Under The Jasmine Tree ✔

🖌Recklessness

He looked down at me with a reassuring smile, then spoke up.

"It's been a while." All three heads turned our way.

"Apollo..." The girl, who I presume is Olivia based on Apollo's stories. All three of them stood up and greeted us, and dare I say, very awkwardly. The tallest guy, with blonde hair and blue eyes, tried to hug Apollo, who in turn extended his hand for him to shake.

The second guy, with jet black hair and green eyes, got the hint and just nodded his head at Apollo, while asking how he was. I shook both guys' hands. The girl, Olivia, stood right in front of Apollo with a hesitant smile on her lips. Her face held plenty of freckles and her hair shined a bright orange. All three of them were utterly beautiful people, appearance-wise, but I'm not sure if that's the case personality-wise.

"Hello." Apollo extended his hand again, the same way he did with the blonde guy. An expression of shock and hurt formed on her face.

"Come one, sit, sit." They moved inside the half circle booth so both of us could sit. I sat on seat in the edge of the booth and Apollo sat on the other, with the three friends in the middle, making Apollo and I to face each other.

A few moments of awkward silence passed between us, until the blonde guy piped up. "It wouldn't be right to not introduce ourselves, to you." He told me. "My name's Ben, he's Wayne" He pointed at his green-eyed friend, "and she-"

Olivia cut him off to introduce herself. She playfully smacked his, Ben's, arm. "I can say my name just fine." A chuckle left her lips. "I'm Olivia, it's nice to meet you."

I returned her smile. "It's nice to meet you too, all of you." I looked at all three of them. I glanced at Apollo for a second, only to see his jaw twitching.

Wayne spoke up, "So, how do you know Apollo?"

"We-" Apollo cut me off.

"She's, my girlfriend."

A blush creeped on my face slowly while shocked expressions appeared on Olivia, Wayne, and ben's faces.

I threw my 'boyfriend' a quizzing look and he mouthed 'later' then I turned back to the trio with a slight smile. Olivia spoke up first, "You're...together?" Apollo had a smirk on his face when he nodded his head. This felt almost unnatural for him to do.

"Congrats, you seem great together." Ben had a genuine smile on his face, making me wonder what they were truly like when Apollo was a senior.

"What college do you go to?" Wayne chimed.

"UMA, it's a ten-minute walk to the campus from here." Apollo replied.

"We go to SHU, back home." Olivia spoke up.

"How do you guys know Apollo? I mean, how did you meet?" Of course, I knew. I just loved giving Apollo the confrontation he needed.

And a petty part of me wanted him to get his revenge.

All three of them became tense and no one replied, making Apollo speak up and voice the same story he told me months ago.

"We met when I was in my senior year, and they were college freshmen. They thought I was 'cool' enough for their standards, so they let me hang around them. Turns out they just wanted me around for fun, not because they considered me a friend. Isn't that right Olivia? Ben? Wayne?" He looked at each of them when he spoke their names.

They looked anywhere but towards Apollo. Ben cleared his throat after a while of staying silent. "That's why we asked your dad if we can see you. We came here to Apologize. We realized how stupid we were."