"School sucks balls, and I'm about to drop out." Dinah speaks angrily while slamming the locker.
"So what do we do now?" Normani asked in a bored tone, she wasn't feeling her usual pep today and even felt a little down.
"Drop out." Ally commented while tugging on the sleeves of her hoodie.
"I hate the cold weather, I hate how we're on our finals week, and thanksgiving break was literally four weeks ago." Dinah groaned.
"Well, how's swim going?" Ally asked her friend. Football had ended around October and swim had started a week after. Dinah currently had a meet the week after new years and was excited about it, but it was too far away.
"Anything exciting is too far away, so far it's just waking up to practice from five to seven, get showered and glammafied, then come here by eight thirty to start hell." Dinah answers while flipping her hair.
"I wish I could take a break from my team every once in a while," Normani rolled her eyes in annoyance.
"Trouble with the choreography, Mani?" Ally asks as they finally make their way to their English class.
"There are parts when the team seem to be ding great, but there are parts where no one knows whats going on." The chocolate goddess explains in frustration.
"We just all need a break from everyone for a while." Dinah joined in.
"Well if that's how you feel about the school right now, I can make an exception. Why don't we just have a free period today?" Ms. Swift smiled toward the trio.
"Out of all the teachers here, you've always been my favorite." Dinah speaks while looking directly at her teacher.
"Dinah stop being weird." Ally giggled as the three sat in their usual seats.
"Ugh I can't help but want to go to sleep and start a school shooting at the same time." Normani joked.
"I honestly feel you, but isn't it the neglected white boys who bring out the guns?" Dinah tries to make a joke of it but ends up getting flicked in the back of the ear by Ally.
"Has anyone seen Lolo and Y/N?" Ally asked her friends.
"I texted her this morning but she hasn't answered." Normani speaks while checking her phone and showing the messages to her friends.
At that very moment, Y/N entered the classroom and immediately greeted her friends. She was dressed in a cute beige sweater, dark colored jeans, knee high boots, and a cute knitted scarf while she had a half updo.
"Do you know where Lauren is?" Normani asked suspiciously.
"I'm assuming she might still be asleep, we were face timing yesterday trying to finish math homework, and she hung up, but I think she still had other homework to do. She better get here if she wants to take her final for computers." Y/N spoke honestly.
"We all know that final doesn't really count for anything drastic, it'll probably be a personal portfolio of how we've managed to do this past semester." Ally rolled her eyes causing her friends to chuckle at her actions.
"Dude, can you believe winter break is around the corner, it's literally three days away." Y/N spoke excitedly, slightly jumping in her seat.
"What plans do we have for Christmas Eve again?" Dinah asked.
"Dinah, we all group face timed, don't tell me you zoned out?" Normani spoke.
"Sometimes I'm too tired to function before fifth period." Dinah jokes.
"We're going ice skating, then we are going somewhere to eat - which we all need to agree on a place- , then we go to Lolo's house for a party, and we might squeeze the mall before the ice skating if we manage to wake up early." Y/N spoke clearly remembering the schedule they'd all agreed upon.
"Hey guys, sorry I'm late, I overslept and debated on not coming." Lauren speaks while walking into the classroom thirty minutes later than usual. "Did we do anything in here today?" She asks.
"Do we ever?" Dinah replies instantly.
Lauren rolled her eyes while smiling and finally taking a seat where she usually does. She smiled brightly upon seeing her girlfriend and kisses her cheek. "Morning, babe."
"Morning, sleepy head." Y/N smiles and rubs Lauren's hair.
"You guys get grosser by the second, like please allow me to redirect my puking toward the floor." Normani jokes.
"Well no one told you to stay in my business." Lauren remarks and smiles a little.
"If it has to do with business best believe Normani and I will be a part of it!" Ally stepped in, previously slamming her hand on her desk causing the group of girls to laugh at the current face she'd been making.
Dinah on the other hand, let her friends carry on the conversation, she didn't really feel like talking. She could feel her real action going into plan. She could see the way Lauren had been eyeing Y/N and Dinah couldn't help but feel like what she did was for the right reason.
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I went out of class to go use the restroom and found myself washing my hands after finally peeing. I couldn't help but look out of the corner of my eye to see Camila down by the last sink. I sighed and decided it was best if I kept moving, but decided against it, and felt like I should talk to her.
"Hey," I spoke while raising an arm to wave.
"What do you want?" She speaks bitterly in reply to my greeting. I knew it was my fault that she'd become his way.
"I just wanted to let you know that the girls and I were going to hang out on Christmas eve, if you wanted to come hang with us." I mentioned, I was pretty sure she hadn't gone out of the house ever since the incident at the library, not that I was judging her.
"Why? So I could be yelled at again?" She scoffed and turned away threatening to walk out. BU I grabbed her hand and stopped her from doing so.
"Please, just think about it." I pleaded.
"Why should I?" She asked, yanking her hand back to her side again. "I know the type of person you are now, why should I even listen to anything you have to say?" She rolled her eyes.
"Because I know you don't have any friends." I uttered out without thinking, really.
"And how would you know that? What if I do? And if I don't, maybe I like being alone. I was perfectly fine without you in my life." Camila raised a brow while arguing to show her point.
"What will it take for you to just be there for Y/N again?" I asked angrily, my blood beginning to boil.
