Jen's POV
Dreadful. Life was dreadful.
When I figured out I wasn't just praising women's beauty, but I was in fact a ranging lesbian, I thought: "Stunning, I don't like men at all. G-d smiled at me today"
But when my first girlfriend broke my heart...oh Lord, that's when I realized that liking girls wasn't all wonders.
And now here I was, falling for yet, another of my students. When I started liking Sofía, I thought that maybe I wasn't that bad; that maybe my morals could be still intact given that when I met her, I didn't know she was my student, and we almost had sex, so after finding out who she was I couldn't just erase that picture from my mind.
So yeah, maybe that encounter messed everything up for my head and my heart. But now I don't have any excuses...I'm sitting in the prettiest cafe on town and I'm feeling sad and angry because Kate had a date yesterday.
Very mature of me.
I was so caught up in imagining Kate that I didn't notice when a tall brunette was walking towards me, not until she took a seat right in front of me.
"Brianna? What are you doing here?" I asked shocked, and immediately started looking around for Sofía because those two are never apart.
"Good evening, Jennifer" Brianna said politely, crossing her legs and sitting as if she were a goddess about to be worshiped.
"What are you doing here?" I asked again, not understanding why she choose to sit here with me.
Brianna eyed me slowly, and she put her hands up in the air in surrender, as if letting me know that she meant no harm.
"I...suppose this is rather strange, given that I wasn't always very polite to you" Brianna said with difficulty. Was this her way of apologizing?
"The truth is, I saw you from across the room and I decided I'd come to say hi" Brianna continued, genuinely smiling at the end...which honestly was kind od scary.
Her smile and her words sounded genuine, but my mind couldn't really believe that Brianna was being nice to me unless she had an ulterior motive...or unless Sofía told her to, that woman is a simp for Sofía.
"Did Sofía put you up to this?" I asked crossing my arms. "Where is she? I- Look, everything is fine between Sofía and I, tell her I'm sorry for behaving like such a baby. If she wants, we can go back to being friends, but I'm not walking away from Kate and I don't care what Sofía says" I ended, my tone serious.
Brianna opened her eyes slightly and smirked at me, I squirmed a little under her gaze. She was giving me her full attention and I could see that she was inspecting my every move, she was processing every word that left my mouth and somehow understanding what I was feeling before I could fully understand it myself.
"She didn't put me up to this, but I'll let her know how you feel about what you just told me" Brianna said, and after a pause she continued. "I noticed that you didn't seem well, and Sofía told me that you didn't show up at school today, so I thought I'd pass by to ask...how are you?" she ended.
If I were to describe this whole encounter with just one word, I couldn't decide with which one to use...it was shocking, alarming, weird, etc.
"I- I don't want to be rude, I really don't...but this it odd" I said sincerely. As much as I wanted to believe her and not make her feel bad about me doubting her intentions, I couldn't wrap my head around this conversation.
"Fair enough" Brianna said under her breath. "I guess I should explain myself furtherly" she said mostly to herself.
"I want to start by apologizing to you" she deadpanned while my eyes almost bugged out of my skull.
"You- you what?" I took a big sip of my coffee and pinched myself, just to make sure I wasn't dreaming. "Oh wait- you're apologizing for something you're about to do right now like...I don't know, finally kill me?" I added, a nervous blush creeping on my cheeks.
"Why does everyone think I want to kill them?" Brianna asked out loud, shaking her head and then refocusing her attention on me. "No, I want to apologize for how I've treated you since I met you. I didn't even know your name, but I was already being rude and mean to you, and I'm sorry for that...you didn't deserve it" Brianna finished.
Once again, I was speechless. Did I ever dream about this day? Yes. Did I actually thought it would happen? No.
"You were there for Sofía when I was being completely awful to her, and even when she was vulnerable, and you could have used your friendship with her to manipulate her into hating me...you encouraged her to make things right with me" Brianna continued, seeing that apparently, I couldn't form a word. "And I'll always be grateful for that" she ended.
I blinked twice, and Brianna looked at me expectantly.
"I- uh...don't know what to say. I mean, everyone would have done that...I- yeah, you don't have to thank me" I said stuttering.
"No Jennifer, not everyone would have done that" Brianna said with her teacher voice. I nodded at her, believing in the intensity of her words and her eyes.
"Well, thank you for apologizing and...saying all those things. It means a lot to me that now we are-...or at least we are on our way to be on good terms" I said smiling.
And I wasn't kidding, since I moved here, I haven't been able to make not even one friend. But before this talk, I already had an enemy, an impossible crush, and an ex-impossible crush; so, it's nice to be able to take the 'enemy' out of the list.
"I'd like that for us" Brianna said, a light smile creeping onto her face.
And I thought this was what this all conversation was going to be about, it would end beautifully if she would just stand up and look at me without wanting to turn me into stone. But instead of following my script, she suddenly shook her head and put her teacher face on, letting me know that she meant business.
"So, taking that into consideration...I feel like I have to return the favor to you, and help you in your...ah...dilemma" Brianna explained, waiting for me react.
"I- That's very nice of you...but I don't really have a dilemma. I mean, unless you know something I don't...I-" I started, but before I could keep rambling, Brianna cut me off.
"I know you like Kate" she deadpanned. "But don't worry, I'm not threatening you, for obvious reasons; but also, because I really want to help you out and redeem myself to you" she explained.
She looked at me expectantly, waiting for me to process her words before continuing to the next stage of her intervention.
