SEVENTEEN [ THIRTEEN REASONS WHY ]

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Montgomery de la Cruz-

"So what, you guys hooked up- that's it?" Montgomery asked Bryce as the two ran around the track.

"Yeah, she said she likes you though, if that counts," Bryce replied shrugging his shoulders.

Montgomery furrowed his eyebrows. He looked over at the blonde boy and opened his mouth, "if she likes me, why would she sleep with you?" he asked.

"Well, it took some persuading to do, but she slept with me," Bryce said and looked ahead, "I mean-" Bryce began but Montgomery was quick to cut him off.

"Aren't you with Chloe? Why would you cheat on her like that?"

"Chloe was too drunk to even acknowledge me and I needed to do it".

"Girls are too complicated," Montgomery replied looking back at the track.

"Well, Chloe broke up with me. She claims she needs time to think about her choices with the 'wrong' guy," Bryce said loudly and looking over to where the loud giggles of girls were coming from.

Montgomery looked around and noticed Alice wasn't there- she didn't even bother showing up to cheerleading practice.

"Alice hasn't been here in five days. Something obviously happened that she doesn't want to see any-"

"She slept with me. Maybe she's feeling guilty about that," Bryce said and smirked, "beside, why would you want my sloppy seconds?"

"You're right. She's just whore," Montgomery said and grabbed his gym bag, "let's hit the showers," he said sadly before walking into the school.

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Third period came around and Alice still wasn't in school. Montgomery worried about the girl, but Bryce was right. Why would he even want Bryce's sloppy seconds? Was she easy?

Monty scanned the classroom for someone who could answer these questions for him and his eyes landed on Clay Jensen.

When the bell rang, Monty rushed toward Clay yelling his name for the boy to look over at him.

"What?" Clay replies back turning around and seeing the boy he didn't like.

"You're friends with Alice, right?" Monty asked.

"Oh- Alice Rose? Yeah, yeah I'm friends with her. Why?"

"Is she okay? She hasn't been in school and I'm worri-"

"You should talk to her about it. It's not my business to tell you what's wrong," Clay said quickly cutting off the boy, "she likes you- like a lot, Montgomery and I don't know why she does. But she really does," Clay said once again before walking away.

Montgomery stood there speechless. He didn't know what to say or to think or to do.