Novel & Cerita Tell Me We Weren't Just Friends

‘Me and your dad want to do something special for you’. ‘Like what?’ ‘A party maybe?’ I groaned and shrugged. ‘What? Don’t you want one?’ ‘No, Not really besides… I haven’t really mentioned it to you but, me and the gang are really talking much right now’. She gasped, shocked, which isn’t a surprise. We were all so close, the fact we weren’t friends anymore was a big thing. ‘No! Why?’

When I met my friends, I told them that I was leaving the following morning. They all were a bit shocked, sad and mournful, even though they knew that their friend had to leave sometime and it was for her own good. Suddenly, even I felt like crying, over the weeks, they had become my best friends, even better than the ones I had in the city. My weeks here would have been miserable if it wasn't for them. I promised that this would not be the last time we'd be seeing each other and we would keep in touch and talk often.

I wanted her to enjoy my company, but I just couldn't tell. “You paid her to be there, K, no point making it something it is not.” I did my best to dismiss the whole scenario, and heard Levi chuckle from beside me. I hated my friends. They were about to make this something that it wasn't. They loved any opportunity to try to humiliate me. That was just the type of friends we were...

I quietly whispered to myself, a mix of regret and disbelief. "This can't be happening," I said to her. "Relax! Stop being paranoid. Why are you assuming there is more to it? We used to be friends, can't we hang out and have fun?" she said, attempting to ease the tension in the air. A wave of relief washed over me. she knew the impact she used to have on me, and she was intentionally using it. "Friends? We were friends with benefits, but all the same, thanks, but I'll respectfully decline," I told her as I wasn't interested in any friendship with her.

I prodded her side with my elbow. “Ugh. First of all we are not friends—” “You and Jayme?” “No. Me and you! So you don’t get to prod my sides.” “Oh. Noted.” Though she was openly contradicting what she had just said a moment ago. “Good. Secondly, I’ve never ‘had anything going ’ with Jayme we are work partners and long friends that’s all.” “Long friends uhhhhh…” I dragged the last word until a smile appeared on her face.

“I didn’t say I was.” “Then why are you being so nice and accepting? If you didn’t like it then you should speak up against it or something.” She said “It doesn’t always work like that, Riley. They are old friends, Riley, and they haven’t seen each other in so long and the way they greeted each other is normal, I believe I would have done the same.” I said. That was what I was trying to convince myself of. That they are just friends and nothing more. “As if you believe that,” Riley said.

"Fun fact: I don't care if you pick up our calls or not. It's your life." "I just didn't know what to say to you girls, and I...I didn't want you trying to talk me into a life I don't know. One I feel like a stranger in." My voice quivered. "You don't have to explain anything to us. It's not our business; you made that loud and clear." Natalie barely spared me a glance. "I-I never said anything of the sort, Natalie. You both are my best friends. I can't possibly live a life without you."

Rejena “We should stick to being friends.” Those words gut me, but I understand where he is coming from. We had both kept secrets, and that is not a good way to build any relationship. I want to scream at him that I don’t want to be his friend, that I fell for him and I don’t know how to go back to just being his friend, but I know it would end whatever chances I have before I even have it.

"I had also seen your posts with Cody. Haven't you outgrown him yet?" I rolled my eyes, grabbed my phone, and headed for my bedroom. "It’s a best-friends-for-life thing, mother. I could never outgrow him." "Don’t tell me you two are already having sex?" I grimaced instantly. "Ew, gross, why would you even think that?" "Come on, you are both adults. Everyone knows males and females can't stay that intertwined forever. Either you like him, he likes you, or — worst of all — you are copulating."

I know that much since once upon a time we used to be such close friends. I just couldn’t let this happen, not again. I could fix this, I would fix us.