@nxthero ; jessica : 30 ; doing beauty treatments, like facials or manicures, hair dying or face masks.
non - sexual forms of intimacy ; accepting.
" 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲? 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲, 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐬𝐡𝐞'𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐛𝐲 𝐧𝐨𝐰, 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞, " emily asked, glancing at jessica who was sat next to her at the nail salon. she didn’t really care, to be honest, but she knew if she didn’t say anything and acted like the scorned girlfriend, it would just raise red flags. she was playing the part and she would keep doing it as best as she can, she didn’t want to face her own truth just yet because she wasn’t beth washington, she didn’t have that confidence to be proud about it. she couldn’t even tell her best friend the truth because what if jess reacted badly? it was the kind of heartbreak that she wasn’t ready to face yet. so emily played pretend. she dated the class president and she acted like the pissed off girlfriend that was made that some other girl couldn’t get a hint, meanwhile she was just in love with her best friend and too scared to tell her. looking back as she watched the process of her new nails being done, dark eyes rolling as she continued to play the part, “ like mike shouldn’t be encouraging her, i know that, but hannah doesn’t seem to get that he’s not interested, he just likes the attention especially when he knows i’m mad at him, ”