22. Give It Up

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Carl Francis Gallagher put an arm around his best friend, walking with her in the hallway. They stopped at her locker, the boy waiting as she switched out a few books. Nick was there aswell, not talking like usual unless it was a few words about something random. "What do you want Carl?" The tan girl sighs, closing her locker and leaning against it as the bell signaling the beginning of fourth period rang.

"What makes you think I want something?" He raises an eyebrow and she stares at him for a good minute. They're silent as she stares, her not expecting it to take this long as Carl looks at her-acting like he's completely innocent. Nick watches while another minute goes by and the late bell rings but both refuse to say a word as Bella crosses her arms. "Okay, fine. What do you know about Dominique?"

Bella is slightly caught off guard for a moment. The last time she heard Carl talk about another girl was Holly-who doesn't even count because she'd fuck anything and was only doing it to get at Debbie. "Which one? The one in our grade?" She asks and he nods. "Mmm...been ran threw from what I hear but she swears she's all innocent cause' her dad's a cop"

"So that means she's easy?" Carl asks happily and Bella nods, that was so much better than he was expecting. He thought he would have to try like he did with Bella. "Thanks babygirl" The teen says, wrapping an arm around her and kissing the side of her head before walking off.

Bella sighed, deciding she was gonna just show up to class extra late. She walked to the bathroom and found a few girls in there. They all looked up at her, some smiling lightly and waving while the others turned away because they were too scared to look at her. The Latina stood in front of the sink with a mirror above it, grabbing the hairtie around her wrist and tying her hair back in a low ponytail. She pulled out a few strands of hair to the front and noticed Dominique coming out of one of the stalls. The girl looked forward, pulling some lip gloss out her makeup bag as her best friend's new crush began washing her hands in the sink next to her.

"So your homeboy's out of jail, huh?" Dominique asks the girl beside her-who doesn't say anything at first. "Heard he's got a crush on me" The curly-haired girl shrugs. "What's his name again?"

"Carl" Bella answers, leaning forward to look closer into the mirror as she applies lip gloss. Bella and Dominique had a weird thing friendship-they would talk shit about other people on occasion and had originally bonded over how much the two of them got hit on. But at the same time, neither liked each other and would do their fair share of talking shit about the other-apparently Dom had liked Andre but then he started his thing with Bella which affectively ruined the girls chances of getting with him. "You know, he was just asking about you"

"Oh yeah?" Dominique asks, suddenly interested. "What'd you tell him?"

"Just what I've heard" Bella replied, turning to face her as she looked Dom up and down with the best bitch face she could muster. She waved bye, smiling fakely before walking off-bumping into a girl in the process. "Watch it" The brunette warned, getting up in the girl's face.

"Okay! I'm sorry!" The random teen said, almost in tears and Bella smiled-patting her head before walking out the bathroom door.

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