𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐒 {𝐌.𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃}

𝟎𝟎𝟏|𝐉𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐎𝐑 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑

𝐈𝐓 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒 since juliet flynn and mason freeland's last and only fight

"why? why can't we talk anymore?" he was desperate for an answer,his girlfriend of 1 year and best friend of 8 had become increasingly distant over the last 3 months,they had barely seen each other outside of school and she'd barely spoken to him in school.he didn't understand why all of a sudden she wanted to cut ties

"you don't get it!" she exclaimed frustrated,she looked at him as if she was waiting for him to suddenly solve the puzzle he didn't have the pieces to

"no i don't get it,can you give me a reason?" he asked becoming increasingly more aggravated by her lack of explanation

"i cheated on you" she admitted looking down,she couldn't bare watch his reaction

"what?" his face fell,and he thought perhaps his heart had stopped too.his eyes were still on her but he wasn't really looking at her anymore,not the her that he knew.the her that he knew would never cheat on him,nor would she constantly be too busy getting drunk or doing drugs to hang out with him.he thought of the stomach piercing she'd gotten a few weeks ago and the bitter smell of beer that escaped her mouth as she told him it wasn't a big deal and her parents wouldn't find out

"i cheated on you!" she repeated louder,she was looking at him this time,fists clenched and annoyance clear on her face.she braced herself for the storm of anger that was destined to follow,but it never came

"get out" he said sternly,his eyes fixated on the floor instead of her,he didn't want her to see the tears forming in his eyes

"fine!"she stormed out

"fine!" he called after her

she brushed past melanie,his mother,who had a concerned expression on her face, before storming into her own house to rant at her best friend of 3 months,evie zamora

he sat down on the bed breaking into tears when his mom came in with a sympathetic half-smile,she didn't say anything,just silently hugged him

juliet spent the next 2 years refusing to acknowledge his or evie's existence,she had cut ties with evie not long after the argument.

mason spent the next 2 years getting angry whenever he saw her,his friends would go silent,they knew what happened.

and that brings us to now, first day of junior year.

𝐉𝐔𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐓 𝐅𝐋𝐘𝐍𝐍

i smiled lightly at the girl who was passing out the new timetables and murmured a quick "thank you" before pulling it closer to me

i looked over it with a few huffs,i had english first today which i suppose isn't too bad.i like english don't get me wrong,but first thing on a monday morning?

mrs.williams droned on about the dress code,eyeing me as she mentioned showing too much skin,i rolled my eyes.after 20 minutes of going over the policies as if we hadn't had them drilled into us every year,the bell finally went

as soon as i was in the corridors i was painstakingly aware that the new freshmen had shown up,i rolled my eyes at the chaos and headed to english

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by break i'd had to help at least 3 crying freshmen,i was walking towards the old library when i heard a group of guys whistling and talking about evie from ahead of me,i recognised the voices as mason and his friends but as soon as they saw me they went silent

when i got to the library i pulled out a snack and the book i've been reading from my bag.the library has been abandoned for years,nobody comes in here apart from me.i put my earphones in and started to read,taking a bite of my food every now and then

20 minutes later my alarm went off to tell me break was over i grumbled gathering my things and shoved them into my bag.i checked my timetable again which said i had science now,i rolled my eyes knowing we'd have a new seating plan

i don't really know anyone in my english class but i got put next to a girl i thought was quite pretty,she looked anxious but relaxed once i told her that i thought she looked pretty.maths i got put next to a guy i know is friends with mason so he was silent the whole time,nervous looking

when i got to science we all stood at the back of the classroom as the teacher read the seating plan "julia and grayson here,henry and susan here,mason and leah there then juliet and jason behind them"

i sat in my seat annoyed,science and history were the only classes i had with mason and i'd prefer to be as far away from him as possible but at least i don't sit next to him,i guess

"hey juliet" jason spoke,i raised an eyebrow questioningly

"hello"

"what? can't i talk to my lab partner?"

"i'd prefer if you didn't" i said bluntly,he didn't speak again after that

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it was on the way to childcare when i realised tracy was a freshman this year,i walked past her as if i didn't notice her,i don't think she saw me which was good considering she probably hates me for what i did to her brother

i zoned out in childcare thinking about how surreal it was that tracy was a freshman.it's not like i hadn't seen her since i was 14 and she was 11,i mean,i live next to them,it just felt strange that she was here now.i don't even know if mason told her what happened but i wouldn't be surprised,they were always close.i wonder how melanie's doing,it feels weird to call her melanie but i don't think it would be right for me to call her mel anymore,she probably hates me too but i can't blame them

i mean,i completely fucked him over and then never spoke to any of them again,i'd hate myself too,i did for a while but then i realised there was no point hating myself,that wasn't going to undo it.

i looked down at my book ripping myself away from my thoughts,i don't like to think about him.i'd done all my work so i decided to just doodle on my book to distract myself

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the next day i was heading to lunch when i heard evie and her group talking to tracy "nice socks" they laughed like hyenas,i watched as they walked away and started following them.

that was until i heard a group of guys whistling at me,i put my middle finger up at them,you'd think they'd have some fucking respect especially in a school but no.that was when i stopped for a moment and actually thought about what i was doing.it's been 2 years or so now and i haven't acknowledged her existence since,nor have i tracy's,so was it really a good decision to go and pick a fight with them right now? probably not.

that night i was laying on my bed reading and listening to music,i had a really bad feeling that tracy was going to end up how i did but i figured i was probably being paranoid,but i couldn't help but overthink about it nonetheless,i turned my music up in an attempt to drown it out but it really wasn't working

i started getting angry picturing evie ruining tracy like she did me,tracy was always so lovely,when i knew her at least,she doesn't deserve that.before i realised what i was doing i was walking past their house trying to figure out if tracy was in,i could see two figures in the window that looked like tracy and melanie,i sighed in relief looking away so they wouldn't catch me looking at them,not that i made it obvious.i walked to the shop and grabbed myself a chocolate bar and a drink.a few minutes later i was back home and back to normal

𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐄
looking back i realise how bad this is😭 i'm going to publish it either way and hope it gets better as it goes along.