We haven’t seen each other since she saved my ass a month ago, but we’ve been texting on the regular, and she’s becoming a good friend.
Mostly her texts are about whatever gossip she’s overheard or her complaining about her living situation and the girls in her dorm. And lots of bitching about her stepbrother and the other two leaders of the Rebels.
It’s like when I text with Sophia and Isabella, my two oldest sisters. They, like Eden, don’t want advice or for me to fix anything for them; they just need someone to vent to so they feel like they’re being heard.
And as someone who has one friend, and that friend is now so busy being a good fiancé that he doesn’t have much time for me, I get it.
Eden: I hate valentines day
Being mindful of where I’m stepping so I don’t face-plant like a dumbass, I type out a response.
Damon: same. It’s the worst
Eden: at least your house doesn’t turn into a goddamn flower nursery for two weeks every feb
Eden: do you have any idea how much it sucks to be allergic to pollen and have your entire dorm filled to the brim with the ridiculous flower arrangements everyone sends your housemates and they just leave them around to show off how many admirers they have?
Damon: can’t say I do
Eden: well count your lucky stars because it sucks donkey balls
Eden: at least there’s lots of chocolate and other goodies around.
Eden: and since most of the girls here don’t eat chocolate or anything yummy, no one notices when I help myself to the many treats their admirers keep sending along with all the damn flowers
Damon: at least there’s an upside to the madness
Eden: do you think anyone would notice if I put salt in all of the vases while everyone is out tonight and took care of my allergy issue?
I pause at the main gate and tap my ID to log my entry.
Damon: I’d say that all of the flowers dying at once would definitely be sus
Eden: true. And you know they’d blame me. they always blame me
Damon: are you hanging out with Felix tonight?
Eden: yeah
Eden: I’m just waiting for him to unglue himself from killian and text me
Damon: it’s so weird that they’re together
I pause again to unlock the main entrance with my ID, then pull the heavy door open.
Felix and Killian have been dating for a few months now, and it’s not the fact that they’re stepbrothers that’s weird, it’s how they were mortal enemies for years and everyone on campus, even people like me who don’t follow gossip or give a shit about what goes on in the other frats, knew how much they hated each other.
At least they did until Thanksgiving, when things obviously changed between them, and they got together.
Eden: your telling me!
Eden: imagine listening to your bestie complain about his stepbro for *years* and watching them fight every time they’re in the same room together for literal *years*
Eden: then you find out over thanksgiving break that they don’t hate each other and they’re in love and the most adorable couple ever and can’t keep their hands off each other for more than a few minutes
Damon: that would be weird as hell
Eden: so weird
