Little Things

031

"How's California so far?"

"I've been here for 2 hours, Kai. The only places I've been in so far is the spare bedroom Dylan gave me and the airport" I answer back, laying down on the mattress on the floor. "My set up and bed frame is gonna arrive in a couple days still so for now, I'm just sleeping on the floor with my bags cramped up at the side"

"How's Nick holding up?" Kai snorted, probably thinking he was still being dramatic about me moving.

"He told me to move to Cali with my brother so he better be holding up well.. So 4 months?" I quickly changed the subject not because I didn't want to talk about it, but because I know the conversation would lead to something I can't handle.

"4 months and I'll be in America!" Kai practically yelled out in excitement "We're moving to Florida together, right?"

"Yeah, I wanna introduce you to Wisteria and Erin in Orlando"

"Those are Nick's friends, yeah?" Kai asked before I see a flash of light come to their face.

"Are you playing games without me?! I feel so betrayed right now" I gasp dramatically as a look of guilt becomes present in Kai's face "Couldn't even wait a couple days for me"

"It's your fault you moved" Kai focused on their screen intently, sucking in a breath from time to time "FUCK"

"It's not like I had a choice anyways. I didn't have enough money to stay in Miami and I've been going through so much shit lately, it's good that I moved in with Dyl" I look at my phone to see Kai not even paying attention to anything I was saying "Get off the fucking game, would you?"

"Nick's carrying me right now, so no"

"Nick is playing with you?" This man had the audacity to ignore any of my texts in the past couple of days yet plays with my own best friend.

"Yeah, he said he told you about it so I don't know why you're still asking that"

I furrow my brows in confusion as I exited the FaceTime and went through me and Nick's messages. It simply consisted of me texting him at least once everyday in the last 10 days. No texts or response from him whatsoever.

"He didn't say anything to me about it so how would I know?"

"Doesn't he update you on like everything he does and you do the same? It was one of the main reasons why we aren't in a discord call 24/7 like we used to be" Despite Kai talking about things, they somehow kept their focus on the game. It really makes me question how good they are in multitasking.

"Well I've been busy with things so we aren't as talkative to each other this past week" I fiddled around with the string of my hoodie out of anxiety.

Kai knows me really well and most probably if they weren't playing right now, they'd notice every fidget or every sign showing my discomfort when they talk about Nick.

"Uh anyways, once I get my set up, let's stream the modded survival we were gonna do. 2 hours max and maybe an hour minimum so I have something to edit" I suggested.

"When are you getting your set up?"

"It's Monday right now so probably Thursday or Friday"

"What if we add Nick to our streams?"

"Stop fucking bringing up Nick and let's actually have a normal conversation without his name entering the topic every 2 seconds" I snapped at them.

I didn't really mean to but the mention of Nick so much since last week was getting on my nerves.

"Okay, I'm ending this game and talking to you about it"

After that, the FaceTime stayed quiet and Kai put all their focus into the game to somehow finish it faster. That was fine for me but when they started laughing at something then talking into the microphone, I knew Nick was talking to them.