Help Me Be Me

Ariana's POV

"Okay?" I do be lying if I say I wasn't nervous, at all. At all?! Who am I kidding? I really was nervous!

"So... Ari... How was your trip?" She awkwardly said, trying to start a conversation. And I didn't like how it was going on...

"Fine. I really enjoyed the interview." I said trying to act cool.

Oh God.

An awkward silence filled in, which I hated, obviously.

I was not used to this kind of tension specially if it was between me and Liz.

I mean, she is... well... Liz.

My best friend of all time. Since we were, what? Like 15. And in all these years we never had an awkward tension going on between us.

I was used to talk and laugh and all when I was around her.

Not to worry about her bringing up something I did and was clearly wrong.

"So... Ariana," she broke the silence, "there's something I gotta ask you..."

I. Didn't. Like. Where. This. Was. Going. So. Far.

"What?" Trying to keep calm, I responded as I took a sip of my Grande which was cold by now.

"Erm... so, while you were outta country... I figured something out." She explained, not looking into my eyes.

I decided to just try not say anything and pretend like I don't know.

"I don't know anything about the text!!!"

Holly Shit!

Why did I let that out of my mouth?! Why?!

Even if she didn't know it had anything to do with me, now she knew.

Or maybe she wasn't even going to talk about the text.

Maybe she didn't even know there was a deleted text.

Maybe she was just about to talk about the Zoey's pregnancy news.

God-

I screwed up.

***

Liz's POV

"I don't know anything about the text!!!"

Okay I was not expecting that.

I was about to start talking about the pregnancy news and slowly change the subject into Avan visiting me and then, trying to make her say what was up.

Looks like I didn't even need to spend my time on planning how to bring the main subject up.

I should have known if Ari had anything to do with it, she would have just let it slip out.

There was a serious tension between up. The most awkward silence.

Until she broke it.

"You knew... didn't you?" She said looking down at her cold Grande. I couldn't clearly tell she was embarrassed.

"Kinda, yes", I looked down as well, "I suspected it was you who deleted the text."

"Sorry."

"It's fine, I don't bother. At least I get to suffer less."

She finally looked up and smiled and I smiled back.

***

"Anyways, how did you found out about the text? Did Avan call you or something?" Ariana asked playing with the sleeves of her oversized black hoodie.

"Yeah kinda", I said as I put a piece of the cake I ordered, "He visited me on the set."

"Aha..."

"Yeah, he said he was going to check on me and see if I was okay after the news. I thought he was talking about the rumors of us dating cause that would make no sense and then..." I shrugged, "he said it."

"Oh"

"Yeah. He said he actually answered my text and that how the heck didn't I received any because right before that I told him how I think he is mad at me." I kept explaining.

"Wow girl. I can totally imagine you keep talking and not letting him stop you." She chuckled.

"Hey!" I punched her arm gently and chuckled, myself.

"Sooo... bother to tell me how the text in my phone got deleted?" I was concerned.

"Oh right," she crossed her hands on the table and leaned forward on them, looking at me in the eyes, "So remember when we had a chat about your hangout and how Avan left?"

I nodded.

"Okay, after that when you went to the bathroom, you received a message. I don't know what I was thinking about but I just opened it.", She explained using some hand gestures, "I saw your texts and all and all and that was when Avan said that he's going to be a dad with Zoey's chil-"

"Sadly..." I added. Just don't ask why.

"Yeah... sadly..." she said giving me the look, "and I replied with a congrats and..."

Ariana's POV

"And I replied with a congrats and..." I stopped.

Why? Because I was not going to tell her the rest.

"And what?" She asked.

"And... that was... it. Yeah, that was it." I tried stop the whole 'Telling-What-Happened' thing there.

If I would have told her that I asked him what happened that night, then she would be concerned and I wouldn't be able to try and find out what was going on there.

"Oh. So that's probably why he thought I was mad at him and that I was trying to not to burst it through the text message. That's why he visited me." She stated.

"Yeah- wait. What did you said?"

"That's why he visited me?"

"No, no! You said he thought you were mad at him right?" Omg, perhaps I was figuring some little things out.

"Yes?" She asked not knowing what I was pointing to.

"Liz!!! Why would he think you are mad at him??" I tried to give hints.

"I don't know." She shrugged like it was nothing.

"Girl!!! You really are not getting the point??!"

She shrugged again.

"You have the right to be mad and broken because you have a crush on him. I get it. But how does he get it??"

"Oh. My. God. Ariana!!! Do you think that he knows?!" She finally got my point.

"Maybe. And if there is something he knows, it's definitely because of that night..."

A.N/ Cliffhanger!!! Hey guys, I'm finally back. My phone was broken so I couldn't type, but meh. I will never leave a story unfinished. Also this is just the start. More dramas are coming up... stay tuned.
So what do you think will happen? How was this chapter?Tell me your opinions.
Btw, I've received bunch of messages telling me I have gramatical mistakes. Guess what?! I know. I write these stories at 3 am and I make mistakes! As soon as the book is finished, I'll reread it and correct the mistakes. Until next week...

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