Page 38 of The Pursuit of Happiness
It sounds like an STD name
I laugh because she’s not wrong.
Me
Holy shit, it does
Me
I take it we’re not using this hashtag?
Aria
I think we should. It’s funny now
Me
We should get T-shirts made
Aria
LOL Selene would love that for our PR
I’m not sure what to say next. We run out of conversation topics pretty quickly. My fingers hover over the keyboard as my brain searches for something, anything to say. She beats me to it though as she asks:
Aria
Do you like horror movies?
Me
I like them. Mostly the classics though
Aria
Which classics?
Me
Scream, Child’s Play, Nightmare On Elm Street
Me
I take it you like them?
Aria
Love them. Scream is my fav
I smile at the screen. We’re having a conversation about personal preferences. I want to continue it, but I get a phone call from Rogan. My smile falls as I debate whether or not to answer. I finally decide to suck it up and accept it. “What?” I greet, not politely.
He sighs on the other end, “Look man, I just wanna apologize for how I’ve been acting. I’m just going through a lot.”
I remind myself that he’s under the impression Aria and I are a real couple, “You went out of your way to disrespect my girlfriend and her friends.Myfriends.” I consider Ivory and Brody to be my friends now. It seemed we all got along pretty well. Brody seems to not hate me anymore after I apologized up and down today and kissed her ass. There was one point where I was fairly certain her boyfriend thought I was making a move on her and was gonna stab me, but I straightened that out. I only have eyes for one of Satan’s Angels. I’d still love to be friends with the other two though.
He pauses and answers a moment later, exhaustion in his tone, “I’m sorry. I know it was wrong of me. I guess I was just alittle jealous.”
Aria’s explanation of what happened when Nate pulled me aside to calm me down resurfaces. How Rogan made a comment about her rejecting him. “How come you never mentioned she rejected you?”
