[Mikayla/Closed] Letting You Fool Me

[Chace Jameson Matthews]

‘ Hey man, there he is’ one of Chace’s friends said, tilting his head to gesture across the living room. The house was packed and it felt like people were crammed in together like sardines. Then again, parties always sort of ended up this way. He brought his beer to his lips , keeping his eyes on Tyler walking through the room before he reached into his back pocket and took his phone out. Might as well talk to one of his best friends in the world, and seeing as how Joel was friends with Tyler , Chace knew better than to drag him in it. Which left Jake, but those two guys were the ones he was closest to anyways. After sending him a text he slid his phone into his back pocket, holding onto his beer loosely as he started to make his way over to him. It just looked more awkward if he didn’t. It was his girlfriends best friend, people expected them to all be chummy and sing koom-ba-yah and shit right? However before he could even make it across the room to him, he saw his girlfriend making her way past him, headed straight for…of course. “ Yo … Kayla!” he yelled out over the music and sighed, having to yell her name again before she turned around. What was she carrying a small video camera for. ‘….Mikayla, hey babe’ she said before looking over her shoulder at Tyler and then smiling back at him. Chace licked his lips, giving his head a slight shake. Couldn’t they at least try to cover up the fact that they were having an affair? But here was the thing… Chace couldn’t leave her. He genuinely wanted to make this girl happy, for her to give him an honest to god shot. “ Where’ve you been, I’ve been looking all over for you” he said before stepping closer to her. He gave a slight smirk as her eyes widened and she started to talk excitedly. ‘ Okay so I’m doing this audition for Pretty Woman and then low and behold I’m talking in the waiting room and it turns out there’s this off-Broadway thing going on with Beauty and the Beast. And seeing as how I love love love that movie.. I mean I can make such a personal connection to being stuck in what you feel is a provincial town when you know you’re made for so much more..” she said rambling off. Provincial town? She was dating an actor. And trying to get on Broadway. He narrowed his eyebrows as he listened to her, she was so obsessed. Oh, shit, what was she saying, he’d missed some of it. “ Isn’t that great?!?” she asked with excitement, holding up an envelope that she hadn’t opened yet.

“ Um..” Chace said, fuck.. what had she said? What was he going to agree to? But she looked so happy. Chace smiled hesitantly before nodding and decided, yes.. yes in fact it did sound awesome. “Of course it’s great! I’m.. proud?” he said with slight confusion. “ Don’t be proud yet, it’s just an envelope. I haven’t opened it yet” she said before looking back down on it. But Chace knew better. Since when had this girl not gotten what she wanted. He shook his head with a slight laugh before he brought his hand to the side of her jaw and leaned down to kiss her. See in moments like this he felt like she actually cared, the way she wrapped her arm around his shoulder and leaned in to his body, clearly just as happy to kiss him as he was to kiss her. But then it didn’t take long to snap back into reality. He felt her hand against his chest and a slight shove away. “ There he is!” she yelled out, making her way past Chace and on a one woman path towards Tyler. “ Are you fucking kidding me?!” Chace yelled out over the music, watching her walk away and towards her ‘best friend’. Chace clenched his jaw tightly before licking his lips. What did he have to do to get that girl to love him. He looked over as Tyler waved to him and gave a small nod of his head before lifting his beer in a gesture to greet him back. Yeah. Friends. Whatever, dude. Chace could play dumb and nice, he’d done it on Wizards of Waverly Place hadn’t he? And there was certainly an affair happening on that set, it just didn’t happen to effect him at the time. ‘ Bro… what the actual fuuucck’ one of his friends said drunkenly, wrapping his arm over Chace’s shoulders as he pointed towards Tyler and Kayla. ‘ That guy gets more action from your girlfriend than you do.. what’s up with that?” he asked and Chace just smirked and shook his head, trying to sound indifferent. “ She’s going off about some Broadway bullshit right now..” he said tersely as he watched them, “ I’ll get her later when they’re done ‘talking’ so she and I can get some studying in for her part as a hooker” he lied to his friend, trying to make it sound like their relationship was different than it actually was. What else was he supposed to do. He was hurt, and in love with the girl who was so clearly taken with someone else. The last thing he could try to save was the way his friends viewed him. “ Whatever man let’s get fucked up,” he said before turning away and heading back to the kitchen to get something else to drink.

