"if there's a light at the end, it's just the sun in your eyes.''
Mia
I crinkled up my nose as I got a whiff of the strong nicotine smell flowing through my nostrils, almost making me sneeze. "God, Natalie. Do you have to smoke one of those every fucking second you get?"
The guyanese girl's laugh echoed throughout the courtyard at our school. Private school. We aren't even supposed to be out here without permission, yet here we are. She always seemed to get me into trouble, it never fails.
"Oh, quit being a prude, Mia." After scoffing, she put the head of the cigarette to her red colored lips once again. My parents would kill me if they ever caught me wearing red lipstick. Any lipstick for that matter... Obviously, Nat's parents were way more less strict than my parents. Her dad's always gone and her mom practically gets off at all the guys calling all the time. Not your best nomination for parents of the year.
Natalie's words caused me to snap back into reality, my brown eyes jetting up to hers. God, I hope she didn't notice me judging. "You heading to that party tomorrow night?"
"Party? Who's party?" Of course she knew and of course she was invited. She had a way better social status than me.
I suddenly saw her eyes drop and she looked around nervously, avoiding eye contact with me.
"Jeff's." I heard her mumble, and I swear I almost threw up in my mouth. Was she serious?
"Who's?" I asked again, just in case I heard her wrong. "It's Jeff's! Jeff's, okay! He's having this huge party end everyone's going to be--" "No." I immediately cut her off, shaking my head and walking away from her. I couldn't believe she was actually asking me to go into the house of the one person I despise the most. All of the memories in that house... I physically cringed thinking about it.
Jeffery Coyne was my ex boyfriend. Both of his parents were lawyers so he was filthy fucking rich, and of course he thought he could get any girl around him with his bands. Living in the finest home in Chicago, all alone. His parents were never around, throwing cash at him or letting him invite friends over and order pizza on their cards whenever they couldn't make it for dinner that night...which was usually every night. My parents were no better, that was the only thing we had in common.
In all honesty, he gave me any and everything a girl could ever want. Every girl in our school envied me or thought I was the luckiest girl in the world. I used to think I was, until he started buying my love. Doing the same shit his parents did to him. Eventually, the guy needed a therapist, and they insisted he didn't have any relations with any girls. Man, was I relieved we ended on good terms and not because I got broken up with or had to break his heart. Thank god there was no bad blood.
That was until he slept with my worst enemy, Kennedy Kelley.
I heard the sounds of leaves crunching behind me, indicating she was now following me. The tone in her voice was childish with a mix of anger; the voice she always tries to use to win me over. "Fuck, Mia!" I heard a groan afterwards, "It's been two years. Why won't you fucking let it go? Let him go--"
I turned around swiftly to point in her face. "I have let him go, you bitch." My voice was hard and stern, but her blank face didn't last long because she burst into a fit of laughter three seconds after, making me groan in frustration and turn my back to her, continuing to walk. No one ever takes me serious!
"Oh, really? Doesn't seem like it to me. Seems to me you're still mad he fucked Kennedy Smelly at that amusement park." I could practically hear the fucking smirk in her voice and I swear if her insult to Kennedy didn't make me giggle a bit, I'd slap it off of her face. Suddenly, Nat was in front of me, blocking my way to enter the building. "C'mon, Mia. Think of the looks on their faces when they see how hot you're gonna look. How laid ya hairs gonna be, how good I'm gonna beat ya face."
