The ride back is filled with some sort of tension in the air. This time Marcus sits back with me and Hazel goes up front with Jesse. Not a good sign. Nobody says much, so the radio fills the silence.
"Well..." Marcus starts.
I can tell he's only talking to prevent the awkward silence. Nobody helps him. Jesse hasn't said a word since I ran off, but I can tell he's bothered. Hazel sits looking out of the window in silence and I put on my airpods to drown them all out.
We drive like that the whole way back. When we get to the hotel, Marcus and Hazel climb out the back. Jesse opens the door, then turns to me.
"You coming or are you going to stay in there the whole night?"
"I'm coming now." I say.
"Do you want to talk to me about whatever's going on?" he asks.
I shrug.
"I promise I'll help and try and not get annoyed..."
I smile tiredly at him.
"Sure."
"Ok."
We climb out and head towards the gardens where the firepit is.
"Wassup?" Jesse asks me.
I say nothing.
"Wow really? No way!" he says.
I glare at him.
"I'm trying to think of how to start." I say.
"Get on with it then. I have girls waiting for me." he winks.
"How come your allowed to do whatever you want with whoever you want but I'm not?"
"Because, Hailey, I'm the oldest."
"Not fair."
"If you'd come first, you would have that power. But you don't." he grins at me.
"Who even are these girls?"
"A model here, a singer there. You know how it is."
"No I actually don't." I say.
"Random girls I see. Doesn't hurt to have a bit of fun."
I look him up and down but don't say anything.
"Don't give me that look." he says.
"I'm not giving you any look."
"Yes you are. Your giving me that look you give people when your secretly mad but don't want to say it. It's scary."
"Well I don't think you should be messing around like that with girls."
"Hailey listen to yourself. Loosen up! Enjoy your youth!"
"You sound like an 80 year old man." I say.
He rolls his eyes.
"Always so problematic."
"I'm just saying." I shrug.
"We're here to talk about you anyways, not about me."
I really don't want to tell him to be honest.
"I just want to end the Mason joke date thing." I lie.
"Is that it?" he sounds so disappointed.
"Yeah..." I say.
"Damn, I thought there was some severe shit going on."
"Yeah well-" I say uncomfortably.
If only he knew.
"Just do it then? I don't see the problem."
"Yeah, but Hazel says I used him."
"He knew."
"That's what I said!" I exclaimed.
It's not exactly a lie- it's just not the whole truth.
"Just tell him. It's not like he's going to even care."
"Yeah I will." I say.
Jesse stands.
"Well that was boring. I thought something more interesting was going on, but I guess not. Now if you'll excuse me, I have some very pretty ladies to attend to."
He walks away. I stand too, and head over to where Dec and Mason are sat with a lot of the boys including Trent, Phil, Jack and Jadon.
I'm about to ask Mason if we can have a talk when Trent looks up and sees me.
"Hailey! I was looking for you!"
"You were?" I ask surprised.
"Yeah, I was wondering if I could talk to you for a minute?"
"Oh! Umm yeah sure." I say.
I've genuinely no idea what this is going to be about but whatever.
I see Phil eye Jack out of the corner of my eye. I give him a 'what is this?' sort of look, and he shrugs and smiles, meaning he definitely knows.
"Umm, right here or..."
"No, is it ok if we go someplace else?"
"Yeah, I don't mind." I say.
As long as it's quick. I want to talk to Mase too.
He stands and as he walks past Jack, he gives him a fist bump.
We walk to where Jesse and I were sat literally two minutes ago.
"So..." Trent starts.
I can tell he's nervous. His knee is bouncing up and down and his eyes are snowy where but mine.
"I don't bite." I smile.
"Yeah, I'm just not sure how to put it."he says.
"I won't get offended."
"Oh no, it's nothing bad." he assures me.
"Ok." I'm unsure where this is going.
"Well- I-" he says.
I say nothing, waiting for him to get it out.
"I kinda... well I like you." he says.
His eyes are determinedly fixed in the fire.
I nearly fall of the bench in surprise. TRENT? The cute one? The nice one? Likes me?
"It's totally fine if you don't like me too and I won't make it weird and I know Jesse won't be happy-"
If I'm completely honest, Jesse is the last of my worries right now.
"No, it's fine." I say, forcing a smile.
"I just think your nice and pretty and everything so..." he trails off.
This is not good. I mean, I love Trent, I really do, but there's Jadon, and I haven't even spoken to Mason yet about stopping the joke and...
"We can talk and get to know each other and stuff." I say to him.
"Yeah sure." he smiles that cute smile of his.
"You're cute." I smile at him.
It's just the truth.
We stand and walk back to the rest of them lot. This is starting to feel a lot like love island.
"Mason? Talk please?"
"Sure babes." he grins at Dec and follows me.
I'm not sure how many more one to ones I'm going to have tonight.
"Whats up?" he asks.
"Can we walk and talk? I've sat down by that firepit too long tonight."
"Sure."
We stroll around the gardens of the hotel. Their pretty at this time of year, with flowers in full bloom and fountains that add to the feel.
"I've been thinking about our thing..."
"What thing?" he asks.
"You know- the thing." I say.
"Ohhh, of course the thing, I now exactly what you're talking about now." he says sarcastically.
I shove him.
"Babes, THE FAKE RELATIONSHIP."
"Oh." he looks at me sideways, "and..."
"I think we should stop it now."
He's silent. Too silent.
"You know, cause it was for Jadon to be jealous and it worked so we can stop?" I press.
"In what way did it work?" he asks.
His voice sounds strangely low.
"I- we-"
"What?"
Mason's eyes have gone narrow. I've no idea why.
"After you went for a drink with Dec, I went to the bar and Jadon was there and we talked."
"Right. And I assume you did a bit more than talking?"
His voice is flat.
"Well, yeah we did, but we weren't properly dating anyways so it's ok right babes?" I ask him.
"I don't think you can call me babes anymore."
He sounds like he's dead inside. His voice is dangerously even.
"Mason? Are you good?"
"Yeah. I'm great. Jadon likes you right? That's what you wanted all along."
"Yeah!" I say.
"So that's good. You can go ahead and erase me from your life or whatever."
He turns and walks away.
I guess hazel was right.
"Mason!" I call after him.
He doesn't turn around.
I'm left alone by the roses, thinking of how fucked up this summer is getting. I'm involved with half the England team. And it's all Jadons fault. Screw him.
@hazelwoods
never again am I getting into a car with Jesse at the wheel😭
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