"school sucks" Marcus groaned when he entered the class and sat in our group

"I agree" Savannah said

"You should've have stayed up late talking to that girl" Theo said

"Wait what?!" Me and Savannah said together

"What girl!!" Savannah asked

"My boy" axel said patting his back

"I hate you Theo" Marcus said as he dropped his head to the table

"What girl?!" Savannah asked "why don't I know about his Theo"

"I didn't think it was this important to you babe " Theo shrugged

"Hello? You okay Theo? A girl and Marcus" I said before we all fell into silent as soon as the teacher appeared by the classroom door

"Who's the girl" Lucas whispered nudging Theo

"I don't know, I just saw him talking to someone" Theo answered

"Who's the girl you bitch?" I whispered to Marcus

"Why would I tell you?" He raised a brow

"We are your bestfriends?" Savannah said a duh expression on her face

"No that's Axel" Marcus replied making me gape

"Wait since when you and axel are bestfriends" I asked

"Since he set me up with a girl?" Marcus said as we looked at axel surprised

"Wait what?" Theo said confused

Believe me, we all are

"What? You set him up?!" Lucas asked

"Who's the girl!" Savannah asked

"Why don't I know about his again Axel?" I asked

"I'm not saying anything, Marcus will if he wants to" axel said

"Excuse me are you thinking of someon-" I closed my mouth when I saw the teacher crossing his arms and looking at us

"sorry" we all said

"I knew putting you three with them would be a problem?" He pointed at Lucas, Axel and Theo

"Us?" The three of them said

"Who else? And stay quiet or I'll have to put you into detention if I hear anything more" the teacher said making the three of them shut up

Savannah laughed quietly before sticking her tongue out

"Losers" I whispered as Theo rolled his eyes and I saw a genuine smile on Axel's face

—

After school, we all headed out to eat lunch together. We were sitting on one of the seating booths in a diner

we ordered our food before we all looked at Marcus waiting for him to spill about his love life

"who's the girl you bitch?" Lucas asked him

"I think I need to use the toilet" Marcus said as Sav held him back

Making axel the only one that laughs

"Tell us!" Savannah said

"Aren't you gonna tell me?" I asked looking at Axel trying to get some words out of him

"Not my place to tell" he shrugged

"fine!" Marcus said slamming his hands on the table "it's Isabella"

"Isabelle?" We all said together

"Isabelle who?" Theo asked

"Is she in our school?" Lucas asked

"her mother is my mother's friend, i saw her at the company and she was talking about how single she was. and Marcus crossed my mind so I gave her his number" Axel said

"Yeah okay we understand that I'm single" Lucas said as we laughed

"I'm still single, we're just talking" Marcus said

"And I am single too," I said

"Oooooh" Theo, Lucas and Marcus said looking between me and Axel

"And how's that Ms. Moore?" Axel asked raising a brow

"It's not like someone asked me to be his girlfriend, Mr.Russo" I said

""Tea" Lucas said making us laugh"

"are you waiting for someone to do that?" He asked with a smirk

"nope never said anything like that" i shrugged as he rolled his eyes making us all laugh

my laughter died when I saw someone from a distance

Sienna

But I didn't say a thing because our food was placed on the table

Savannah nudged me and send me a questioning look but I shook my head

"should I go back for Christmas?" Theo asked

"If you went then we'll for sure coming to Canada" Marcus said

"My family's away this Christmas, they're going to my grandparents" Lucas said "I think I'll come with you both"

"Wait why don't you all come?" Theo asked "I could spend sometime with my family then we could go around, maybe even you guys can be back on Christmas Eve"

"I'm in, nothing else to do" Luke said

"Babe? Please say yes! Mom's excited to meet you" Theo said

"I'll ask mom but I guess she'll allow me but I'll be back before Christmas Day"

"You in?" Axel asked looking over to me

"no fam to spend with so definitely in" I said and I saw them all frown

"What??"

"No fam seriously? Bryce?" Axel said

"He's spending time with his family" I said

"It's right that we're not family but we are here"Savannah said

"I didn't mean that, I definitely didn't! I was just joking and besides I was going to spend it with Valerie, who else do I have?"

