I Never Told You

Chapter 4

Since she'd seen Amy kissing Francia by her locker, she couldn't stop thinking about it. She wanted to be happy for Amy, happy that she'd finally found someone who felt the same way and things could finally go back to normal between them; but Karma knew that normal would never be enough. She didn't know if she should talk to Amy about it or not, she hadn't told her about it and maybe she didn't want her to know.

Karma went over to Amy's house after school that day.

"Do you want to just stay in bed and eat ice cream while watching re-runs of friends all night?" Karma asked, looking over at Amy.

"I'd love to, but I can't tonight." Amy said.

"Why?" Karma asked.

"I have plans." Amy said.

"What plans?" Karma asked.

"Just dinner with a friend." Amy said, getting nervous because of Karma's increasing questions.

"Which friend?" Karma asked, purposefully pushing Amy.

"Francia, you don't know her." Amy said, looking everywhere and anywhere, except at Karma.

"Is she the one you were kissing by your locker a couple of days ago?" Karma asked.

Amy didn't say anything for a couple of minutes, she couldn't figure out how Karma knew; but she decided to finally tell her the truth. She was getting sick and tired of keeping secrets. "Yeah."

"How long have you guys been dating?" Karma asked.

"A couple of weeks." Amy said.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Karma asked.

"Because you've been so busy with Liam and I just thought it would make everything really awkward." Amy said.

"I'm sorry, I know I talk about Liam a lot but I don't want you to feel like you can't tell me things. You can still tell me anything." Karma said, looking into Amy's eyes.

Amy just smiled back at Karma, relieved to have at least something's back to normal.

"So when do I get to meet her?" Karma asked.

"Whenever you want. You'll really like her, she's amazing." Amy said.

"How about lunch tomorrow?" Karma asked.

"Sounds great." Amy said.

Amy and Karma spent the rest of the afternoon catching up on all the things they'd missed out in each other's lives, over the past few weeks. As happy as Karma was to have things back to normal, she couldn't help but feel hurt at how much Amy liked Francia. Sure, she wanted them to go back to being best friends and that's one of the reasons why she told Amy that, she wanted to meet Francia. She knew she had no right to feel hurt but she just did and she had no idea why.

Francia and Amy were having dinner at Francia's favorite restaurant that night.

"So, Karma asked me about you today, apparently, she saw us kissing the other day. She wants to have lunch with us tomorrow." Amy said, a little hesitant.

"Oh." Francia said.

"Look, if you're not comfortable with this, I completely understand. I could make up an excuse." Amy said, reaching for Francia's hand.

"I'm comfortable with it, if you're comfortable with it." Francia said.

"I am. I know she and I have a history but she's still my best friend and the faster things go back to normal, the fast we can both move on and you and I can move forward." Amy said, smiling.

"Lunch it is then." Francia said, smiling back at Amy.

Amy felt a load life off her chest; somehow things were always easy with Francia, she made everything simpler.

The next day, Francia and Amy were sitting and waiting for Karma at their usual lunch table.

"Hey, I'm Karma." Karma said, taking a seat at the table.

"Hi, Francia." Francia.

Karma couldn't help but feel a little jealous of how beautiful Francia looked, she hadn't gotten a good look at her the other day but now that she'd seen her properly ; she couldn't help but feel jealous, not just of how beautiful she was but of how beautiful Amy seemed to find her.

"So, how did you guys meet?" Karma asked, looking at Amy and Francia.

"Francia's in Shane's Spanish class and he introduced us." Amy said.

"Yeah, I'd heard about the two of you, before I'd even met Amy." Francia said, smiling at Karma.

"You had?" Amy asked.

"Yeah, you two were homecoming queens, remember?" Francia asked.

"Oh yeah." Amy said, looking over at Karma with a smile on her face.

Karma and Francia spent the rest of lunch trying to get to know each other but Karma couldn't help feel a little left out, she'd always been the center of all of Amy's attention but now that she was with Francia, it was as if Amy couldn't even see her sitting there. She knew she should be happy for Amy and that she had no right to feel bad that Amy had found someone, after she was the one who broke her heart in the first place. Despite knowing all this, Karma's heart sunk when Francia reached out to hold Amy's hand. This wasn't just friendship jealousy, this was different; Karma had never felt this jealous ever before, not even when she saw Liam with another girl. This was real and Karma felt as though her plan to grow old with Amy was slipping away, right in front of her.