Monday, December 12, 2022 9:15AM
Hayes
Me: Hey...
Just wanted to check in with you after last night, how are you ?
Hayes: Your friend is crazy
Me: Sorry on his behalf
You did swing at him first though...
How's your face ?
Hayes: He was being disrespectful
Saying shit that is none of his business
I'll survive, just a small bruise
*picture of his face*
What'd I ever do to him anyway ?
Cooper and I were always cool.
Me: Coop tolerated you... til you cheated on his best friend.
Also that's not a small bruise.
Hayes: And I've said I'm sorry like many times.
Plus I cheated on you, not him, idk why he's taking it so personal.
Me: Wow Hayes.
Because you did that shit TO ME
I cried to him for MONTHS
He doesn't even want me talking to you
He thinks if I give you the chance you'll hurt me again.
Hayes: I've said that was a mistake, and it truly was, I'm so sorry Sofia, and if I could take it back, I would
In a fucking heartbeat.
"Who you texting ?" My dad asks.
"Hayes," I laugh showing him the photo, "look at what Cooper did to him last night."
"João told me," my dad laughed, "totally deserved," he says and I nod
Hayes
Hayes: Hey you there ?
I'm sorry for being an asshole
Let me make it up to you ?
Let me take you out on a date, please, I miss you.
Me: I don't know Hayes.
Hayes: Please.
Me: I'll think about it
"Random question," I say to João who has just approached me on the bench after my dad left.
"What's up ?" He asks drinking some water.
"Would you let me go on a date ?" I ask.
"You're finally allowing me to take you out in public ?" He asks excitedly, "no decoys, no disguises, just you and I ?"
"Well no..." I trail off, "I meant with Hayes."
"Fuck no," he says as he begins to pack his stuff after practice.
"João, please come on, don't be like that, babe," I whine.
"Absolutely fucking not, Sofia," he says zipping his bag.
"Can you at least think about it ?" I ask, "hell think I'm being for real about thinking about getting back together."
"I said no, that's final," he says annoyed.
I sigh and pack my stuff as well. We had just finished practice and after we got all our stuff ready, we went back to the hotel to shower and get ready for the day. I walked into my hotel room, took a quick shower and changed. I popped my head into Ruben and João's room to find it empty. I figured João was annoyed with me, but I didn't think he'd be super mad.
I sigh again and make my way up to my parent's suite. As I arrive to the suite, I find everyone is already there having breakfast. By everyone, I mean my family, João's family, and Cooper and Nessa.
"Do you need any help ?" I ask Gio.
"No baby, just grab a seat, I'll fix you a plate in a second," she smiles at me.
Just then, one of the twins start crying, "I got it," I say rushing into the room. I quickly see what's wrong with Angel and figure out he needs a diaper change. I change his diaper and get him ready for the day. I go check on Bella and she also needs to be changed, I do the same to her and then head out with both of them on my hips.
"I've got them," Gio says.
"No, you enjoy your breakfast, I've got it," I say placing both of them onto their feeding chairs and then grabbing my plate from my seat at the table and seething it on the counter so I can eat and feed my siblings at the same time.
I began eating my food and occasionally joining in the conversation with the table. I fed my siblings as well. When we all finished, I help clean up and then the girls and I headed out. I felt my phone buzz as we made it to the lobby so I pulled it out to check it.
João <3
João: You left without saying goodbye.
Me: Goodbye.
João: You're seriously mad over this ?
Me: Thanks for not trusting me.
João: This isn't about me not trusting you.
I trust you and you know it.
It's him I don't trust.
You know you're mine, I know it, but he doesn't.
Even if he did, that wouldn't stop him from making a move on you.
But it's not just that, it's the fact that you think I, your boyfriend, would be okay with you, my girlfriend, going out on a date with him, your ex.
Me: I'm literally trying to get out of the shit I'm in.
João: You're not in shit with him.
Tell him to go to hell.
Me: I am not having this fucking discussion with you again.
"You okay ?" Nessa asks, "you didn't even acknowledge João at all durning breakfast."
I sigh, "he's annoyed with me."
"What's going on ?" Gio asks.
"Just the Hayes stuff," I sigh.
"Oh," Nessa said, "I love you, but if it's about that, I'm not taking your side, he probably has some good reason to be annoyed."
"Agree," Gio says.
"Thanks mom," I groan.
"Sofia, if you keep allowing that boy to have any type of control over you, you're never gonna be happy," she say. "You're in a good, and happy relationship, with a nice boy who treats you well, don't lose that because of your ex that didn't know how to value you."
"What's going on ?" João's mom asked.
I take a moment to breathe in, and then I explain what's going on. I tell her everything hoping she doesn't think differently of me afterwards.
"I still don't understand why you're helping her," Nessa says at the mention of Magui's name.
