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Chapter 11

I really hated to admit it, but I had fun hanging out with Finn. It had been a friday so I didn't see him again until monday but things were frigid as usual. I didn't expect anything different.

Sam and Al came over for a swim in my pool. It was nice to hang out with Al. I missed having girl friends. The three of us hung out and talked about drama and clothing and all that shit. Mind you, Sam complained the whole time. I told him he should have expected it but he just scoffed and said 'and to think I thought you were a tom boy'.

"What happened to your face?" I asked when I saw Sam enter the Senior Lounge. I had seen him this morning and the cut on his lip had definitely not been there four hours ago.

Sam took his designated seat at our lunch table when Finn appeared from behind him. He took his seat too. Finn's knuckles seemed red and raw when he picked up his water bottle. I turned my vision back to Sam and noticed the same thing. Neither of them looked like they were going to answer me. Their faces were blank and cold, I might as well have talked to a wall.

Chris and Al sat down when I repeated my question to Sam and Finn. They didn't respond but Al answered for them. "Jason Wiegle, the quarterback, punched Sam in the hallway because he fucked Jason's girlfriend. Sam beat his ass. He left early. Finn was with him and got into a fight with Jason's friend, Bailey. Apparently he slept with Bailey's girlfriend last week." She said and gave the two of them pointed looks like a mother would give her children.

"Um....How are you two not suspended?" I asked while casting disapproving looks. It honestly doesn't surprise me that Sam and Finn would sleep with any girl, regardless of if they were single or not. I loved Sam, but his morals were questionable at times.

His argument was 'they're the ones cheating, not me. Besides, if it wasn't me, they're going to sleep with someone else so I might as well get off.' His logic wasn't necessarily wrong but it also wasn't correct.

In my opinion at least, but what did I know?

"Coach let us off with a warning." Sam muttered. "Not my fault his girlfriends a cheater. I was just being opportunistic."

"You two are the most cliché sports jocks in the history of high schools. Do you guys like having the man-whore reputation?" Al scolded them. Chris pretended he wasn't here, not wanting to get involved. I did no such thing.

"Yeah. They had boyfriends. It takes two people you know." I sent a disappointed look at Sam causing Finn who rolled his eyes and scoffed. It bothered me that they would do that to people in relationships. If the girls were single then I would have no problem with it.

But they weren't.

As much as Sam was my friend, I would still be brutally honest with what I approved of. I didn't control him obviously, but that didn't mean I wouldn't voice my opinion.

"Don't worry about it, you two. We do what we want." Sam said and pointed at the two of us. Al and I shared a look while rolling our eyes.

"Don't be a hypocrite, Sylvia." I heard Finn say in a monotone voice. My head snapped in his direction and my eyes narrowed. I had a pretty good idea of what was about to happen here. I didn't even need to say anything, Finn went on anyway. "You call us disgusting when we are single yet you had a boyfriend while you were playing grab ass with another guy."

My jaw opened slowly and I shook my head while scoffing. To think he actually was being nice friday. I should have expected this. It had been too long since we last fought. It was bound to happen again by now.

"What the fuck did you just say? Because if I recall correctly, you said it yourself that those pictures were out of context. That guy was my friend and it wasn't like that." I snapped. Sam seemed to tense up as well as Al. Chris just kept his eyes darting between the two of us. If a fight where to break out, he was the most ready to hold Finn back.