Delcan had walked off with who knows who, and I grabbed my things quickly before a teacher could begin talking to me. When I’d almost made my way to one of my A.P. classes, I was tapped on the shoulder by someone. When I turned around, I felt annoyed to see Brielle Rushton with her hands on her hips, a smile on her face.851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJBVpINv5tE
Brielle is nice, if you stay on her good side; athletic, if any boys are around; and smart, able to manipulate anybody she wants. Actually, not that I’m thinking about it, that may be the reason why I made out with her at a party in 9th grade. She’s pretty similar to Delcan, and that makes me a bit confused.851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ38Y307eg24
Am I into bad people?851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ56G9YQSP1N
“Hi, Ezie,” she said. She’s probably the only person at our school who calls me that. “How have you been?” 851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyS8qMTlTwn
I shrugged, then gave her a sweet smile. “Good,” I told her. Lying again. “You?”851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvo0Nb0VP9j
Brielle Rushton looked me up and down (she was shorter than me, clearly, so it made the entire situation even more awkward) before taking my arm. “I heard about you and Haven,” she said. Her face turned straight into sympathy and I did everything I could to roll my eyes. “Sorry about the break up.”851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn4LHTudyDd
She told everyone.851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5oDLACXUA7
“Yeah…” I said. “Things just weren’t working out.”851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUmivAe8UOZ
Brielle smiles. “I understand,” she said. Brielle’s outfit was probably inappropriate for school. She was wearing a short dress that went past her lower thigh, though I felt no need to comment on it. Her strawberry blonde (okay, actually her hair is naturally a light brown color like my sister’s, but she died it after making the dance team) was in a new style today, and she was twisting it in her hands. Finally, she stopped, and looked up to me. “What happened between the two of you?"851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuMEsb0X2oJ
I hesitated. Too long, I thought to myself. “We had a mutual break up,” I told her. “Neither one of us really wanted to be in a relationship before, so we just broke things off.” I hated telling anything to the most popular girls in school, since most of them love to gossip about anything new. 851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVJzNjNBQ8o
“Okay,” Brielle said. She took my arm and began rubbing up and down on it. “Wel...text me if you ever wanna hang out or something, now that you’re available.”851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB8X7bJUBvD
Oh. 851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpZM3TBOCSn
Oh-oh. 851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF4ffellBu1
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“I’ll try,” I told her, pretending I was straight for a moment as I gave her a charming smile. My smile, of course, was nothing like Delcan’s. She probably assumed she was the reason why I was suddenly blushing. 851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi9h84GCIcr
Lots of girls have liked me before. I’ve gotten used to it, though I tend to stay away. Brielle and I met in 7th grade at a party that I wasn’t really supposed to be at, and her friends told me she had a crush on me. Afterwards, I did my best to stay away from her, since I already had a girlfriend and couldn’t risk being called a cheater. In 8th grade, at my first party where there was alcohol, Brielle got a bit tipsy and she began flirting with me.851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1sFsu69fXt
The guy I had feelings for at the type was crushing on somebody else (my sister, and I hated her so much for it...even though it wasn’t really her fault), so I pulled Brielle close to me and made out with her. Her lips tasted like vodka, so I guess you could say I drank alcohol that night. 851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlTT7WgAbX5
Evvie and I faked a fight for attention. 851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSlwIx2TNkf
“Could you leave him alone, Brie?” Haven asked from behind her. She was annoyed, and had her hands on her hips. Brielle rolled her eyes as she turned around and looked at Haven. Her strawberry blonde hair made the sound of a whip, as if a ponytail could have that much power. “I need to talk to you,” Haven told me.851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBmbIU4gc1b
I stopped for a moment. “What about?” I questioned.851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpGgtBUROBK
“Just...now, Ezra, okay?” she asked me. Haven gave Brielle Rushton a glare before taking my arm and dragging me into a classroom that they weren’t using this semester. I sat up on the teacher’s desk, looking at the family photos Mrs. Rodgers had.851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ305YCvas5S
I wondered if any of her children were lying.851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSnjit99Hri
“What are you doing talking to her?” Haven asked me.851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVPPSCTUh9Y
She was standing, her hands on her hips, and her hair normal. It was...weird to see her without any differences in her hair. She always did something with it. Though her hair did not look the same, her hazel eyes stared me down, wanting an answer. 851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYEC05punxB
So much for avoiding confrontation. 851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzafEIOplKS
I answered her question with a question, because I knew she hated it. “What do you need to talk about?”851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg2o9PXm8R7
She sighed, and then I realized she wanted something. “What now?” I asked her, making sure I sounded angry.851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRqaPG3mAnf
“Excuse me?"851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpqz9SAKA0J
“I know you want something from me,” I told her, making eye contact. “I don’t know what it is, but you have no reason for it. Basically everyone will know we broke up sooner or later, so you have no reason to pretend you love me anymore.” Harsh enough, my brain told me. Meanwhile, my heart sank to the ground. 851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqRDHx3rxAI
Haven crossed her arms over her chest. “Tonight,” she said. 851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTrlhBVmpqk
Tonight, seriously? 851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrJw8TPp0GS
I gave her an eyebrow raise. “You might as well tell me.”851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY6Qrb710mA
She ignored my annoyance by replacing it with her own. “I need you to tell my parents.”851Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPIzYXZOqPU
