CHASE HOME
"I just can't believe he knew,"
Courtney
practically spits as she shuts the door to her bedroom. She deposits
herself on the bed as Lauren
takes a seat in the leather computer chair.
"I figured he knew before I did,"
Lauren says. "When Alex
was telling me, I could tell that Jason knew what
was going on. But I thought maybe he'd just found out. I didn't think he'd
known about it for so long."
Courtney grabs one of the throw pillows
on the bed and wraps it inside her arms. "There were times I thought he
might have had an idea what was going on with Alex, but ... I never thought
it would be like this. I didn't think he was flat-out keeping it from us."
"Me neither," Lauren says with a
shake of her head. Her dark blonde ponytail swings from side to side behind
her head. "But yeah, there were definitely times that I got the impression
he knew something. He practically blurted it out to me a couple of times.
There was this one time we went out to eat and he just kept telling me
to give up on Alex, but he wouldn't give me a solid reason why."
"Well, now we know. I feel like such
an idiot for pushing you so hard to keep going after him."
"You feel like an idiot? Please!"
A sarcastic grin briefly appears on Lauren's face. "I'm the one who chased
after a gay guy for two years and never got the hint."
"I just thought he was insecure or
something. He always talked about how he didn't have that many friends
before and how he wasn't that experienced and stuff. I just figured ...
I don't know." Courtney puts the pillow aside. "Seriously, I wouldn't have
guessed just from the way he acts or anything."
"Yeah, me neither! Hopefully if it
had been super-obvious I wouldn't have acted like such a total retard."
"Don't feel stupid," Courtney says
softly. "Alex is a really nice guy. You guys totally clicked. And he's
still hot. He's just ... not available."
Lauren leans back in the chair and
it follows the motion of her body, reclining. She throws up her hands.
"I can't believe he let me keep making such a fool of myself! Thank God
I never actually slept with him. But still, it's like, he could have stopped
me before it almost got to that point like ten times."
"I know, I yelled at him for it,
too. I know this has gotta be hard for him, but that doesn't give him the
right to screw around with other people like that. Especially people he
called friends."
"Ugh, I know!" The chair springs
forward as Lauren whips her head downward. She lets it hang, breathing
heavily as she says, "I don't even know what I would say to him. Either
one of them, for that matter."
"I think I pretty much covered it
last night, but don't let that stop you from giving it to 'em again. They
could use it." Courtney flicks her hair back behind her head with a little
sigh of disgust. "I just absolutely chewed out both of them."
"Good!" Lauren says enthusiastically,
but then a cloud of worry lowers over her. "So what does this mean for
you and Jay?"
Courtney freezes before she can get
out an answer.
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