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Chapter 49

"No Anna. This is not something you can just do and get away with. And I was there at the beach when Theresa was telling Alyssa what had happened, and she never mentioned the phone recording the whole thing." Logan yelled back right before turning around and placing his hand onto his beard trying to calm himself down.

"You were what?" Anna angrily screams back.

"Yeah, I went down with Mitchel. And to think about it, Alyssa would have told you that part too." Logan barks back. "You tell us the entire truth right now or I am through with you for good."

"What? Logan don't say that." Anna says as she becomes the victim of tears.

"Guys, you will need to finish this conversation later." Bradley says as he throws each one of us our caps and gowns. Putting them on we walk onto stage with the hideous worn green gowns that are used every year as a prank to the parents who are waiting to see their children on graduation night. As Bradley pretends to be Principal Kelly, the rest of the class stands in alphabetical order along the back of the stage. With a very girly good-bye from Bradley the entire class bows as the audience stands up and cheers unknown of the truth behind the play.

After a final farewell from Principal Kelly the audience gets up and starts to leave. The seniors go to the backstage to change and meet their families for a celebratory greeting.

When the backstage area had cleared out it was just the three of us standing alone. "Anna. What the hell was that?" Alyssa enters the room angrily.

"You didn't tell her about what happened at the beach?" I question.

Alyssa looks around confused with her hands out around her. "What? Why would I do that? I knew it was embarrassing for you. I wouldn't do that to you."

Everyone in the room looks over at Anna who is standing there with a ghosted face. "If you want to explain what just happened I am ready to hear it." Logan pushes.

Anna looks around to all of us and remains silent. Logan throws his hand up into the air and starts to walk towards the door. "Ok, fine." Anna yells as her eyes start to water. Logan turns around and stands away from the group. "Alyssa told me that you two were heading down to the ocean for the weekend and I thought I would just give my friends a call. When I called them and said that I had a girl giving me trouble they offered to help." Anna starts to release tears.

"Anna, no..." Alyssa says disappointingly. Logan turns and runs his fingers through his hair. I continue to look at her. I cannot believe what is coming from her mouth. How much this girl must hate me to make me get rapped.

"Go on!" Logan demands.

"They had told me about a fraternity war they were having with their rivals." Anna continued. "I told them where you were staying and they said they would take care of it. When I called them last week they told me that it went without any trouble. That's when Crew started saying how much of a hassle she was. I offered him one last chance to get revenge by bringing him down here for the play." She continued to cry heavier. Alyssa put her hands on my shoulders and waited for me to reply. "Logan, I didn't want this to happen." She called after Logan.

"What do you think was going to happen Anna." Logan yelled as he walked towards her angrily. I had never seen him so angry before.

"I don't know. I just don't want to lose you." She reached out to touch him as he stepped back away from her touch as if it was poison.

"Anna..." He began shaking his head. Alyssa pulled at my shoulders and walked me out of the room to leave the two to argue.

When I walked out of the room Bradley and James stood up from the floor. "Theresa what happened?" Bradley asked.

"I, um..." I tried to reply to his question, but could not find the ability to speak. Alyssa continued to walk me down the hallway away from the auditorium.