The Girl Code

Chapter five

At home, I locked myself in my room and refused to come out for days. I ignored Cade's phone calls and refused to speak to anyone. Mom kept beging me to at least talk to Cade, but I refused to. After everything, I deserved to be alone forever.

"Sweetie, it was very wrong of you hiding something like that to Sage, but I don't blame you for just trying not to hurt her feelings." said mom.

"But I did either ways, I'm a horrible person mom, now Sage will never talk to me ever again."

"Baby girl, no storm stays forever. I'm sure Sage will come around."

Mom hugged me, and it made me feel better. For the first time, mom put me as her number one priority other than work. She took me shopping, cooked me my favorite food, and she even told me more about Dad. He was really caring, it made me think of Cade, but I still refused to answer his calls, and I had not heard a single thing about Sage. I missed her.

Thankfully, Ket and the others heard what had happened and came to my rescue. Mom prepared really delicious food for us and I don't remember eating so much in my life. But the more I tried to be happy, the more I thought of Cade and Sage.

"Have you guys been in touch with Sage much?" I asked.

"Oh, you didn't hear?" asked Ket.

"What?"

"Sage got transferred to a different school and she'll be leaving the city in the next few days."

My heart sunk, I felt like I was in between time. Everything felt like day one of our argument.

"Oh, no one told me that." I tried to hide tears that had already been seen, I couldn't just stay strong and cry after the girls had left. It's not my fault I'm so emotional. They all hugged me and comforted me.

I decided to free my mind from those issues and concentrate more on my studies, and the girls were stuck to me like glue, supported me in every decision I made, except the bad ones like quitting drama club. And my mom also became very supportive. It was nice having all of them by my side.

Then one day, I heard a knock outside while I was busy working on a very important assignment that I had to present the following day infront of the entire class. I opened the door and was stunned to see her there. It was Sage, her blue eyes constantly meeting mine. Then she hugged me so tight that I could hardly breathe. We sat in my room and had our bestie make up talk finally.

"I said lots of stuff I didn't mean back then, I'm sorry." I apologized.

"Me too. I guess I was a little jealous of you, but that's no excuse." said Sage.

"Let's just agree to be honest with each other from now on, okay?"

"And what about him?"

"I don't know. I think I need some time to figure out how I feel."

Of course I knew how I felt, but I knew how hard it was going to be for Sage seeing me and Cade together, so I had to keep my distance from Cade, even though I didn't want to.

"I love you, Wanda." said Sage, tears streaming down her face.

"I love you too, Sage." I said,a small smile on my face.

Then after a few days, Sage and I were inseparable, went shopping together, for a movie, ice cream, and exchanged sleepovers. I had my best friend back, but something still didn't seem right. Cade, the thought of him pierced me like a sword in my stomach. I had not heard from him for weeks, and it was killing me. I tried to hide it from Sage, but soon after, she started to notice. She was my best friend, but Cade was something more, how was I supposed to change that?

Then after one evening, Sage and I were studying in the library. It was then that I decided to open up to Sage,if being in love with Cade meant the end of our friendship,then so be it.

"Have you been in touch with Cade lately?" I asked.

"No. Why would I when he's the main reason our friendship almost collapsed?Wanda,we can't risk being in contact with such people." said Sage.

"I... I haven't talked to him since that day, and I.... well, I miss him."

"Oh, I didn't realize that. Why didn't you tell me?"

"You weren't actually supposed to know."

Sage turned away from me, facing the wall where pictures had been displayed.

She took a deep breath and finally asked, "Do you still love him?"

"I never stopped loving him, Sage. Look, you are my best friend, but that doesn't mean you get to chose who I should and shouldn't love, it shouldn't be like that, okay?"

The words hung in the air and Sage finally turned to me, her face with different emotions.

"You are right. You see, being friends with Cade made me realize that he has everything I have but not you, and I just wasn't ready to share you with anyone. I'm sorry if I was too much."

"Oh Sage, sharing love isn't losing love. You will always be my best friend no matter who I meet in life."

"I know. And about Cade, you are right, you two deserve each other."

"But Sage..."

"He looks at you in a way I've always wished he looked at me. He's so lucky to have you."

"Oh Sage." I gave her a huge hug and raced out of the Library to find Cade.

When I got to his place, I could feel my heart race really quickly. And there he was, Cade. I threw my hands around him and he rewarded me with a kiss.

I was surprised he was still interested in me after the way I treated him.

"You understand me better than anyone else, I can't leave you because your best friend's a psycho. I swear if I wasn't trying so hard to get into my dad's good books for that private jet I want, I would have kidnapped Sage and shipped her off to Hawaii." he said.

"Oh, my God!" tears rolled down my cheeks.

"okay, I won't ship her off to Hawaii, please don't cry."

"That's not why I'm crying, dummy. I just realized I'm in love with you."

"I love you, too."

Cade pulled me closer, and then he kissed me.

Soon after, Cade and I drew even closer,we went to the craziest parties, fancy night clubs, and the most exclusive restaurants where I met different people, each one richer than the next. I was having the time of my life. Each day spent with Cade was like reading a new favorite book.

He even booked an entire amusement park for me and invited Sage and the girls along. We were stuffing our faces with hotdogs, laughing, and chatting. I was totally living the dream. What was there to actually go so wrong.

Soon after,we graduated high school and all went to different universities. Well, except Sage and I,we decided to go together in Paris and studied together while Cade left to study in Miami with his friends. Little did we know that our lives were about to take an unexpected turn that completely left all of us shattered.