Ben kept silent for a moment before he finally murmured, "Well, back in high school, you weren’t as pretty as Luna Gibson..."
"You're wrong. In my opinion, Gwen was adorable back in high school.” Luna crossed her arms at her chest. "Besides, even if she wasn't as pretty as Luna Gibson, you didn't have to lie about it."
Gwen was enraged by the sudden turn of events. She dragged her husband out of the room, and the both of them started arguing in the hallway. The door slammed shut with only Luna and Andy inside the room.
"Mr. Larson," Luna smirked. "If you want me to not make a big deal out of this and not leak this incident t o the press, I can do so, but I have one condition."
Andy paused. "What condition?"
Gwen's angry voice grew louder by the minute. "Why didn’t you tell me you used to like Luna Gibson? Luna even tried to convince me to give up on you. We even got into a fight because of this! It’s only now that I finally realize the truth: she wanted me to give up on you because she didn't want me to get my heart broken! You pretended like you were interested in me when, in reality, you tried to get to her!"
All the noise and commotion that happened in the hallway slipped through the crack underneath the door and into Alice and Joshua’s room. At that moment, they sat across from each other on the couch as they ate the food Lucas had bought for them.
Hearing the argument coming from outside, Joshua smirked and glanced at Alice. "Don’t you want to see what's going on?"
Joshua thought she would want to check on the fighting couple since she was their topic of discussion. However, Alice’s face was pale. She lowered her head and concentrated on eating. She pursed her lips and said, "I don't want to make the whole situation even more complicated."
In truth, she did not want to check on them because she did not want to have anything to do with Luna’s friends. She feared she would expose herself. Since she had no idea what had happened in Luna's nor Gwen’s past, she did not want to mediate the couple's fight and risk letting Joshua realize something was wrong.
Alice continued eating with her head down while she silently prayed for the two people arguing outside to leave.
So many years have passed since high school. Why were they arguing about those things, and right outside her door, no less?
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