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After that, the time left in this odd day went by pretty fast, even though I did literally nothing eventful. Soon, I was brushing my teeth and throwing on a pair of pajamas. They were a plaid print and were also red and black. It wasn't really my style, but it looked kind of cute and I begged my mom to get it. So here I am now.

I drowsily plopped down into my bed after taking my glasses off and almost instantly felt myself being surrounded by darkness. I found myself drifting off into my own little world not even a few minutes after that.

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My phone rang quite loudly and the Pizza Song by 5 Seconds of Summer was practically blaring in my ears. I rolled over lazily and turned the alarm off, yawning to myself and wanting to go back to my peaceful sleep.

     After singing a lot of random songs in the shower, peeing, putting on clothes, and eating breakfast, I was finally out of the door. I checked my watch, seeing only had ten minutes. Luckily my house was a few minutes away from the school, but I also had to get all of my stuff and talk to Lily about what had happened yesterday.

     I shrugged to myself. I'll just tell her at lunch, which was Jackson free. I glared at the thought and huffed. Jackson was our friend since forever and he just abandons us like that. It was rude but maybe he always wanted to join the popular people. I may stereotype people a lot, but I knew for a fact that the Populars were a bunch of egotistical and immature kids that didn't have any knowledge.

     Just kidding, that may just be Lucas.

     I thought about how Lily had a small crush on Damon, who I didn't really know very well. I also thought about Natalia and how she basically stole Jackson away from Lily and me, so therefore the is evil. But then again, what if she actually needed help and started to favor Jackson so she invited him over? I shrugged to myself and shook my head after my brain started to hurt from all of the thinking I was doing.

     I started to run towards to school, not really in the mood to be late for school. I felt a sneeze fill up in my nose and I groaned once it never came. My head was slightly throbbing as well and I didn't know if it was from the running I just started doing or the cold I had to deal with. Either way, I just despised the small headache.

     Once I arrived to the stupid "prison," I was panting profusely with an aching side. Much to my dismay, I saw Jackson hanging out with the popular group again when I walked into the twelfth grade hallway. I rolled my eyes at him, though I knew he couldn't see it. Lily was at her locker. Alone. Which was starting to become normal, considering Jackson never hung out with us anymore.

I walked to my locker, greeting Lily happily. She greeted me back with a small smile and waited for me to get my stuff. I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion because she was usually overly hyper. Maybe she was just tired or upset over the fact that Jackson wasn't with us anymore. I knew I was.

     I decided to just ask Lily at lunch and catch her up on the things that had happened with Lucas. I shot her a worried glance but she just gave me a timid smile in response and walked to class with me.

     When lunch rolled by, I found myself glaring once again at the blonde boy who ditched us. Except this time, he noticed and gave me a guilty look. No, he didn't try to even sit with us. He just stared at me with the same look for a few seconds before turning around and sitting with the a group of popular people.

To say I was angry would be an understatement. I was livid at the fact that Jackson didn't even care about us and I doubt he even felt guilty at this point. All he wanted was to get let off the hook, I bet. Yet I still had a little hope, even if he was smiling at whatever Natalia was telling him and casually talking to her. I was feeling many things at this point; angry, betrayed, hurt, and a little sad as well.

Once I got myself situated at where Lily was sitting, I gave her a smile. "What's wrong? You seem sad."

Lily just shrugged, staring at her lunchbox. I sighed, asking her again. She knew she could tell me anything and I wouldn't judge her. She was my best friend since forever for Pete's sake!

"I just, uh... Yeah, this is hard to say," she mumbled, trailing off before I gave her a nudge and urged her to continue. "My parents.. t-they're thinking about divorcing."

She almost choked up on her words, trying to hold tears back, "They've been... they've been fighting.. a lot. I heard my dad say that he w-wanted to, and I quote, 'get out of this hell hole' because of my m-mom.. I'm s-scared, Kylie. A-And Jackson left us too. I can't h-have another person l-leave."