"Wait, Magui as João's ex ?" She asks as we made it down to the parking lot.
"Yeah," I sigh, "I know it might be stupid, but my ex is blackmailing her to help him split us up, she didn't know with what, but I figured out it was with her explicit photos. I'd feel awful if those got released and there was something I could've done but decided not to help," I say helping Alana and Eva into the car.
"It's not your problem though," Nessa argued.
"It's not," Gio sighed, "but my Sofia wasn't raised to just sit back and watch it explode."
"You're a good girl," João's mom says, "does João know about this ?"
"Yeah, so he knows about everything but the fact that the person giving me information is Magui," I sigh.
"You still haven't told him ?" Nessa asks. "What are you waiting for ? He's gonna freak."
"I think you should tell him," his mom tells me as Gio begins to drive.
"You'll think he'll freak ?" I ask nervously.
"I think he'll be a bit upset you didn't mention it, but not too much of a big deal," she reassures me.
I sigh trying to mentally prepare myself for this conversation as we finally make it to the place. We all get out and get our nails done, toes and some facials. Typical girls day.
After we finished with all that, we went to do some light shopping. We went into this jewelry store for Gio but I fell in love with this simple ring that I ended up getting for myself. The clerk told me it was a set and I got the second one slightly bigger, not for me... it's meant to be a peace offering.
We did some more shopping and eventually headed back to the hotel. As we drove back, we mede more lighthearted conversation. We arrived back at the hotel and then headed for the suite again. Nessa and I made a pit stop in my room to drop our things off, I made sure I still had the ring I was going to give to João in my pocket though and slipped mine on my thumb.
We arrive back at the suite and I join the guys on the couch who are watching a movie. I take a seat next to João. João doesn't seems to acknowledge me but then I feel his hand slide in between my legs. He lifts my right leg and places it over his lap holding it in place. I take his hand and slide the ring onto his thumb.
"What's this ?" He asks.
"Peace offering," I shrug running my thumb with the matching ring over his ring.
"You didn't need to get me anything," he said pulling my hand up to kiss it. "There's peace," he smiles at me.
"You won't be saying that in a few minutes," I sigh.
"What ?" He asks confused.
I Shake my head, "can we talk ?" I ask nodding towards the pool deck.
"Yeah," he says barely above a whisper.
I get up and hold out my hand for him. He gets up and takes my hand and I lead him outside.
"Everything okay ?" He asks closing the door.
"Yeah, I just wanted to let you in on some information," I sigh.
"You agreed to go out with that asshole," João says in a half questioning, half asserting tone.
"No," I say shaking my head. "It's about unknown."
"What about them ?" He asks calming down a bit.
"It's a her," I correct him, "and you know her."
"You're telling me who she is ?" He asks, "I thought you said you couldn't tell me yet."
"Well she didn't want you to know," I say, "but it was brought to my attention that you'd want to know, and that I shouldn't take all her wants into consideration considering what she's done."
He looks at me confused waiting for me to speak again.
I take a deep breath, "It's Magui."
"What ?" He asks confused and I just nod nervously waiting for a reaction.
"What the fuck, Sofia," he says. "Why didn't you tell me ?!"
"She didn't want you to know," I whisper.
"And you never thought there might be a reason ?" He asks.
"She told me she didn't want you to know," I sighed "I didn't think she had wrong intentions, I just figured she didn't want you to know because the less people that knew the better."
"So who knows ?" He asks.
'Fuck' I think to myself. I swallow hard, "everyone."
"Everyone knew but me ?" He asks in disbelief.
"I'm sorry, I didn't think it'd be a big deal," I sigh.
"You can't trust her," he said.
"She seems genuine," I tell him, "she's been helping."
"All she's been doing is telling you to stay away from me," he argues, "I'm not convinced it's just your ex's dirty work she's doing, that's just the excuse she's using."
"What's that supposed to mean ?" I ask taken back.
"Your new bff keeps telling you go stay away from me because you're being constantly watched by your psycho ex, but has been continuously flirting with me," he says showing me his phone.
"What the fuck ?" I say taking his phone from him. I look through all the messages in disbelief. "Why the hell are you just telling me about this now ?"
"Why are you just telling me she's unknown ?" He asks.
"This is different, your fucking ex is still on your dick and you never thought of telling your girlfriend ?" I ask.
"You're looking at the messages," he says, "I never gave her any hope or anything."
"Why isn't she blocked to begin with ?" I ask handing him his phone back as I've seen enough.
He seems to be at a loss for words. "Fuck, this looks bad," he sighs, "it doesn't help my case that I didn't tell you. I don't know, but I'll block her, you block that idiot and we can move on from this mess. I promise this looks fucking bad, and it probably is bad, but don't even think of comparing me to your ex, I fucking love you, and this was me just being stupid, not thinking, it'll never happen again, I swear."
