better than this

Blair

"And just so you know. I did phone you. And text. But you've kind of been ignoring everyone since like a couple days ago. I guess now I know why..." She says and smirks at me and I smile politely back. That's not quite why I've been ignoring people. I've been gone because I broke up with Hunter. And then we got back together. And then we confessed our love to each other so...anyway I leave that out of our conversation. "Yeh...so what did I miss?" I ask and she frowns at me. "Well..." She pauses for dramatic effect. Alright fasten your seat belts, here we go. "Brendan and Poppy broke up." She states and Hunter and I look at each other with confused faces. "What?" We both say in sync. This is totally out of the blue, I hadn't exactly expected them to get married anytime soon but I had at least expected them to last longer than a month and a bit.

Woah. A month, three weeks, two days precisely. That's how long we've known each other. Me and Hunter. Shit. It suddenly just hit me that we barely know each other. "Why?" I ask quietly although I'm still getting over my previous thought process. "Well he didn't know what he wanted to do with his life. And you know Poppy, she's always talking about her music career and stuff and how she's so excited to get going. It just...got to be too much for him, I guess because he wasn't leaving here and she was and...yeh." She says and I nod and sigh. "That sucks." Hunter says from beside me and I agree with him. It really does. "I know. It's really a shame. I just wish we knew some hot guy that could get her mind off of him. Ugh why can't we know more people?" Tessa despairs and I turn to Hunter with a glint of mischief in my eyes, grinning. His face falls and he can tell I'm up to something. "What is it...?" He asks warily and I smile at him, waiting for him to catch up. He knows me so well. When he realises he starts to slowly shake his head. "No. No no no. Come on." He says and tilts his head to the side. I intertwine my fingers and bring them close to my face. "Please? Why not?" I beg and he shakes his head. "But there's two of them." He defends and I hear Tessa gasp. "Two of who?" Tessa squeaks and I turn to her and grin. "Hunter has friends up from London for the week and two of them are guys...and they're not exactly ugly.." I tell her and she grins so widely and claps her hands. "Eh hello? Firstly did you just call my friends hot? Secondly, no. It's long distance so it won't work." Hunter continues to persist and I laugh at him. "Hunter. You seem great but you can't deny Poppy the chance at a happy relationship. Plus, we're moving to London in a few months." Tessa pleads and I smile innocently over at him, giving him my attempt at puppy dog eyes. He sighs, "How can I resist that face? Fine. But we don't tell them. Either of them." He says and Tessa and I clap our hands together in joy. "And if neither of them like her...don't push it. Please?" Hunter says seriously and I roll my eyes and nod my head firmly. "I won't. No pushing will be happening today." I say and he cocks his head to the side.
"Today?" He asks and I smile at him. "Yes. Today. We are all hanging out. All, 1,2,3,4...10 I guess, of us. Including you and I. Also I'm assuming Zoe and Jack will come too." I say and Tessa nods her head enthusiastically. "Great. Then it's settled. Now where will we go?"

Hunter

We decide on the movies, "Because then we can 'accidentally' put Poppy between the two guys. Or between Zoe and a guy." Which is what Tessa said, apparently the genius on these types of situations. I honestly have no idea what she's on about. When we all meet up at the cinema, minus Brendan, who didn't want to come, we decide on a movie and get our tickets before walking in. I keep my arm wrapped around Blair the whole time but I can tell that there's something distracting her. I decide to brush it off for now and try to have a good time and cheer her up.

