Can I Call You Baby? (girlxgirl)

Prologue

-12 years ago-

"Leah! Leah! Look what I found!" A five-year-old Marie Carrington yelled at her best friend Leah King.

"What is it?" Leah yelled, running her way. The girls were wearing their matching overalls, and they were playing outside by the local park.

"It's a daisy! Our favorite!" Marie pulled the flower out of the ground and put it on her ear. The girls laughed and ran around some more. They went on the slides and went to their favorite hiding spot. Their hiding spot was at the top of the tree next to the park. They were never allowed up there at first, but Leah's dad agreed to build a ladder that led to the top. And he did. So they went up there every day. In the hiding spot, they pinned the flower to the tree.

"Let's be friends forever." Marie said, holding out her pinky.

"And ever." Leah said, smiling and latching her pinky to Marie's.

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-2 years ago-

Marie was happy to be in tenth grade. Life was good for her. Everyone was nice to her, and she had a lot of friends. Her birthday was in two months, and she was told she might get a car for her sixteenth birthday.

She contemplated what to get for lunch, when a girl with a bob haircut bumped into her. She stumbled, but managed to regain her balance.

"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry!" The girl said, grabbing Marie's shoulder to help her regain balance. "Wait... Marie?" She asked.

"Yeah, I'm Marie... And who are you?" Marie asked, a little confused. People didn't generally ask who you were here.

"You seriously don't remember me? I'm Leah. Leah King. We used to be best friends when we were kids."

Marie's eyes widened. "Oh yeah, I remember you." She smiled. "It was nice seeing you again." Marie walked away.

The two had stopped talked in fifth grade, when cliques started to form. Marie had found a lot of friends, but they didn't like Leah. So Marie and Leah stopped being friends.

A few weeks after their meeting, Leah's name came up again. Whispers about her were everywhere.

School hallways. "You know that dyke Leah King? Well it turns out she actually is a lesbian."

The supermarket. "I heard that someone saw Darcy King's daughter kissing another girl. That poor lady, first her husband dies and then her daughter becomes one of them homosexuals."

Church. Oh, most definitely church. "That girl's gonna go to hell one of these days." "Ol' Mrs. King is gonna have to watch her burn one day." "If my daughter ever did something like that, I would have her sent away. Nobody like that is ever gonna live in my household." It got so known, our preacher gave a message about how girls liking girls and boys liking boys are sins. It was the same message over and over again.

Soon enough, Leah was shunned by the whole town. Marie felt bad for her. She didn't understand why everyone had to be so mean to her. But Marie wasn't going to talk to her, either. She would be kicked out of her group immediately.

When she went to lunch, she could see the hell that Leah was going through. She sat alone, people pushed her around, and everyone called her names. It seemed as though Marie was the only one that didn't pick on Leah.

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-Now-

"Welcome to your senior year, kids. I'll be your Economics teacher this year." The teacher had her name written on the board. It was Mrs. Wells.

"That shirt makes her look fat." Someone said. The teacher blushed and everyone laughed. They started making jokes about her.

"How many of you like group projects?" The teacher suddenly bursted out.

"Nobody does." Another person responded.

"Exactly. Well, from here on out, everything we do will be a group project. And I'll be assigning your partners. And most projects will require you to work outside of class with each other."

By the end of assigning students as partners, most of them being miserable, there were only two students left. A girl with a really short boy cut and a girl with medium-length hair.

"Leah King and Marie Carrington, you two will be partners."

Everyone moved according to partners. Marie and Leah looked at each other once they found seats in the back corner of the classroom.

"Hi." Marie said, smiling.

Leah rolled her eyes. "Whatever." And she buried her head in her arms.

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A/N: The rest of the story will be in first person POV by Marie. Thanks for reading. Please vote and comment. I'd like to know if this is good or not.