"I can't just drop this," I sigh "I think he plans to leak her nudes if she doesn't help him."
"That's her problem, not ours, with more reason I'm telling you to tell him to go to hell, tell both of them to go to hell," he says. "What do you want me to do ? Get on my knees and beg, cause I'll do it."
"Tempting," I poke the inside of my cheek with my tongue, "but I'd feel so guilty if that does happen and I could've done something to prevent it."
"She shouldn't have put herself in that position," he says walking over to me and placing his hands on my cheeks, holding my face. "I'm begging you to please let this go," he pleads.
"I love you, and I swear to you, if I didn't know what he was holding against her, I would drop it," I say, "but I'd have a guilty conscience. You don't understand, that phone was full of her fucking nudes and videos of them having sex, it's disgusting."
He continues to hold my face and inches closer to me. His pleading eyes are staring straight into mine, but I'm not giving in.
"Fine," he sighs, "but tell me everything, from now on, I must know everything, no more secrets, and absolutely no lies. I'm blocking her," he says showing me as he blocks her number on his phone. "Be careful, please."
I nod.
"I love you, okay," he say, "so much," we're inches away from each other and I kiss him.
The kiss was short, I know he doesn't want my dad to see us kiss, so I want to respect that. I hope no one was watching through the sliding door, but they probably all were.
"I love you, more than you know," I say.
"So we're good ?" He asks.
"Yeah, a hundred percent transparency, no lies, we're a team," I smile at him.
"The best," he smiles back, "I'm still not gonna let you go out with that prick though,"
I laugh and nod as we walk back inside. I walk over to João's mom and Gio to help out with dinner.
"Everything okay ?" João's mom asks.
"Yeah," I smile at her, "we agreed complete honesty and he's gotta be involved even though he's not really in favor of me helping her."
"Yeah, it's because he knows how she is," his mom tells me, "but I understand why you want to help her, empathy is a nice quality that not many people have. You're a good girl," she smiles at me.
"I try," I sigh, "it's kinda kicking me in the behind at the moment," I say and we both laugh. "Dad didn't see us kiss, did he ?" I ask Gio.
"Nope, he's too entertained by the movie," she giggles, "we did though."
"That's fine," I laugh, "as long as dad didn't."
"Why ?" Gio asks.
"I don't know, he gets uncomfortable," I shrug, "possibly a respect thing."
"It is," his mom says.
I continue helping them make dinner. We quickly finish and Nessa helps set the table. Everyone takes their spot and I help handing out plates.
"You gonna sit next to me this time, or am I still in the dog house ?" João asks as I place a plate in front of his.
I laugh placing another plate besides him, "you're not in the dog house," I say placing a hand on his thigh.
"Not anymore ?" He asks.
"Stop being silly and eat your food," I laugh.
We eat dinner and then we all say our goodbyes. We all walk in our separate ways to our hotel rooms. João tells Nessa to get off the elevator with us. João walks us to my room and steps inside with us.
"Close your eyes," he tells Nessa.
"You're annoying," she laughs walking into the bathroom.
Taking the time we have alone, João gives me a kiss. It's longer than the one we shared earlier, longer and more passionate.
"I love you," he says as we pull apart, "you be good."
"Always," I smile at him, "and I love you too."
"Are you two done ?" Nessa asks.
"Yes, you can come back outside," I tell her.
"Behave," João tells Nessa as he's walking towards the door.
"I don't know what she's telling you, but the bad influence here is Sofia," Nessa wiggles her brows.
"She'll be on her best behavior, you be on yours," he tells her.
He blows me a kiss and I blow him one back and he's gone.
"Sooooo," Nessa wiggles her brows at me.
"I am in love," I plop down on my bed.
"I can see that," she giggles plopping down next to me.
"Ness, he's perfect," I sigh turning to him. "He's so ughhh."
She giggles, "I love seeing this side to you, I've never seen you so happy."
"He makes me so happy," I smile, "the happiest."
"So I take it you didn't tell him about Magui," she says.
"I did, I did, we argued about it a bit, and then we resolved the problem," I tell her. "That two faced bitch is still all over him, can you believe it ?" I ask annoyed.
"What ?" She asks in disbelief.
"Yeah, he showed me his phone," I told her.
"He blocked her right ?" She asks.
I sigh, "yeah, I didn't like that it was after the text messages and he didn't tell me about it til I brought her up, but it was discussed, I'm over it."
"Ewwww," she groaned, "I don't like that."
"Neither did I, but he showed me the messages, he ignored all her advances and blocked her on the spot," I tell her. "I still don't like it, but I think I can move past it, especially after this shit show is over."
She nods in understanding. We continue talking until we both decide to get ready for bed and go to sleep.