Freshman

Over You

Dani's POV

After a week of crying, Jeremy avoidng me, me avoiding everyone I know and going to school on and off, I finally had the nerve to go back on Monday. I'm on my way to Geography class when the voice of an egotisitcal asshole interrupted my previous thoughts.
"Dani! Wait!" Will yells, rushing to catch up to me. I try to push further through the crowd of kids at school. Unfortunately, he catches up.
"What do you want Will?" I turn around, people pass by me and Will.
"I'm sorry." he says. I scoff and turn around, running into Lizzy.
"Let's get out of here." I mumble, dragging her by the arm and continuing down the hall.
"Really Liz?!" Will shouts, "You're not even going to tell her?!"
Kizzy suddenly stops in her tracks. The bell rings, everyone rushes past me. I spent all of last night in tears, will whatever she has to tell me result in more?
"You tell her, or I will." His hands are in fists at his sides against his blue jeans. I look at Lizzy, tears brimming.
"What?"
Lizzy looks at Will for help. Her mouth hangs open and he narrows his eyes.
"She deserves to know the truth, I told her my part."
Lizzy looks at me again, and exhales deeply. "I had sex with Will when you were away last year."
I pause, gasping for breath. I thought my whole world had already collapsed, but now it was in tattered pieces.
"Lizzy that's not true, we're best friends. Best friends don't do that to each other."
"Dani, you have to know how incredibly sorry I am...." she says, holding my wrist.
I rip it from her grasp. "How?" I ask, my voice shaking."How did it happen and how could you do this to me?" I take a step back, trying not to scream.
"We got drunk together at party," Her voice comes out shallow, like her. "I didn't mean for it to happen. When I woke up the next morning, I couldn't believe it myself."
"So the two of you thought it would be okay to just hide it from me? For eight months?!" My voice gets louder.
"I'm sorry Dani!" she exclaims. "I'm so incredibly sorry."
"No, you don't get to apologise! What the hell Lizzy?! I thought we were friends." I turn on my heel, and head down the hall.
"If you don't accept my apology Dani I will ruin you!" she yells after me, I turn around.
"What's there left to ruin?" I ask, walking away as fast as I can.

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Cutting class wasn't the first option I had in mind, but what else is there for me to do? Show up in tears to Geography? Or go out and deal with it myself. So that's what I did. I sat on the rocks by the field, buried my face in my hands and cried.

I hate this, I hate this so much. He kept it from me for months, and I was the fool that went along with it. How could I think he loved me after this? After this horrible thing he's done to me? And what about Lizzy? Were we ever really friends?

"Dani?" I heard a voice behind me. God, my voice sounds like a curse word. I turn around and Abby's standing behind me, a bag slung over her shoulders and a look of concern on her face.
"Oh, hey." I sigh and run my fingers through my hair. "Want to join the pity party?" I ask feeling like my self-pity is speaking for me.
"Yeah," she replies. "Why not?" I pat the space on the rock beside me,and she sits on it.

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Abby's POV

The first thing I notice is that Dani's got her signature water bottle again and looks somewhat dishevled.
"What's that?" I ask, ignoring my first instinct to run away and let Dani feel the pain she caused me.
"Nothing," she replies. "Just some water." The key ring on the lid twists around Dani's finger.
"Let me have some of it." Dani raises an eyebrow, but hands me the bottle. Carefully, I open the lid and take a sip. It tastes sour, and kind of gross. It burns the back of my throat. I gag, and Dani laughs.
"That is not water!" I cough, and put the bottle beside me. "Dani, where did you get alcohol from?"
"When you're as popular as I am, booze is easy to find." she responds, her eyes half closed. She tilts her head back.
"Good to know you haven't lost your modesty." I mumble, Dani laughs but it sounds like shrieking.
"I haven't you know, I was just telling the truth." Her index finger draws circles on the rock. "Like it matters now anyway, after today I'll be nothing."
"How?"
"It's not like it will be a secret by tomorrow anyway, but Will cheated on me. With Lizzy." She stares at the ground, her hair falling in her face. "Then, Lizzy proceeded to tell me she would ruin me. So here I am, getting tipsy and cutting class." She tries to reach for the water bottle but I swat her hand away.
"You know what else?" she asks, I shake my head. "They're the reason I'm popular. And when people find out...I won't be. The worst thing about this, is that I had something going pretty good before that and I just let it all go to waste. And for what? Drug dealing? Getting drunk and making stupid mistakes? Or parties in general? No Abby, I was stupid enough to not even value it." She runs her fingers through her hair. "I have so many regrets, but you're the biggest one."