SZNS SERIES 1: Summer by Maria Writes (books for men to read txt) 📗

having Jesse by her side watching the same movie she's watching now. Maybe this is how their story ends. Maybe they're better off without each other.

With her mood now soured, she turned off the TV and went to turn on the lights. Chloe gathered all the foods from her bed and went downstairs to shove it in the fridge. No one was there so she's free to move and to anything she wants without anyone constantly asking her if she's okay.

After messing around in the kitchen, she went back to her room and lay on the bed. She's just staring at the ceiling.

Thinking. Hoping that by tomorrow, everything will be alright. Tomorrow, she'll be back to her normal self. But she knows that is impossible without her setting the record straight with someone she needs to talk to.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHAPTER 20:

New Leaf

"Okay, everybody. I'm back. So today what we are going to do is refreshing our minds and going back to the basics. There'll be some changes happening in our group since someone is being MIA for the past week. But not me, I'm back, so. Okay, I'll shut up now. Dean, you'll play the male lead. Get in the stage now, please."

Dean looked at her wide eye and confused. "But, Chloe. What about Jesse? He's the male lead here. I can't just---"

"Shh, shh. Dean, sweetie. When I say you'll play male lead, you'll play male lead. Okay? Okay. Let's go everybody get into work."

She sat on her chair and watch as everybody prepare to start the play. Caroline sat beside her as her assistant director and passed her the script and her notepad. It's been just a few hours since she got back and now she's very stressed and exhausted.

"Chloe---"

"Yes, Caroline. I'm fine thank you very much. Now let's get this play over with so we could all enjoy our Thanksgiving break." She really wanted to get out of this school so she could join her parents in Europe for Thanksgiving. They told her that they'll be back next year since her father's company can stand on its own without him.

Their play is going well so far. They only needed a few days and their done with everything. Then after their rehearsals are all finished, it's time for their Thanksgiving break, go back spend a little week with their class, then boom, play week starts.

After this hellish year, they'll be back again with their class, then spring break then few months more with their class, final exams. Then graduation. After her graduation, it's hello Paris for her. There's no stopping her now.

Caroline's voice suddenly blasted on her ears that woke her up from her deep thoughts. "Billy, you're doing the lines wrong. Oh my god people! Wake up. This play is just a few weeks away and you're all acting weird."

"Shh, Care, shut up. Guys let's just to do the scene again. Billy, it's okay to do adlib okay. Don't mind her, she's stress." Chloe looked at Caroline and she immediately sensed that something is off. "Okay, guys five-minute break. No, make that ten. Come on, Care."

She pulls Caroline out of the hall and they both went to the restroom. She checked first if all the cubicles are empty then she locked the door when she saw that they are alone.

Her friend is now looking pale so she knows that something is not going well with her. It's so unlikely for Caroline to be weird. She knows her best friend so well. It's like they are twins. She can feel if her friend is pain.

"Hey, is there something bothering you? Caroline, this isn't you. I know you, and I know if something is bothering you." She's getting nervous as the time passes when Caroline is not answering her. Now her friend has tears rolling down her cheeks.

Chloe has no idea what is happening but she had the urged to give her friend a hug hoping that it will lighten whatever she's feeling. Caroline just kept on crying in her shoulder. Luckily, after a couple while, Caroline stopped crying but she is still sobbing.

She reached for her face and wiped the eyeliner that smeared on her face. Chloe took the handkerchief in the pocket of her skirt and passed it to Caroline. Her friend took it then sat on the sink.

"There's something I need to tell you. But promise me, you can't tell anyone. Not my mom, my dad, Jesse, I'm sorry I have to mention his name, but yeah don't tell him. And not even Nate, okay? Promise me." Caroline's eyes are pleading her and how could she say no?

She took a deep breath and prepared herself from what her friend is about to tell her. "Sure. I'll not tell them, you can trust me, okay. I'm your best friend, no, I'm your sister. Maybe not by blood but we're sisters by heart so close enough."

Caroline sits up straight and looked at her straight in the eye. "Okay, remember when you and my brother left during my parents' anniversary party? So, something happened between me and Nate. You know, the thing." Chloe thinks that she already has an idea where this talk is leading them. "Well, something weirder happened after that. I got knocked up, Chloe. And I don't know how am I going to tell my parents that I'm gonna be a mom before I even graduated college. I know they all want me and Nate to end up for each other, but this is not what I want. It's too early for this, Chloe. Maybe in three or four years it's fine but not now. But I know I cannot just blame Nate for this because we both did it. I don't know what to do, Chloe."

Chloe,