Somehow Poppy ends up in a seat next to Jack, with Zoe on the other side of her and Hayes and Vicki next to her. Beau sits beside Vicki and Blair and I sit beside Beau. Throughout the movie I keep a hold of Blairs hand and make funny remarks about the scenes in her ears. But her laugh sounds empty and isn't fully there and neither is her head. "Alright. What's going on Blair?" I whisper into her ear and she turns her head towards me slowly as though she doesn't want to take her eyes off the screen except I know that she hates most action films. "Nothing. I'm fine." She gives me a tight smile and looks back to the large screen. "Blair...don't lie to me. Somethings been off this whole time." I whisper and she looks at me and sighs. "I'm fine. We'll talk about it later." She says and gives me a long hard look. I cock my head to the side and stick out my bottom lip. "What's wrong with now?" I ask her and she looks up at the ceiling for a few seconds before nodding. "Ok fine but not in here where everyone's trying to watch this awful movie." I knew she didn't like it. I stand up and pull her by the hand out of our screen and into the carpeted hall outside. "Get some mate." Hayes says and pats me on the back as I walk past his seat, causing Zoe to laugh. Good. At least those two are getting on. Even if it wasn't the desired effect but who cares?

"Alright. What is it?" I ask her and she sighs and looks at the floor, her face troubled. "I don't know. I guess I just realised...we barely know each other. And we've been moving so fast." She says and I smile gently at her worried face. "What do you mean?" I ask her and she looks up at me, looking sad and slightly perplexed. I can tell she's really thinking hard about this. "We knew each other a month and then we got together. And now we've been going out for only three weeks and already we're saying we love each other but how do we really know I mean I've never been in love have you? I don't think I loved Jax, if I did it was so long ago I barely remember so that doesn't count. And maybe I did but we said we loved eachother after a year. I mean Hunter we probably don't love each other, right? That's not what's supposed to happen. And after that, literally that same day, we had sex. Which was right after not talking almost all day because I basically broke up with you. It just all happened so fast and we've only known each other almost two months. I mean three weeks hunter who does that? We're just teenagers. We don't know what we're doing. Sorry it's just hit me earlier and the more I think about it the worse it sounds." She finishes and I try to give her a reassuring smile. "I see where you're coming from. But people have done more in less time. Hell, some people get married after knowing each other two days. Granted those people may regret it and not last long but who cares? I know that it might sound stupid but i feel like I've known you longer than I have. You already know me better than I think anyone else knows me. I've told you things that I have never told anyone before. And if you think that doesn't annoy the crap out of me then you are completely wrong. I hate it. I hate how much control you have over me because you could shatter my heart if you wanted to, I haven't given anyone that much control over me. Ever. I always put walls up so that no one can leave me. Like my dad. But for some reason, despite knowing you a month, three weeks and two days - you got that wrong by the way - those walls just came crashing down. They fell that very first night. And I know this sounds absolutely crazy but..." I sigh and run my hands through my hair. "Blair. I love you. I know that I do because I've never felt this way about anyone else before." I add on quietly because I'm still getting used to admitting my feelings to her. "I know. I - I love you too. I think. Oh I don't know Hunter. I'm not even sure I know what love is anymore." She looks more stressed the more she thinks about it. "I'm pretty sure that, along with countless other things, love is when you would give up everything for a person. And I would do that for you. In a heart beat. Which really shouldn't be the case but it is. And even though that sounds super cheesy it's true." I raise my eyebrows and shrug. She looks down, processing. "It's just a lot to think about." She whispers and I move closer and place both my hands on her shoulders. "For me it's simple." I say and she looks up at me and smiles. "Yeh. I know. It should be. It's a lot to process." She says and looks down with that familiar pale pink tinge on her cheeks. "I'm sorry for overthinking so much. I don't mean to it just happens." She looks up at me through her long eyelashes and I smile down at her. "There's nothing to be sorry about. It shows you care." I say to her and she looks back at me and raises her arms to wrap around my neck and pull me closer to her. She kisses me so passionately that I'm slightly shocked but manage to kiss her back equally. "What was that for?" I grin at her and she smiles back and leans our foreheads against one another's. "Thank you." She says and I furrow my eyebrows, still smiling. "What for?" I ask and she smiles. "For being perfect." She says and I beam at her. "It's my absolute pleasure Miss Evans." I say and she pulls my head down and kisses me again.