elenas pov
i wake up to ethan's arms wrapped around me, i move away slowly to not wake him up
i pick coco up and kiss her, "hey baby" i smile at her
she starts licking my face, "gross coco stop" i put her down
"hey"
i turn around and ethan was smiling at me, "hey" i reply back i lay back down with him, "please don't go to your meeting today"
"i have too" he frowns
"can i come?" i ask
"i wish, you always come with joey that everyone thinks you guys are dating now"
i sigh, ethan tucked a piece of my hair behind my ear and kissed my forehead, he got off my bed "what about i pick you up tomorrow and we can hang the whole day"
"tomorrow?"
"yea i'm not coming back after the meeting"
"why not" i ask
"because i have stuff to do after" he says
"oh ok"
we walk downstairs and david brought everyone donuts
it was kinda strange seeing everyone together in the living room on the couch, david, geo, liam, zach, ethan, noah, and conner. joey was probably still sleeping
i feel bad for kissing ethan in front of him, that was so petty of me, i should apologize to him. i think me and him should just talk in general and set all this nonsense aside
i hate fighting with people and i hate it even more when it's joey. i get off the couch and walk to joeys room, i didn't know if i should knock or just open the door
i knock and open the door, he was sitting on his bed on his phone he looked up at me and smiled "elena?"
i walk into his room, "joey i think we should tal-" i got interrupted by cali walking out the bathroom in a towel
i close my eyes for a moment collecting myself together and open them again
"elena?" cali furrows her eyebrows
my head hit the back of the door and it shut closed, "that's not elena" joey says
"shut up i know a elena when i see one" cali walls towards me
she's standing in front of me now studying my face, i just wanna rip her head off right now
"what are you doing here" i ask
"oh um i stayed the night" she says
i look at her red dress on the floor and joeys on the other side, "did you guys have sex?" i whisper for her to only hear
she nods biting her lip, i push her out my way and walk to joey, i push him on the bed and as i was about to punch him he grabbed my wrist
it feels good finally looking into his eyes, "get off him" cali pushed me
"don't touch her" joey tells cali, cali furrows her eyebrows looking at both me and joey
"how could you joey, you know how much i hate her" i say
cali scoffs, "hate me?"
"shut up cali, he's only using you" i get off the bed and show her the door
she looks at me then at joey, "are you?"
"no i'm not" joey pulls her into him
"go away elena" cali smiles
"just get out of here cali, he's using you for sex" i say
"no he's not stop being such a jealous brat"
"jealous brat? just leave cali i'm helping you here" i say truthfully
she rolls her eyes, "why are you so jealous of me! is it because i always got what you want?"
my eyes widened, "you think you have joey? you think that's why i'm jealous of you?"
"you didn't even know his name, it's josh, and yes i do think that's why you are jealous of me, you always were since middle school" she crosses her arms
"really joey, josh again?" i laugh
"just get out!" cali shout
i walk over to her and grab her off joey and push her to the floor, my hand turned into a fist, just as i was about to punch her pretty face joey picked me up
"let go of me" i squirm
cali got off the floor, " you are physco"
i got off joeys grip and watch her take her dress off the floor, she sticks up her middle finger at me and walks out the room
"what was that?" joey asks me
"what was that? shouldn't i be asking you? you know how much i hate her, why would you bring her here, you're so stupid it's unbelievable, i have no words right now to express how i'm feeling, was it to hurt me? because if it was you won joey, you really knew what to do to trigger me and get me hurt like that, i literally just wanted to come here and talk everything out with you, but then i see her in your bed..."
"elena... we can still talk" he walks towards me, i step backwards, "no, you've been doing this for way to long and i'm tired of being so upset"
"please elena, i really want to talk this out with you please that's all i've been wanting to do" he says
i laugh "if you really did want to talk to me you wouldn't have cali over to make me jealous"
"did you get jealous?" joey ask
i nod slowly, "you got what you wanted, you got me jealous do you want a award?"
joey sighs, "i know you are only with ethan to make me jealous"
"no i'm not, who said i'm even with him" i cross my arms
"you guys aren't... together?"
"no, i mean at least i don't think that" i say
joey runs his hand through his hair, "can we please talk elena"
"no" i walk out his room and walk in the kitchen, everyone was gone, how strange
i grab the last donut and sit down on the couch, i can't believe you had cali in his room again, it bothers me so much that he does this, i wouldn't care as much if it was another girl but why cali, why her
cali got everything she always want, my mom always loved her and wanted me to be her, my boyfriend cheated on me with her and now she has joey
she still has my favorite stuffed animal she stole from me when i was in third grade
i finish my donut and cross my arms trying to wrap my head around everything that has happened these last 8 months.
i kinda rather wish i was home fighting with my mom then with joey, i wanna be back in my bed again, i wanna cry over the fights i would have with my mom, i miss my mom
the last time i saw her she was crying over how terrible she was with with, gosh that really broke my heart, she was rude to me and i really did hate her but i don't blame her, she's still my mom
i mean she had to lie to me and dylan for years because her husband ran away for another women, my mom is so strong having to raise 2 kids on her own after that, how dare i even look my father in the eyes for that
what joey did for my birthday that night, it was amazing seeing my father and i really loved that night but he's a terrible person and chose aadya over family, i should've seen it from my mothers point of view then his
joey walked in the kitchen and looked at me, he sat down next to me and i scoot over, "elena please"
i sigh and look at him, "what?"
"you wanna know why i wanted to killed lexi?"
i scoot closer to him, "yes, please you have to tell me"
"okay, i've built up a lot of courage to tell you this"
i nod
"it's.. because"
"because what?" i furrow my eyebrows
"i am... i..." he stutters
ethan walked in the room with pizza in his hands, "pizzas readyyyyyy" he bowls
everyone runs to the room, i look at joey and sigh, "you can still tell me"
"i.. i cant never mind" he gets up
"joey.. please"
"never mind elena it was stupid, i have to go" he walks away