Last Girls on Earth

Chapter 9

Third Person POV
Gabby ran after Tristan trying to catch her to talk to her while Ally stayed back to talk with Alexis.

"You bullied her!" Ally yelled shocked. She never knew her cousin would be as low down as to treat someone badly because of them being different.

"Yes! But that was back then when I was popular! I've changed now." Alexis contradicted.

"You've changed! Was she the only one you bullied or was there more?"

"There was more." Alexis said in almost a whisper.

"Did you even apologize to them. Lexi I can't believe you! All this time I thought you were my sweet innocent cousin. But no being rich changed you too!" Ally fumed, shaking her head back and forth.

"It wasn't being rich that changed me. It was peer pressure," Alexis cried out,"everyone wanted me to be this perfect girl because I was head cheerleader and rich. I went to my extremes to stay popular. But in the midst of doing so I hurt people. People I didn't even know, and I'm truly sorry for doing it."

There was a moment of silence between the two before Ally spoke up again.

"Then you should go tell that to Tristan then."

"What if she doesn't listen?" Alexis asked.

"She'll listen."

....

"Tristan wait," Gabby yelled trying to pull Tris back before she could run off.

"What!" Tristan yelled in anger and turned around to face the person calling her name. "Sorry."

Gabby's face turned soft as she saw Tristan with a few tears in her eyelids. Tristan walked off to go sit on a bench in front of the mall, Gabby followed.

"Out of all the people alive, my school bully is one of them." Tristan laughed then sighed. "She hurt me, endless nights of crying, disowning myself, cutting off any ties I had with close friends. I had no one. And it was all because of her, Alexis James.

Gabby didn't know what to say. She had never been bullied before. She was always nice to people, but being nice to people these days still didn't save you. "Why do you think she did it?"

Tristan shrugged her shoulders,"Maybe to feel better about her self...but why would she need to feel better about her self, she's rich."

"I don't know, but we're all she has now. She'll apologize. No one wants to live with their demons, especially at this time." Gabby looked over at Tristan and gave her a small smile.

Ally and Alexis walked towards where Gabby and Tris was sitting. As they came nearer Gabby got up from her seat to allow Alexis to sit down.

"Tristan, I'm sorry. I never meant to hurt you or anyone else. Its just popularity does crazy things to you, I'm really not a bad person, I swear." The space around them became silent. All you could hear was the whirring of the wind. "I'm sorry Tristan."

"I accept your apology," Tristan mumbled.

Alexis displayed a look of shock. "You what?"

"I said I accept your apology."

A sigh of relief left the group,"Yay, now we can all be friends!" Gabby exclaimed.

"Not yet!" Tristan said standing up, suddenly,"There's still one more thing to be done."

Confusion washed over the group. For a second Alexis thought Tristan un-accepted her apology. But that was far from the case.

"Do you know this song." Tristan began to sing a cluster of lyrics. "...I've got a migraine and my pain will range from up down and sideways, thank god its Friday..."

"...Cause Fridays will always be better than Sundays cause Sundays are my suicide days," the group sang in unison.

"You're part of the Clique too!" Tris practically screamed. "We're all gonna get along just fine then."

They all grinned ear to ear walking back towards Ally's Jeep.

"I call shotgun," Alexis blurted out running to the car.

"Not if I get there first," Tris murmured running ahead of Alexis.

They all laughed and raced towards the car. Life won't be the same, but at least they have each other.