Not Surprised Anymore

"Do you really think you're gonna get with Vincent? He'll come to me like they always do." She says, slurring. Is she drunk? I just stare at the phone confused as to why she would say that. Did she think I was competing with her for guys? Why? And since when did she think like this?

"Sally what are you doing? Are you okay?" I ask as I'm leaning towards Vincent so she can hear me. Hoping she's not alone because who knows what this drama queen will do.

"You're not really interested in him right? You and Jessie talked all the time back then right? You can have him, let me have Vincent, he's the only one I've ever wanted." I hear her saying very desperate....I've never heard her like this.

"I'm sorry to tell you this but Vincent doesn't like you." I say as I took a glimpse of Vincent looking at me. I blush so I look at the phone.

"Stop lying to me. Just promise you'll leave him alone. Do you want me to find suitable guys for you…Oh hey Hector you made it. I was scared you wouldn't come help me. I tried calling Mark but he didn't answer." She says sounding hurt, I look at Mark and he shows the text message she sent. It read 'Hey Mark I bumped into Luna a while ago and she was so mean to me I didn't call you because I couldn't stop crying but I'm fine now I think I misunderstood her. I've been drinking because of how hurt I got, that I think I drank too much. Can you come over and hang out with me?'

"Sally, why don't you call me tomorrow when you're sober it sounds like we have a lot to talk about." I tell her as I try to take the phone from Vincent but he just raised his arm high enough that I can't reach it.

"No, I don't want to talk to you anymore, why do you keep calling me?" She starts screaming and crying. I can tell she's trying to look like a victim. Fine I'll make her a victim. I got really close to Vincent enough to surprise him and when he was caught off guard I snatched the phone.

"Sally wanna know something funny, Vincent is here with me. So let me repeat what I told you before. He doesn't like you and I'm pretty sure he dislikes you even more now." I say while looking at Vincent's smile. Yeah I don't blame her for being head over heels for him.

"You're lying to me." She says while in the background you can hear she is knocking down bottles.

"You heard me. He. Doesn't. Like. You. He actually asked me out today. We were on a date this morning when you saw us." I told her as I was a little excited to hear her reaction. Pay back time.

"Stop lying! How do you know he doesn't like me? No way he likes you, no one likes you and I made sure of that." She says, sounding confident. Before I can say anything Vincent takes the phone from my hands.

"Stop bothering Luna, I will never like a girl like you. I don't even want to cross paths with you. So shut up and stop acting like you're important. I only have eyes for Luna, so don't ever think I'll change my mind." Vincent says angry. I can't help but like it when he's angry. Yes it's scary but I find it sweet that he's getting angry for me.

"Wait!? Vincent? Is that you? How long have you been on the phone for?" She says in urgency. Before we can hear more Vincent hung up. I looked at him in shock. Why would he hang up? We could have had more fun with her. Maybe I am evil. I grab my phone and sit down.

"Did you ever call Sally first?" Mark asked.

"I'm not sure I think, the last time I ever called first was when I called to tell her about the misunderstanding with Eric, after that she never tried to call me to check or defend me and I decided to just stop talking to you guys. And then after I moved schools." I say trying to recall if I ever messaged her first. I used to always reach out but stopped when Michelle told me to see how long it would take for her to message me first. It took more than a month, maybe two and after that I just didn't need to message her all the time. I had Holly. "Why?" I ask Mark why he would ask that random question. Vincent sat next to me and Mark sat on the other couch.

"I always thought you bugged Sally. She always made it seem like you were a bitch to her." He says, sounding thoughtful like he's trying to put two pieces together. "The way she acted like that I've been in a situation where you were on the phone with her and I thought you were bullying her."

"Yeah she does that a lot, that's why I try not to socialize with you guys anymore. It's annoying but I can never confront her because you all will jump on me if I try. When we talk on the phone she always tries to apologize and then she pulls that type of shit. I think she might be bipolar and I really don't care, let alone wanna deal with that." I say while looking at my phone getting a call from Sally.

