She stopped the car at a park near the BakeN' Cakes. We got out and by this time the rain was gone. We then walked through the path in the park and then settled down on a bench.
"Something is bothering you kid." She said looking at me. "If you are ok with it you can tell me." She took my hand in hers. "Only if you trust me."
"Back at that time it was so like broke me, but now thinking about it, it was all like silly." I sighed. "Silly as if stupid crying over people." I let out a small laugh.
"I was talking about the day of Prom." She said and I pulled my hand away. "What Adrien told was from his perspective, I want to know it from yours." I nodded, and started to recollect the day.
"You told him?" Mare squealed. Alex nodded with a shy smile.
"But you said…" I was about to say something when Alex interrupted
"Yeah I know. But I was wrong I guess as somehow nothing went wrong." She added. Then everyone turned to me.
"What?" I asked in confusion. Alex raised an eyebrow. "No! You know I can't do that."
"I did it. And FYI mine is was and will be the most hardest." Alex said with her arms crossed. Mare agreed with her.
"You know he likes…"
"It doesn't hurt to try." Mare interrupted me. "It's almost a year, Sam. It's a now or never situation. You wouldn't know how he truly feels about you if you don't try."
"I don't know about this." I mumbled. Alex sighed and fell backwards.
"Can you at least text him?" she begged as she lay on her back. I told them that I'd text him at night.
"But the dance is tomorrow, if you wait till night what if someone else asks him?" Mare added. And Alex nodded.
"It won't, just trust me." I replied. They both looked at each other and then Alex took out her laptop from the nearby table, as we were at her house, and showed us a hairstyle. She had picked out 1 for each of us and all of them were so cute.
She gave the waterfall hairstyle for Mare as she had longer hair than both of us. A formal half-up hairstyle for herself, her hair was a straight medium length one, and for me she chose a kind of messy bun which personally I liked for my curly hair and it would totally suit my outfit.
"It's all perfect Alex!" I exclaimed. Mare nodded. Then I heard my mom calling from downstairs. "Guess let's call it a day?" I said as we went down stairs.
The next day I got ready for the big day, I put on my light blue gown, ties my hair and put on some makeup, everything looked perfect.
"Can we go now? I am getting late." My brother screamed from downstairs. He was going to meet his friends for some so called business meeting and as the school was on the way mom asked him to drop me as he go.
"Be patient, be down in a sec." I said as I did a final touchup, took my phone and purse as I headed downstairs. "Your friends aren't gonna eat you alive, Shade." I said as I put on my heels. He mocked me and walked to the car.
In like 10 minutes we reached the school. As I headed in I saw Alex with Julien and Mare with Jayden waiting for me. They were mad when they found out I hadn't texted "him" yesterday. But they let it be and introduced me to their boyfriends.
Julien was really handsome. His dark brown hair combed back, his brown eyes sparkled in the lights. In his royal blue suit matching with Alex's Blue velvet gown, he looked like a gentleman.
Jayden looked like a heartthrob with his fluffy black hair, and more like 6 foot tall, his dark brown sleepy eyes. He wore a black suit and Mare a light purple gown.
We all chatted together until a slow song came for a dance. I said that I would be fine and they could go and dance. Alex hesitated for a minute but I assured her that it was fine.
A few minutes in with the dance, I was standing on a side watching everyone dance with their partners when someone yanked my arm from behind. I turned towards them due to the force to see it was Adrien. He was wearing a Brown suit, his hair falling on his face and his eyes, it looked raging mad.
"Why did you do that?" He asked in rage as I just stood there looking at him blankly. "You knew I liked Gwen then why did you do that?"
"Do what?" I finally spoke still not knowing what he was talking about.
"Drop your act Samantha." I flinched as I heard him call me by my full name as he always used to call me Sam."Was it jealousy? Was it because you liked me but I liked her?" He was still holding on my arm and his grip was getting tighter.
"I have no idea what you are talking about" I said as I tried to pull my arm off his grip. He pulled me closer to him harshly. I never knew the person I loved was this mean.
"Enough! I heard what Jezelle said to Grace." My eyes widened by the mention of her name. His grip got tighter. "You were the one who convinced Gwen to breakup with me."
"WHAT?" I exclaimed. My eyes started to tear up on hearing those statements about me which I never knew.
"Your fake tears aren't gonna erase the bad thing you have done." He shouted. "So stop the act." I looked at his eyes which was raging and his grip was getting tighter. "Why did you do it? I can't believe it, matter of fact that I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't heard it with my own ears." I stared at him, tears falling down my cheeks. "You knew how much I liked her and still. Unbelievable," Saying he walked away.
I broke down, my knees felt weak and I fell on my knees. His voice echoed in my head. I just covered my ears and closed my eyes tight to make those voice disappear but they didn't. I heard the music was about to end so I wiped my tears, made sure no one saw me and walked out of the hall.
"Girl you went through all that and didn't mind to tell me?" Alex asked. She sounded like she was offended.
My phone suddenly rang, it was Arjun from work. I looked at Alex and she mouthed, 'take it'. I nodded and took the phone.
"You coming tomorrow?" He asked from the other side. "I mean when does your leave end?"
"2 weeks more. But my hand is alright you know, but doctor and my mom insisted on taking 2 weeks extra rest." I replied. "Hope the place is not a disaster." He laughed and repeated the same thing I said to someone who was with him.
"Ok then, see you in 2 weeks." He said and I said yes. Then he hung up.
"Who was that?" Alex asked.
"It's a friend from work." She slowly slide towards me. "You know the Indian guy I told you about." Her eyes lit up. "Bro chill, behave or I will have to have a serious conversation with Julien.
"Fine." She said lazily. "But can you introduce him to me one day." I shook my head. "Bestie come on." She said with her puppy doll eyes and I reluctantly agreed. "What had happened to your hand exactly?" She asked. Some of those old memories at work came into my mind. I slowly touched my shoulder then looked back at her.
"I'd rather not talk about that," I replied as I looked at my left arm.
"Hey we are going off topic. I needed to know why you didn't tell me about that incident sooner."
"Because you already knew about it." I replied. She looked at me with wide eyes. "Yes, after that incident we did met. You know when I was in a band during my collage days." She sat there listening to me as I spoke. "Once when we were performing at a bar I saw him. Later on I noticed he was following me. Until one day I confronted him and he told me that you had gone to see him after the day of Prom." She looked away and then looked back at me as I continued, "That day too he didn't trusted me, but the rage was a little less. I guess it was because it's been like 3 years."
"Oh! Anyways finally now the misunderstanding are solved, right?" She asked. I lightly nodded.
"But, a lot has changed since that night." I said. "Anyways, it's already four-fifteen, let's go and grab some coffee?" She nodded and we both went to the Café.
Later she dropped me off at my house and as I was about to head to my room mom called me. "You know, Shade in coming home this Friday." I ran into the kitchen where she was cooking dinner.
"Really?" I asked as I sat on the counter top with a carrot in my hand. "Does that mean he will take me to Paris when he goes back?"
"Seriously Sam. My boy hasn't even came yet and you are already talking about his return?" She said with a friendly slap on my leg.
"Ho! You favorite child is coming guess you won't need me anymore." I said being sarcastic.
"Yes go away." She said weaving the spoon at me.
"Ouch!" I said as I placed my hand on my chest. We both then laughed. "I will be in my room. Call me if you need anything." Mom nodded and I went to my room.
I jumped on to my bed and looked at the old high school pics in my phone. There was one of Adrien standing near a cake. "Good to have you back, Pal" I said softly as I lay there looking at the ceiling while hugging the phone.