Size Matters

Chapter 21- Forget you

"Pleeeaaase Ebony stop crying!" Rebecca whined while shaking me by my shoulders. I pushed her hands off and wiped my eyes even though tears still kept slipping out.

We were inside the room we shared with two other girls and I had been crying since I step foot into the room. We were sitting criss cross apple sauce facing each other on the bed and Rebecca was trying her best to keep me quiet but everytime I closed my mouth I remembered that Justin rejected me.

"Thanks Rebecca you're really cheering me up" I said sarcastically while wiping my eyes. I know it may seem that I'm acting like a big whiny baby but it's just that when someone you like rejects you it destroys a large part of your self esteem and you feel like you'll never get over it.

Ugh I need icecream!

As if reading my mind Rebecca got up and ran to the mini fridge taking out cookies and cream icecream. She got two spoons from the sink making sure to be extra quiet so the other girls wouldn't wake up. She washed them and came back with the carton of ice cream and sat down on the bed.

"Were gonna eat straight out the carton?" I ask her with amusement written on my face. She gives me a michevious look, opens the carton, and dips her spoon into it taking a scoop.

"Yup I'm a bad bad girl" She mumbles triumphantly with ice cream stuffed in her mouth. I chuckle shaking my head and dip my spoon in as well taking a scoop and popping it into my mouth. This ice cream is heaven.

We kept scooping and eating until both of us got brain freeze. We held our heads and closed our eyes tightly but soon enough we shook it off and laughed about it.

Rebecca slowly stopped eating and set her spoon down in the carton. I looked up at her and she looked sad all of a sudden. I put my spoon down too and wiped some cream off my mouth.

"What's wrong?" I ask her softly.

She peeks up at me with her big green eyes then looks back down.

"I...encouraged you to tell Justin that you like him...and things didn't turn out like you and I planned and now you're really upset.." Her eyes started to look glassy and she sniffed a little. "I feel like this is all my fault. I'm so sorry Ebony. I'm a terrible friend"

I stared at her for a second not really sure how to respond. Rebecca is one of my best friends, besides Jenny, and I would never blame her for anything that goes wrong in my life that she encourages me to do.

I grab her hands in mine and this seems to surpise her. She looks back up at me still sniffing and I start to feel like I'm going to cry too.

"None of this is your fault Becky" I only call her that when I'm reallly serious.

"I chose by myself to tell Justin but I'm so glad you gave me the strength and stook by me the whole time. That's what I love about you. You're loyal, generous, and caring and you will always be my best friend" I said to her squeezing her hands tighter and smiling. My eyes were starting to get a little glassy too but I held my tears back.

She stared into my eyes and her lip started quivering uncontrollably and then she threw her arms around me and hugged me tightly causing me to fall off the bed with a loud thud.

"Oh Ebony! You're so kind!" She shouted into my ear while crying at the same time. I tried to pull her off of me but she just wouldn't budge.

I could hear the girls on the other side of the room groaning as they started to wake up. They looked over at us with annoyance.

"Oh sorry! Please go back to sleep we'll be quiet" I said to them as I tried hard to remove Rebecca from her grasp but she seemed determined not let me go. That's my best friend for you.