𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴.

CHAPTER TWELVE

WHEN CELESTE HAD woken up she was ready to go to school since she was healthier and hadn't been throwing up, thanks to darrian. darrian had left later in the night because he said his mom would be worried since he hadn't told her were he would be.

as she was brushing her teeth in her bathroom she heard her phone getting notification. the girl picked up the phone and saw that someone had sent her a instagram dm.

she mugged the screen when she saw that it was from haven, how did she even find her instagram?

she opened the message and saw it was a boomerang video of haven and some other guy kissing. celeste squinted her eyes and saw that she was sitting on his lap. the guy had curly hair, that reminded her of someone.

she looked closer to see that, the guy did look like darrian a whole lot. celeste furrowed her eyebrows, not believing it. darrian wouldn't do that.

but she was wrong. haven tagged him in the video and seemingly she believed it. it was so early in the morning that celeste didn't catch the fact that who haven had tagged wasn't even his real account.

the girl never jumped into conclusions but with all the evidence sitting right in front of her face made her feel slightly betrayed. she had ranted the day before about how much disliked haven to darrian.

though she felt like she didn't have a right to be mad, like sure maybe she didn't like haven but that didn't mean darrian had to. she wasn't dumb, she knew she liked darrian but she didn't know if he thought of her in that way that's why she felt like she couldn't be mad.

but she was gonna be anyway, she was stubborn.

celeste put her phone facing down it down so she didn't put more salt on the wound, but the polaroid picture of her and darrian was showing making her frown. celeste always forgave people way too fast and she knew how fast people were able to take advantage of that but she knew, she knew darrian wouldn't do that.

celeste left the bathroom and slowly got dressed, not wanting to face darrian today. she put on a long sleeve cropped shirt with low waisted denim jeans, she lastly slipped her black ugg slippers on and called it a day. she decided she wasn't gonna do anything with hair and leave it in its natural curly state.

she did her normal routine for her face before leaving her room to make something to eat. celeste was gonna make eggs but stopped in her tracks when already saw her dad was already making some. "morning cel cel." marc greeted her daughter. "hi." she said barley above a whisper.

"so, i need to talk to you about something." he told her as he placed the eggs on her plate and sliding it across the counter for her. celeste nodded in a gesture for him to continue. marc turned around and leaned his elbows on the counter and locked eyes with his daughter, he didn't even know how to tell her this.

"now, i've already told her no but i wanted do know your opinions on it." he dragged while celeste just watched him with a blank expression. "ight, haven needs to come down here because there house is getting renovated. now i've already told them no, i just wanted to know what you think."

celeste blinked a couple of times and tilted her head. "what? why can't she just go over to a real family member's house." she pointed out the obvious but marc just sighed and shook his head.

"look ion even know. but they wanna have dinner tonight, only if you okay with that tho." he told her. celeste shrugged trying to seem unbothered but she was obviously irritated by the fact haven would have to live with her. "it's your house at the end of the day do what you wanna."

marc's face frowned at the look on his daughter's face. celeste looked up and saw his sorrowful expression, feeling bad. she put herself in haven's position trying to make sense of the situation.

"how long does she need to stay for?"

CELESTE HAD BEEN ignoring darrian as much as she could and isis was distracting as much as she could since celeste had already told her what happened, or what she thought happened.

with darrian he could tell when someone was ignoring him, and it was plainly obvious that celeste was. he was more confused then mad because they were just cuddled up in her bed yesterday and he didn't know what he did wrong.

now darrian watched her enter the math class that they shared and was basically asking her with his eyes to look at him but she didn't she just sat as far away as she could from him which was maybe three desks away.

darrian squinted his eyes at her and decided to say something. "leste!" he whispered-yelled since the class hadn't started yet. he could hear her let out a sigh making him scrunch his face up, he didn't even say anything yet.

she turned around locking her eyes with his, she titled her head in confusion waiting for him to speak up. darrian didn't know why but he felt nervous under her stare since she didn't have the usual warm smile she always had on.

darrian scratched the back of his neck before making some way for him to speak to her, "uh you got a pencil?" celeste nodded at his question and threw a pencil to him then continued her conversation she was having with isis.

darrian catches the pencil and just stared at it. that was the only interaction he had with her for the rest of the day until lunch, he was trying to look for her during but he couldn't even find her in the library.

"you ain't see her walk in here?" he asked ms galvez who shook her head in response as she frowned. "she's not with you?" she questioned, worried laced with her tone. darrian was so close to cursing her out since if she was with him he wouldn't even be looking for her right now but he kept his lips sealed and just shook his head.

darrian thanked the librarian for her nonexistent help before leaving the library. as darrian was walking back to the cafeteria he stopped in his tracks when he saw celeste's figure talking to a guy. he recognized who the kid was, he was known for having this huge crush on celeste that everybody knew but she of course didn't notice.

darrian had the thought walking over to where they were standing but he stopped himself when he saw the side of celeste's face and she was smiling. so he waited for when they were talking to grab celeste to talk to her.

the boy waited until he heard celeste's footstep walk towards him and lifted his head up. when celeste saw darrian she swiftly turned her heel to walk the other way but darrian grabbed her wrist making there bodies closer as ever.

