I continue arguing with Torres before we're interrupted by the sight of Leo and Jules
"And where the hell were you?"
Leo- "No where that concerns you"
"Okay, why do you have to be a fu-"
Torres- "Tiara" he lightly pushes my side telling me to stop
"Fuck you"
Torres- "You can say shit to me all you want but let's just enjoy being a friend group"
"When was this rule created?"
Torres- "Now, I don't want you fighting with everyone, just me"
"Jealous?" I laugh annoyed with his attempt to boss me around
Torres- "Not like that Jones, it's just I don't care if you say stuff to me"
"And you're saying that Leo does?" My favorite pass time is pissing the two of them off, I know they care.
Torres- "I don't know what i'm saying"
"To me it sounds like you're jealous because you don't want me fighting with anyone but you since me and Leo had a little thing going on a year ago"
Torres- "Never mind, fucking forget it" he scoffs standing up, walking to the back of the boat where he grabs a bear.
Dramatic asshole.
I look around realizing that we're all here sitting at the front of the boat, Skylar Stella Millie and Jules are talking while Thomas and Leo are talking with Sebastian.
How long was I talking to Torres for? Fucking waist of time
"Jules" she spun her head around towards me at the sound of her name
Jules- "Yeah bae?"
"Come here" she did as I said, standing up and walking to sit beside me, across from where she sat before
"You and Leo, explain"
Jules- "There's nothing to explain" she shrugs, her cheeks becoming a light pink shade
"Yeah cause I believe that, you're foot is moving quickly and you are biting the inside of your cheek" When will they realize that I know how they act, I know the little shit
Jules- "I am not" she glared, immediately putting an end to biting her cheek
"You can either tell me now, or tell me in an hour the hard way"
Jules- "Fine, we went to the tree forts together and he helped me up so we could look over the beach, I almost tripped off the edge and he caught me, we kissed" she was trying so hard not to smile
"If he hurts you, Jules I swear to god, don't let something like-"
Jules- "Kie, relax, I know" she assures me referring to what happened a couple years ago
Thomas- "Oh shit, the suns setting!" we all look over to see that it was infact setting, how long have we been out here?
Everyone turned so that we could watch the sunset, I stood up from the bench, walking to the day bed sort of thing right infront of the center console.
Out of the corner of my eye I watched as Torres sat beside me
"What? You wanna be an ass and come sit next to me ten minutes later?"
Torres- "Don't be like that"
"Be like what? what you deserve to be treated like?"
Torres- "Princess, I was just annoyed"
"Well now i'm annoyed, you annoy me"
Torres- "Shocker there" we both scoff at the statement, watching as the sun slowly disappears into the ocean
We stay silent, but a more comfortable silence than before as the colors in the sky dance around he doesn't say a single thing as he stand up, confusing me before I decide to ignore it.
He comes back a minute later holding his phone, "here" his voice is soft, not the same as when we were arguing just minutes ago
"What for?" why was he giving me his phone? Gonna show off all the girls texting him?
Torres- "Well I don't know where yours is and you like taking pictures of the sunset. You can send them to yourself"
I hide my smile as I take the phone, I refuse for him to know I enjoy taking pictures of things, but for some odd reason he already does, so now i'll settle for refusing to let him know that his gesture made me smile
I end up taking like ten pictures of different parts of the sunset. Exiting the camera I go to contacts, searching up my name nothing shows up, "am I not in your phone?"
Torres- "No, you are"
"Well, it's not showing up, did you block me?" I have his number, he seriously doesn't have mine? Is he that much of a child?
Torres- "Oh shit, it's not under your name" he gently takes the phone from me, handing it back moments later in my contact
"Tiara? Is that really my name?"
Torres- "Yes it is" he smiles proud of himself, not looking at me he keeps his eyes on the view
Once I send them to myself I wonder if he even follows me on instagram, before I look it up a post from Silvia shows up on his screen, "Your girlfriend posted on instagram"
Torres- "My girlfriend, I don't have a- oh" he stops as he sees the screen, "Very funny, can I have my phone back now?" he reaches for the phone
"One second" I quickly move the phone away typing my name in quickly, he starts poking me, "Can I have it now?"
"Wait" I laugh once it shows up. Impatient little shit.
I dramatically gasp as I see he doesn't follow me
"What" he asks concerned looking at the phone quickly, no longer poking and tickling me
"You mister do not follow me on instagram" I glare
Torres- "You don't follow me so I unfollowed you"
"You followed me before? I didn't know, where you all but hurt?"
Torres- "You wish" he laughs looking back at the phone, "is that you in your profile picture?"
"Who else would it be Torres"
Torres- "Well I didn't know because you're holding roses"
"What about it?"
Torres- "You like gladiolus', not roses"
Stella- "Kie loves roses, what are you talking about Dawson" she adds walking past us only picking up the small part of our conversation
Torres- "No you don't" he looks at me confused, it's true, I don't like roses. I watch as stella looks at his weirdly as if so confident that she's right and he's wrong before walking away
"They're my favorite" I lie, why does he know that?
Torres- "Don't bullshit with me, I know for a fact, you don't like roses you think it's stupid that people like a flower that represents love so strongly when you think that something like that shouldn't be associated with a flower"
"Well, it's shouldn't"
Torres- "See!" he smiles look at me as if proud he got me to admit I didn't like roses
"I do like gladiolus's, you're right" why does he even know that? How?
Torres- "I know, you said you like that they symbolize strength instead of something stupid like love"
"How do you know that?"
Torres- "Why do you let people think your favorite flower is roses?"
"Why do you know that they aren't instead of being like everyone else?" I did truly want to know that
Torres- "I don't want to be everyone else if it means not knowing the actual you"
"And what's it to you Torres?"
"It's nothing to me, Jones"Torres rolls his eyes, we stay silent for a while, it's dark now, stars light up the sky, the only noises being the faint voices of our whispering friends along with the waves
After a couple minutes I speak, "It wasn't necessary"
Torres hums looking at me as if not quite catching what I said
"It wasn't necessary for people to know, so I let them think what they wanted"
Torres- "No, I heard that it's just, why did you think it wasn't necessary?"
"Could you have lived without knowing that? yes." Why is he fucking asking questions? He doesn't deserve to know the answer to a question my best friend doesn't even know.
Torres- "So?"
"Well there's your answer, people don't care nor need to know about stupid things like that" Why did you say that? What is wrong with you?
Torres- "Of course people care"
"If they cared they would've noticed that type of stuff"
Torres- "If you told them right now that you like gladiolus flowers I bet you they'd never buy you another rose again" can he drop it?
"They'd forget, but that's okay, I don't care" this has to be the vodka talking, I am saying way more shit than i'd ever say to him if I was completely sober.
Torres- "People do care enough to notice that type of stuff"
"Like who?" no one. that's who.
Torres- "Me" I couldn't help but think over the words, he had a point. How else would he know about something like that? but he doesn't care, that's not something we do, caring for each other is not something we do. No one cares, and god knows he won't be the first.
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