"Clearly you don't want to talk to whoever it was." Since I had already brought it up, I figured I might as well get the answer since I wanted to know. I didn't have a good reason as to why I wanted to know so badly, I just did.
Javier shrugged. "Because I'm busy with you right now."
"You could've told them that instead of ignoring their call."
"Do you tell your girlfriend that you don't want to talk to her?" he asked rhetorically. His eyes widened at the realization of how bad that sounded, so he backtracked. "Not that I don't want to talk to her. It's like I said, I'm just busy with you right now."
Most people I knew would have answered their girlfriend's call and simply told her that they're busy. Javier wasn't like most people I knew.
I pursed my lips as he continued to try to fix what he had said. "All she wants is to ask me about ice skating again, anyway."
"You ice skate?" I asked. When he nodded, I continued. "I've gone ice skating once before. It was a few years ago with Ricky and his parents. I fell on my ass, like, twenty times. I got the hang of it eventually, though.”
After I finished my rambling, I was met with silence. I felt immediate regret for blabbing like that. He never asked if I had gone skating or not, and he certainly didn't ask for extra details. I didn't know what possessed me to talk to Javier as if we were friends.
After I wallowed in my own embarrassment for a few seconds, Javier smiled softly. "It's definitely hard."
I choked on my salvia and coughed. "What is?"
"Ice skating." He said simply.
Oh. "Oh. Yeah... I probably couldn't do it anymore since it's been so long."
Fuck me and my dirty mind.
I did not claim my random, intrusive thoughts.
Javier chewed on his bottom lip as he swiveled the chair around to completely face me. "You and Ricky do fun things like that often together?"
"We used to, but not so much anymore,” I muttered. “Ever since he got with Kailey things have changed a bit.”
When Ricky and Kailey got together she became his everything. Don't get me wrong, he was still a great friend to me. He never let his relationship overtake our friendship, but it wasn't the same. His family used to take me on all of their outings and I would spend my time at his house 24/7. Those things still happened, but they happened less often now.
I loved Kailey and I could never be upset with her for that. That was how things were supposed to happen. I was so glad that their relationship was so strong. It just sucked sometimes.
Bella and I started hanging out more because of this. We had always been friends before, but we weren't super close because she was more friends with Kailey. She still was, it's just that our friendship had grown because of Ricky and Kailey's relationship.
Then I realized how much I was sharing with my rival. "But we still do things, just not ice skating because we both are pretty bad at it. Are you good at it?"
Javier shrugged. "My family and I go together sometimes. I'd say I'm pretty good at it."
I nodded once, silently acknowledging what he was saying. He then added, "Diane's never gone before and she really wants me to take her. I told her I would take her tonight."
Oh. That was why Diane looked so pissed earlier that day when Javier agreed to prepare for Thinkfast with me. He signed up to be with me over her.
But why?
"We didn't have to do this tonight. I just wanted to make sure that we would do it at some point. You seemed like you didn't want to do it with me at all," I explained.
He shrugged. "Honestly, I would rather do this with you than ice skating with Diane."
Oh?
I was about to speak before he added, "I only say that because Diane and I are gonna spend a lot of time together on the student council trip. Not because I don't want to hang out with her."
The student council trip wasn't until February of next year. It was currently late September. Therefore, it made no sense that he wouldn't want to hang out with her now because of the trip when it was five whole months away. His reasoning for not wanting to spend time with his girlfriend was a bit stupid, but I didn’t press the matter.
The mention of the student council trip made me frown slightly. In the midst of everything else, I had completely forgotten about that. It didn't matter anyway, I had already missed the deadline to start paying for it. I wasn't going to get to go on the one chance to have a good time with my friends and away from the toxicity of my family.
