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.

pajamas and returned to the couch to pick up his phone. He glanced

I didn't respond.

time louder

and after

the moment Jared left. I threw off the covers, and got off the bed. I felt tricked and angry. How could Jared? Sneaking out at night to be with Sofia, his supposed "best friend." Now,

out at night to be with another woman. Or better yet still, he should have informed him if nothing was wrong with

was tired of being played and looking like a fool. But then, I couldn't. Not yet. I needed to

level. And then, an idea struck me-the balcony. I could see anything from there. If Jared and Sofia were truly headed outside to

the door that

sight of the neighborhood at night took my breath away, but I reminded myself that I

and just then, Sofia and Jared walked out. Sofia looked beautiful in her

jolt of jealousy at the sight. That should

I

Jared's. He didn't pull away. Instead, he looked at her with a tenderness that made my heart shatter. They were

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

again, he didn't refute the gesture. I

for

from the balcony, my mind fogged with images of Jared and Sofia stargazing like lovers returned to the room, feeling bitter and alone,

bed, trying to process what I'd just seen, but my mind was a mess

the bed, staring into space. I didn't know how long I was in that position, but I was that way, when the door creaked

seated on the bed, eyes pinned on him. The

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