FAKE

26

avery's pov 

that morning i walked into school. it was a bit chillier then it has been recently, which was very surprising because it's nearly summer.

i got to my locker and started to unlock it, rather quickly, for some strange reason. i placed my bag into my locker and took out my folders that i didn't need. i picked up my folder for history, which was my first period class, and shut my locker. 

i turned around and saw an out of breath audrey standing in front of me. i raised my eyebrows at her, but couldn't help but smile. 

"what's wrong with you?" i asked still keeping that smile on my face. it took a second for audrey to respond, and my smile only grew.  

"what's wrong with me? well, one, a certain someone's been hanging out with a lot of other girls recently, and i don't like that one­."  

"not about your personal life audrey," i said.   "why are you running?"  

"oh, right," she said and pushed herself off her knees. "remind me to start running, i'm seriously out of shape," i giggled.  

"i could tell," i grinned.  

"hey, not nice," she huffed. "anyway, so—ah shoot, i forgot what i was going to tell you," she said.  

we started walking down the hall and she looked like she was thinking really hard about what she was trying to say before.  

"this is your entire fault!" she said.

i smiled. "mine? how is it my fault that you forgot what you were going to tell me?" i asked.  

"you made me talk about my personal life, making me forget what i was going to say," she said. i shrugged.  

"that's not my fault," i said. audrey rolled her eyes.

we turned the corner and my jaw almost dropped at what was in front of me. joey and tori were fighting, yet again, but this time seemed to be the worst out of all the times. i couldn't catch what they were saying, but, i could tell it was really bad.  

"now i remember," audrey said.  "joey and tori are fighting about —­"  

"i can see their fighting," i cut her off and chuckled.  

"shut up, let me tell you what it's about," sassy bitch. "they're fighting about you, avery," my head whipped in her direction and i knitted my eyebrows together.  

"me?" i repeated.

audrey nodded. i licked my lips and looked back and joey and tori. why were they fighting about me? what was there even to fight about?  

"you can't just leave me like this joey!" she shouted. joey leaned back on the lockers and crossed his arms over his chest. "why would you bother to go chase after some shitty girl, when you can have something that's clearly better standing right in front of you?"

"i'm going to say it one last time, we're done. and stay away from me," he rolled his eyes and went to turn around, but stopped once we made eye contact. he walked over to me quickly and looked down at me. "how much did you hear?" he asked.  

"only a little, you're leaving tori?" i asked. joey sighed, in relief? i ignored it. "answer me."

"yeah, i am. you were right, she doesn't treat me well," he said. i nodded slowly.  

"but i thought­ —"  

"if i want to start treating girls right, then i need to get rid of all the problems that would make me want to cheat," he said. "i want to get serious now," his voice was deep and his tone was definitely serious.