"what you want darrian?" she grumbled and backed away so they weren't so close. darrian frowned at the use of his actual name, she never used his real name. "why you ignoring me? what i do stink?" he said in attempt of seeing celeste crack a smile but her face stayed in a blank expression.

celeste mean mugged him thinking he was playing the act of innocent, but truly did not know what he did wrong.

the girl was gonna open her mouth to speak but her footsteps behind her so she turned around seeing haven was walking towards the two. celeste turned back around to darrian who was still waiting for her to reply, "ion know. go ask haven." she replied making darrian scrunch his face up. "haven? ma nigga what? why would i ask her?"

celeste shrugged in response and made her way back into the cafeteria leaving a confused darrian. darrian ignored haven's entire presence and walked after celeste in the cafeteria and tried to catch with her but he had already seen her and instead bumped into isis.

isis was gonna apologize but saw it was darrian and mugged him. darrian furrowed his eyebrows, why was everybody mad at him today. "bro what did i do to you?" he expressed his anger.

isis lifted a brow and crossed her arms, "did you bump your head somewhere?" darrian scrunched his face up from the random question. "no?" he said more in a question manner.

"then why you kiss haven nigga?" isis got straight to the point not beating around the bush. darrian couldn't even been more confused then he was before. "nigga what?" he yelled making some heads turn. he mugged them harshly making the kids turn their heads back.

"why'd you kiss haven?" she said more quietly but it was clear on what she was saying. "na, bro you dayroom. i never fucking kissed haven bro." he denied the statement making isis furrow her brows. she pulled out her phone and showed the video celeste had sent her to showcase it to him.

"bro send me that shit right now."

for the rest of the day celeste and darrian didn't talk. darrian had many of conversation starters for trying to spark up a conversation with her but left them alone since he just thought that today wasn't her best day. he thought maybe something happened and she preferred not talk about it, but he didn't like how she was ignoring him when she could just talk to him.

on the other hand celeste felt so horrible about herself she want to disingrate. she was never mad at anyone specially darrian but he made out with the girl she literally ranted about for hours straight and he did this.

when celeste got home she was gonna take a nap but remembered she had took make the dinner for scarlett and them. celeste spent the rest of the afternoon with making the food that consisted of multiple crunchy tacos, churros, quesadillas and more.

a hour had passed and celeste heard the door open and she knew it was her dad since he had mentioned coming earlier from work. "damn, that smells good." he yelled dramatically making celeste laugh, she lowered down the music in her headphones and turned around to her dad who was taking off his leather jacket.

celeste saw that her dad has gotten his dreads a retwist, "oo, you got a nice retwist." she complimented him as he cheesed at his daughter. "you like it?" she nodded at his question as she continued making the dishes. marc helped celeste and they made conversation, and celeste slipped up and talked about what's happening with darrian and her.

"so you tellin me the lil nigga kissed heaven?" he purposely saying haven's name wrong making celeste laugh and nodded. "damn." he shook his head in disapproval. the father and daughter duo continued making the food until marc dismissed her and told her that they should be getting ready since scarlett and her family weren't too far from their.

celeste immediately went inside of her bathroom and took a warm shower. she played her heal playlist that consisted of jhenè aiko, sza, summer walker and her other favorite artists. she finished her shower and pulled out the shampoo to wash her hair with so it had a vanilla smell to it.

the girl finished her shower and made it to her room to change into a long beige dress. she pulled her creme colored yeezy slides onto her feet and put her hair into a tight ponytails, and did her edges perfectly.

she did her makeup until she heard the loud knocks on the front door making her irritated from even the thought of haven stepping a foot inside her house. she didn't know why she didn't like haven, maybe it was the jealousy that bubbled in her stomach when she thought of haven and darrian.

she couldn't help but feel a slight betrayal when she saw the clip that replayed in her mind each second of the day. celeste made it out of her room and let out a tired breath, she wanted this day to end so bad. she was tired, so tired.

when she made it into the living room she already felt the air get colder and more uncomfortable with the fact scarlett was in the house she used to call home. "mom, what is that?" she heard haven's high pitched voice and literally mugged the back of her head.

haven was in a light orange short dress with her tight curls out. marc made his way from the kitchen and whispered to his daughter, "why she look like a damn orange?" he pointed out her appearance making celeste snicker at his joke.

celeste nodded in agreement and walked to the dining table with her dad trailing behind her.

the dinner went by slowly and celeste was sure she was gonna fall asleep on her food, "so, we'll be back tomorrow to drop haven off for the month." scarlett mentioned haven having to stay over but celeste wasn't aware it was gonna be for a whole month.

celeste stopped eating her food and glared at her dad who sent her a soft apologizing look but she wasn't having any of it. as soon as the small family left the house celeste jogged up the stairs to sleep, she kicked her slides off and slipped into the blue nike tech darrian had left over the other day and a pair of sweats.

the girl cuddled up with pink fluffy bear and fell asleep. ignoring all the messages darrian was sending her.

F SPEAKS

NOTES- can you tell i rushed this chap? just wanted to give you guys a double updateeee . love ya pookies see you later !!