I decided to turn off my phone. I know she's vivid right now, for once she isn't getting her way I can only imagine how crazy she might be going right now.

"I never thought Sally would be like that. I'm really sorry. You've never been mean or rude to me on purpose. It's all because I confronted you and provoked you. I'm really sorry." Mark says with his head down.

"Stop apologizing, it's in the past, just don't continue doing it and it's all good." I say smiling in Mark's direction.

"You're still the same, very nice." Vincent said, smiling and patting my head. I jerk my head away from his hand confused.

"Why do you act like we know each other so well? We only met once when we were young." I tell him, confused as to why he treats me like he knows me.

"You two have met before." Mark says curiously.

"Yea on your tenth birthday party." I told him.

"I don't remember seeing you guys talk." He says trying to remember the day.

"Before I went home we met but we didn't even talk much." I say looking at Vincent.

"After you left I asked my aunt about you. So throughout the years whenever I talked with my aunt she would talk about you, she made you seem like an angel. So when I came over a couple years ago and heard Mark talking shit it caught me off guard. So I was really curious about you. So when I bumped into you at Barnes and Noble I was so happy." He says happily.

We three jumped when we heard a knock on my door so I was about to get up to answer it but before I could get up Vincent grabbed my arm and held me down while he got up and answered the door for me.

"Sorry guys my phone died before I was able to message you guys I was on my way back." I hear Lisa saying as soon as Vincent opened the door. "Vincent , Mark lets go home. It's late and I'm sure Luna is tired from accidentally babysitting you two." Lisa says jokingly. I then walk towards her.

"Yea it's pretty late." Mark says as he's getting up. "I'm going to the bathroom real quick."

We all nod at him and see him going in. "Everything good Lisa?" I wonder since she took so long.

"Yes everything is good now I was lucky enough that there was another coworker there to help and to be honest I was done earlier but we stayed talking and time just flew by. Sorry to leave you with them. I know they can be a handful. Especially Mark," she says.

"No, they both behaved." I say giggling at the fact that it sounds like I was babysitting kids. "We actually all got along pretty well." I say smiling.

"Who would have thought there would be a day when Luna and I got along." Mark says walking towards us.

"You're right we didn't argue at all." I say while giggling.

"Alright we'll head out now thank you for letting us hangout with you." Lisa says as she walks towards the car followed by Mark and Vincent behind. Vincent turned back and said.

"Let's hangout again another day. Text me so I can have your number saved." Vincent says and turns back. I wave at them as they get in their car. They all three wave back.

To think that Mark finally knows the truth. I wonder if he's going to be different or if he's going to take it back and be an asshole.

As I saw the car drive off I then went inside and turned on my phone. I'm sure Sally is good now, so I hope she isn't still trying to call me. Before my phone completely turned on there was a knock on the door. I wonder if one of the guys or if Lisa forgot something. I went and opened the door. I immediately got my forehead slapped.

"And just like that I could have shot you, and you would have been dead. Why in the world did you open the door like that? There are a lot of weirdos in this world." I see Holly saying with a smirk, and walking in my house like she owns it.

"What the hell you didn't have to hit me though, and yea I know there are a lot of weirdos I'm looking straight at one." I say smiling at her, closing and locking the door behind me. "I thought you were gonna come tomorrow?"

"I messaged you a while ago. Did you not get my message?"

"Oh I turned off my phone, maybe you messaged me when I did that." I then check my phone. I had so many missed calls from Sally and many text messages from her. So I ignore Sally's messages and check on the one Holly sent me 'Hey Luna I'm going over later tonight maybe in an hour or less.' After that I remembered I had a message from Jessie and that said 'Hey is it possible for me to go over tomorrow?' So I replied with 'sure, maybe after 1pm should be good' I then saw that Sally left me so many messages. It felt like it's going to be a pain to deal with her.

"Wow, why was Sally blowing up your phone?" Holly asks as she looks at my phone from over my shoulder.

