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thomas:

I sat up in my bed, just waking up from a nightmare. My breathing pace is very fast, and my heart is pounding. "You good Thomas?" Gally rubs his eyes from the side of the room.

"Another nightmare." I grumble, stepping out of my bed. "You should take pills for that. When my sister was younger, she used sleeping pills." Gally said.

"I already do. I just don't have enough money, so I have to take the shit ones." I chucked a pill down my throat. "I'm going back to bed." Gally adjusted his pillow and laid back down.

I walked over to my dresser and retrieved black jeans and a grey hoodie. I removed my pyjamas in the bedroom, hoping Gally had already fallen asleep.

"Damn Thomas. You got ass, my guy!" Gally joked.

I threw my pyjama shirt straight at Gally's head and fastened my jeans. I threw my jumper on and headed for the door.

"See ya later, Gally." I said before slamming the door behind me. I walked to the cafeteria, phone in hand. While I was asleep, I got a ton of notifications from the group chat.

SENIORS 2024

Newt: No.

Teresa: Guys, I've convinced Newt, he's going now.

Gally: Okay.

Minho: Yayyyyy!!!!

I really don't want Newt going. He's so annoying and weird. He acts as if I'm inferior to him, which I'm most definitely not. My sister Teresa is his best friend as well, which sucks.

Whenever we go back home, she's always on the phone with him, or he's there.

"Do you have any other friends?" I ask her. She just ignores me.

I reach the cafeteria, stuffing my phone down in the pocket of my jeans. I sit down with Minho. Newt isn't there yet, so I take advantage of that. I was going to sit there and he couldn't stop that.

"Hey Minho." I grin as I sit down on a chair. "Hey Thomas." He's writing something down, so he doesn't turn to face me. "Someone's forgotten to do their homework." I cackle.

"I was tired. Are you excited about Gally's party tonight?" Minho asks while putting away his notebook. "Shit, that's tonight?" I respond, confused.

"Yes, it is." Minho laughs. Newt comes up from behind me. He walks to the other side of the table to sit next to Minho. "Hey Newt. Are you going to Gally's party?" I grumble.

"Teresa's making me." He groans. I don't think he wants to talk to me.

newt:

Teresa flies over to me, completely out of nowhere. "Come on, let's skip next class so we can pick you an outfit." She grabs my arm and pulls me. "Fuck off Teresa." Thomas grunts.

"I wasn't talking to you." She mumbled, practically forcing me out of my seat. As we fled out the cafeteria, Teresa sighed. "Thomas really is a piece of work." She shook her head.

"Forget about it Teresa. Let's go shopping." I attempted to cheer her up. We basically had the whole day. All the teachers were at meetings, whether that involved school captains or not, and the one period I had was study hall.

We quickly jumped into Teresa's white Jeep Rangler, excellerated for the day ahead of us. We jammed out to Taylor Swift. I was a huge swiftie. I had a thought and came to the conclusion that Thomas would hate Taylor Swift. I figured he'd be more of a Kanye guy.

Thomas. Why was he on my mind once again? "What are you thinking about?" Teresa asked while tapping the steering wheel. "Surprisingly, Thomas." I stated down at my shoes.