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As she looked around, she noticed all of her children giving her the same confused and disappointed expression. "Fine. I've only wanted whats best for you kids. I love you all." She said, making sure not to look at me until she'd reached the doorway, then giving me the meanest look I'd ever seen anyone give anyone else ever in my life. I sighed with relief as I heard the door slam loudly behind her and watched her drive away quickly in her car.

"Amy, I'm sorry you had to be around for this." Aaron said, still on the phone. ("Me too!" I heard Angel chime.) "I love you."

"I love you, too." I said, hoping he heard me.

"I'll see you guys tomorrow." He said. I could hear his smile.

"Goodnight, Aaron!" Leslie called. We all chimed in to say goodnight to Aaron and Angel before Nick hung up.

"Well," BJ said, stretching her arms, "I've had quite a day, so I'm gonna go to bed. Goodnight everyone."

"Me too." Leslie added. "Goodnight." Nick and I nodded to them, and they walked upstairs.

"I should go." I said.

"If you want..." Nick trailed off.

"Nick, I know a lot has happened over the past few days, but really, you're one of my best friends and you're my boyfriend's brother. I appreciate what you've done for me and I'm glad we're friends. I hope you feel the same way."

"I do... I don't know what came over me."

I looked across the street and saw that my parents had shut off the lights in the living room. "I should go home, its been a crazy day." I hugged Nick. "Goodnight."

"Goodnight." I was relieved as I walked out of Aaron's house that I wouldn't have to worry about his mother coming between us anymore. Or his brother.


~At Home~

I lay in bed, desparately trying to go to sleep, but I couldn't; My mind was buzzing with humiliation, with being ashamed of myself, of being terrified for Aaron would do when he found out. Again.

I sat up from bed and grabbed the nearest object, throwing it hard against the wall in my frustration. Why do I have to be the cheating, scummy girlfriend! Why couldn't I be faithful? I love Aaron... What is wrong with me?

A light tapping sounded at the door, and I held my breath, hoping nobody would come in. I didn't really want to talk to anybody right now. The tapping occured again, and again, and finally when I couldn't take the incessant noise, I gave in. "Come in."

"Hey, Honey." Mom said, walking in and sitting on the very edge of my bed.

"Hey Mom," I said, doing absolutely nothing to let out the obvious stress in my loud sigh.

"What's wrong?"

"Stuff. Things. Life." I replied, grabbing the pillow behind my butt and smothering my head with it, as if to smother life itself.

"What happened?" she asked.

So I told her everything. Well, except what happened with Nick.

"Oh, honey, it'll be okay." She gave me a hug.

"I know..."

"When you see Aaron tomorrow, tell him I hope he gets better soon." she said as she got off the bed.

"I will. Thanks, Mom."

"I love you, honey."

"Love you too." She smiled at me as she closed the door.

I sat in bed for a few more minutes, thinking about everything that had happened today. Then, I realized something:

I only end up feeling that way about Nick when something bad happens! First, my mom gets sick and I kiss him, now Aaron's sick! Wow, lots of sickness lately. Lets hope that ends soon. I felt better having had my revelation, and felt myself drift off to sleep...

~At School the Next Day~

I walked up through the glass doors of my school and instantly perked up at seeing Julie and Gina in the hallway, reading some magazine. They'll make me feel better somehow.

"Gina, Julie! Hey!" I called, jogging over to them. I stopped dead at the disgusted looks they gave me, the way they walked the opposite way away from me. What the fuck?

The same thing happened the whole day during school, people giving me dirty looks, saying things like, "Eww, get away from me whore" "Slut" "Gross", and going out of their way to avoid me.

Again. What the fuck?

I was relieved when we finally reached AP Chemistry, the last class of the day before lunch. Everybody was acting so strange today. So weird.

But Ms. Rinkla just HAD to ruin it, didn't she?

"Lab partners today! Pair up! In ten, nine, eight, seven..." she announced, counting down the seconds. Anyone left over, got to work with her.

And nobody wanted that.

As I predicted, nobody rushed over to me, not that I expected them to, but nobody even looked at me. I was going to be stuck with Ms. Rinkas. Great.

"Hey," somebody spoke up behind me. I ignored whoever it was, they were probably just talking to somebody else or going to make some snide remark about my infedelity.

"Hey," the voice came again. I turned around and was almost estatic when it was Kyle. He couldn't be mean to me, right?

"Wanna be partners?" he asked, grinning a shy smile.

I instantly accepted.

We set to working on how to construct a something or other, chatting quietly about school, the weather, food....

"Kyle? Can I ask you a question that you can answer honestly?" I asked after we finished making the concoction and had already made the lab write up early.

He nodded.

"Do you know what's going on today? Everybody's all being so...." I trailed off, thinking for the right word.

"Different towards you?" he filled in.

I nodded.

He gave me a sympathetic look, then pulled out a magazine out of his backpack, a Star magazine.

"Local Teen Playing Carter Boys - Both of Them!" it read, plastering a picture of me walking yesterday with Nick, and a picture of Aaron and I playfully canoodling the other day.

I let out a loud groan. Great.