Just Good Friends

Chapter 25

SAM's POV

I was back home and resting on my bed, staring up at the ceiling. The little confrontation at the mall today made me think about what was actually important to me. I had never thought about it before, but even though I wanted to slap the mess out of Julie, she really isn't worth it. I've always been one to fight for what I want -- whether fighting physically or verbally -- but lately, all I seem to do is make my friends angry with me. 

Julie is not important and she never was. All of the horrible things she said or did to Jake, Becca, and Diggy got me heated because she messed with what was important to me. Honestly, she can do bad all by herself as long as she doesn't mess with my homies.

I'm done arguing with people, too. It's not worth it because they will only listen to themselves and still make the same mistakes. Take Diggy, for example. I tried to warn him about Julie but he didn't listen. He's so dang difficult. I guess relationships in general are difficult though... tuh, listen to me. Acting like I know the secrets of life. I only know what I went through, and these past two weeks have been hell.

Well, anyway, I'm looking forward to Christmas. Mama G is having a dinner at our house for the holiday and invited a few of her good friends, including Antonio. He's been at our house like every day this week. I would ask if he had a home but maybe he's homeless... Nah, who am I kidding! That dude has the flyest clothes, no way he could be homeless!

"Samantha." There was a knock on my door.

"What?"

The door opens slowly and I see my mom peep her head in: "Everything alright? I didn't realize you had come in. How was the mall?"

"Mom, too many questions," I groan. She steps completely into my room and closes the door.

"Did you find any cute outfits?"

"Yeah," I dryly reply.

"That's good... can I see 'em?" She asks, walking closer to the bed.

"What do you want, ma? I know you wanna ask about you-know-who," I say while squinting my eyes at her.

"Who is that?" She replies, touching the back of her neck while looking confused. I give her a look that says 'stop playing' and she sighs and sits on the bed next to me. "Okay, you got me. Justine called last night. We were just talking about different things, then she mentioned that Diggy got in a car accident. Did you know that?"

"Mhm. Becca told me."

"Well, she also told me that he was in a mood when he got home and he never ate dinner."

"Okay? Sounds like a normal teenager move. Your point?" I reply.

"Do you know if anything happened yesterday? The school had that fundraiser, didn't they? Was there any drama with that one girl -- what's her name -- Jennifer?"

"It's Julie, mom," I sigh and continue, "Long story short, Julie broke up with Diggy and now she's with Chris."

"Oh, she broke up with him?" She asked with a hurt expression as she sat down on my bed.

I nod and continue explaining the crazy events of the past 48 hours, including how Julie tried to sleep with Jake and the argument at the mall. "...and then today at the mall, we ran into Julie and Chris. I was gonna confront her about her actions, but then Diggy butted in and got super heated at Chris because he thought he slept with Julie, but apparently he didn't. Then, he started blaming me because his girlfriend lied about being pregnant by him or whatever. I don't know, it's all too messy. But anyway, Diggy was attacking me like it was all my fault, but I just left with Becca after I said my piece so..."