"I always thought that Sofía was exaggerating every time she was left speechless by you...but now I think that it is just a collateral effect of being near you" I said gulping hard and running a hand in my hair in distress.
Brianna smirked and crossed her arms, in some other time I would have sworn that she was relishing on my misery, but today, I still think she might deep down be relishing on my misery, nevertheless, she 100% wants to help me out.
"I don't think you're being too obvious, is just that I have been in your position before, so I immediately recognized some signals...of being in love and in denial, I've been there" she said, explaining everything as if she were my psychiatrist.
"And you are..." I started, motioning for her to end the sentence for me.
"Going to help you get the girl" she ended, smirking at the end.
Not what I was expecting, not what I was expecting at all.
"I think she likes you too, and if you avoided her today it is because something happened between you two, and you're afraid of facing her and your feelings" Brianna continued, not minding at all that she was the only one talking while I just opened and closed my mouth like a fish.
"And I know we're not in a place where you're just going to tell me everything that happened between the two of you" Uh, except that was exactly what I was planning on doing because I forgive easily, and because I'm desperate.
"But all I wanted to say is that I almost lost Sofía too many times because I pushed her away, and I hurt her because I didn't talk to her. You don't need to have everything figured out, you don't need to be certain of anything...you just need to talk to her and try to figure your feelings out...together" Brianna ended, crossing the table to give my arm a squeeze.
I was amazed by how much Brianna has grown, and I'm not saying that she wasn't a great person before, I really can't say because I didn't know her...but the way she gives relationship advice tells me that her relationship with Sofía has clearly gotten to a place in which they are definitely rock solid.
"She went to a date last night" I said slowly, embracing Brianna as my new free therapist. "And I think I blew it...I mean, I think she knows that I like her because I kinda panicked and kinda admitted that I was jealous" I explained, biting my lip nervously as I waited for Brianna to tell me what to do.
"Well, I can't tell you what to do" Fuck. Can she read minds too?
"Uh, except that, you can. What would you do if you were me?" I asked eagerly.
Brianna smirked before replying, and something told me that she wasn't as concentrated in this conversation as when she first sat in this table.
"In Sofía's words, my advice would only led you to have a 'someday I'm going to be a MILF' behavior and a sex-" she started.
"No no no no" I said rapidly shushing Brianna. "I already have a lot of concerning and unwanted knowledge about your sex life, I don't want more" I said, trying to clear my head of anything related with Sofía and Brianna's sex life.
Brianna shrugged and smirked, clearly loving her sex life and how she could make me uncomfortable with it.
"Look, what I need-" I started, but midsentence my phone started ringing for the tenth time this day.
I got it out of my purse and after a quick glance I turned it off before looking back at Brianna, who was looking at me though narrowed eyes.
"Who was that?" she asked.
"Kate" I said, avoiding looking at her so I couldn't get scared.
"And why you didn't pick up?" she asked, and by her tone I already knew she knew more about why I didn't pick up than what I knew myself.
"I was going to answer her..." I said, and Brianna motioned me to continue. "But then she sent me a text in which she stopped asking if I was okay and told me instead that she is having another date today...ohh and you know with who?" I asked, getting way to friendly with Brianna way too quickly.
"Who?" she asked, completely amused by my jealousy.
"Jessica" I said, and Brianna's eyebrows lifted in surprise. "She's always flirting with everyone; I really don't know what Kate sees in her" I rambled.
Brianna chuckled, and I've got to say I was enjoying this dynamic way more than what I should have.
"So you think Jessica-" Brianna started, but before she could finish her sentence I cut her off.
"I didn't mean that, I'm pretty sure she is an amazing young lady and I'm sure a lot of people see a lot of things in her because she is great and I'm just being bitter" I added not after ten seconds had passed, and now Brianna fully laughed.
"Even when you're jealous you're nice, I didn't think someone like that even existed" Brianna snorted.
"I wish I could get all scary jealous, maybe it would make everything easier, and I'd get the girl" I sighed, dropping my head in my hand.
Maybe if I were a little more like Brianna, I wouldn't mind crushing Jessica's dreams or ruining Kate's night. I'd just act on my very possessive thoughts and make her mine.
"Okay, for this one time I'll let you borrow a page from my book and help you out. And maybe then you can teach me...how to not be a bitch?" Brianna asked, not even her believed that she ever wanted to stop being the bad bitch that she is.
"I'm all ears" I said eagerly, making Brianna smirk once again.
"Crash the date" she explained, making my head feel fuzzy with all the endless possibilities. "Don't overthink it, just do it" she added.
And surprisingly, my jealousy was so strong that I didn't need to be told twice, I agreed immediately.
I left a few dollars in my table and got up, Brianna did the same and without thinking I hugged her, and after a few seconds she awkwardly hugged me back.
"Thank you" I said breathlessly. Brianna shrugged it off as if it were nothing
"How do I look? Do I look mad? I'm supposed to be mad at Sofía" she said as she walked me to the exit, walking by Sofía and not even bothering to look back at her.
"You're nailing it" I said sincerely. "But you know, maybe this time you could borrow a page from my book, and I don't know...forgive her and hug it out?" I asked hopefully, but Brianna laughed as if I just said the funniest joke she has ever heard.
"That's not really my style, Jennifer" she said smirking.
"Call me Jen, and...I don't know if I should ask?" I said looking at her through narrowed eyes.
"You shouldn't, but what you should do...is crash a date" she said pushing me lightly out of the coffee shop.
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