PAPER RINGS || R. bowen ✔️

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THE FRIENDS DON'T EXACTLY KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON. All they know is Ricky had fucked up somehow, leaving Ophelia all sad.

Ophelia and Ricky used to sit next to the other at break, now they're seated on opposite ends of the table.

If Ophelia even sits when them, sometimes she has days she doesn't even wanna see him, where she can't handle seeing him so then she finds other places to sit.

Mostly the library because she knows no one would go there at break, at most Ash and Seb, but the others? no.

Today is that day, she found an place in the library, her book infront of her to study for an upcoming test while she is eating her lunch she brought from home just so she didn't need to go to the cafataria and face him.

Ophelia had spend her weekens in her room, ignoring her friends texts and calls, door locked while she hide away in her room, crying into her pillow.

Her friends had stopped by her house aswell, but were quickly gone as soon as they realized she wasn't opening that door anytime soon.

Ricky had tried to talk to her aswell, with no answer in return.

She still is upset by the fact he really went out kissing Lily in an room next to the one she was in.

"Lia?" She hears an voice softly asks, an hand placed on her shoulder. "You okay?"

Ophelia simply nods her head before turning away from Nini back to her book.

Nini sits down in the seat next to her. "If you don't wanna talk about what happened, that's fine, I just want you to know I'm here."

Maybe talking about it will give her some peace, seeing she would have some of it out of her system.

"He kissed Lily." Ophelia sighs, looking up from her book to see Nini's eyes widden slightly.

"Ricky? no he wouldn't do that." She shakes her head in disbelieve, she knows how much Ricky loves Ophelia, so why would he go and kiss someone else? it doesn't make sense.

"He admitted it." Ophelia mumbles, letting Nini know he infact did kiss the blonde.

"But... why?" Nini mutters more too herself then to Ophelia. "I swear he like loved you."

"Love is a big word, Neens." Ophelia mumbles, leaning back in her chair.

"You guys litterally tell each other that you love them constantly." Nini points out, raising an eyebrow at her.

"In an platonic way. When we were friends, ever since this thing started se hadn't said it ever again."

"Which means his feelings changed, he didn't love you in an friendly way and that is why he stopped mentioning it." Nini almost looks proud as she comes up with his reasoning.

"Nini, he kissed Nini." Ophelia reminds her.

Nini's grin falls at her words. "Right." She sighs. "But when did he though?"

"At the party." Ophelia informs her. "And he just kept saying stupid things over text like how he thought it was me and how the whole night is just a blur."

Nini's eyes furrow together in confusion, she knows how Ricky gets when he is drunk but not like that. "You sure he isn't speaking the truth? That really doesn't sound like him."

"He was drunk." Ophelia huffs, rolling her eyes.

"Come on, we both know how Ricky is when he is drunk. He always remmebers everything clearly and instead of acting distant like he did that night he always is clingy."

Lia knows Nini is right. That night he acted distant, when normally drunk him would be all over her, continuely kissing her cheek or neck and hugging her.

That doesn't sound like him at all.

"He had an headache the next mroning aswell right, worse then normal? He can't remember anything? Sounds like he got drugged."

Ophelia 's eyes widden as she realizes what happened. "That bitch." Ophelia huffs before standing up and rushing out of the library.

That bitch put that pill in his drink.