SUFFER ; charlie puth (slow updates bc i'm lazy)

04 ; "i love being a third wheel."

Erin

I genuinely believed I was an idiot. And not the good kind.

Here I was, standing all prettied up, ready for a night on the town, with the one and only Charlie Puth.

My phone rings, and it's Zarah.

"Bitch, how you feeling? Ready to relieve your grudge on Charlie?" She says through the phone, and I roll my eyes.

"Yeah, no. I'm getting free food, that's the only reason I'm going," I say, and she chuckles.

"Sure, Jan."

I see a nice car coming my way, and my heart started racing, which I tried to stop. Charlie gets out of the car, and I start walking to the passenger's seat, but Charlie stops me.

"Didn't I tell you? Selena's here too. You're gonna have to sit in the back." I furrow my eyebrows at him, but don't think anything of it. 

Maybe I could become friends with Selena.

-

"Oh my god," Selena laughs at a stupid joke Charlie makes, and I roll my eyes for the fiftieth time. 

At this rate, my eyes are equivalent to a bowling ball. If they could roll away, they would. 

It's not that I hated Selena or was even annoyed, it's the fact that I couldn't eat my delicious food 'cause this super model was making me insecure.

"So, Erin..." Selena starts, and I raise my eyebrows, "I heard that you don't like Charlie. I just wanna know why."

I laugh while wiping my mouth with a napkin, "No reason." I keep my answer short, cause I was at the end of my rope. 

"Hey... I'm gonna go to the bathroom. You guys have a girl to girl," Charlie says, and slips away from the dinner table. 

I knew what he was doing, and I knew I was giving satisfaction with my responses, but I was pissed. I wanted to eat my damn burger.

"So I'm just gonna get to it," Selena says, breaking the silence, "Charlie is my best friend. And it sucks seeing him so invested in trying to get you to like him. He has the whole world at his fingertips, and you're slowing him down. So I suggest, you either love him or get a life. He's not your toy."

Her sudden outburst scared me but I wasn't surprised. I was an obstacle in Charlie's life. But I enjoyed his attention, even if I didn't want to admit it.

"I get it. His attention is a drug. You might think you don't like him, but then once he stops giving you all the attention, and hands it off to someone else, you realize, you just might be in love with him," She says passionately, which led me to believe that she wasn't talking about me-- she was talking about herself.

Call it what you want, but I'm pretty sure Selena's in love with him.

Which just added another obstacle in this course.

-

The rest of the dinner, I kept replaying Selena's words in my head. Maybe I was starting to like him, maybe even more than a friend. No, not eating the burger I ordered has really gotten to my head. There's no way, after hating for so long, I don't think it was emotionally possible to love him.

We were in the car, and Selena was getting off to leave. 

"You, have a good night," She says, putting a kiss on the corner of Charlie's lips, "And you... remember what I said. I only want what's best,"

And with that she exited. I couldn't tell if I was jealous, annoyed, pissed, or all of the above. I was genuinely confused with my feelings.

Stupid Charlie Puth, how did he manage to slither his snake ass self into my heart?

-

Charlie

Erin looked deep in thought. It was cute. Her eyebrows were furrowed, and she mouthed words that I couldn't make out.

Seeing her all prettied up tonight made my stomach do plenty of flips, I was almost going to give up my plan, and take on an actual date.

But, there wouldn't be any fun in that, now would there?

Selena has been my friend for a while, I used to like her. Scratch that, I was so in love with her, I was practically her puppy. And then she friend zoned me, and told me to get over it. 

So I put on my big boy pants, and cleaned up my feelings. And found Erin.

My master plan, was to make Erin jealous. So she could come to her senses, and tell me she likes me. Which would ultimately make me happy.

But it seemed as though Selena had scared her into silence. That, or she was drowning in jealousy.

"So, did you enjoy tonight?" I ask, keeping my eyes on the road. From the corner of my eye, she crosses her arms and huffs.

"Yeah. It was fun," She says, shortly.

"Why say it like that?" I say, raising my eyebrows. Had my plan worked?

"Yeah, it was so fun. I love being a third wheel, actually I specialize in it.  So thank you, I really appreciate it, Charles. This is totally not sarcasm. Nope, not one bit," She says, and I chuckle at her cuteness.

"So, you were jealous?" I ask, and silence is returned. 

Well, that answers my question.

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the devil works hard, but charlie puth works harder. also, i know in real life charlie & selena are not friends anymore, because of misinterpretations, but this is a fanfiction. so it's not accurate. do you think erin should fall in love with charlie? or are you kind of sick of his petty ass?

x t.s.