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༺ What Happened Over Spring Break? ༻
Megara didn't think she deserved much, but repeating her parents' willingness to go forever without speaking to each other with Ricky was just cruel.
"Megara?" Rita asked, waving a hand in front of her friend's face to get her attention. The raven-haired girl batted her eyelashes as she zoomed back into reality, where Rita was looking at her expectantly. "Did you hear what I just said?"
"Um, yeah..." Megara swallowed the prickly ball in her throat. The last thing she wanted to do was socialize, much less gather around talking useless gossip about North High. "You said... you said something about..." she trailed off as KC raised her eyebrows, awaiting her answer. "Um... they're attacking us online."
"Not just us, my girlfriend," KC exaggerated, crossing her arms over her chest. "Rats, all of them."
"What do you mean they're attacking Nini?" Megara furrowed her eyebrows. If they'd been explaining it to her, she'd clearly missed it, and something had told her that she did because EJ groaned dramatically.
"They came for The Rose Song," EJ explained. "They also called us lazy for posting about our spring breaks and saying we gave up on the competition. And now it's just going to get worse since we're banned from practicing."
Rita nodded as she twisted the cap on her baby pink hydro flask. "How we could focus on anything besides the musical right now is beyond me. I mean, even without social media, all the tagging and stuff happening online, there's just so much going on between the schools right now. All our anxiety is just bubbling to the surface."
KC nodded her head just once, but her eyes were trained somewhere else in front of her, zoned out. Megara couldn't blame her for dissociating so quickly around the group, especially when talking about the musical was involved. However, KC had been putting in a lot of effort this time around, probably as much as Carlos if not more, and it was mentally tiring. "It's only a matter of time before we reach our breaking point. We can only hope it's not close to opening night, it's only two weeks away."
Despite all of this, Megara couldn't bring herself to care as much as she wanted to. She was still replaying the last week over and over again in her head, and while it may not be much, it was definitely more important to her than the stupid Beauty and the Beast. Besides, she had all her lines studied to perfection. Practicing with Big Red and EJ was some of the most fun she'd had in a while. She was sure she was going to miss them.
Rita sat up straighter. "You're awfully quiet about this, Meg. What's on your mind?"
Well, in the last couple of months, my grades fell drastically behind, and I got stuck with a role that I didn't ask for, I basically lead two guys who I both really like, and my nonexistent mother randomly showed up for a wedding that wasn't even mine, I haven't even been sleeping in my own bedroom as of lately (and it doesn't feel or look like my own anymore), dad and I fight all the time, and I watched Ricky leave my house with my love letter before crying myself to sleep.
