Yours Truly

Chapter 2

She feels her palms start to get a bit sweaty and her knee begins to bounce absentmindedly. Why is she so nervous? She's never had any type of jitters like this before. Lily's had crushes on other girls before, sure, but she always felt confident in herself to go up to them and speak to them. Now the thought of speaking to her again terrifies her. Carina probably already thinks she's some sort of freak for blatantly staring at her earlier, totally speechless for a moment. And it's different because she knows Carina, but Carina doesn't know her.

Lily sneakily takes her phone out of her pocket and uses Carina's body to shield it away from Ms. Ashworth, who's still rambling on about something about The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. She unlocks her phone and opens up the group chat that consists of herself, Desi, and Naomi and types quickly and swiftly before the teacher notices.

Lily: SOS!!!!!! 911 a;sdkfj;laj

She's completely lost in terms of what to do with this new information but that doesn't mean her best friends don't have any ideas. Naomi and Desi are always the two people that she immediately goes to for help in any situation.

5 minutes after she sends the text, she feels it vibrate. Peeking down, she sees that Desi is the one to reply.

Desi: WHAT WHAT WHAT ARE YOU OKAY?

Then a few seconds later:

Naomi: WHAT'S WRONG

Lily: YALL. YALL I FOUND HER. I KNOW WHO I'VE BEEN WRITING TO THESE PAST COUPLE OF MONTHS AND I AM FREAKING OUT I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO R.I.P

Lily waits patiently for a minute or two before her phone vibrates once more.

Desi: bathroom near the library now. both of you.

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Lily casually asks for a bathroom pass from Ms. Ashworth, who grants it happily. She was finished with her lecture and she gave the students some time to work on an assignment so it was a good time to leave class.

By the time she gets to the bathroom for the impromptu meeting that Desi arranged via text message, her best friends are already waiting for her and immediately bombard her with questions.

"WHO IS SHE?"

"HOW DO YOU KNOW IT'S HER?"

"IS SHE CUTE?"

"WHAT'S HER NAME?"

"WHAT DOES SHE LOOK LIKE?"

"DO WE KNOW HER?"

Lily laughs and puts her hands up, asking them to be quiet (which is almost never the case). "Calm down, children," she says as Naomi and Desi stare at her attentively and excitedly. "I'll tell you everything and you can ask questions when I'm done so our teachers don't send a search team out when they realize we've been gone for an entire period. Okay, so, first of all, I guarantee that neither of you would have any clue as to who she is, but her name is Carina Cabero."

"Who?" Desi and Naomi ask simultaneously, furrowing their eyebrows.

Lily chuckles. "I rest my case. She's quiet and rather shy and has never really put herself out there, which I guess sort of explains why none of us never really noticed her before. The only reason why I know her is because she is in my English class and she sits in front of me but we've never spoken before. Actually, I don't really remember her ever speaking in that class. She's never been one to participate in there.

"Anyways, I got to school late this morning because I overslept and I missed some notes so I decided to ask Carina because she sat in front of me so as soon as I saw her handwriting, I immediately knew it was her."