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"And are you ready for our senior year in high school?" Shouted chris as we got out of the car I had parked in the school parking lot.
"Absolutely, can't wait to finally get out of here and just focus on our youtube accound." Said Nick.
"Same bro" I replied.
I took a deep breath and watched as our schoolmates walked tiredly into the school building, this would be our last first day of school. Maybe then my anxiety would finally fade.
We were walking towards the entrance when chris said behind me. "Look, there goes Phoebs...is that Aurora?" I quickly turned around and followed his gaze.
I saw Phoebe opening the trunk of a dark green jeep that I knew all too well. And out of the driver's seat stepped Aurora, her big sister. She looked so different from the last time I had seen her. Her eye circles had deepened and her skin was somehow paler and she had cut her long hair shorter. But despite everything she still looked good. We looked away again.
"Shouldn't she still be in withdrawal?" asked Nick.
"No, Phoebe said she had to stay for about half a year and that's over now." I answered.
"Somebody listened very well." Chris laughed to tease me.
"Yes I did and there is nothing wrong with that, she was our friend and no matter how shitty she behaved we should care."
"Matt is right." Said nick and smiled sadly.
"I'm surprised I ever hear that coming out of your mouth." I said to lighten the mood.
I looked back again, Phoebe and her sister were still standing by the car and Aurora was lighting a cigarette, which didn't suit her at all. The withdrawal had managed to get her off the drugs but not the cigarettes, it seemed.
Phoebs had survived her mother's death better than Aurora. Which apparently she had to, because somehow she had to become a mother figure to Aurora. Because her sister had pushed everything and everyone away from her, except her sweet little sister.
Her mother, Cassy, had been our mother's best friend. That's why we almost knew aurora since she was born and had always been friends with her. Just friends, even if I sometimes wished that we had been more. But in the meantime all of these hopes had disappeared.
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"Matt, go."
"You can't just make me leave when I'm trying to help you."
"Yes I can, and I don't want or need your help." She yelled, pointing her finger out into the
hallway.
"You've already chased away all your female friends and Nick and Chris too. I'm the only one left, Aurora. Let me help you and talk to me." Her tears ran down her face and she consumed her face with the pain she didn't admit.
"Matt go now, please go and don't contact me anymore. I don't need you and your brothers or all the other dicks in my life." I knew she was lying so I would leave.
"You're calling us dicks. After we tried to help you?"
"I am." I raised my eyebrows and did what she said, I left. I had put up with all that, her screaming, her crying and all that stuff but she insulted my brothers and me for no reason so I left.
I turned around and entered the building with my brothers. We hadn't had any real friends since we made YouTube except for Nate and Phoebe. Sure Chris and I still had our lacrosse bros, but we both knew they weren't real friends.
In the first hours I had history.
I was there early to be able to choose a seat. I sat in the back right corner so that I was as inconspicuous as possible. I had almost all the classes with my brothers, except history and geography.
The room filled more and more until only the place next to me was free, clearly no one wanted to sit next to the weird guy who makes weird YouTube videos with his brothers.
It rang to the school begin. The teacher already started to speak, Miss Abernaphy. She was young and not bad looking if I was honest but she had lost her reputation, she had cheated on her husband with one of her students but of course that was just a rumor otherwise she wouldn't be a teacher anymore, I hoped.
"Now may I welcome you to your last year in high school" she was interrupted by the knocking of the door.
Everyone looked at the door as it opened and there stood Aurora.
"Oh, Miss Johnson, good to see you again. Please take a seat in the back next to Mr. Sturniolo so I can continue. Please be on time next time." Said the teacher with the nicest voice. She was only nice to her because everyone knew she was in a withdrawal.
Everyone looked at Aurora as if she were an elephant in the circus, one of the biggest acts. She looked tiredly at the empty seat and then at me. When our eyes met, she shook her head, rolling her eyes. It was clear that she would sit next to me.
She sat down and leaned far to the left, probably to put as much space as possible between her and me.
I could not stop myself from taking a closer look at her. According to my calculations, she should have been out of the clinic for almost a month.
And in the half year she had been away, she had lost her shine. Although it had been lost months before, on the day her mother died. I couldn't blame her, she had been there when it happened, at least that's what Phoebe had told me.
We had never been closer to Phoebe than we were to Aurora, but after she left, Phoebe needed people to talk to, and for some reason that was me and my brothers.
She looked at me with a sideways glance and brushed a hair tear from her face.
I looked away again and listened to Miss Abernaphy. The hour passed slowly and was really boring. We were just talking about what to expect this year and the teacher made it clear that we had to work hard this year, which was clear to everyone. She also mentioned that we would have to do a project on a certain topic in pairs and that we should have chosen a partner by next week.
When I heard that I could only shake my head, of course in this class, where only I was without my brothers, a presentation had to be held. It was clear to me that in the end Aurora and I would be left because the others had already agreed with glances and already knew with whom they would do it.
I didn't know how I would feel about that. I mean sure she had kept us all away from her but at the same time I would like to talk to her again.
The bell rang for break and she was the first to grab her backpack and storm out of the room. When I stepped into the hall, Chris and Nick were waiting in front of me.
"I guess you have the honor of spending the first hours of Monday with her." Said Nick, I knew immediately who he meant.
"Oh yes, she even sits next to me." I replied. Chris and Nick turned their heads to me at the same time with raised eyebrows.
We walked along the path towards the schoolyard.
"The best is yet to come, we have to give a presentation in pairs and guess who will be left at the end?"
"You and Aurora." Chris said and I nodded.
We sat down on a wooden bench with a table in front of it and before I could talk further Phoebe sat down next to me.
"Hey guys."
"Hey," we said at the same time.
"Matt, you don't have to take me to school anymore, Aurora is back, she can drive me. She said.
"I know, we've seen you and she's in my history class." I said.
"Oh," she said, looking at me and pressing her lips together.
"You didn't talk, did you?" asked Nick. I shook my head.
"I don't want to hurt you, but I don't think she will, she's just going through the 'I can do it by myself' phase." She said and rolled her eyes.
We talked to her a bit and then at some point she sat back down with her friends.