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“No! I can’t do this again!” Allie mumbled in her sleep, her head turning from side to side and a pained expression on her face.
I hadn’t been able to sleep all night. Allie had been having nightmares for the past six hours, forcing me awake.
Mom gently knocked on my bedroom door, actually learning manners for once. I walked over to it and opened the door, careful not to wake Allie.
Mom handed me a glass of tea. “How is she taking it?”
I glanced over my shoulder. “Bad.”
Last night at the football game, Allie had found Jace accepting an invitation to fuck Nicole at her house. Allie was devastated and admitted to being in love with Jace in front of everyone. And Jace Harbor had done nothing but make my best friend look like an idiot.
“Thanks for the tea,” I said, turning back to the bedroom.
“Imani,” Mom said before I shut the door so Dad wouldn’t wake, “can we talk later?”
After glancing at her for a moment, I silently sighed to myself and nodded. Even though I hated talking to her, she was becoming more bearable by the day. But I was nervous that this was all some big sort of facade, that she’d one day flip another switch and start scolding me for everything that I did.
I didn’t think that I’d be able to take it if she did.
Once I shut the door, I logged in to my computer to get some homework done. But the more Allie tossed and turned, the more I tried to piece things together. When Allie had admitted to Jace that she loved him, Jace had looked so happy to hear those words yet so devastated for what he had done.
Even the other day at Beestra, Jace Harbor had barely even looked at any of the girls who flirted with him. It almost made me think that … he actually loved her back. But that wouldn’t make any sense that he would get back together with Nicole.
Unless …
I clenched my teeth and opened Discord to the group chat I had with Poison.
Unless they had something to do with it.
They had said they had something to do last night after the game. They showed up with about five minutes left in overtime and left shortly after the game was over, disappearing completely on me and driving toward the back school parking lot.
If they had done something to Jace, which would in turn hurt Allie, I would kick their ass for real this time. I didn’t care who they were or what they meant to me. Nobody hurt Allie. Nobody made Allie a crying mess like she had been last night. She was my best fucking friend.
“Stop it!” Allie shouted.
Having had enough of watching her in agony, I climbed on top of her flailing body and shook her. “Allie, wake up!” I shouted. She thrust her hands up at me, but I pinned them to her pillow beside her head. “Allie!”
A couple moments later, she opened her eyes. Her body was trembling underneath mine, tears pouring down her cheeks. She sobbed loudly and curled herself into a ball underneath me, clutching her knees to her chest. Hiccups escaped her mouth.
“I’m so dumb. I’m so fucking dumb and stupid!” She threw her head in her hands. “I tried everything to get him to love me again, fucking everything. Sleeping with him, making him jealous in hopes that … he’d show me he fucking cared.”
My heart ached for my best friend. I wrapped my arms around her and rested my head on her shoulder, holding her tight to me. “Stop it, Allie. He’s not worth your tears.”
“Nothing worked. He’ll never love me like I love him. I’m not good enough for him. He just keeps me around to fuck. That’s all I am to him, a stupid fucking fuck buddy he can use to get off. He’s never cared about me.”
I stroked her hair and pushed some tears from her face, wanting to take away all her pain. “He’s a rich, spoiled brat. You deserve so much more. You don’t want someone like him who doesn’t care about your feelings.”
“But I love him so much that it hurts. I will never stop loving him. I’ve tried so many times, Imani. He’s fucking sewn himself into my heart, and he keeps stabbing me with the needle.” She wiped the tears from her cheeks and shook her head. “And I’m the stupid girl who keeps letting him.”
“You’re not stupid. He is.” I pulled her closer to me and stared out the window, watching small flakes of snow fall from the white sky. “My mom made breakfast for us. I know how you love her French toast. Wanna go get some with me?”
Allie sniffled. “Did she really?”
“Yes.”
“And you’re okay with being down there with her?”
