a realistic fairytale // d.e. // rewriting

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Darren's been avoiding me the whole day and I don't know why. Everytime I see him in the hallways, he changes his direction. People give me glares, and I glare back at them for being rude.

"HOY! Kylie, are you dating Jason?!" Katy screamed in my face, running up to me. I panicked and bit lip.

"Wh-wHAT!? Of course not!"

"Girl, people are talking about you and Jason hanging out late yesterday!"

"Hindi naman date 'yun eh!"

"Sure ka bes?"

I slapped her arm. "Obviously!"

Slamming my locker, I groaned. Why does this have to happen to me, Jesus, I've been good naman?

"Ugh, its my birthday in like, 4 days and this happens. Ang saya talaga, grabe!"

She laughed. "Oh- gotta go. Talk to you later!" She says, walking fast.

I turned around and realized the reason why Katy ran.

"Oh. Darren." I spoke out. He didn't smile like he usually does when I see him. My heart raced.

"Oh. Kylie. Didn't realize you didn't consider me as a friend." He snapped, but not aggressively.

"What are you talking about?" I exclaimed. This topic had me messed up, and I felt like going home.

He looked at me dead in the eye. "Friends usually tell each other when they get a boyfriend. Bye, Kylie." He said and walked away. My heart hurt all of a sudden, the world was going against me. And I couldn't do anything to stop it.

Out of the corner of my eye I spotted Jason. I quickly walked over to him and crossed my arms. "I wanna go home."

"Yeah, me too." He replied. He didn't say anything after that.

"Look at those lovesick mofos!" Someone I recognized as Jason's friend teased. He slapped Jason on the arm and Jason rolled his eyes.

"This has to stop." I said, making it sound like an order. He looked over at me.

After a while, he finally talked. "I know, I know."

I slumped into the locker door and sighed. He followed.

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I was looking for Darren, but I bet he was hiding. Or at least just hiding from me. I gave up 30 minutes ago, and suddenly instead of guilt, I felt anger.

He was now in the hallway, getting his books. I ran up to him, but stayed at least 5 footsteps away.

"You have no right to be mad at me." I said. He didn't seem affected,

he turned and looked at me.

"You, as my other best friend, should be happy to hear that I have a boyfriend. But I really don't have one!"

Still quiet.

"You're my best friend. Trust is a great factor in friendship. Don't you...trust me?" Dangit, there comes the tears.

"Of course I do." He said quickly and quietly. Anger built up inside of me.

I could only laugh sarcastically as he stared intently. "Well, what a great friend you are."

"Kylie-" he said, but I had already run off.

I had headed to the same dark corner.

"You okay?" Jason said. I shook my head and slumped into the wall. "Guys are jerks."

"That's harsh." He laughed. "Well, I got you coffee." He said, handing me a iced coffee. "I literally just came back, and I saw you here." He smiled.

"Thanks, Jason." I smiled. At least this one guy wasn't a jerk.

He sat down with me. "So what are we gonna do about the rumors?"

"Want my honest opinion? I honestly have no clue."

He was quiet for a while. "Hm, leave it to me. I'll get rid of the rumors."

"Okay. I trust you. By the way, do you know who started the rumors?" I questioned.

He thought, and looked at me. "Hm. not sure. You can ask Lauren, she knows stuff like that."

"Okay. I'll head to her now." I said. She was the editor in chief of the school newspaper. It's obvious where she would be.

"Lauren!" I said, opening the door. "Yeah?" She replied, and there she was sitting down with a bunch of people doing random things.

Some were playing on their phones, and some were eating junk food.

"Um, hi. Do you know who started the Jason Kylie rumor?"

"Oh, that rumor? Melody came up to me and told me." She said, fixing some papers.

Snake.

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a/n

short af but there's more chapters to come deary 💕

-kayyyyy