X e n a
I woke up to something licking my face, I groan and cover my face and open my eyes. What is that?
I open my eyes to see Apollo sitting on my stomach and staring at me with his cute puppy dog eyes.
Right. I have to get used to getting a dog and dealing with all his cuteness.
“Why do you have to be so fucking cutee!?” I ask and scratch behind his ears.
I look at the time to see it was currently 6:30 am on a Tuesday.
I quickly took a shower and changed into some sweats and one of Archers hoodie. Apollo patiently waiting for me.
Once I was ready I walked down the stairs Apollo’s following right behind me.
I filled up his food tray with food and water and I ate some cereal. It was still really early so dad wasn’t up yet.
After around 15 minutes dad walks down and Apollo gets excited to see someone new. He start barking and dad just laughs.
“You’re up early today” dad says and start making himself coffee in the coffee maker. Apollo’s walks up and sits near my feet so I picked him up and placed him on my lap.
“Yeah, Apollo woke me up” I say while I was petting him.
“You might have to get used to that then” dad laughs and places his hot coffee on the island counter. It was currently 7:20.
I decided that I wanted to go to school early today. We didn’t want to leave Apollo alone right now since he was still really small. And since our neighbours had a dog too they agreed to take cars of him till I came back from school.
After I dropped Apollo off at our really kind neighbours house, I walked to my car and drove to school.
15 minutes later I reached the school. I got out of my car and walked into the school building.
I saw Archer, Brie, Cam, Felix and Owen talking. I walk up to them and they were talking about something.
“We have to ask Xena if she’s okay with it. Especially since what happened last time” Felix says.
“If I’m okay with what?” I ask while I walk up to them.
“Oh umm” Archer says.
“There’s another party that’s going to happen. But we don’t need to go if you’re not okay with it, cause last time—” Cam starts, but I cut her off.
“I don’t really mind going. We haven’t gone to one in a long time anyways. Plus I won’t be drinking so it’s good. I don’t mind” I shrug, Archers arm automatically draping over my shoulders like usual.
“Are you sure?” Brie asks.
“Yes guys, it’ll be fine. I won’t be drinking” I laugh and shake my head.
“Oh alright. Well it’s this Saturday, tell us if you change your mind any time during this week though” Owen states.
“I won’t be changing my mind” I shake my head with a laugh.
“Alright, we’re just making sure” Archer says and kisses the temple of my forehead.
“Let’s head to class” I say and all of us agree and we all separated to our own classes.
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It was currently lunch time and we were all eating lunch. Archer looked a bit annoyed and frustrated while he was doing something on his phone.
“You okay?” I ask him quietly while Owen, Felix, Brie and Cam were arguing about something.
“No. No I’m not. I just-I. Ugh never mind” Archer says and stands up and walks out of the cafeteria.
I sat there in shock for a bit, Owen, Felix, Brie and Cam were quiet for a bit before I stood up as well and said I’ll be back.
I quickly ran out of the cafeteria and I saw Archer leaning against a locker furiously typing on his phone.
“Archer? Babe?” I ask careful walking up to him. He looked pretty pissed.
“Yeah. Um. Sorry about what I did back there, I’m just a bit angry right now” Archer says and shakes his head; his jaw clenches.
“Are you okay? Can I help?” I ask and push a lock of his curly hair out of his face.
“It’s just—Vera wouldn’t fucking stop. It’s getting annoying. I-I just—” Archer says and shakes his head.
“What’s she doing?” I ask him calmly when in reality I just wanted to kick that girl in her ass till she has to take a shit through her mouth. I hate her. Hope that she burns in hell.
“She won’t stop texting me and she keeps fucking claiming that she’s pregnant with my baby. I haven’t ever had sex with her” Archer shakes his head stressfully.
“That bitch” I mutter quietly and then turn back to Archer.
“Just block her. Gosh, she’s a fucking annoying hag” I shake my head.
Archer cracks a smile and tells me he blocked her and threatened her if she kept saying the baby is his.
We walk back to the cafeteria and Owen asks in everything was good and Archer explains to them about what happened.
I saw Vera from across my cafeteria, she was shameless checking my man out. I flipped her off and glared at her but she only rolled her eyes and looked back at her soulmate. What’s his name again? The weed guy. Brad. Right. Perv.
I rolled my eyes at him and turned back to my table.
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3 days later.
It was currently Saturday and I was just cuddling with Apollo. He’s become way more playful and he now knows all the rooms in the house. He’s still the same small furry puppy.
“I’m going to miss you soo much. I’ll be back at night though. So you might have to sleep on your own for a few hours. I’m sorry” I pout and talk childishly to Apollo. I know he understands what I’m saying cause he had his paw on top of my hand and he he was whining.
“Awe, the cutest bean” I smile and kiss his nose.
It was currently 8:30 and I was already ready. I was just wearing a black tank top and some shorts. My hair was straightened.
The door bell rung and I walked down the stairs. Apollo ran down the stairs and started barking at the door. His bark was very squeaky since he was still a pup.
