(The word romanticized is overused and often used wrong, nothing in this story is being made out better than what it is, abuse, emotional and physical are a serious matter, self harm, is a serious matter, your best friend being annoying as hell is a serious matter,)

"Well you seem awfully quiet today, I thought you of all people would have been super excited and bouncy" Alex turned to me.

We were all in spa chairs as the nail technicians worked on our feet, the Summers girls sat next to each other leaving me and Alex to talk to each other. I still couldn't stop thinking about what could possibly happen tonight, was I really ready to lose my virginity to Lia?

"I am excited, I'm just a little nervous about something, it's been on my mind all day" You say quietly.

"You're nervous about getting your cherry popped by Lia aren't you?" Alex smirked.

"Shut the fuck up why are you so loud?!" I hissed as I glared at him.

He chuckles and shakes his head.

"Sorry sorry but I had a feeling that was probably what you were thinking about, what else is there to think about on prom day?" He shrugged his shoulders.

"It's just that obviously Lia isn't a virgin, but like I don't know what I'm doing."

"Well then I guess it's a good thing that Lia knows what she's doing, you shouldn't be nervous if you trust Lia. You guys haven't seen each other naked before?" Alex asked.

"No why the hell would we see each other naked?"

"Isn't that a best friend thing? You trust each other so much and are comfortable to the point where you can be naked in front of each other?" Alex asked puzzled.

"No, Lia never wanted to see me naked, now that I think about it, it's probably because she's had a crush on me." That was the only thing that made sense to me.

"Well if you trust her and are comfortable with her then this should be no big deal, when she's done with you, you'll probably want to fuck her all the time." Alex chuckled.

"Can I ask you a very embarrassing question?" I feel my face immediately begin to heat up.

"Sure what's up?"

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"How do girls like...have sex?" I ask quietly.

His face slightly turns red and I watch as he thinks that question over in his head.

"The same way everyone else has sex?" He says a little puzzled.

"Yeah but like Lia obviously doesn't have a dick."

Alex chuckles and shakes his head as the nail technician dries his feet off.

"She likes to joke and say that she does, but in all seriousness there's no correct way to have sex whatever you guys feel comfortable with."

We both hopped out of the chairs and headed towards more chairs so that we could get our hands taken care of.

"You'll probably be done before me since your actually getting designs and shit on your nails." Alex pointed out.

"So who do you think will be prom royalty?" I try changing the subject.

"Ah I don't know, I stopped keeping up with whose popular or the hottest in this school, maybe Maddison or something." He shrugged his shoulders.

"You don't keep up with it cause you're one of those hot and popular people idiot." I roll my eyes and focus on the technician trimming down my nails.

"Popularity is overrated anyway." He said quietly.

"Look at my toes losers! Don't they look suckable?!" Lia walks over and puts her foot on Alex's shoulder before sitting down next to me.

"Why must you be gross? No one wants to suck your toes."He scrunched up his face in disgust.

"You're just mad no one wants to suck on your man toes, no need to be jealous of my pretty feet." She smirks.

I giggle and she shoots me a quick wink before turning to the technician and talking to her.

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We all finished up at the nail salon and piled into the car on our way to the hair dresser.

"Lia I thought you would get longer nails than that, they would look so cute." Abigail said.

Lia looked into her rearview mirror and shook her head.

"Abby I'm a lesbian, like full on top lesbian. What am I going to do with long nails?"

"Oh yeah...whatever."

We all arrived at the hair salon and we all excitedly rush in and sat down in the assigned chairs my mother pointed to.

"Clarity how am I getting my hair done? Are you cutting it? Please cut it." Lia whined all the way from across the salon.

"Shut up and be patient," I called back as the hair dresser running his fingers through my hair. My mother walked up and began explaining how exactly she wanted my hair because in truth... I didn't even know how I wanted it.

"Give me a mohawk, I would look so cool with a mohawk." I heard Lia say to her dresser.

"Lia you're not getting a mohawk." My mother finished talking to my hair dresser and moved down to Lia, she began pointing at Lia's head and whispering, not wanting Lia to hear what was happening to her. The hair dresser nodded her head and immediately began going to work. We all stayed silent and listened to the sounds of water running through our hair, scissors clipping away and combs raking through our hair. It was actually a very relaxing time that helped ease my mind a bit.

