The Stalked, The Loved and The Reflection

Chapter twenty three

I fell asleep on the ride to Vanessa's house because I've been texting Dev all of study hall. I needed the rest though to prepare for our night of gossip.

We reached her house and she put some mini pizza rolls in the oven and set up the wii for a Netflix marathon; even though we talk through the whole thing.

"So it's official. You're official?" She asked me.

"Yes ma'am."

"Maddie Rochester is off the market boys!" She yelled as if anyone else could hear it or even cared.

"Aislin was so mad, you should've seen her face. But speaking of her, whose naughty pictures did she pretend were hers and sent them around?" I asked, remembering the scandalous 6 second snap chat the whole school received.

"I don't know, I deleted the app to save space."

"Redownload it so we can see it again. I already replayed it." I said.

Something about this anonymous pic rubbed me the wrong way. It was obviously not me. I would remember taking a picture like that, but the person looked familiar, even though the face was colored with the pen filter.

She downloaded the app and signed in, and the snap was there, from Aislin. I have no idea how she got everyone's snap.

I took out my phone so that when she opened the snap, I took a picture before it disappeared. This way, they wouldn't get the screenshot notification.

I opened up my camera roll and we looked...who am I kidding...stared at the pic for a good five minutes. I looked over at Vanessa and we had the same thought in our head. We knew who it was.
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We began to watch The Carrie Diaries on Netflix and each indulged in one of those mini ice cream bins that supposingly my have 3 servings. We tried not to talk about it, but we couldn't ignore this. It was serious.

"How did she even get that picture?" I finally said.

"I-I don't know.." She replied, lost for words.

"Well the whole school saw it, there's nothing to do about it now! But who knows how many people screenshotted?!" I began panicking.

"I-I don't...know." She said again, no emotion.

"How are you so calm?! It's your picture! That's your room in the picture! That's your limited edition Victoria Secret push-up!"

"I-"

"Don't you dare say I don't know! Vanessa, how could you be so careless? Why would you send RaeVaugn that picture? You know Aislin was messing with him and would try anything to get revenge on any girl associated with him!" I yelled.

Maybe I was over reacting but it is my best friends picture that's possibly accessible to every freakin person in our school of over 700 students.

"I wasn't thinking okay! It was late at night. We were texting and I was in a depressed state I guess and I went into my dads liquor cabinet and...you know. I drank. I didn't stop. We were texting until 3 am and he asked for pics and I..." She stopped. I could see the hurt in her eyes being flooded by tears.

"Maddie I just want to fix this," she balled.

"I don't know if it's too late. It probably is but I need you to help me fix this!"

She rested her head in my lap and soaked my pajamas in her tears.

"We will do whatever we can," I said with a calmer voice.

Yelling at this point wouldn't help the situation.

"Aislin seems to not be able to makeup her mind on whether she likes Kevin, RaeVaugn, or the rest of the guys in this gosh dang school. At least most people think it's her. The face is scratched out so no one will suspect you. Still...she may have more blackmailing up her sleeve." I said while stroking her hair.