheered. I clapped internally pissing myself laughing.

Hunter walked over to Ginny and shared a moment with her. Alex turned to me. "Maybe I should write a song like that for you" he said jokingly. "I'd dumb your ass in a heartbeat" I laughed.

"Wait do you maybe want to come over to mine just to watch a movie or something?" I ask Alex. "Yeah sure" he replies.

We walk back to my house and sit on the sofa. I pulled up Netflix on my laptop and we decided to watch The Vampire Diaries. We were laughing and giggling as my mum rudely interrupted us with a fake cough.

"Hello mother what do you want" I ask frustrated. Alex pops up from the sofa and walks over to my mum saying hello to her. "Well aren't you just the cutest" my mum says to Alex as he laughs. "Mum please" I say begging her to leave. Finally she takes the hint and goes to her room.

I feel a ding in my back pocket. I lift out my phone and see a notification from Marcus saying "hey". I ignore it and put it back in my pocket, putting my head gently on to Alex's chest.