Sneaky moves.

(ARIELLE'S POV)

I knew what I was about to do was wrong, as it went against my principles, but I couldn't help myself. My hands moved involuntarily as I typed in a password. Jared had mentioned in the car that his password was my name, right? Well, it was time to find out. I typed my name, and to my amazement, the phone unlocked. I clicked on the message box, and on Sofia's messages.

"Hey, are you done bathing?"

"Will you come keep me company after you're done?"

"Why aren't you responding? Is Arielle awake?"

"Are you ignoring me?"

"Jared!!!!"

"I can't sleep. Come down, and let's go outside and look at the stars, just like we did when we were teenagers."

"You promised me at the hospital's garden that we would stargaze, remember?"

Angrily, I muted the phone and dropped it back on the couch. How shameless can Sofia be? She should be asleep, and not texting a married man to go out at night to stargaze with her.

I returned to the bed, disturbed. Sleep had fled my eyes at this point, and all I craved was to march to Sofia's room and warn her to know her boundaries. But I thought against it, trying to gain control over my anger.

Jared returned to the room a few minutes later, and I quickly pretended to be asleep. I watched him beneath my lashes, as he walked over to his phone and picked it up. He tapped on it, and glanced at the screen for a moment. Swiftly, he turned to face me, but I still lay in pretence of being asleep.

to the couch

I didn't respond.

this time louder than before, but I

door. I watched him pause to glance at me, and after confirming I was indeed asleep,

the covers, and got off the bed. I felt tricked and angry. How could Jared? Sneaking out at night to be with Sofia, his

that wasn't the case, Jared wouldn't be okay with sneaking out at night to be with another woman. Or better yet

was seething with rage, and wanted to confront them. To seek answers because I was tired of being played and looking

head, I won't stoop to such a level. And then, an idea struck me-the balcony. I could see anything from there. If Jared and Sofia were truly headed outside to stargaze,

I opened the door

sight of the neighborhood at night took my breath away,

Jared walked out. Sofia looked beautiful in her short white

the sight. That should be me and Jared, and not the other way

they walked, I

Sofia slipped her hand into Jared's. He didn't pull away. Instead, he looked at her with a tenderness that made my heart shatter. They were supposed to be friends right? So what was

out their figures in the dim light. But I saw them sit on the trimmed grasses, and Sofia pointed to the

and yet again, he didn't refute the gesture. I felt like I'd been stabbed in the chest, looking at them so attached and fond of each

was enough for me, I

fogged with images of Jared and Sofia stargazing like lovers returned to the room, feeling bitter and alone, the images refusing

sat on the bed, trying to process what I'd just seen, but my mind was

didn't know how long I was in that position, but I was that way, when the door

bed, eyes pinned

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