The last time I was invited for dinner at the Bellingham residence I was focused on impressing Jude's parents but now I wanted to impress him. I wore a long emerald green silk dress and white strappy heels. Jude texted me telling me that he was outside.
"Hey" I said as I got into the car
"Hey, you look gorgeous", he said while taking in my appearance
"Thank you", I said and looked away to hide the growing smile on my face
"You still haven't answered my question" he said once we reached his home
"What question?" I asked
"Do you like my brother?" he said
"No" I said looking into his eyes. This time it was the truth, I didn't like Jobe anymore and it felt amazing.
With that Jude took my hand and we entered the house.
I greeted Denise and Mark. Jobe was on his way with his girlfriend. I went to help Denise in the kitchen then she showed me pictures of Jude when he was younger.
"You were such a cutie patootie", I said while looking at one of his not so flattering pictures
"That's enough for today", he said before snatching the photo album away and running upstairs"
"He is such a baby", Denise said and we both burst out laughing.
The door suddenly opened and revealed Jobe, and some girl, I couldn't see the girl's face properly because she was searching for something in her bag.
"Hey Dahlia" Jobe said and the girl's head shot up.
"Peyton?" I said in shock
"Dahlia?" she said equally surprised
"You guys know each other?" Jobe questioned
"Yeah, we go to the same school dummy", Peyton said and smiled
Jude came down and went to greet Peyton with a big hug and it took me all the resilience in the world to not separate them. I'm not a very jealous person but when I saw Jude and Peyton looking at each other with heart eyes throughout the whole dinner, my whole being burned with rage. I guess Jobe noticed it too because he shot me a "what the hell is going on?" look. After dinner me, Jude, Jobe and Peyton went outside to stargaze. Jude seemed a bit distracted. He is probably thinking about Peyton, I thought to myself
"Judy bear" I said snapping him out of his trace
"Yeah?" he said
"Wow, no complaining" I said and grinned. He just playfully rolled his eyes.
"We need to talk" he said and took my hand and led me away from Jobe and Peyton.
"I'm gonna miss you" he said
"You said that yesterday" I said and chuckled
"Because, its the truth. You, Dahlia Monroe have been the perfect fake girlfriend and I couldn't have wished for anyone better. Thank you" he said and looked into my eyes
I was speechless. Was he about to ask me to be his real girlfriend? The thought of being his girlfriend thrilled me.
Then he said the words that would shatter my heart into a billion pieces
"We need to break up"
