ꜰᴏʀɢᴇᴛ ᴍᴇ ᴛᴏᴏ ❘ 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒏 𝑲𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒓

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"You gotta admit, she kinda brought It on herself" Alden was saying at lunch the next day 

"You're saying she deserved it?" Quinn asked surprised 

"No of course not" I sighed "but I do think she knew she was dating a phony and it was her fault she didn't stop" 

"Exactly" Alden agreed "after years of this hot 4.0 boyfriend, something had to give"

"What had to give?" We turned around to see Padgett standing before us looking good as ever as though nothing had ever happened 

"Padge hi!"  Alden said

"Hi" Padgett sat down, she may look fine but her energy was definitely off 

"We thought you were taking a personal day," I told her taking a sip of my soda, I had soda once every 2 weeks as a treat

"No, I'm fine" she gave us a pained smile

"Hey, bubble girl" one of Jordan's friends laughed "need me to pop that thing for you?"

"Back off sleazeball" Quinn yelled throwing a balled-up napkin at him

"Wow unbelievable" Padgett scoffed "I'm the victim how is Jordan not a complete pariah right now"

"I checked his profile earlier and he has more followers," I told her "sorry to tell you"

"Ok, that's ridiculous I mean who the hell does he think he is?" Padgett rolled her eyes "when I first met him is name was Jordan dickman and he was bad skin and hair"

"Oh my god and those clothes" Quinn laughed

"Remember how he used to greet everyone saying what's up my broski" I sniggered

"And how he started every conversation with yo yo what's the haps?" Alden added we all started laughing at the ridiculous memory

"I know it sounds conceited but makeovers are my thing," Padgett said "well yours too Casey, I made that guy"

"Oh really?" Alden asked skeptically "so why don't you just make another Jordan?" suddenly an announcement came over the speaker 

Attention Earthquakes, the big night is coming up so don't forget to vote online for your prom queen and king something they will always remember unless they throw up in their date's shoe in the limo and remember that instead kidding, just kidding 

"That's it!" Padgett concluded 

"You're going to create another internationally renowned egomaniac?"Quinn asked 

"No" she sat down "I can't, never mind"

"Ok what just happened?" I asked surprised 

"I think she just bailed" Alden frowned 

"I can't" Padgett frowned "I-I know it's bad but I want to try and win Jordan back" I had to hold in a laugh, that would never, ever work "Casey why don't you do it?"

"Yeah, you are all about makeovers anyway" Alden agreed I bit my lip softly

"I don't know if it's a good idea but fine, I will make the next prom king!" I announced 

"You make it sound so easy" Alden challenged 

"You don't think I can do it?" I asked 

Alden stood up and raised an eyebrow "no but I do think it'll be fun watching you try" she held her hand out 

"A challenge? I laughed "now I have to accept, and now I just have to pick a guy" I scanned the lunchroom for some nerd I could transform 

"You? no, no, no, see, that's the fun part" Alden interrupted "just so you don't make it too easy on yourself, we pick the loser"

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"Oh perfect" Quinn, Alden, Padgett and I walked up to a small balcony and peered down at some trashy dude 

"Lucas Fletcher?" I asked, "he's a criminal do you realize how bad that would be?"

"Yeah, you're right" Quinn frowned "moving on" we went to the biology lab next "how about him?" 

"Sebastian Woo?" Alden looked him up and down "lose the lab coat, put a product in his hair, who knows? It says here he just sold an app to a big gaming company, he's going to be like shoot-cars-in-space-rich" I looked over and winked at him causing him to light himself on fire 

"Nope" I hurried out of the room furrowing my eyebrows "most of these guys were 100% hopeless, even I couldn't do anything to help" we walked to the courtyard where there were lots of people 

"What about him?" Alden pointed, I followed her gaze and saw him, Cameron Kweller, my ex-best friend 

"Uh nope" I shook my head violently 

"Let's see" Quinn checked her phone "weird, he's nowhere to be found" I peered at my old friend who I had dumped years ago, I felt mega guilty while watching him take pictures of trash 

"Wait" Quinn held up her hand "he made one tweet in 2019 and all it said was "no" I giggled, I remember seeing that, I had wanted to talk to him about that but of course I couldn't, suddenly Jordan threw his coffee into the trash and it went all over Cameron 

"My bad bro" Jordan laughed, I bit my lip softly, if this was the guy they picked I wouldn't be able to even talk to him, I'd be too ashamed, I looked over at my friends, they nodded. Cameron was the one, just my luck. 

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The next day the girls made me stand right in front of his blue truck as it pulled into the parking lot, I wanted to die, I mean I literally wouldn't mind if pennywise decided to make a surprise visit "Hey" I waved awkwardly as he climbed out of the truck 

"Casey?" he walked over, I didn't know what to say, did I apologize, did I say nothing about what had happened "I- uh, what's going on?" 

"Um," I clutched my binder tightly desperate to feel some sort of support in this situation "I was just wondering if you might take pictures for our find raiser?" 

"Lemme guess, it's from prom?" he wondered with a small smile 

"Yeah, it actually is" I nodded chewing on my bottom lip, I was going to break this skin if this got any more awkward 

"I don't know, taking pictures for other people really isn't my thing," he said, "by the way, why talk to me now?" shit, I knew this would come up "we didn't really end things well"

I looked down at my feet "I know, I just, I just felt bad and I missed you" I blurted out, what I didn't know at that moment was that what I had just said, Cameron had been waiting to hear it ever since I kicked him out of the house 

"Oh" his smile widened a bit "I missed you too Casey, but um, why didn't you ever say anything?" this was going too far, I was actually opening-up 

"I was ashamed" I mumbled "I was so rude to you and I didn't have the heart to ask for forgiveness" the thing is, everything I was saying was true, even if I hadn't realized it before "but yeah, I'm really sorry" 

"It's ok" he sighed "I know you were going through a lot" I nodded "friends?" he stuck out his hand 

"Friends" I smiled 

So I posted twice today because usually when I post a new book the character I'm writing it on isn't in the first chapter and I want to have them in it.