20 days.

eleven.

{A/N: thank you for 6k reads holy flip!!! I hope you guys enjoying what I've been writing so far.}
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I ran back inside my house, dashing up the stairs.

"Back early?!" My mom called out to me. "Yeah! I have plans!" I shouted back while taking off my vans.

"Where to?" She asked. "Campfire with a few people from school!" I replied, rushing into my closet.

"Be back before ten tonight Kenzie! I'm serious!" She got louder.

"Okay, okay!" I said getting aggravated.
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My phone started to ring.

"Nessa wants to FaceTime.." I read. Me and Nessa haven't talked in almost a year. She used to be my Bestfriend, and we even planned about graduating high school together, and that didn't work out.
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FLASHBACK
; "I cant believe you would do that to me Nessa, you're supposed to be my Bestfriend and you kissed my boyfriend!?" I yelled.

She sat on my bed. "Kenzie, I'm sorry. We were drunk you know I would've never done it if I was aware of what was happening, can you consider my position?" She begged.

"Just leave, I never want to speak to you again." I said lowly.

"What? Kenzie no-" I cut her off. "LEAVE!" I screamed.

She looked at me as if I was unbelievable. "I cant believe you would let a boy ruin our friendship. We've been best-friends since kindergarten, you cant do this!" A tear slipped.

I threw a pillow past her face.

"Just fucking leave!"

She ran out of the room after looking at me one last time. I sat on the bed crying more that night.
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NORMAL
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I hovered my thumb over the answer button. "Fuck it." I said to myself answering. I set the phone down not showing my face.

Connecting..

"Hi kenzie." Her voice spoke. "Hi Nessa." I said softly.

She sighed, "It's almost been a year and, I just wanted to check on you. Are you going to the campfire tonight?" She asked.

"Yeah I am. Are you?" I replied.

"Yeah, I just hoped I could see a familiar face there. We don't have to talk but, I just wanted someone I was familiar with to be there." She said.

I wanted to put all of this behind us. Besides, I was super lonely if I wasn't hanging out with johnny, and it'd be nice to have someone close around me besides my family.

"Do you wanna come over and get ready together?" I said offering.

"Really? Um, yes." She said nervously. "I'll be there soon."

"Bye." I said hanging up.
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I walked over to my closet picking out shorts. I pulled out a black one, white, and a denim one. I laid them across the bed and put my red tank top next to them to decide.

The door bell rang.

I hurried downstairs. I slowly opened the door seeing Nessa. I almost started to tear up.

We both ran to each other and caught ourselves in our embrace. "I missed you so much Kenzie." She whispered. "I missed you too."
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After saying hi to my mom and Maddie after so long, we came upstairs into my room. She looked around, "Wow, your room hasn't changed much since I was last here. Feels like it was just yesterday." She shot me a smile.

I smiled back. "Yeah, I haven't been motivated lately but, I'll see."
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We finished getting ready. I put my hair into a high pony tail. "Oh my gosh! You look so good." She complimented me.

I smiled nervously. "Thank you, you too."

I looked into the mirror looking at myself. "Oh well." I said sighing and putting on my flip flops.

I grabbed two towels since Nessa forgot hers. "Ready to go?" I said to her. She nodded. We started walking up the street towards Johnny's house.

"So how are things? I saw you and Johnny sitting next to each other the last day of school." She said teasing me.

"Eh, it's whatever honestly. I really don't think he likes me." I said sighing.

"We'll find out tonight shall we?" She smiled.
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I knocked on the door. "Coming!" Johnny's voice yelled from inside.

I quickly fixed my hair. He opened the door looking to the back of him, then turned towards me and Nessa.

He paused when he looked at me making me shift.

"Um, wow. You um, look.. You um, well you know-" Nessa cut Johnny off. "She looks good, we know." She said laughing.

"Hi Johnny, you don't look bad yourself."

The beats of the music was all that was heard from Johnny's backyard. "Um, come in!" He says smiling.
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We headed to the backyard. Nessa went and saw a few unexpected friends. I stood there by myself eyeing everyone.

Johnny came up from behind me. "You look really good." He whispered in my ear because the music was so loud.

I jumped a little. "Haha thanks." I said avoiding eye contact.

He slid his hand on my waist before walking away. "What is he doing..." I thought.

This is going to be a long night.