Everything Left Unsaid

I have always had an extreme hatred for Monday mornings. Which obviously isn’t abnormal or weird considering im a 17 year old highschool student who wishes summer was never ending. But this Monday morning was worse than usual.

Well first off I woke up 30 minutes late, which as most people know is always the worst start to a day. My phone had unplugged in the middle of the night which resulted in it dying and my alarm not going off. But when my 15 year old brother Blake realized the music usually blasting in my room at this time wasn’t playing, he decided to come check on me, only to find me dead asleep. After he rudely woke me up I was racing against the clock to be ready before my boyfriend of 2 years arrived to my house to pick me up to head to my least favorite place, school.

I decided on wearing a black hoodie with maroon lulu leggings and leaving my hair in its natural blonde wavy mess. And in the middle of brushing my teeth I hear the usual knock on my door signaling that my boyfriend, Drew Scott, had arrived to pick me up. My brother yells that he will answer the door while I rush to finish brushing my teeth and on my way running down the stairs of my house, to make matters worse, I slip and fall to then land on my face.

I end up being driven to school with a big bruise on my cheek and tears streaming down my face. Some may call me overdramatic but in my defense I was having the worlds worst morning. And thats where this horrible day started. So now that we are all caught up this is what is currently happening.

“Babe everything is gonna be okay don’t cry”, Drew says as we are about to leave the car to head into school.

“I just want to go to sleep, I look like death, and I hate it here”, I wine with tears still falling down my face.

Drew grabs the side of my face and kisses my forehead while saying,” I promise everything will work out okay, you look beautiful, and I love you, so lets walk in.”

I finally give in and get out of the car. Drew runs around the car and grabs my hand to walk me in. Now here is a little background on my worlds best boyfriend. We have been together since I was 15 years old and we met threw my bestfriend Easton at a houseparty. Easton and Drew had met through football and were chill with eachother, not really close but like buddies you know? And instantly after being introduced I knew that this boy was going to mean a lot to me. Him and Easton looked very similar, both being tall with brown curly hair but unlike eastons hazel eyes, Drew had the bluest eyes I had ever seen and they were so mesmerizing. I swear I could look at them for ages. We were friends for a very short time and it obviously ended up in a relationship. Two years later and he still treats me as if he was trying to win me over. Now back to where we were.

On our way into the school people were kind of looking at me weird, obviously staring at the huge bruise on the side of my face, and I was just trying to ignore it. Drew and I quickly kiss goodbye as we both have to make our way to our own lockers. I groan as im trying to stuff all of the pointless school work into my tiny locker and out of no where it slams shut and as im about to yell at the person who decided to mess with me today and then I look up to see my dumbass bestfriend, the one and only Easton Westbrook.

“Shit East I was about to fight you before I realized it was you, don’t do me like that”, I laugh while hitting him on the shoulder.

“Awe Skye did I—“, all of a sudden, mid sentence Easton lightly rubs his hand over the huge bruise on my face,” Skye what the hell happened to you, did Drew do this to you I swear i’ll beat him to a pulp.”

“Woah woah East calm down, Drew would never hurt me, I fell down the stairs this morning because I was running late for school , don’t worry,” I say interrupting his long tangent.

East then starts laughing obnoxiously loud while saying ,”Damn only you would have a huge bruise from falling down a stair case”, then he took in a deep breathe and a little more seriously said,” I would hate myself if something bad happened to you, don’t worry me again like that Skye.” He then pulls me in and hugs me.

I don’t know exactly know what his thought process was in the moment , and i’m not saying that us hugging was abnormal, but this hug felt different. It almost felt romantic even. But my thoughts are interrupted by him pulling away.

East then proceeds to nudge me on the shoulder and says ,“come on lets go to class.” I nodd my head and follow him to our first period, Us Government, which is my favorite class , so I am very hopeful that it will make my so far bad day, slightly better.

In this class I unfortunately sat no where near East because our teacher knew better than to put us next to eachother but he wasn’t smart enough to separate me from my two closest girl friends— Aspen Wittiker and Adeline Peters. Unlike Easton and I who were known as this bestfriend duo, Aspen, Adeline, and are like this trio. We have all been close since 8th grade and have really been there for eachother through all of the basic highschool drama. They both are close with Drew , which is a plus , and Aspens boyfriend is even bestfriends with him. But for some crazy reason our Gov teacher let us sit next to eachother.

Upon my arrival Aspen and Addi start laughing at the bruise on my face, as I had already texted them about the incident while my phone was charging in Drews car.

“Okay okay now that you guys have had your laughs, Aspen please tell me you have your makeup bag on you and can cover this so people stop staring at me,” I say hopefully.

Aspen in a sense is our friend groups MUA and the girly one. The one who gets us ready for parties and does our makeup for special events. Aspen also was the girl who didn’t leave her house without an in case of emergency makeup bag, so I was very hopeful.

