"You did what!" Olivia screeches I'm in the middle of the hall. The students surrounding us stop to stare at us. "What are you looking at? Get moving."
They quickly avert their eyes and scurries off down the hall.
"Olivia, could you please relax?"
"Relax?" She scoffs. "Why would you break up with a perfectly good boy who makes you happy? That is the definition of supreme stupidity right there."
Lucas comes skipping down the hall, his tousled curls flopping around on his head. When he notices us standing by my locker, his eyes light up and he heads straight for us.
"I am so freaking happy right now. I bet you can't guess why," he's giddy smile over comes his entire face. "Do you want to know why?"
He looks back and forth between us with excitement waiting for us to say something.
"Why?" Olivia deadpans.
"Oh, I'll tell you why," Lucas beams. "Mr. Smith gave me an eighty-freaking-two on my Residential school term paper. Did you hear that? Don't worry, I'll say it again. He gave me an eight, plus a freaking two percent!"
Olivia and I stare at him as he bounces with enthusiasm waving his paper around in our face.
"That's great, Lucas," I say with a forced grin.
"Have you guys gone deaf? Do I need to buy you a hearing aid with my buckets of money I'm going to have with my crazy paying job since I'm basically a Einstein now," he says dramatically. "Why are you guys not excited?"
"I've very glad you're a genius now, Lucas. Maybe you could share some of your brain cells with Kayla since she seems to be missing a few," she shoots me a glare.
"You, my friend, are in some deep shit," he pokes me in the chest. "What did you do?"
"She broke up with Henry," Olivia hisses.
"Yeah, I know," Lucas says nonchalantly.
"Wait, what?" Liv back tracks.
"Henry told me all about it yesterday. He's pretty disappointed, but I think he gets where you are coming from."
I look at Olivia with a smirk plastered on my face, "Did you hear that? He gets where I'm coming from."
She stares at me for a moment with a disgusted look on her face. Eventually she directs her attention to Lucas.
"Do you think she's being ridiculous?"
"I think she did the right thing," he shrugs. "Relationships can tend to get messy sometimes. It wouldn't be easy especially with all the changes happening in her life this year. It's better to keep him as a friend than lose him all together. They'll date again if it's meant to be."
"Thank you!" I yell in exasperation. "It's very unusual that Lucas is taking on the role as the logical one."
"Thank you!" He repeats my words immediately. He ponders what I said for a moment. "I think."
"Geez, sorry I'm a hopeless romantic," she rolls her eyes.
"You get your happy ending with Daniel, now let me have mine," I laugh. "We do not all get a fairytale ending."
Olivia finally gives in know full well that I'm right. All of our happy endings do not look the same. I know she understands that, but she was just hoping we'd stay together.
I was too.
It's not like I wished this upon us from the beginning. I wanted our relationship to last. I had pictured us building a life together. That someday we would move into a house and create a family. That our hair would grey and we'd sit on our porch swing drinking our coffee watching the sun rise, fulfilling my mother's hopes for her future.
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Rock Bottom
Romance"I pray that the last time I said goodbye was not meant forever." *** Growing up with a single parent with not much money to spare wasn't particularly easy, but Kayla never felt like her life was anything less than amazing. Her father loves her dear...
