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My sister was dating Benjamin, nbefore she dumped him. That's what he deserves, for playing with my heart.
Thopugh the thing is, i haven't been feeling anything towards Benjamin for the past few days, ever since he confessed that he was dating my sister. I guess... he's just a friend after all.
Though, one thing has changed about Benjamin: he's been relatively different with this Wayne guy. It seemed like he already knew him even way back before he came to our school. Honestly, as his good best friend, even I didn't know about Wayne. The Wayne guy also has this air around him that should've been obvious to be described by now, but I just can't place my finger on the matter.
"Hey nerd."
Speak of the devil.
"Ack- Wayne..." Benjamin responds, his face seemingly uncomfortable as Wayne wraps his arm around Benjamin's neck, bothering him as always. Though, his bothersome acts have been frequent and... excessive?
I hear them bicker for a while, the followed after laugh of Wayne rang out from right beside me, like a hyena's cackle. Then, the light-haired boy took Benjamin's pen and notebook, hovering the items above him as if to tease Benjamin for his height.
Pfft... he is pretty short...
"Fu- Wayne! Seriously man?" Benjamin gets onto his toes, dragging Wayne down and forcing him to sit eventually, successfully grabbing his pen and notebook as he sits back to his chair. "Stop it! Class is about to start and we have a quyiz today!"
"Hah a quiz—? Quiz...?" he looks confused, guess he didn't know.
"..." Benjamin sighs, then he adjusts to make room for Wayne to sit beside him. "Come on, if you plan to study a bit, hurry up."
Wayne pauses, blinks, then scoffs afterwards. "Heh, I donb't need studying for some stupid quiz."
Benjamin shrugs the tells him, "Suit yourself I guess." before Wayne eventually clicks his tongue and hurriedly drags his chair while groaning. Benjamin lets out a small snort as Wayne reads along the pages.
Yeah, something's odd between them.
There has been several times where from the outside, Wayne has been teasing Benjamin for no absolute reason. For me however, it seems Wayne has something else in mind as to why he does this to Benjamin, even he doesn't know.
Everytime he teases Benjamin, it's either one or two things:
"Hey kid, give me your pen for a bit."
"What, why?"
"Don't have one."
Borrow his stuff, or...
"Ahh! Did you freak out?"
"Wayne, no one's gonna be afraid of the shit you're pulling—"
"Oops, dropped your phone out the window."
"Wh- what the fuck?! How do you-- Wayne!"
"Hahahaha!"
...To get a reaction out of him.
Of course, my suspicions will always be left as suspicions if I don't actually get to confirm anything, so I have to eventually get the answers I needed. Just one last subject, I'll ask both Wayne and Benjamin what the hell they are. Friends? Probably, but the white-haired guy just seems to be feeling something one-sided here.
...Lol no, i have an idea what's happening, I just wanted to see at least one of them to fess up.
The bell rings, a sign for ius to go home. The day was somehow extremelyt short, the classes went by quicker than usual. Maybe it was because I was anticipating something that got my mind off of classes for some time. Eh... the teachers weren't doing the teaching part properly anyway, I just end up reading everything at home...
I catch up to Benjamin and tell him to wait up.
"Violet? What's up? You seem to be in a hurry to say something or... huh? Wh-why're you staring at me like that...?"
His face was contorted into such an uncomfortsble expression, it truly piqued my interest, especially when the said object of my curiosity has been hanging around behind Benjamin's back gesturing for me to keep quiet. Of course, I just stand there to watch whatever shit Wayne was planning this time, but maybe it's still those mniddle school-grade type of pranks... embarrassingly so. I have noticed Wayne being much more tame with his "pranks" as of now, which really got me thinking as to what has changed between them.
"Hey nerd," in a menacingly deep tone, Wayne surprised Benjamin. Safe to say, he only flinched slightly before eventually pushing him away with vigor.
"Wayne, you're not even scaring me at this point, just give up."
"Hah, give up? No way! You may not be scared, but you should be annoyed by now."
I was certainly annoyed. Hell, it's the same dynamic over and over again, I wonder when they'd even decide to quit this game of charades of theirs and actually tell each other what the fuck is going on.
"Hey, are you guys... something?"
"Spomething what?" Benjamin started.
"Like a thing."
"Vi, you gotta be more specific, how can we even answer somnething so—"
"Oh my gosh Benjam,in, are you and Wayne making out or some shit? Are you guys together? If not, do you two have unimpeded feelings for each other? You, dumbass," I point at Benjamin, "you've been weirdly dense with this guy. It's either you're being threatened by him or you're uncomfortable because of something and it's really pissing me off." Benjamin seems surprised at my aggressive waty of addressing this frustrating matter, but I just ignored it. "And you, pretty boy, you're hovering and galloping like a horse who wants to fuck another steed because their dick hasn't been getting the action it needed, just say what the fuck you guys want to say to each other."
I hope this was a clear enough interrogation to stop their frustrating repeats of dragging whatever was happening with them on.
Both of them go silent, as if I was talking to a brick wall, to much of my disdain. "Well?" I urge.
"We... really aren't in that kind of... y'know, whatever you were thinking about."
Bullshit.
"Yeah, like me and this loser? Hah! I'd rather die by a car tahn date this dumbass."
Valid, but still bullshit.
I sigh in frustration and just quietly walk away from them, I really couldn't take any more stress; from my sister to my dumbass friend, to this dude who wants to say something and looking like he has to take a shit while he's at it.
"Uh Violet! Can you tell your sister to conteact me? I just had to—"
Oh my gosh Benjamin, please shut the fuck up
"Yeah don't worry. Bye."
I'm never telling her, like I will.
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"Hey Violet, you're still friends with Benjamin right?"
I grimace at the name that came out of my sister's lips. Boy, why's she bringing him up? The awkwardness of knowing they were both together while I had my unrequited feelings for that dumbass truly feels unpleasant.
"Yeah, why?"
"Do you think he'd still wanna be with me?"
"..." I pause for a moment to think, only to simply and immediately answer with a solid "no."
My sister looks at me with such a saddened expression, sighing as if it was the most disappointing thing ever. I guess for her it is. "What a shame, I wanted to give us a chance again..."
"Well, you should've worked on that on your first try. {Playing with people isn't really nice, you know?" I bklankly tell her, grabbing one of the pastries in front of us as we both finished our dinner.
"Hm... I guess you're right. Thanks, Vi."
"It's nothing."
After all, both of them didn't know what it's like being played. Serves them right to end up this way.