“Ahh Skylar, who do you think I am? Of course I do , get over here so I can make you beautiful again”, she says with a laugh.

After fixing my face class starts and it is pretty boring. The rest of my classes go by fast and before I know it school is over and Im waiting outside of Drews car. Drew texts me saying he is gonna be running a little later and that Easton said he could drive me home if I didnt want to wait. I respond to him and say that I will just go with East because it has been a long day.

I find East’s car and I hop inside and he drives me home. Most people like to tell me how lucky I am that my boyfriend trusts me enough to hang out with other guys. Which kind of makes me laugh anytime someone says that because why wouldn’t I be able to? My boyfriend trusts me and knows how close I am with East and has never tried to come between our friendship, which is how boyfriends should be. But anyways we get to my house and he decides he wants to come inside and hang with me for a while.

When we walk in it’s very apparent that no one is home. Which is weird because both my brother and my mom should be home by now and normally so would my dad for his works lunch break. But I don’t question it and I head upstairs to my room.

“Okay so what movie on Netflix do you wanna watch?” I ask East as he makes himself comfortable on my bed.

“Honestly can we just watch Greys Anatomy?” He asks with a sigh and a slight laugh

“I thought you would never ask,” I say with the biggest grin.

I lay down next to East, not cuddling or anything dont worry i’m loyal, and I turn on the show. I soon fall asleep and next thing I know I wake up but I am now in Eastons arms. I try to move away without waking him up, realizing we must’ve moved while we were sleeping , but my attempt failed and he soon woke up.

I was kind of freaking out because in a way it felt like cheating even though we were only cuddling and its not like it was intentional, but the panic was pretty evident on my face.

“Skye, don’t freak out, it’s not a big deal,” he says while letting go of me

“I mean it kind of is, we were cuddling, and I have a boyfriend,” I say with a sort of duh tone.

“So what we used to cuddle platonically all the time,” he says kind of annoyed

I roll my eyes at him and say ,” yeah exactly USED TO, we stopped when I started dating Drew.”

“Whatever I just don’t understand why Drew has to affect anything and everything that has to do with us, if I want to platonically cuddle with my bestfriend I don’t understand why that’s a problem, people do it all the time. I wish things were like they were 2 years ago, you know before that asswipe came along,” East blurts.

I sit there a little shocked. I mean I had no idea he felt this way, and right as I was about to say something he continues,”You know ever since you and Drew started dating it’s like I don’t even matter to you anymore. I just miss you.”

“East I am right here. I still spend so much time with you and I still love spending time with you, Im sorry you feel that way but he is my boyfriend and I love him,” I say quietly.

“Yeah I know, i’m sorry i shouldn’t have gotten angry,” he then pulls me into a hug and sighs,”I think i’m just gonna go.”

“Why don’t you stay for dinner?” I ask.

“I just need some time to think about some stuff,” he says,” don’t stress though Skye, we are good” he kisses the top of my head and leaves before I can say anything.

My brain won’t stop thinking about the events that just occurred. Like why is he acting so weird? Why did he seem so jealous of Drew? Easton and I have been friends for so long, I just assumed we told eachother everything when it happened, but now that I think about it , I don’t think that’s the case. I mean there are plenty of things I have never told him but I just always thought he didn’t keep things from me. Tonight showed me otherwise.

Ever since East and I got close it has always been somewhat complicated. From people thinking we were dating, to us fighting, to us acting like we are in a relationship, to semi distant stages, and everything else, we just were never your average bestfriend pair. But that worked for us. It’s what was so amazing about our friendship. Before I met Drew I started having a tiny crush on East not even gonna lie, but he was talking to like 5 girls and then I met Drew and fell in love, and all my feelings for East just went down the drain. I guess him and I were just not meant to be more than friends which is okay with me I am happy and in an amazing relationship.

I try to stop thinking about him but it fails so in order to take my mind off of him I facetime Drew.

“Hey babe I missed you,” Drew said with the cutest smile on his face.

“You’re a goof, I saw you today,” I say with a laugh.

“Yeah but that feels like forever ago,” his pout face saying it all.

“Well what about this friday we go on a date night and then you can sneak in and spend the night?”I ask hopefully.

“As much as I would love that I am having that party Friday, remember? Don’t tell me you forgot babe,” he laughs.

“Oh dang I totally remembered that ha ha well um I will be there of course, I wouldn’t miss the opportunity to babysit my favorite boy.” I say with memories of all the parties I had to take care of him. I don’t drink or anything, it isn’t my idea of a good time so I spend most parties looking out for Drew or East or Addi and Aspen.

“Well good, it’s getting late and we both need to get some sleep, I love you Skylar,” he smiles.

I sigh due to the fact I didn’t want to hang up,” I love you too Drew, goodnight.”

I lay back and instead of falling asleep to the thought of Drew, Easton is the one who my mind is focused on. What is happening to me?