“Read out the text messages that you sent Elio while you were cheating on me,”
The dare from, of course, Ricky, was one that caught the attention and amusement of a few surrounding them. Her eyes fell on the smug look on his face, and for a moment she was silent. For a moment, she looked stumped, that she couldn’t complete it. Like she had been caught out. Except she hadn’t. She pulled out her phone, onto her chats with Elio, scrolling back to the only conversation they had while Lenora and Ricky were together. Though she didn’t really need to, she knew how it went.
“‘It was really nice to meet you,’ He says, March 2038,” Lenora reads, putting the phone down and meeting eyes with Ricky, while asking, “And what did I say back, Elio?” She called over, knowing he knew that conversation just as well as her, but not looking in his direction. “Uh, you said, ‘Yeah, you too,’” Lenora gave a small gasp, eyes still locked on the darer, “Now that is scandalous,” She commented quietly, “Then he said, ‘I would love to hang out with you sometime’ ‘On a date or something’. And Elio tell me what disloyal response I gave,” Lenora requested once again. She could hear Elio clearing his throat from across the room, “‘That’s really sweet but no, I have a boyfriend.’”
Lenora held her phone up, scrolling through the chat. “Then nothing else. Until October 2038,”