A Little Bit Of Joy | ✔

Chapter Fifty One : The Friends We Need

Third person's POV [Logan's POV]

Logan thought he saw Joy for a moment and he half stood up, narrowing his eyes at the waiter beside the pillar. She had been right there. Her wisps of feathery short blonde hair and her thin shape- he had seen it all hurrying outside.

"Everything okay man?" Jack peered at him curiously.

He tore his eyes away from that spot where Joy had been just a minute ago. "I thought I saw someone."

"We all keep seeing things. Once at the supermarket, I followed my mama but by the exit, I realized she wasn't my mama but a fat lady in a red coat," Dev narrated and chuckled at his own joke. Nobody laughed. So he added quickly and foolishly, "My mama was wearing a red coat."

"We get that dipstick." Jack slapped Dev's head who winced. "Sit down Logan. We know you aren't full of shit to see things, but this pinhead might be right yeah."

"Asshole."

Jack ignored Dev. "Sit down, you probably mistook someone for someone else." Logan still stood there, conflicted. Jack pulled him down. "Sit down yeah, we're not losing you after so many years."

"Damn right," Luke piped in, he had been silently eating all this while. He nudged Peter, another guy who had been busy texting his girlfriend continuously because he had missed going to the movies with her. Luke elbowed him hard- hard enough for him to yelp and look up from his phone.

"Fuck you Luke," Peter spat and then glanced at Logan, his tone changing. "You should stay bro, really."

Logan sighed and finally sat down. He was so deeply in love with Joy that he must have definitely imagined her. Besides, she didn't really wear those kind of clothes and what was she doing in the next town? It wasn't her, he convinced himself feeling deranged. All his friends started hooting wildly, pleased that he didn't go.

"Lose that phone pussy," Jack suddenly remarked and reached out to snatch Peter's phone from him.

Peter quickly stretched his hand, but Luke grabbed his phone from the other side. "Fuck you Luke, give it back!"

Luke simply waggled his eyebrows and carelessly tossed the phone to Dev who fumbled with it.

"Careful shithead, that's my fucking phone!" Dev pretended to drop it and Peter lost his temper even more. "Give it back you moron!"

Dev threw the phone across to Jack who caught it and started to read his text messages loudly, "Oh baby Jess, what are you doing? I'm so sorry I missed the movies babe---" Jack got up swiftly, dodging Peter. "---once I'm back home, I'll make it up to too. Just you and me- our way."

"Oooh petey petey petey," Luke taunted and all of them burst out laughing.

Peter tried to reach for his phone, but got shoved by Jack again. "Fuck you Luke! And give it back Jack, I swear to . . . "

Jack threw the phone and it went flying to Logan. Logan caught it just in time and smiled. He missed his friends, surely they had all changed than how they were in middle school, but the immaturity was still there. Also the name calling. And Logan found himself liking it.

There was still this huge gap in him that he knew no one could fill- only a certain pale, blue-eyed beauty.

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Joy's POV

I watched the waves stand up proudly, curl slowly and eventually collapse into milky white, shapeless water. The waves seemed to dance under the moonlight in it's full glory as if the moon shone for it. The ebony sky had few scintillating stars scattered like colourful sprinkles on a cupcake.