Rose.

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I knew who I needed to call and quickly dialed the number. No one else would quite understand like they would.

"Hello?" the other line responded to my rings.

"Claudia?..." I asked quietly sniffling.

"Cleo? Are you okay? What's wrong?"

"Bi-Billie's parents...." I stammered and then burst into tears.

"FaceTime me."

I FaceTimed Claudia with Finneas for at least an hour. I was embarrassed to tell them what happened, but I needed to talk about it with someone that had been in a similar situation.

When I got to the naked picture part Claudia winced and gritted her teeth,

"I am so, so sorry that happened to you Cleo. That's honestly horrible."

I knew she meant it.

I knew I couldn't face Billie again for awhile, I explained this to Claudia and Finneas. They both understood that tonight had been traumatic enough for awhile.

I hung up and cried myself to sleep, playing that evening in my head over and over again.

Time skip

I sped down the familiar road to my school, already late. I got out of the car and headed to homeroom, trying my hardest to cover up my still-puffy eyes from crying last night. After homeroom it was time to head to math, I prayed Billie wouldn't be there... but there she was. Waiting on me. With a rose.

"Hi beautiful...you didn't answer my texts last night," Billie said as she handed me the rose.

I avoided eye contact and shrugged, accepting the rose from her hand,

"Thank you for the rose," I said coolly.

She sat down slowly in her desk after I did and reached her hand towards me, putting it on top of mine,

"Cleo...I'm so sorry. We can get through this can't we?"

I glanced at her and she looked sincere but I wasn't sure about any of this anymore.

"I don't know," I responded.

Billie nodded slowly and pulled her hand back. We both listened to lecture but I saw Billie looking over at me every few minutes.

Finally I turned towards her,

"Why didn't you delete the pictures I sent you?"

"I-I didn't think I had to...they were in a locked app. I had them protected Cleo.."

I cut her off, "Not well enough. The thing that really pisses me off is I didn't even want to take those....you know that. I only did it because you wanted them so bad and you couldn't even keep them to yourself?"

A look of guilt fell over Billie's face, she knew I was right.

Flashback

"Cleo I promise, stuff you send me doesn't go anywhere. It's only for me. You trust me don't you?" Billie asked, begging me to send her naked pictures when I got home.

I swallowed hard, "I do trust you. I'm just uncomfortable...you know once you take them they're out there forever."

Billie rubbed my cheek with her thumb pad, "I promise if you send them to me, they only go to me. I would never hurt you like that. Could I maybe take some of you?"

I gritted my teeth at the thought of my nudes being passed around school, but we were already naked in the shower during this conversation so I couldn't really say no.

I nodded slowly in response to her and bit my thumbnail, she got a wide toothy grin and jumped out of the shower, telling me how to pose. Reluctantly, I opened my legs and looked at the camera for her. I just wanted to make her happy.

Flashback Over

The bell rang and I stood up and exited the class without saying another word to Billie. I had called Rachel overnight and updated her on what had happened and she was shocked I even sent pictures or allowed them to be taken, but tried not to act judgmental. She walked me from class to class today, because normally Billie walked me.

The final bell rang for dismissal and I headed to my car, no soccer practice today - due to rain.

As I walked out the back door to the parking lot I felt someone grab my arm, Billie's icy eyes met mine when I looked up.

"Baby- please. Can we please talk about this? I am so fucking sorry Cleo," her eyes started to get teary, "this is exact what the fuck they want."

I knew she was right. Her mom was hoping to break us up. And it was working because right now..Billie had lost my trust.

"We can talk about it another time okay?" I said and pulled away, heading to my car.

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