[Mikayla Laurel Garrity]

“ Ty!” Kayla shouted out excitedly after she made her way away from Chace. He just wasn’t as excited about Broadway stuff as Tyler was. But she couldn’t really blame him, he had other things going on in his life. It was just that Kayla and Tyler had supported each other through every big development. Learning how to swim without floaties, taking training wheels off bikes, going to drivers ed. “ Oh I’m sorry, you were on your way to do something…” Kayla said with a pointed smile at a girl that was talking to Tyler. After she left Kayla placed on her bright smile again and turned to look at him. She’d brought her video camera with her but that was just because she was hoping that eventually Tyler would get up and do some singing for people since it was a party, and she tried to get as many moments of that type of stuff as possible. She needed different shots for a couple of videos she was putting together to send in as applications for him. So far she had him practicing in the garage with his band, them skateboarding, out at the beach, in the hallways, sitting in a classroom with pencils up his nose, playing pencils against the lunch table like they were drumsticks. If she could somehow convince him to get up and sing to a crowd of people, it would kind of look like a music video. Not to mention the fact that she wanted to get some footage of him hanging around her house and pool this weekend. “ Guess what!” she said, holding the envelope up to him. She didn’t have to explain as much to him, he already knew more than Chace did. The Pretty Woman auditions, the fact that she had heard about Beauty and the Beast, how it led her to the offices to find out about a script, where she learned about the internship program that Broadway was offering.

“ It’s here, It’s already here! I haven’t opened it yet,” she said, holding up the envelope that remained perfectly crisp. She was sort of too scared to. Did she get the internship on Broadway, did they tell her that the spot had already been filled. Kayla took in a deep breath and sighed before holding out the envelope to Ty. “ You do it..” she said, letting him take the envelope from her. Usually she was never this late to parties. But once she had gotten home from dinner her mom remembered about the envelope and gave it to her, not knowing that Kayla had applied. Kayla didn’t want to tell her parents and then have them be disappointed when she didn’t get it and then tell her all the things she could have done differently. After that it had taken forever to find her video camera, and finally she was here. “ Just do it.. quick” she said, tightening her eyes in fright before she took in a deep breath and sighed, giving a small nod to Tyler. She watched as his hands started to open the envelope. If it was his he would have ripped into it without care, but he probably knew if it held good news she would want to save it and scrapbook it or something, so it seemed he was being delicate. She licked her lips, watching him as he unfolded the paper and started to read aloud. But he stopped, looking up at her with a bright smile. “ Kayla!” he yelled at her with a mixture of excitement and being proud. “We got in!” he said before leaning down and hugging her. She did it? Kayla felt like the wind had been knocked out of her and it took a moment for her to reach up and pat her hand against her back. She got it? She got the internship? “ Oh my god” she said slightly out of breath because she was starting to feel like this wasn’t her real life. Finally she wrapped her arms around him tightly and jumped excitedly. But it felt like her celebration was short lived because almost magically Tyler’s girlfriend was at their side. “ Oh hi Kayla.. Chace is in the kitchen drinking. Hey babe” she said with a smile to Tyler. Kayla licked her lips, lowering her arms from Tyler as she looked over at Jessica, “ It’s Mikayla..” she said with a curt smile. “ Drinks sounds good…” she said, clearly missing the hint to make her way over to the kitchen. Whatever, Jess. She just didn’t have the same authoritative tone that Kayla did when she was talking to people. “ Hey , you got tequila shots?” she yelled at someone as they passed by. After they gave her a nod and started to head towards the kitchen, Kayla smiled again at Tyler. “ Celebrate” she said before bouncing her shoulders and looking over her shoulder to see if they were coming back anytime soon.

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