Beyond the Reasons || JUSTIN FOLEY

Fourteen

"Whatever you want, it's on me." He said, and I raised an eyebrow.

"Wow. . maybe you can go from playboy Jeff to sugar daddy, Jeff, and as for the chocolate, I was only half joking about it." I teased, and he rolled his eyes, before wrapping his arm around me.

"To be your sugar daddy I'd have to be a lot more than just a year older than you, and have a lot more money." He said, and we both started to laugh even more, and when we sat down at the booth, we were greeted by our waitress, we got our drinks and put our orders in and now we wait.

"So, what's been going on?" He asked, and I raised an eyebrow.

"If you're going to ask me about Justin. . don't." I said, and Jeff put his hands up in defense, but when he started laughing, that's how I knew that was exactly what he was going to ask me about. "Why does everyone feel the need to ask me about him whenever they see me." I said.

"Have you at least talked to him?" He asked.

"He texted me last night." I said shrugging my shoulders and Jeff laid his hands out on the table in a dramatic gesture.

"Well. ." He said.

"Well, he texted me last night, that's it, we talked for a little bit." I said, and Jeff raised an eyebrow.

"Wow, so she actually spoke to him, that probably made him really happy." Jeff said, and when I started laughing, I could tell he was even more confused, and probably didn't understand what was funny. "What?" He asked.

"If me going off on him made him happy, then yeah. He was thrilled." I said.

"Well why the hell did you go off on him?" He asked, and I shrugged my shoulders, even though I knew exactly why. "Imogen!" He exclaimed.

"What? He wanted to talk and I had some things I needed to get off my chest, he heard me out and he apologized and I stopped responding." I said, and Jeff shook his head while laughing.

"Oh my gosh." He said.

"What?" I asked.

"You're such a bitch, Imogen." He said, laughing more, and I rolled my eyes, but I started laughing too, because I could tell by the tone of his voice, he found this whole thing entertaining, and I looked over at Jeff and shook my head at him, while he was at the same time shaking his head at me.

"I know, but you love me anyway." I said, smiling and he shrugged his shoulders.

"So does Justin." He said.

"Unfair." I spoke and Jeff laughed.

"I'm your objectiveness, it's why we're so close. When you're not looking at things with a clear head, I'm here to keep you level headed." He said.

"But I am looking at my situation with Justin with a clear head. I don't know if we'll be able to go back to the way we used to be, too much has happened." I said.

"Look, I'm not saying him being drunk is an excuse, but when I talked to Justin, after the party, he did try and stop Bryce, Mimi, but he was drunk too and Bryce was sober, Bryce was able to easily overpower him. I was looking for you anyway when I heard you scream, so I quickly grabbed Monty and we ran up there." He said.