𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐭 || 𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫

32

"I am not. I can eat what's in the house."

"We have nothing in the house because we were both gone after I left for thanksgiving. I threw out the shit that was close to being expired and that left us with nothing. So lets go, I'm not taking no for an answer." You can go just like that." She says gesturing to my fit.

"You know what, I will go dressed like this. You act like I'm wearing something ugly." I say defensively.

"No! You're not, I'm just trying to speed up the process. I'm hungry and saddle is probably packed." She mindlessly says, then slaps a hand over her mouth. "No! I'm not going to saddle ranch, fuck off."

I sat my ass right back down, arms crossed over my chest firmly.

"Yes you are! I said I'm not taking a 'no' as an answer."

"Yeah that's before you tried to set me up and take me to fucking Saddle Ranch."I grumbled. "Cleo, lets go. This is getting old now. You have no reason to not want to go tonight."

"You know that's a big fucking lie. If I see him there tonight what the fuck am I gonna do? I can't even think about him for too long, because if I do I want to cry. If I see him tonight I won't know what to do, or what to feel. I don't want to be reminded of how hurt I was Mila." I confessed to her. The silence in the room was so loud, but Mila wore the face of defeat.

"Then we won't go. There's nothing more we can do. Vinnie's going to be everywhere we go, no matter if you want him to be or not. We have the same friend group, it's bound to be the case." She shrugged, before walking out the room.

I sat on my bed staring at the door for what felt like forever when in reality it was only a few minutes.

I truly didn't want to go to saddle, but I was hungry and I was in the mood for a virgin pina colada. This I made the decision to just get over myself and I went to tell Mila let's go.

She asked me if I was sure, and that if I genuinely didn't want to go anymore we really didn't have to but I lied and told her I was okay.

If I was to see him, I would just have to face it.

-

I didn't want to face it.

Mila was right, this place was packed with influencers by the time we got there.

We got a seat outside that was against the wall so we could see the street and the cars that passed by.

I wore an oversized forest green hoodie, with my biker shorts and a hat that covered my dark hair. I was sat crisscrossed in my chair, as I ate the french fries that laid in my plate and took small sips of my virgin pina colada.

We had been here for not even 25 minutes, when we saw Vinnie and Kio walk in together with some of the other boys they'd been friends with. Seeing him in person again made me lose all train of thought and all I could see was him.

He didn't notice me when he walked in and I thanked the lord that he had yet to see me.

But I wasn't so lucky.

The only empty table that was left on the outdoors section was the table right behind me and Mila. This meant that they'd have to walk right by us in order to get there and I just knew this meant interacting with them if they stopped by the table.

Mila noticed my discomfort and she tried her best to distract me and I was distracted for some time but that ultimately failed when the boys neared the table and stopped when they noticed me.

"Oh Shit!? Cleo you're back, I haven't seen you in so long." Troy smiled, standing with his arms opened.

I cursed myself before standing up to give him a hug, along with giving one to Jordan who wore a comforting smile.