"Hello?" "Um, hey?" "Wait, you don't sound like my Aunt Kathy." "Unless I was miraculously converted into a member of the opposite gender and somehow related to whoever is on the other side of this call, then yeah. I'm not your Aunt Kathy." "Oh, shiitake mushrooms." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Short Story #1 (19/04/18) 2016 Fiction Awards Finalist © 2015 evethespy. All Rights Reserved.

Logan Chambers and Mae Holland have been best friends since they could utter their first words- they've been through everything together. As cliché as that sounds, it's true. Their first steps to their first crushes, they stuck through it all. Even when Logan moved across the country when they were thirteen, they were still best friends although they were forced apart. They kept in touch but by the time summer rolls around before senior year, they aren't nearly as close as they used to be. However, when Logan's parents start the process of a nasty divorce, she decides to move back to her old neighborhood to live with Mae and her family instead of enduring her parents' constant fighting. Has their friendship really stood the test of time or have they changed?

Jensen Cane was one of those cliché kids in high school. You know, the bottom of the food chain, eye of the bullies kind of kid that everybody feels sorry for but never sorry enough to actually help? With a target on her back, Jensen struggles through her first year of high school just like all of the other clichés. Waiting for her moment to shine, waiting for the rain to pass. But the thing with Jensen is that she isn't as cliché as she may originally seem. She's quite the fighter- stubborn and strong as hell, Jensen isn't going to go down without a fight. Despite the bullying, Jensen manages to get noticed on one of the internet's biggest websites: YouTube. She's awkward and not really all that funny but she does have a voice of gold and now, the country loves her for it. Flash forward to senior year where Jensen has gone from zero to mild celebrity and the bullies have been long forgotten to everybody except for Jensen. Of course, the mental turmoil had left a scar in Jensen but she's moved on to bigger and better things with multi-million subscribers and a hopeless crush on her best friend. She's turned her whole life around, just to have it crash back down around her.

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