CHAPTER SIX

After we got out of the car, I grabbed Chase's hand literally dragging him to our room. He tried getting out of my grip but I just tightened it. When we reached the room I flung the door open revealing Hailey, Trevor and Barbara. Barb was sprawled out on the floor watching something on my laptop as Hailey and Trevor were sitting on her bed talking. "How nice of you to finally join us Sam, who is your friend," Trevor said, getting up and walking to us trying to intimidate Chase. I must say, it brought me joy to see that he felt the need to be protective of me. Hailey got off her bed and caught his hand spinning him around, "no need to get all alpha-male let the child explain herself," I rolled my eyes and I felt Chase yank his hand out of my grip. I looked at him confused but I quickly collected myself and looked at the trio smiling. "Mom, dad, Barb, this is Chase," I motioned towards Chase then turned to him. "Chase, this is Hailey my roommate, her boyfriend Trevor and Barbara my best friend," I pointed to them respectively as they smiled at each other.

Barb got up and walked towards us hugging Chase, "nice to meet you," she muttered into the embrace and Chase relaxed hugging her back. I just chuckled at his discomfort and pulled him away. I led him to the bed and started a conversation and everyone chipped in. Now everyone was getting to know each other, they seemed to get along just fine and that was a good start. "Hey Sam, you still owe me and Trev an explanation for bailing out on us yesterday." Hailey spoke, turning everyone's attention to me. "Well, I uh ...I um....I," I looked down at my hands and let out an exasperated sigh. Chase held my hand and intertwined our fingers then brought it to his lips and gave it a light peck. I looked at him and smiled as I felt a tear roll down my cheek. Barb got up and knelt in front of me. "Don't cry sweetness, it's okay" she said, wiping my cheeks as the tears rolled down freely. "Hey girl. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to overstep," Hailey said with a sad smile. "Yeah Sam, it's okay if you don't want to tell us, just stop crying," said Trevor patting my shoulder. Woah! This turned to a pity party real quick. "I honestly don't know why I'm crying," I muttered with a bitter laugh.

I sat up and cleared my throat explaining to them that I'd seen Jayden and Cassandra. I also explained to them why it hurt me cause Hailey and Trevor were in the dark about my senior prom revelation. After I was done Hailey pulled me to her so my head was on her chest and she wrapped her hands around me, rocking us back and forth. We stayed like that for about five more minutes and I pulled out of her embrace, rubbing my temples and wiping my cheeks. "Okay, enough pity and emotions. Barb, order us some Chinese. Chase and I can rush down to the store to buy us some drinks while Hailey and Trevor go on Netflix and choose a movie. I grabbed my car keys and rushed down to where I'd parked it with Chase right behind me.

We hurried to the store and back with a couple of cans of beer, a bottle of vodka and a bottle of coke. We also bought a few snacks just in case someone got hungry and I got myself some chocolate chip ice cream. It's a remedy and it actually works so don't judge me. The rest of the day was fun and we were in the cheeriest mood. I'd never had this much fun since the dynamic trio. This was way better and worth my while. It started getting dark and Barb and Trevor had to head back to their school cause we all had actual classes tomorrow. We said our goodbyes and that left Chase, Hailey and I. "So, how did you two love birds meet?" Hailey asked, switching her focus from Chase to me. "First of all, he and I aren't love birds, we are just friends," Chase nudged my shoulder and I laughed correcting myself. "Chase is my best friend. We met at the cafeteria and we've been inseparable since," I said, winking at him. Which reminds me. I haven't texted Alex. I pull out the piece of paper from my jacket and save it to my phone before I send him a text.