Camila chewed on her gum for a bit. "Why?" Camila asked.
"Why what?" I asked out of confusion, what the hell was she asking?
"Why did you make a bet?" she asked again, this time, making her question clearer.
"What bet?" I tried tricking myself that maybe she knew something unrelated to the topic at all.
"Let's just do a little flashback to when we were at homecoming, and you gave me your phone to take a picture of you and Y/N. I ended up sitting down and got a text message from your phone. I didn't wanna be nosy, but curiosity, am I right?" Camila asked.
"You looked through my phone?" I asked, squinting my eyes.
"Quiet, Jauregui, I'm talking. So I did snoop through your phone and had a conversation with Taylor. She thought I was you, pretending not to know what was going on, and she spilled the beans about a little bet. And suddenly I was able to make connections with the other texts she'd been sending. So I easily took screenshots, sent those screenshots to my phone, and deleted the messages, as well as the pictures, and I have the evidence." She smirked while waving her phone in front of my face in a taunting manner.
I could feel my brows lower in frustration. "She'll never believe you, Camila." I answered triumphantly.
"I know she won't." She spoke easily and shoved her phone back in her pocket.
"Then why are you bringing up something that will most likely not matter?" I asked in confusion.
"Because, I'll make sure she finds out another way." Camila spoke and opened the door. "I'd keep my eyes peeled if I were you, I've got many tricks up my sleeve." Camila answered.
"What the fuck is that supposed to mean?" I asked her while placing my hands in my pockets. All I could hear was her chuckle and she let go of the door, finally leaving me to question what kind of conversation went on in here. I shake my head and immediately head out but see the hallway filled with students on their passing period.
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"What took you so long, babe?" Y/N asked me as I made my way in computer's and sat down.
"Maybe she had to poo?" Ally jokes while the two of them giggled.
"No, I just lost track of time washing my hands, the water was so warm, and this school is cold as hell, why haven't they turned on the heater yet?" I asked in fake frustration getting Ally and Y/N to start thinking about it as well and later switching on to different topic's altogether. The final in that class was way too easy.
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Ally, Lauren, and Y/N were pretty much done within the first five minutes of the period and were allowed to leave as long as they were within that same hallway. They mentioned how easy that test was and how the people who never did work in there were sure to pass it as well.
"Guys, I'm so tired. I'm done with all my finals and I still have to stay here. This is annoying." Ally huffed at her two friends.
"This is seriously unfair, they want to treat us like adults and don't allow us to leave or sign ourselves out if we're sick." Lauren rolled her eyes.
"I kind of wish we could leave right now. We could be having fun with Dinah and Normani, probably watching a movie or something. Sippin on some really nice hot drink." Y/N spoke, imagining herself sitting somewhere not in school.
"We'll be able to, in three days time." Lauren mystically spoke and waked her arms around her face for effect.
"You're silly." Y/N giggles while fake slapping Lauren's shoulder.
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"Hey, Y/N?" Jasper peeks her head through the door while her sister does homework on her computer.
"Yes?" She asks but continues typing in order to finish up one of her online finals due on Friday. Her paper was almost finished and all she had to do was write the conclusion.
"Can we talk?" Jasper asks again.
"Uhm, actually I just need to-" Y/N began with her statement before turning around and seeing Jasper's facial expression. "Are you okay?" Y/N asked as concern washed over her.
"I just have to ask you some things." Jasper speaks while coming inside fully and sitting on the side of the bed closest toward Y/N's desk.
"Uhm, you aren't pregnant are you? Because we can only hide it from mom and dad for so long." Y/N joked, trying to ease the tension.
"Uhm, No, Taylor and I don't-"
"If you lie and say you haven't had sex, please don't make me bring up two weeks ago when you thought I wasn't home." Y/N spoke.
"Fuck." Jasper's eyes widened and began blushing.
"Relax, it wasn't even you I heard. It was Taylor's loud ass." T/N rolled her eyes. "Whats up?" She asked.
"Okay, so I watched this movie, Let me put this in terms you'll understand." Jasper begins explaining.
"Let's say I'm the main character and you are my older brother." Jasper begins and Y/N raises a brow.
"Why am I the boy?" She complains.
"Bitch, listen." Jasper speaks and continues. "Let's say I, as the main character, starts going out with a boy and I start falling in love with the guy, but in reality it's all just a bet." Jasper pauses.
"Wait, do you- uh, the main character- know it's a bet?" Y/N asks.
"No, and later her best guy friend- lets say, Sofia- finds out, and tries to tell her -me- about it, but I won't listen." Jasper pauses again.
"And the guy who I'm dating's older sister knows about it too, and she told her brother, that he has to tell me about the bet, but if he doesn't, she will." Jasper pauses again.
"So the guy you are dating made a bet to date you, his sister knows it's a bet and threatens to spill the tea, and your friend also knows about it but won't listen? Does the brother know?"
Y/N asks, piecing the information together.
"She, I mean, He finds out later, but want's to tell his sister. But then he see's how happy the guy makes her and he can tell that the guy is changing by being with her." Jasper speaks.
"Why the fuck would he not say anything?"
Y/N asks and furrows her brows together. "I mean, a bet is still a bet. No one deserves to go through that. Even if you and that guy end up falling in love, because fake things never last." Y/N answered.
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