𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐭 || 𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫

38

Cleo

"I would just like to announce that me and Ryland have made it official, official. I am now his girlfriend, no big deal." Mila says walking into the living room.

Me and Nessa both are quick to look at each other before looking back to her, jumping up from the couch. "Oh my god?! When? How? We wanna know!" Nessa yells excitedly.

"Okay, don't hate me, but we've been official for like 2 weeks..." Mila trailed off.

"Bitch. So you didn't tell us for two weeks?" I spoke.

"To be fair, I didn't know how to comprehend that we were like officially together. Plus Nessa you've been m.i.a and Cleo has been spending every waking moment with Vinnie, I just didn't know how to tell y'all." She defends. "How is it though... you know with you and Vinnie?" Nessa now asked, looking to me.

Shrugging my shoulders, I say: "it's been fine. I mean I spend a lot of my time with him because both of you bitches have been gone, but he's like my best friend. He knows everything about me and I practically tell him anything."

"Did you just friendzone the same motherfucker that you told y'all would make it work?" Mila questioned.

"Wait you told him what? I just knew they were hanging out I didn't know y'all were like talking like that again?" Nessa says wide eyed.

"I'm not friendzoning him, boyfriends can be best friends too, Mila." I defend.

"Wait so he's your man now?!" They say excitedly. "No! I mean, yeah? Fuck I mean no, we aren't together officially, but he will always be my guy. I'm not interested in any other guy at the moment besides Vinnie, and he knows that. We're just taking everything slow because we both need that. But like I told him, who fucking knows we may just end up as friends instead of boyfriend and girlfriend."

"I highly doubt that. Vinnie called Ryland the other day while I was there and he was just talking about you and stuff." Mila says wiggling her eyebrows.

"You can't just say that and expect me to not wanna know what he was saying." I groaned. Laughing, she shakes her head. "Baby, I'm not saying. Just know he does care a lot about you, as I'm sure you're already aware."

"What about you Ms. Barrett? How is your love life at the moment?"

"Non-fucking-existent. I'm single, and just working on my music, and myself... I can't be tied up with boys right now." Nessa huffs out. "Hey, I'm proud of you. Just remember me when you go on tour and marry a rockstar."I say, holding onto her hand, wiping away fake tears.

"Quick question: Valentine's Day is coming up within the next week? What are we doing? I want to have a galentines day dinner with all the girls." Mila suddenly speaks up, as she looks up from her phone.

"First of all, don't you have a boyfriend who is planning something for you?" Nessa asked?

"How would I fucking know?!"

"You act like Ryland wouldn't do that for you! That man bought you the cutest fucking Christmas gift and y'all weren't even official!" I laughed out. "True... but I don't want to be that person who gets into a relationship and forgets that they have friends who they used to do everything with, you know? Like last Valentine's Day, we had the cutest little girls day... this year I'm not single and I don't know... I just don't want things to change."

"Mi, thing aren't going to change just because you're happier now. We can still have a little girls day, let's just do it earlier in the day, and if Ryland has plans for you, which I'm sure he does, you'll just go them later at night." I reassure.