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19; Girls like her

I S A ' S P O V

    I feel like everytime something with value comes into my life, something worse has to happen to balance it out. For example, I makeout with Eli, who happens to be an amazing kisser, butt I just had to ruin it and kick him out.

    Like, seriously, who does that?

    Maybe it was a good thing that I did it, he was a friend and it didn't have to evolve into something else. Boys and Girls could be friends without dating.

    But do you really want to just be friends with him, Isa?

    By the time I had stopped obsessing over his lips on mine, it was well past three in the morning. Ruby was snoring loudly in the next room, she wasn't living that down, and no one else had come back to my place after.

    Dropping out of school would be the logical response, packing up and shipping my ass to China would be easier than facing Eli in the morning. Would he tell the boys? Who am I kidding, he tells them everything.

    Not everything, Isa.

    Almost everything.

    That was more important, right? Talking to him and helping him through his issues? We didn't need to be half naked in my bed to do that.

    Though it was more fun than it would've been fully clothed. And let me tell you, he has the body sculpted by fucking greek God, and I'm not exaggerating. What the hell do they feed the soccer team to make them look like that?

Either way, whether it was good or not to be up close and personal, I had bigger things to worry about. Tomorrow, or I guess technically today, there was a meeting afterschool, plus training and my shoulder was still hurting like a bitch.

    Not only was I probably going to get a scolding for not blocking Reece correctly, but Kaydence was also still shaken up from what the Kings did on Friday. If I'm being honest, so was the entire group. If it was up to Kaydence, I wouldn't even be going to school today but I needed some type of normalcy back in my life after the past three days. I'm actually excited to hear Ava threaten me again, it's that bad.

    The rest of the group was either staying home or training with Kaydence, minus Ruby and I, since there was no way I was going back to Northview alone. Maybe he wouldn't be mad, maybe we would sit at lunch like we always did and make fun of Owen and Jace. Maybe he wouldn't even care that I made him leave, that's the most logical answer.

    Eli went for girls like Ava, white girls who threw themselves at any guy in the building. I wasn't like her and I didn't want to ever be like her, and if Eli doesn't like that, then it's probably for the best.

    ***

    Ruby was barely conscious as we walked into school today. How she got on her skateboard was beyond me. The morning had consisted of three cups of coffee (for me), two Aspirins for the major hangover Ruby was nursing, a pair of sunglasses to hide her eyes that were still somehow bloodshot, and a lot of yelling as I woke her up for school.

    The boys were waiting at my locker when we stumbled through the doors, one normal thing done. Owen's face went from concerned, to happy, to confused as we sauntered up to them.

    "What's with the glasses?" He tilted them down her nose and she groaned. One of his eyebrows rose in question as he looked at me.

    "She's hungover, how are you not?" I asked. Not that I had seen him last night, but if Ruby was this bad I could only imagine how much worse Owen was.