The one better off

Chapter One

Things at CPA had changed a lot since the incident at the friendship games, leaving Cinch with a horrible label on her record and the students questioning if they were the bad guys of the games. While things softened around campus and friendships were being made; a groups bond had only grown closer and stronger with the aftermath—leaving them to rarely separate from each other.

At lunch, the group of all 5 girls had found their usual table and sat together like a clump of ants. Sour and Sunny had been in their own little world; chatting about classes and fashion updates, Lemon and Indigo had been arm wrestling each other with the reward of 50 dollars, while Sugarcoat had sat at the end; reading a book alone while kids passed by, observing the actions of the other girls.

"Ha! I won! in your face lime!" Indigo cheerfully exclaimed, jumping up from the chair in excitement.

"No you slapped my hand at the last second! cheater!" Lemon loudly accused, pointing a harsh finger at Indigo's sly expression.

"Would you both be dears and SHUT UP?!" Sour sourly shouted at the two girls while Sunny gave them a slight glare, making Indigo chuckle under her breath.

"You let them sit next to each other, you can at least own up to it, idiots." Sugarcoat blurted out bluntly, getting her usual feedback of glares from all four girls.

As Sugarcoat resumed her book, the girls continued with their own side conversation with each other, while some students had come and went at the lunch table;
being scared off by Indigo's competitive attitude.

"I'm boreddddd" Lemon huffed, resting her head on her palms.

All four girls sighed slightly to themselves before Sour had perked up, turning the opposite direction of where she was sitting to face Lemon.

"Hi bored," Sour sweetly spoke, looking slightly pissed at the slumped over Lemon Zest.

While Sour and Lemon were making remarks back and forth, Indigo's face lit up with a plan; turning towards Sugarcoat with a proud smirk on her face while waiting for Sugarcoat to notice.

"What the fuck indigo." Sugarcoat said, startled by the sudden change in the room, closing her book.

"I have a GREAT idea,"

"It's gonna be bad isn't it?,"

"Maybe,"
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As the five girls were in pe class doing the pacer test, only 2 out of 5 girls sat against the wall, watching while everyone else ran to their 30th lap.

"Man it's too hot for thisss" Lemon complained, her body leaning completely against the wall.

"You are so lucky I'm on a medical note to be here" Sunny said, messing around with her shoelaces.

As more time passed by, more and more kids had walked out, Including Sugarcoat and Sour joining the two girls.

"How much did you guys get?" Sunny asked, completely ignoring Lemon drawing a stick figure with a random expo marker she found on the floor.

"54" Sugarcoat replied first, catching her breath

"I got 60 obviously," Sour bragged, flipping her ponytail; hitting Sugarcoat's face in the process.

"You do know Indigo's still going, right?" Sugarcoat reminded her, the beeping in the background pushing Sour into a more sour expression.

"Yeah, whatever," Sour Sweet said.

As the two girls sat against the wall, chatting away while students were still running or trying to catch their breath. Indigo had still managed to make it above 80, only being with 2 other classmates, keeping her composure as her legs ran before finally giving up and making it out the court, making her way towards the group of girls around the wall.

"So how'd you do?" Sugarcoat asked, being the only one noticing the present of Indigo.

"You-yo-you all are..so unathletic!" Indigo commented, her words coming out shorter than usual due to her being out of breath.

"Unalthletic or just not a try hard?"

"Shut up, you're so lucky i tolerate you"

"You know you love me"

"Sugarcoat, I will smack you."

As the girls had gotten into the locker room and changed, the sound of lockers slamming and the noise of girls spraying perfume and yelling filled all their ears. Sour put back her pe uniform back into her locker, standing up and seeing the sight of Lemon, who was listening to music like usual, but ended up putting her blazer on backwards.

Sour fake coughed towards Lemon, trying to grab her attention, but only ended up with the reaction of Lemon headbanging to the beat of her music while being unaware of her surroundings. Lockers continued to slam shut while Sour's face turned into an unreadable expression, the sound was growing louder than she wanted. She tried to look around the locker room, observing the 3 other girls separately across the room, Indigo and Sunny being 4 lockers away from each other; while Sugarcoat was somewhere on the opposite side.

The sight of Indigo and Sunny chatting and laughing together made her blood boil, she didn't know why—they were all close friends; so why was she so scared of the thought of being alone, they'd never do that to her, maybe they would.