Page 142 of As the Rain Falls
Ah.
Obviously.
I roll my eyes, finding the entire thing so stupid. Olivia sounds seriously a little too obsessed. I’m glad Beckett never tried to date her, at least as far as I know.
“That’s because she probably wanted Beckett for herself, Kay.”
The thought isn’t comforting. I don’t want Olivia to like Beckett, at least not like I—
“You really think so?” Kayla deflates, staring at our hands, how they’re intertwined together. I wonder if she’s ever thought about holding Alice this close. It’s so goddamn adorable. “I’m not even sure of what I want. I’ve never tried it with a girl.”
“Listen, if you think you might like Alice, go for it. We have one year left, and then we’re done. Worst-case scenario? She says no.”
Kayla looks uncertain. “But what if I don’t like it, after all?”
“Alice?”
“Girls,” she corrects. “What if I don’t like anyone?”
I consider it. The world is a very large place. There are all kinds of people out there, and maybe some people just don’t get butterflies in their stomach, but I don’t think Kayla is one of them.
I think Alice and Kayla being together makes a lot of sense, actually. It’s why they’re always fighting—because they don’t know how else to express how they feel about each other.
“You will,” I decide, knowing it in my heart. “But there’s only one way to find out.”
Her eyes go round, making her look like the little girl I used to know. “What way?”
“You’re going to have to kiss Alice.” I clasp my hands together, a perfect plan forming in my head for tonight. Alice will be at the fundraiser. It is theperfectchance. “But first, we need to start getting dressed.”
“Cassandra, no—”
I cut her off, “So, what do you think? Blue skirt or pink dress?”
Kayla groans, sounding defeated. She hops on the bed, kicking her feet up in the air. “Definitely the pink dress.”
I twirl around, trying to picture the dress on me.
“God, I hate you. I want to kill myself. I hate this!”
I laugh, turning on the CD player.
Be My Babyblasts at full volume. Kayla groans louder, and I just chuckle darkly, slipping out of my clothes.
TEXT CHAINS BETWEEN FRIENDS: PART TEN
NOVEMBER, 2016
Cassandra: sen pic
send* pic
Beckett: Why?
Cassandra: kayla is sooo annoying
she wants confirmation that im talking to you and not to a freak out there pretending to be you
she read this article online about this guy who catfished this girl