I felt the heat of the curling iron close to my scalp and I closed my eyes as I let my mind wander.

I wonder what Lia meant when she said she was a top lesbian, I never heard her say that before.

What would that make me? I'm not lesbian but at this point I'm not really straight either, I never really thought this hard about my sexuality before and it's honestly confusing. I guess I'm in the middle of something?

Was there a middle?

I remember when Lia always hinted to me that she wasn't straight.

*Flashback*

I sat at the table my 1st grade teacher assigned me at which was far away from Lia because her last name started with an S and mine started with a W but Lia always ended up getting in trouble because she sat next to me anyway.

"Hi Clarity!" Lia shouted in my ear, flashing me a smile with one of her front teeth missing.

"Your tooth is missing." I pointed out.

"I know, it fell out last night so I put it under my pillow and I found $10 there! I wonder if the tooth fairy is a pretty lady," She stuck her tongue in between the gap of her teeth.

"What are you going to do with the money?"I asked.

"I'm going to give it to Stephanie so she can kiss me!" Her eyes lit up as she thought about the idea.

"But she's a girl, girls can kiss girls they can only kiss boys, that's what I see on tv," I frowned, now invested in this conversation.

She looked at me and frowned.

"I don't want to kiss a boy, I don't like boys. Girls are pretty, I saw a man on tv give this lady money and she kissed him! I WANT A KISS!" Lia shouted, her black pigtails swaying side to side.

"Lia how many times do I have to tell you that this isn't your assigned table," The teacher walked over and scolded Lia.

She looked at the teacher with a bored expression on her face and shrugged her shoulders.

"Stephanie is in 2nd grade, she won't kiss you," I shook my head.

She grabbed my face and began slightly squishing it, making me do the kissy face.

"I'm a pretty girl, she's a pretty girl, who doesn't want to kiss a pretty girl?" She grinned.

*Flashback Over*

"Are you ready to look at your hair?" My dresser said as he smiled at me.

I quickly nodded my head, I felt him turn the chair around to face the mirror and I gasped.

My hair had big beautiful bouncy curls to it as they laid all around my shoulders. The sides were braided and pinned to my head almost like a crown.

"I love it!" I squealed as I covered my mouth.

I looked over and noticed both Abby and Alex were finished with their hair but Lia was nowhere in sight.

"Where's Lia?" I got out of the chair and walked over to everyone, as I turned the corner I noticed Lia right in front of a mirror staring at herself in awe which was completely understandable because her hair looked great.

She had a undercut and a side shave and the hair that she had left on top beautiful wavy curls to it.

"I'm so hot," I heard her whisper to herself.

(The image is what I envisioned Lia's hair, for anyone who needed a visual)

I chuckled and shook my head.

"Everyone looks so cute with their hairstyles!" My mother held her hand over her mouth as she looked at all of us.

Alex had a classic undercut with a side part in this hair, Abby had her hair in a bun with a braid in it.

"I think Abigail and I could give you guys a run for your money," Alex chuckled as he admired Abby.

I shook my head.

"No one can top Lia, she's Lia," I stated.

I felt a hand grasp my shoulder and I turned around to see Lia smirking at me.

"No one except maybe your mother, she could any day." She wiggled her eyebrows and I heard Alex snort.

I looked at her with a confused expression.

I didn't understand.

"Sorry that was a lesbian joke, I'm feeling extra homo today," She chuckled and shook her head.

We all piled into the car, stomachs bubbling with eagerness as it turned later in the day, prom coming closer and closer.

"Abby you're doing your own makeup for prom? Clarity's mom is like an expert at makeup so let her paint your face." Lia said from the driver side.

"If she's okay with it then it's okay with me." Abby shrugged.

"Oh it's no problem at all, I'll do your makeup first then Clarity and then leave Lia last, Alex's eyebrows could use a bit of clean up as well." My mother looked back and examined Alex's face as he sat there awkwardly.

"I don't know what that means but I don't think I'm interested." He said shyly.

"Oh don't be such a man, everyone loves a man that makes care of himself." My mother smiled.

"Except me...I could care less what Alex does, I will always hate him." Lia smiled into the rear view mirror.