"Wait you what!" Nailea exclaims hopping off of my bed. We're at my house and I'm explaining to her the whole situation with Josh.

"Josh and I almost kissed." I repeat. "How- why?" She asks.

"I don't know ok!" I say. "One second I was meeting his 'girlfriend' or whatever the next we were in the pool about to kiss after she was sort of mean to me." I explain.

"Wait so she's sus?" Nai asks. "What- no, she's not, at least I don't think so." I say.

"I mean I just met the girl but Josh says she's always finding reasons to cut their hang outs short and leave but I'm not trying to be all up in their business especially after what happened yesterday." I tell her.

"Ok I think we just need to take a step back and evaluate ourselves." She says sitting back on the bed.

"Ourselves? What's up with you?" I ask, confusion visible on my face.

"I think I like Vinnie." She tells me. I give her a bored look and she raises her eyebrows.

"Well duh, that was kind of obvious." I say. "What!" She exclaims.

"It's so obvious you guys like each other, you two aren't slick." I laugh. "Well you and Josh are really selling it with yours too." She says sarcastically.

It's my turn to raise my eyebrows at her. "What? Me and Josh don't like each other." I deny.

"Well that little almost pool kiss says otherwise, plus we all see the way you guys look and each other and how you guys act with each other. It's obvious." She says.

"Well you seemed pretty surprised when I told you earlier." I say. "Yeah well I was just waiting for you to come and tell me." She laughs.

"Ok so we both like boys and we don't know what to do?" She questions.

"Uh no, you like a boy and I almost made a mistake with one." I correct her. She rolls her eyes at me flopping down on her back.

"Yeah ok." She says.

I'm in my bedroom at the sway house watching tv when I hear a knock on my door.

"It's open!" I call out, letting them know to come in. I didn't expect to see Hannah coming into my room and closing the door.

"Oh hey." I say sitting up on my bed. "Hey I just wanted to come and talk to you and say sorry for how I kind of snapped on you yesterday when I was leaving." She says sitting down on my bed.

"Oh no you're totally fine, you had whatever you had going on and I'm totally over it." I say.

She nods her head smiling. "So you want to come downstairs and hang out, Josh and Bryce are doing something dumb so I'm kind of left alone." She says.

"Sure." I say getting up and following her downstairs.

We get downstairs and sit in the living room watching tv and talking.

"What's up y'all?" Nailea comes into the room and sits on the couch beside me, throwing her legs over my lap.

"Oh nothing, just talking." Hannah says. She nods her head grabbing the remote and scrolling through Disney +.

"Princess and the Frog?" She asks, about to turn on the movie.

"Oh yesss." We hear a voice. We look behind us and see Bryce, Josh and Blake walking into the living room.

I see Josh and he smiles at me but I avoid eye contact. I'm still feeling weird about what happened. Sue me.

He flops down next to Hannah and kisses the side of her head and she leans into him.

"I don't really like this movie." Hannah says when Nailea is about to put it on.

We all avert our attention to her, confused. "What why?" Josh asks her.

She looks around at us before sighing. "Well I don't know, it's like Disney always makes the people of color the hard workers. Like why couldn't Snow White be hard working and Cinderella?" She says.

We all look at her with wide eyes. "What?" Nailea asks.

"I don't know it just doesn't sit right with me." She says shrugging.

There is an uncomfortable silence for a couple of seconds before Bryce speaks up. "Well this is my house and I don't really care so turn on the movie so I can recite Dr. Facilier's song." He says.

I look away from Hannah and look over to Nailea who is already looking at me. I give her a "what was that?" look and she just shrugs and turns the movie on.

We all enjoyed the movie but every now and then I would hear Hannah huff or sigh in my ear, making it clear she didn't want to be here.

She huffed again and this time I snapped my head over to her. "Hey, if you don't like the movie you can just leave or go do something else but if you could stop huffing in my ear I would appreciate it." I say in a bit of a rude tone, not really meaning for it to sound that way.

Hannah gives me a surprised look and everyone looks towards me. "What?" I ask.

"J can I talk to you?" Josh says out of nowhere. I look at him and he has his eyes on me.

He stands up, his eyes not leaving mine. He gives me a "just come on" look and I look at him for a second more before sighing and getting up off of the couch.

He walks off to the kitchen and I follow him, not missing how Nailea gives me a low high five.

I make it to the kitchen and Josh turns around and looks at me. "Whats up?" I ask him.

"What was that about?" He asks me back. "I was simply asking her to stop being so pressed about a movie that she had no valid reason to not like." I explain. "Plus her pick me noises were irritating me." I say rolling my eyes.

I catch Josh crack a smile then it quickly diminishes. "Look I just want you guys to get along." He says.

"It's not my fault she was being blatantly racist in my face. Who uses 'because Disney makes the people of color the hard workers" an excuse to not like a movie?" I ask rhetorically.

"I know and I don't know why she said that because she's never like that and I'll talk to her about it but I just think she feels threatened." He says.

"By what!" I exclaim. Josh shushes me and I roll my eyes.

"I think it's because we're so close." He points between the two of us. "She's kind of the jealous type but I didn't think she was like that." He explains.

"That doesn't give her an excuse to be racist Josh, I thought she was cool but you better get her before she says the wrong thing and I go off." I say getting a little riled up.

"Hey, hey." He says grabbing both sides of my face to stop me. "I'll talk to her ok." He assured me.

He pulls me into his body and wraps his arms around my neck, hugging me. I wrap my arms around his waist and hug him back.

"Are we good J?" He asks in my hair. I knew when he asked this he wasn't just talking about Hannah.

I stay in his arms for a little longer before I answer. "Yeah Josh, we're good." I assure him.

He pulls away and gives me a smile. I give him one back and he flicks my forehead.

"Hey what was that for?" I say rubbing the spot where he flicked me. "For tricking me in the pool yesterday." He says.

I roll my eyes and wave him off. "Oh you deserved it, you were the one that pushed me in." I laugh.

"Hey are y'all good?" We hear a voice.

We look behind me and Hannah is standing in the doorway looking at us. "Yeah babe we're good." Josh says his laughter calming.

"Come on, they're going to finish the movie." She says.

I look back at Josh and he's already looking at me. "Come on idiot let's go." I say dragging him back into the living room.

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