“Ahhhh. I hear him! I hear him. He’s behind this door” I hear Brie shrieking from the other side of the door. She then start to impatiently knock on the door continuously.
“Chill!” I say and open the door. Brie screams and kneels down on the floor for Apollo to rest his paws on her thighs and he start to smell her before he starts licking her hand.
“He’s so cute!” Cam says walking in as well. They were all ready. And right behind Cam was Owen, Felix and Archer.
“What the fuck! I never knew he was going to be this cute?!” Owen says and pushes Brie away so that he could pick up Apollo. Apollo just snuggles in Owens arms and he gives Brie a smug look.
“Hey! Don’t push her” Felix laughs and stands beside Brie.
“Can I hold him? Please!” Cam says and reaches out and picks up Apollo out of Owens arms.
“Archer this is actually the best decision you’ve ever made in your entire life” Owen says and start laughing
“Whatever” Archer rolls his eyes with a smirk on his face before he kisses my forehead.
“Ready to go?” Archer ask everyone.
“Please, just a few more minutes” Cam says and hugs Apollo’s who is resting his head on her shoulder.
“You can come later and meet him again” I says
“Dad! I’m leaving!” I yell so dad could hear me.
“Bye sweetie! Stay safe!” Dad says and we all walk out the door. Apollo stared at us until we closed the door shut.
“He’s so cute!” Brie says and starts to walk to Felix’s car.
We all get into our partners car and we drive to the house the party was taking place in.
Around a 20 minute drive later we reached the house. It was already packed with drunk teenagers dancing around. There were some littered in the front yard, some hanging near the pool.
We all walked to the front door and opened it. I took a deep breath and entered the house. And like I expected it was packed with drunk and high teens.
Here goes nothing.
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I wasn’t drinking and neither was Felix, Owen or Archer. Brie and Cam decided to get extremely drunk and were currently dancing. Actually to be fair, they weren’t really dancing, they were vibrating to the music. Almost like they were having a seizure.
“I’m going to get some water. You want some too?” Archer asks getting up from the sofa we were all sitting on.
“Yes please” I nod my head
Archer said he’ll be right back and walks over to the kitchen. I just continued to look at Brie and Cam dancing like maniacs.
Around 20 minutes later Archer wasn’t back so I decided to go to the kitchen to see what’s wrong.
I walk into the kitchen and I stop dead in my track. Right in-front of me I see Vera and Archer kissing. Not even a second later I turn back around and go to the living room again.
I tap on Owens shoulder and he tuned and looks at me with a questioning look.
“Are you okay? You look like you’re about to cry” He asks
“Can you drop me home real quick? I don’t feel good” I ask holding in my tears.
“Where’s Archer? Isn’t he the one you came here with?” Owen questions
“I don’t really want to talk to him right now, can you just please drop me home?” I ask again. There was a lump in my throat, I felt like crying but I was holding it in.
“Yeah, sure. Felix, please keep an eye on Cam and Brie. I’m dropping Xena off” Owen says and looks around.
“Where’s Archer?” He asks me.
“I don’t know, ask Vera” I state and start walking to the door.
“Uh, what’s wrong? There’s clearly something wrong” Owen ask as we reach his car.
“It’s nothing” I shake my head and got into the passenger side.
“Alright then” Owen says and gets into the drivers side. There was peaceful silence in the car until Owen parks his car near my house.
“Xena. I can clearly tell something is wrong, but if you’re not ready to tell anyone, that’s okay. I’m just going to say sorry, just incase” Owen grins
“It’s not your fault. Thanks for dropping me home” I smile and walk to my door.
I entered my house and up to my room, Apollo was sitting on the bed almost asleep but once he saw me he stood straight and started wagging his tail.
“Aw, you never seem to not make me obsess over you” I say. I sat on my bed and he instantly came and licked my face. By then I was already crying and he stared at my face and shoved his face in the crook on my neck.
I was sobbing at this point. You know when you cry so much that you can’t really breath and your head start hurting? That’s what was happening right now.
I didn’t really want to believe what I saw. But I did see it. I was Vera and Archer kissing. It wasn’t making out but it was still a kiss. I didn’t stay long, I stayed for a few seconds just to see them start kissing. I never really knew Archer would ever do this, but I guess I was wrong.
I changed back into my pjs and I layed in bed. I looked at the time and it was 10:30. Right as I was about to drift into sleep my phone dinged indicating I got a message.
I looked at my phone and I felt my heart break all over again.
Archer: Xena? Why did you go home? Are you feeling okay? Owen said that you wanted to go home cause you weren’t feeling good?
So he’s just going to act like he didn’t just kiss Vera?
Me: stop acting like you actually care, Archer.
I shut my phone after I replied and it dinged multiple times but I left it. I don’t want his pathetic reasonings.
I started crying once again. Apollo was still snuggled close to me. He kind of reminds me of Archer too. But Apollo is too cute to be hated on.
I never really thought I would ever say this but… after sometime I cried myself to sleep.
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