(Liberty)
My alarm had just gone off so I was currently laying up and stretching. I had a great night with Carlos yesterday and he wanted me to go back to his house with him, but unfortunately, I had homework so I ended up back at Sophie's. She must have gone out with Nick that night because no one was home when I got in and she wasn't there when I went to bed
I honestly started to worry when I woke up and Sophie still wasn't beside me. Knowing Sophie wasn't the type to sleep out I told myself she must've been sleeping in her mother's room so I decided to just get ready without her.
About an hour later I started to worry again so I tried knocking on the door, but it was locked so I immediately thought she had left for school early today and decided to leave without me. So I quickly made my way to the door only to see Sophie dressed in a red dress, curled up in a ball in front of the door
"Hey Sophie," I said, shaking her until she woke up
"Huh? Liberty" she stirred
"What time is it?"
"Seven o clock. That's not the point, why are you sleeping in front of the door?" I asked
"Oh, I got home late and I guess I sort of just passed out," she said before I noticed the makeup running down her face
"Oh my God Sophie, were you crying?" I asked before she wiped the makeup from her face
"Oh no. I was just sweating a lot last night. It was surprisingly hot last night, " she lied
"You really don't expect me to believe that right," I asked, but she just remained silent
"Does this have anything to do with Nick?" I asked
"Look, I don't want to talk about anything right now okay"
"Girl, you know-"
"Liberty I'm serious, I don't want to talk about it" she said
"Okay, fine. Get up and go get ready. We're gonna be late," I said helping her up.
After a quick shower, we rushed out of the house
"So is Nick picking you up?" I asked, reaching in my bag for my keys. Before she could even answer we heard a car honking and there came Nick parking in the driveway
"I guess that answers my question," I said, about to walk to my car. I hadn't even moved a step when she suddenly grabbed my arm
"Actually, I'm thinking of driving with you today," she said. I looked at Nick as he got out of the car before looking back at her
"Sure girl," I said before we walked to my car.
"Hey, Sophie can we talk?" Nick asked, rushing to us before we could get in the car
"It's fine Nick we have nothing to talk about," she said opening the door
"If that were true you wouldn't be avoiding me," he said forcing it to shut
"Boy, you better get your hand off my car before you lose it" I glared at him.
"Sorry," he said removing his hand. Sophie let out an exhausted sighed
"I'm not avoiding you okay. I just need some space," she said as she entered the car
I sent one final dirty look at Nick before getting into my car and driving off leaving him on the lawn.
"Mind telling me what that was all about," I asked
"There's nothing to tell. We're just taking some time away from each other that's all," she answered looking out the window. Her face showed no emotion
"Does Nick know you're taking time apart? Because it looks like he didn't get the memo"
"I just need some space"
"That's what people say before they break up" I reminded
"We aren't breaking up. Plus, I thought you wanted us to break up," she said
"This wouldn't happen to have anything to do with James would it?" I said
"What!" She yelled, turning her head to me. This was the first bit of emotion she had shown since the day had started
"Listen Taylor and his new bimbo have nothing to do with this alright!" she yelled defensively
"James and his new what?" I asked
"Nothing," she said, turning back out the window
We continued the rest of the ride in silence.
"Hey Shinning Star you're here," Carlos said as he and Carl walked up to us
"Good morning," I said
"How's it going?" Carl asked, gazing un-movingly at his phone
"Carl? What are you looking at?" Sophie asked
"I'm just trying to win an auction on a costume with a free limited edition glass horse" he explained
"Why?" I asked
"I'm planning on wearing it to fright night," he said
"Carl that's like what? 28 days away. Why are you worried about that now?" Carlos laughed before I hit his shoulder
"It's never too early to start thinking about Fright Night considering it's our last" I scolded
"Yeah. Plus, if I win it will take 10 days to get here and then I'll have to make space for the figurine in my collection. I can't just throw it down. I mean would you leave a rare Superman action figure on the side of your bed" Carl said
"Okay, I see your point," he said.
"Aren't you leading the committee this year?" Sophie asked
"Of course and I'm in charge of the music," I said
"Good, at least I know they'll be good music there," Sophie said
"Girl you know it," I said
"Hey guys," James said, smiling like he had won the lottery\
"Sup James" Carlos and Carl greeted
"Taylor" Sophie scoffed
"What are you so happy about?" I asked
"Nothing?" he chuckled
"Nothing my ass, you still on your high because of your date with Betty-Ann" Carlos teased throwing his hand around James' shoulder
"Date?" I asked, looking at Sophie
"Don't you know? Our boy here went on a date with Betty-Ann Turner"
"He posted it on Instagram. Haven't you seen it?" Carl asked
"No, I left my phone at my house. I haven't checked on it yet," I said
"Can we just drop it? It's nothing big," he said still smiling like Carlos when he got a new action figure
"So what were you guys talking about?" he asked his smile finally starting to fade
"We're just talking about Fright Night," Carlos said
"But isn't that four weeks from now?" He asked
"Yeah," I said
"But we're planning from early. Speaking of which we haven't spoken about dates." Carl said
"Well, Sophie's going with Nick, I'm obviously going with my Shining Star and Carl's....well Carl's going by himself. So who are you going with?"
"Oh, I've got someone in mind," he said grinning
"That wouldn't happen to be a certain short-haired hottie would it" Carlos teased again. But James didn't deny it which made me suspicious. I looked at Sophie trying to gauge her reaction, but surprisingly, she wasn't even paying attention to our conversation. Instead, her attention was in the distance, watching Nick as he parked his car. I guess I was wrong? Maybe this didn't have anything to do with James.
"I'm going to class," she said before storming off
"What's her problem?" James asked. Not even bothering to answer I started marching over to Nick
"Where are you going?" Carlos yelled as I stopped in front of Nick as he exited his car
"Hey Libbs, have you seen Sophie?" He asked
"She doesn't want to talk to you?" I asked glaring at him
"Then she doesn't have to talk, she can just listen. Please I just want to apologize"
"Well, that's too bad because she doesn't want to talk to you," she said
"Please I just need a second. Can't you just tell me where her class is?" He begged
"You know what sure"
"Thank you, I'll owe you one"
"I can tell if you tell me what you did to get her to start icing you," I said
"It's personal."
Then you can talk to her during her personal time"
"Okay, fine, there was just a misunderstanding"
"Misunderstanding like what?" I asked
"Listen Liberty if you're not going to tell me where she is you should just get out of my way," he said dropping the niceties
"Not until you tell me what the hell you did" I ordered
"I don't have time for this. Move!" he demanded, grabbing my hand. His voice was loud and not going to lie it shook me a bit, but I was not going to get scared away but some silly shout. I was ready to throw hands, but before I hear Carlos' voice
"What's happening here?" Carlos asked, walking up to us with Carl and James behind him.