She said loser of the last hand never comes to poker night again. I dealt for three years... #shorts — Transcript

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1. 0:00My pygmy friend constantly puts me down
2. 0:01in front of my boyfriend while
3. 0:02pretending she was just one of the guys.
4. 0:03I made her realize that she picked the
5. 0:05wrong target. Kenzie called shotgun in
6. 0:06my boyfriend's car every single time.
7. 0:07Best friend rules, sorry sweetie. She'd
8. 0:09been Caleb's best friend since third
9. 0:10grade and she never let me forget it.
10. 0:11She'd crash our date nights because
11. 0:13Caleb needed a break from all the couple
12. 0:14stuff. She'd chug a beer, crush the can
13. 0:16on her forehead, and tell everyone she
14. 0:17wasn't like other girls who needed a
15. 0:18salad and a selfie. She'd even answer
16. 0:20his phone when I called. He's busy,
17. 0:21sweetie. Guy stuff. When I teared up at
18. 0:23a sad movie once, she told Caleb he was
19. 0:25lucky he had at least one girl in his
20. 0:26life who didn't cry about everything.
21. 0:27Guys hate drama. When I asked why she
22. 0:29always had to sit between us, she
23. 0:30twisted her little gold necklace and
24. 0:32laughed. "I'm not jealous of you. I'm
25. 0:33one of the guys." Every Friday she
26. 0:35hosted poker night for Caleb and the
27. 0:36guys. No girlfriends allowed. "You'd cry
28. 0:38the second you lost five bucks." She
29. 0:39loved telling everyone I'd been a casino
30. 0:41cocktail waitress in college like it was
31. 0:42a punchline. I never corrected her. Not
32. 0:44even Caleb knew what I really did there.
33. 0:45Then Caleb lost a bet to her and she
34. 0:47made him skip my sister's graduation
35. 0:48dinner to help her move a couch. "A
36. 0:49bet's a bet," she said, smiling right at
37. 0:51me. And Caleb actually did it. When I
38. 0:52told him how much that hurt, he sighed.
39. 0:54"She's like my sister. She's harmless."
40. 0:55So I swallowed every comment because
41. 0:57reacting only made me look like the
42. 0:58dramatic girlfriend she kept describing.
43. 1:00When I finally told Kenzie to back off,
44. 1:01she laughed in my face. "Girls like you
45. 1:03always make guys choose. That's why they
46. 1:04end up with girls like me." Two weeks
47. 1:05before Caleb's birthday, Kenzie called
48. 1:07me at 1:00 a.m. I didn't pick up, so it
49. 1:08went to voicemail. All four minutes of
50. 1:09it. A pocket dial from a loud bar, but
51. 1:11her voice was crystal clear. "At his
52. 1:12birthday, I'll push her until she cries
53. 1:14in front of everyone. Caleb hates drama.
54. 1:15He'll dump her by Monday and guess
55. 1:16who'll be right there." Her friend asked
56. 1:18if she was serious and Kenzie just
57. 1:19laughed. "I'm one of the guys. They
58. 1:20never see it coming." I didn't cry. I
59. 1:22saved that voicemail to my phone, my
60. 1:23laptop, and my email. But she just
61. 1:24called it a drunk joke and Caleb had
62. 1:26known her for 15 years. I needed the
63. 1:27guys to watch her lie first and I knew
64. 1:29exactly where people lie the most. That
65. 1:31Thursday, I texted the group chat asking
66. 1:33if someone could teach me poker. "Wait,
67. 1:34does a flush beat a straight?" Kenzie
68. 1:36replied in under a minute. "Come
69. 1:37tomorrow. I'll teach you myself. Loser
70. 1:38of the last hand never comes to poker
71. 1:40night again." Six laughing emojis from
72. 1:42the guys. I typed back one word. "Deal."
73. 1:44Friday, I lost the first few hands on
74. 1:45purpose, asked dumb questions, and
75. 1:47knocked chips off the table. Kenzie
76. 1:48narrated every mistake to the guys like
77. 1:49a sports announcer. And by midnight, her
78. 1:51stack was huge. On the last hand, she
79. 1:53shoved everything into the middle. "All
80. 1:54in. Go ahead and cry, sweetie." Her
81. 1:56fingers went straight to that little
82. 1:57gold necklace. I had a pair of fives,
83. 1:58barely anything. Call. She flipped a
84. 2:00seven and a two, the worst hand in
85. 2:01poker, not even a pair. The room went
86. 2:03dead silent. "Who taught you to play
87. 2:04like that?" she whispered. "I wasn't a
88. 2:05cocktail waitress, Kenzie. I dealt poker
89. 2:07for 3 years. Paid for college reading
90. 2:08people like you. You twist that necklace
91. 2:10every time you lie. You did it the day
92. 2:11you swore you weren't jealous of me."
93. 2:13Her face went red. "Okay." The bet was
94. 2:14obviously a joke. Caleb's buddy Theo
95. 2:16didn't even look up. "A bet's a bet,
96. 2:17Kenz. Your rule." She turned to Caleb,
97. 2:19eyes shining. "You know I'd never try to
98. 2:20come between you two." Her fingers found
99. 2:22the necklace again. Everyone saw it. I
100. 2:23set my phone on top of the pot and
101. 2:24pressed play. Her own voice filled the
102. 2:26room. "He'll dump her by Monday and
103. 2:27guess who'll be right there." Then that
104. 2:28laugh. "I'm one of the guys they never
105. 2:29see it coming." Every guy at that table
106. 2:31saw it now. Caleb stood up. "15 years,
107. 2:33Kenz." Then he grabbed my jacket and
108. 2:34held it open for me. One by one, the
109. 2:36guys grabbed their stuff. Theo stopped
110. 2:37at the door. "Poker nights at my place
111. 2:39from now on." Kenzie sat alone at her
112. 2:40own table, staring at chips that didn't
113. 2:42matter anymore, her eyes filling up. I
114. 2:43looked back from the doorway. "Don't
115. 2:44cry, Kenzie. Guys hate drama."