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Six
BJ
Jonah is shitting himself about seeing Parks.
Shitting himself.
Texted me all morning.
She took him knowing hard. Hasn’t spoken to him since. He tried. Called her, wrote her, even flew out once.
She wouldn’t see him.
She’s a difficult person to be on thin ice with.
There’s something about Magnolia — it’s as annoying as it is fascinating — even when you fucking hate her, even when she’s being the biggest twat in the world, you want to be in her good books.
Like there’s something holy about being in her light or some shit.
Me and Jo, we’ve been cast in the shadows since last December and he’s fretting about her being at lunch.
Christian’s bar launch today — Verona. Italian summer all year round, that’s how it’s supposed to feel. Box Set, minus the two that none of us speak to anymore, plus Taura and Jordan — so are we even the Box Set still?
Jordan takes forever to get ready this morning and I know it’s because Parks will be there.
She wears some black and white collared dress she got from Balmain that I know she loves.
Feel sad she’s wearing it. Don’t know why.
Her dressing to impress some girl she’s never met because of me. It’s fucked, but I do it too. Wear a denim jacket from Balmain that I reckon Parks would fancy me in.
I hold Jordan’s hand as we arrive. Fingers interlocked. Real couple shit.
The boys look up.
“Ey,” Jonah smiles, kisses Jordan on the check, smacks me on the arm, hugs me as he whispers, “she’s not here yet.”
Don’t know if he’s whispering it for me or for him.
I roll my eyes at him, then look from him to Henry.
“Where’s Taurs?”
Never know who to ask. Pretty high stress situation these days — both Henry and Jo act like it’s not, but it is. They’re both sleeping with her. They both like (more than like, in my opinion) her. And she likes both of them. It’s a fucking mess.
Most of that mess is under the surface, lurking. Pops out when one of them gets shitfaced or she overtly favours one over the other in public, but she tries her best not to.
“She’s coming with Parks,” Henry tells me.
“Did you say Parks is here?” Jonah whips his head around, looking for her like a fucking maniac.
“Calm down, man.” I give him a look.
He rolls his eyes, continues freaking the fuck out.
I frown at him. “What’s the matter with you?”
Don’t know why I say that — I know what’s the matter with him.
