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.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWisJv871MV
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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.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu5FpdH2VnT
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Am I into bad people?294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS6r2MWILoc
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“Hi, Ezie,” she said. She’s probably the only person at our school who calls me that. “How have you been?” 294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCwyzDerGDq
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I shrugged, then gave her a sweet smile. “Good,” I told her. Lying again. “You?”294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq0lhP2oiuh
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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.”294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRkkNMDBUWP
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She told everyone.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX4AOgMkvYA
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“Yeah…” I said. “Things just weren’t working out.”294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM1HPTUfKa7
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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?"294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsSlrqbTQuU
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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. 294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqyFCrbLIjx
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“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.”294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOScSiGOgWf
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Oh. 294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7OZWblE8rh
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Oh-oh. 294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZdsVlytLqy
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Crap. 294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCAXxfTqCor
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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. 294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7AzjZwiQq6
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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.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmRF4LFn3ah
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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. 294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Y33nQpPFf
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Evvie and I faked a fight for attention. 294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEeg1nhDACO
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“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.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0MBXayIfiG
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I stopped for a moment. “What about?” I questioned.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC68IJQ4z0z
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“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.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡujhUSuH5rE
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I wondered if any of her children were lying.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqRQrA4hUF1
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“What are you doing talking to her?” Haven asked me.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9f3qDThkGV
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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. 294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSGm88GamF2
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So much for avoiding confrontation. 294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs9cw05wOWu
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I answered her question with a question, because I knew she hated it. “What do you need to talk about?”294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK6iA8fsjgg
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She sighed, and then I realized she wanted something. “What now?” I asked her, making sure I sounded angry.294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC7atCj9Dzw
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“Excuse me?"294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5G74RdYyFC
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“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. 294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxS2qhs4kfM
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Haven crossed her arms over her chest. “Tonight,” she said. 294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZz3VwVi9sJ
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Tonight, seriously? 294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVD8Yyfdiz1
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I gave her an eyebrow raise. “You might as well tell me.”294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwspPmeNn3P
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She ignored my annoyance by replacing it with her own. “I need you to tell my parents.”294Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPtOwAFWJPF
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