"Girl, you won't believe what happened today." I then tell her everything that happened today.

"Wait! What! Omg so much happened." Holly says processing everything I just told her.

"What do you want to do?" I ask her as I get on YouTube to put on music so I can clean up since it was still messy from a couple minutes ago.

"Okay I was gonna tell you to drink with me again but I don't think you should drink anymore." Holly then grabbed the control from my hand and started looking for a video. I turned around and grabbed the cups and cleaned the place real quick. I saw my food was still on the table so I put it in a container and stuffed it in the fridge.

We then just had random music play in the background as I told her everything in great detail about my day, and of how I might have a crush on Vincent. We stayed up pretty late so when we went upstairs to sleep the moment we both put our head on the pillow we knocked out.

I don't have curtains in my room so once the room lit up from the morning sun I woke up. I felt so relaxed as it's been a while since I slept so soundly so much has happened in just a couple days no hours. Crazy how things can change so quickly.

I then check my phone to check the time and it's only eight in the morning. It's pretty early, I then see all Sally's messages and she must have been drunk. Most of the messages are just random letters. Or her calling me a bitch and that she's going to get me back for what I did to her. Such a drama queen.

I then saw Jessie's reply 'Let's have lunch. I want to explain everything that happened and I was thinking of visiting Michelle's grave today. Would you like to come with me?.' So I reply with, ' I don't mind having lunch and visiting Michelle's grave but can Holly come too?'

I then turn and see Holly sound asleep so I get out of bed to not wake her up. I head to the bathroom and take a quick shower, and then check that she's still asleep. I head downstairs, I check the fridge to see if there is anything I can make to have breakfast. I decided to make myself an omelet.

"That smells so good, make me some too." I hear Holly yelling from upstairs and immediately running to the bathroom. So I made us both an omelet, I set the table for her and I. When she got downstairs it was ready and she started eating immediately. "It's so good." She says in between bites.

Midway of our breakfast I got a message from Jessie. 'That's fine she can come. I liked her. She's a pretty funny girl.'

"So for lunch we are hanging out with Jessie." I tell Holly

"Okay that's fine by me."

"He wants to go visit Michelle's grave too. Are you down to come with us?" I ask afraid I'm asking too much. Holly may act like she is a social butterfly but she likes to be alone and only be with people she is comfortable with.

"Today I'm here for you, whatever you want to do I'm down." She says to assure me. She is so sweet. I'm so glad to have a best friend like her. "So when are you going on another date with that hella handsome guy." She says giggling teasing me.

"Oh I haven't even messaged him so he still doesn't have my number." I reach for my phone and dial his phone number, save it and message him.

'Hey it's me Luna sorry for messaging you so early.' I was about to lock my phone when I got a response from him.

'Finally I have your number. Are you busy?' I was shocked at how fast he responded but I guess I sometimes respond fast too so I replied with.

'Yes my friend came after you guys left and I'm going to be with her all day.' I tell him so he knows I'm not ignoring him just because.

'Oh okay then I wont bug you. Be safe if you need me for anything just call me.' His message is so sweet and makes me feel so warm.

'Okay thank you and bye.' I type smiling.

'Bye'

"Luna!" I look up to see Holly snapping her fingers in front of my face.

"What?" I say in a daze.

"Jeez I asked you a question but you're already ignoring me for a guy." She teases me.

"Shut up. What should we do today?" I ask her to see if she has anything planned.

"I actually do have a plan but we can do that after we hang out with Jessie." She says with a huge smile on her face. This is the first, she usually likes to be spontaneous.

"What are we doing?" I ask curious about what she planned.

"Nope, not telling you it's a surprise." She says with her arms crossed with each other.

"Whatever you probably don't have anything planned." I say jokingly.

As I'm putting my dish in the sink I hear my phone ringing and Holly went to go check who was calling. Holly just stared at the phone and without her telling me who it is I can tell it was none other than Sally.