"Can we have everyone's attention please?" is what Mrs. Tate said that shitty day.
"Hello students, I'm Coach Simons and I would like to speak about this years basketball team. We need as many players as we can get so if you're interested please come up so I can get into some more detail," explained the Coach.
This year all the good players were gone at the high school so the athletes in my grade were strongly encouraging people to play. I can't count how many times I was asked because of my height. Anyways, the athletic girls all went up and slowly my friends, at the time, followed. What was left of my friend group were the people that I would soon grow close too.
Since the amount of people was so small, everyone made the team. As the basketball season progressed there was a sudden and unexpected decline and break away from my friends who had tried out. Basketball had brought them closer and us farther apart. Soon they were hanging out nonstop all weekend. To make it worse, they would exclude us at school. So my actual friends and I began talking at lunch when it was game day and they all sat together at one table. We realized we just needed to stay close and not let them bug us anymore. (Side note: Paige, my tennis friend, was on the fence with the situation. She made the team and they excluded her, when she talked to them about it they faked and played nice and won her over. Also, many nights were spent depressed after seeing their snapchats. I didn't understand why my "friends" had suddenly not been my friends anymore.)
The new bitch, Casey, who came to the school the year before, snap chatted me one day after seeing my story with everyone but them (Casey and the two other girls Megan and Lauren). She asked if it was because they were going to a school dance they were invited to. I said no and told her why. She called me up crying and lying about everything that happened. She was a completely new person, definitely not the girl I knew before, and should absolutely one hundred percent denied it. I saw right through her and I wasn't going to let her mess things up anymore. I lied and gave her all the answers she wanted to get her off my back.
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Unrelatable
Teen FictionDakota Carpenter is stuck in a looping life of depression and confusion mixed with excitement and independence to fit her gemini personality.