I sighed and rubbed her back, hoping to calm her down. I glanced back at Jackson, who averted his eyes back to Natalia once his eyes met with mine. I could tell he was worried, but at the same time, why should he be worried? He's the one who betrayed us both.

I tugged her hand, taking both of our lunch boxes and headed towards the bathroom. People were sending us concerned looks and I forced myself to smile as if to say "she'll be okay" and I forced myself to believe it.

"Hey, hey. It'll be okay. I'm always here. I'll always be here, yeah? I could never leave you," I said softly once we got to the restroom, not really knowing what to do.

I could always promise her that her parents would stay together but who even does that? Promising things that you know may break. False hope isn't the best thing to ever exist, that's for sure.

Once Lily was done crying, she gave me a timid smile and softly said, "Thank you."

I smiled at the girl and helped her up. It broke my heart to see her crying like that, but at least I could help. Lily had cried one other time because some boy was picking on her in eighth grade and Jackson and I were there for her. Now the only person here for her is me.

It was quite sad to think about, but it was the cold, hard truth.

"Alright, let's go back to the cafeteria, okay? We can't miss out on our favorite part of the day," I said jokingly, trying to lighten the mood.

She nodded with a little laugh and took her lunch box from me and made sure it didn't look evident that she had sobbed.

When we walked into the cafeteria room, a familiar blonde haired boy was walking towards us. I ignored him and sat myself down at the table I was previously at. Jackson shot us a worried look so I just glared at him.

It was kind of an in the moment scene because I knew even if he wasn't there, I should've let him explain and try to help Lily. But at the same time, did Lily even want to see him? I glanced back at Jackson, who was walking back to where he was seated before.

I pushed the thoughts to the back of my mind and joked around with Lily the rest of the time.

"Do you want to hang out later? Y'know, have a girl's day? It is Friday after all!" I said excitedly. I could just cancel the tutor plans with Lucas for today, no biggie.

"Yeah, sure. I'd love that," she responded and smiled a genuine smile. The one that silently said "thanks for being here."

After school, I was waiting for Lily at the front of the school. There was a slight breeze and it was somewhat warm despite it being the end of fall.

I felt someone tap my shoulder and I jumped out of surprise. It was probably Jackson.

Much to my surprise, I heard Lucas's voice, "Tutoring today? Or not? Because I saw what happened with your friend.."

"Yeah, I can't," I responded, looking up at Lucas's chocolate brown eyes.

     Correction. They were poopy brown eyes. Like the poop emoji, which was a cute emoji. Am I telling myself that Lucas has cute eyes? I internally shook my head at the thought and felt disgusted.

     "Okay, just make sure to not smash each other," he said with a small smirk, "because I plan to do that with you soon."

     "I'm straight and not into you," I scoffed with a scowl.

     He chuckled, "Well, I'll see you on Monday then. Unless you want to hang out over the weekend."

     Lucas wiggled his eyebrows suggestively and laughed once I smacked his arm.

     "I'd rather not, thanks!" I exclaimed.

     "See you around, Kylie," he said and walked away after winking at me.

     I rolled my eyes and felt the vibration in my pocket. I got my phone out and looked at who had texted me. It was Jackson. Guess what he texted me.

     jackson: we need to talk.


IMPORTANT A/N (u can just read the end if you want)
hey there (; i literally keep contemplating on making these chapters longer than 1.5k words but i feel like it'd be weird considering the other chapters aren't as long. oh well. i'm so excited for this book!! sorry if there wasn't many happy moments in this chapter, oops! + try to understand jackson & not get angry at him :) also, i decided to change the genre to teen fiction. i'm sorry if you were here for humor, but don't worry, there will still be a ton of it. just a lot of sensitive subjects as well (:

qotd: who's your favorite character in this story?

aotd: lucas (;

anyways, as always, stay you. stay beautiful. have a nice day & i love & care about all of u beautiful, amazing humans

- aspen

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