"Me?" Axel said before Theo and Lucas burst into laughters

"You? And Christmas?" Lucas laughed

"Never in a million years!" Theo laughed making Marcus and Sav laugh

I smiled, he was thinking of spending christmas with me

"go fuck yourselfs" axel frowned

"Mel you changed him completely" Marcus said as axel rolled his eyes

"Honestly that is cute" Savannah said pointing at axel

"You're cute" Theo said as the guys groaned while they both laughed

"Simp" Marcus said as Theo nudged him

"wait so you're telling me that he was willing to have the Christmas vibes thing just for Mel?" Lucas asked

"Shut up"

"Awww" Savannah awed

"can we forget that this discussion happened?" Axel asked

"we will but she definitely won't, look at her face" Marcus said making me cover my face as they all laughed at me

"I hate you all" I said

"But you love axel right?" Theo said making me raise my middle finger on him

"That's rude!" Savannah said hitting my hand

"are you both coming or what?" Marcus asked

"coming where?" a voice that I realized said making us all look at Sienna

"Sienna?" Axel said confused looking at her then around the table before his eyes met mine

"hey guys!" She said taking a seat next to Lucas

"Hi" we all said quietly

"What are you doing here?" Axel asked

"Missed my flight then decided to complete my stay here with a friend" she said "and where are you guys going"

"um... to visit my family for Christmas"

"That's cool! I think I'll be sneaking around with you guys. I have nothing to do, and no one to spend it with. I mean if that's fine with you all"

Please say no

Please say no

Please say no

"Yeah sure why not, if that's fine with Theo" axel spoke making my heart drop

No fucking way

Theo shrugged as a smile appeared on her face "we'll have a lot of fun! Don't forget to text me the address" she looked at axel

Brianna was there in the first trip and now

For this trip Sienna is going to be there

Wonder who'll be on the next trips

By now, almost everyone had a frown on their faces,

"asshole" Savannah whispered under her breath

"Plus the last time I saw his parents was when I was still dating Axel. Remember that day?" She laughed

Her eyes were glowing and she looked like she was till in love

Axel shifted and I knew that he was uncomfortable " I do"

I'm already uncomfortable, believe me

"That day was Amazing. We then had a dinner with my parents and his. We cooked together, spend some family time. This memory just made me realize how much I miss my parents,

I'm lucky to have them. It's like I can't imagine how someone can feel not having a parent.

Ehh.

Bringing back memories now Sienna?

"Sienna" Lucas said in a low voice while shaking my head

Yeah it's better if you don't imagine not having parents

Much better honestly

"It's horrible and they're missing out many things, spending time with them, family nights and di-" Sienna was stopped by Axel

"- Sienna I think that's enough" he said as her face got all confused

Haha

Ouch

Not the parents things again

"Why? Is something wrong?" She asked

"No, just let's not talk about that" he said his eyes fixed on me

"oh okay then, well I'll be going now, I'll see then on the trip! Bye" she stood up before waving

"Bye"

"You ask me why I hate you sometimes? This is why I fucking hate you. We were laughing and look because of you things just get ruined and someone ends up getting hurt in the end because of you" Savannah said angrily to Axel

"Sav no" I said trying to stop her

"Stop fucking hurting her! It's either her or any other fucking bitch! You can't play with both!" She said before Theo held her

"Babe let's go out" he said pulling her out "I'll just take her for a walk"

The place fell into silence, an awkward one

I cleared my throat

"Sorry to ruin the lunch but I think I'll leave now. Thanks for the food" I stood up

"Mel" Axel said and I sensed the worriedness in his voice but I ignored it and followed Theo and Savannah

"A fucking asshole and a fucking player!" I heard Savannah say to Theo angrily

"But I thought you said that he was cute?" I crossed my arms and looked at her in an amused expression

"Mel" both of them said when they saw me

"He was cute but he's an asshole that doesn't deserve to have someone like you!"

"We're not even dating" I said

"Quit playing, we all know you both like each other" Theo said

"it's okay, we're not dating so it doesn't matter " I said

"Oh fucking hell Mel. Stop acting like everything is okay?! Stop acting like that words didn't hurt you! We saw it on your face!" Savannah said

"And we all know how sensitive this topic is for you" i heard a voice say from behind me

Marcus wrapped an arm around me

"Did you leave him alone? It's not his fault" I asked

"He's with Lucas" Marcus said

"I'm not mad at the Parents thing only! I'm mad because he's basically playing with you. He kisses you, takes you on the most romantic date, tells you he like you then he's all smiley with Sienna? I won't let him play you like that" she said

"Baby it's okay!" I said "I'm okay" I pulled her into a hug

"Now get that beautiful ass calm. Let's just drive and have a carpool karaoke" I said "okay?"

She nodded

"You guys go, I'll check on axel. Marcus drive my car and take them around" he threw the keys to Marcus

"I'll see you later okay?" He cupped Savannah's cheeks before placing a peck to her lips "and you" he pointed at me "it's okay to not be okay, Sav's words are right and I'll figure it out with axel"

"Thank you" I said as he gave me a quick hug before entering inside

as he said

Sometimes

it's okay to be not okay