Before Us (GirlXGirl)

Chapter 11

Laying in Lexi's guest bed, Lexi in the desk chair listening to Lainey talk, the two of them finished their weekend homework and gossiped like old friends.

"You did what!?" Lexi's eyes bulged in disbelief.

"I did it, dude. Like finally, and it was just amazing. She is just amazing." Lainey fan girled over Jess.

Lexi smiled holding her heart, "you guys were made for each other." She shook her head in disbelief.

That next weekend they planned on a party at Lexi's while her parents left instead of going out camping, so Lainey was more than excited to have Jess sleep over, but first she assumed she was fired for so many reasons and would have to grab her check Friday.

Friday would be the last day of school and the day of finals with Graduation on that next Friday. She had worked hard all her life for this moment to graduate one day and this next week was absolutely it. 

Lainey wanted to fan girl over that too. She finished her Monday night homework, more than prepared and pumped to finish this week with the best people she called friends.

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Friday came around, and Lainey had woken up and come to when her alarm rang at 6am. Lexi's parents had left Wednesday for the whole week. Lainey could smell marijuana. She rubbed her sleepy eyes and got up, going into the hallway.

"Lexi?" She called out, nobody was in her room. Lainey heard familiar laughing and giggles outside and she followed it to the back yard. When closing the back door she saw Becks, Chase, Lexi, and Jess sitting outside. She instantly took a memory photo then of the 4 of them surrounding a fire. That was where they belonged.

Jess cackled with a joint in her hand and as she heard the back door shut, she looked up suddenly stopping her laugh. She giggled at Lainey's PJs and Lainey sat with her around the fire pit outside, placing her hand on her knee and smiling at her as Jess cleared her throat suddenly sitting up right.

"Lainey?" Jess asked passing the blunt to her. Lainey took it and took one puff from it passing it on to Lexi.

Lexi looked her up and down with her eyebrow cocked. "I didn't want to wake you, I thought you'd want to sleep." She said.

"Nah, I'm okay. And that was all I needed from that." She exhaled the smoke and passed it to Lexi with a chuckle.

"Wait, you're staying here?" Jess asked.

"Uhm, yeah. Some stuff happened with my dad and I, and I called Lexi, she's just letting me stay here until I can get my shit together." Lainey laughed with Lexi. If she wanted to be prepared today, she couldn't be impaired.

"Oh you and Lexi get that freaky on, huh?" Chase laughed taking the joint out of Lexi's hand and Lexi smacked him hard with her open hand now. He rubbed the spot and laughed, kissing her temple after.

Lainey smiled looking over at Jess who was trying to avoid her eyesight, laughing with Lexi and Chase.

They sat around the fire pit taking, realizing soon they would all be going off to college and going their separate ways. Chase's arm around Lexi while they announced their relationship and that Lexi would be going with Chase to TSU, they would be losing half their friend group now, if not Jess.

Jess looked happy for them, but she seemed distracted. Lainey squeezed her thigh, "I'm going to go get ready for school." Lainey smiled and got up from the fire pit and said good luck to everyone for the day.

She went straight to the room and grabbed some clothes to change into out of the shower. When she went to go, Jess stood in the door way. She leaned against the frame and like usual, even after those unusual events Sunday night, she had not seen Jess since the accident in the freezer. She had not even gone to collect her last check.