***

We walk into the school, Piper and Paul arms linked and me standing beside Piper.

"I refuse to be a third wheel, and a date crasher, so I'll be wherever the food is"
I say walking into the gym.

It's all decorated really well. Lights all along the walls and tables and a lot of people. Like a lot.

The music is loud enough to tune someone out, but still quiet enough to talk to someone without screaming.

I use my phone for a few minutes but quickly get bored.

"Norabella"
I hear someone shout. I look up from the screen and see Kyle. I smile at him and give him a quick hug.

"Aww you look so cute" I say admiring his suit. He has an orange flower thing.

He's matching Kessica, gross.

"You clean up nice"
He says patting my head.

I cross my arms and raise an eyebrow.
"Hey, I'm just playing around. You look beautiful" he laughs.

I give him a small smile but it quickly faded when I see Kessica walk over.

"You look so gorgeous!" I say, 'smiling'

"Aww, thanks. You look incredible, too"

I didn't say you looked incredible. She's a terrible listener.

The song 'Thinking Out Loud' ends, and it changes to a slow song.
All Of Me.

Of course. "Hey, wanna dance?" Kyle asks Kessica. She nods and smiles.

"Have fun, you guys" I chuckle as they walk off hand and hand and into the dancing area.

They're slow dancing... Kyle and Kessica... That's supposed to be me.

I'm supposed to be dancing with Kyle, not Kessica!

I look away and see Piper and Paul dancing too.

I smile as I see them dancing close.
Piper gives me a wide smile as she makes eye contact with me.
I'm happy for them.

I look back over at Kyle and Kessica.
I let my smile fade into a frown.

Her heads rested on his shoulder.
I don't know why I assumed me and him would date in the future.

I don't know why I had hoped for that. Cause clearly that's not ever going to happen.

I need fresh air.

***

I walk outside the school. I already feel my eyes watering. God, I'm such a baby.

No wonder Kyle doesn't like me. I let my entire world crash down just because of a boy.

I look a little to my left and see none other then Kai. Of course, he's smoking.

I don't even really care at this point.

I walk up to him and he smiles a bit.

"Hello again"
He says bowing his head down.
"May I have one?"
I say gesturing towards the cigarette.

"Really? Look who wants lung cancer now"
He says pulling the package from his pocket.

"Screw lung cancer"
I murmur taking the cigarette he hands me. He hands me a lighter and I lean up against the wall.

I've never smoked before. Nor do I really want to. But I couldn't care less at this point.

I light the cigarette and put it in between my fingers before placing on end in my mouth and breathing in the smoke or something. I don't really know how these work.

"So, did Prince Charming stand you up or something?"
He asks. I cough out the gray smoke and breath in normal air.

"Or something. My best friend, Kyle is dating a girl who hates me. I slapped her once when we were 10."
I answer before placing it in my mouth again.

A few minutes of silence go by before he talks again.

"Why wouldn't he just date you though? You seem like a cool person and not to mention you're really beautiful"
He says.

"Power of makeup" I murmur. I hear the doors of the school open.

I turn my head a tad and see Kyle.

Whatever.

"Hey, Norabella. Their you are- what the hell are you doing!?"
He says once he sees the silent killer in between my fingers.

Piper told me he knows that I like him. He's basically avoiding my feelings.

Why should he even care if I smoke?
It's not look he cared when I left school after basically telling him I wanted to be his girlfriend.

It's not like he cares about me the way he does care about Kessica. So why should I care?

"None of your business. Now go back inside or something. Dream girl is probably looking for you"
I spit out bitterly.

No regrets... Just love.

"Norabella!? What on earth are you talking about? And are you smoking?"
He says jogging over to me and Kai.

"No. I'm sky diving" I say sarcastically.

I hear Kai chuckle quietly.

"Who is this?" Kyle says looking angrily at Kai.

"I'm Kai. And you must be Kyle?"
Kai says reaching his hand out which Kyle doesn't shake.

"Yeah I must be. Norabella, put that thing down"
He says pointing at the cigarette.

"I'm good, dad. I can take care of myself y'know." I say back sassily.

I feel like a badass alter ego is coming out. I don't know if I like it.

"Norabella what has gotten into you!? You were fine like 5 minutes ago!"
He shoots. I roll my eyes and hand the cigarette to Kai.

"No. I wasn't fine a minute ago! And I wasn't fine 10 minutes ago, or an hour ago, or 2 hours ago, or a month ago!"

I shout back. He jumps back at my loudness but he has an angry look on his face. I'm sick of his bs.

"What are you even talking about!?"
He crosses his arms.

"Why are you dating Kessica? After how she's treated me and Piper!? How can you be so 'in love' with her when I've been by your side since we were 7! How can you just do that!?"

I've never yelled so loud at anyone before.

"All I've ever done is be there for you, and when I need you, you're dating the girl that insulted and mocked me for how I was raised and who my parents are! She ruined our friendship when we were 10 and you're still crawling back for more! If you are that desperate to get a girlfriend that you could've come to me and I would've happily dated you!"

I'm basically sobbing now.
He knows how Kessica has treated me and Piper and yet he still loves her. I don't understand him.

I take off my slide on high heels and throw them on the ground.

I basically run inside the school and I to the girls bathroom where of course, Gosh dang Kessica is!

"Hey, what's wrong?"
She asks me. I let out a quiet but angry sigh.

"I really can't talk right now. Kyles outside waiting for you."
I murmur grabbing a lot of paper towels to try and clean up my makeup.

"Oh. Sweet. I hope we can take our prom photos."

She murmurs. Okay that's it!
"Kessica, if you love him that much, why are you cheating on him!?"
I shout at her.

I'm cutting all of the strings tonight.
"W-what are you talking about?" She asks me.

"Just stop. I saw you a Cooper sucking eachothers lips off in a park. You're a horrible girl for doing that to Kyle. He seriously doesn't deserve that!"

I shout back at her. I'm done putting up with this hoe.

"You better keep you freaking mouth shut about that. If he finds out he's going to dump me. And that cannot happen"
I scoff at her and let out a laugh.

"I hope he does!"
I laugh out to her.

"Oh really? So you can date him? That's not going to happen, Norabella. I'm completely fine with not playing nice. You asked for it."

I smile and cross my arms.
"Go ahead. Hit me. Say what you wanna say baby cakes."
I say.

"I sick and tired of you acting like you're better then everyone else!
Like you expect people to pity you!

Yeah okay we get it, your dad is a psychopath and your mommy died, and you broke a mirror,
Are you seriously that desperate for attention!? Do you think Kyle will ever want to date you when you're like this!?

Your dad is a murder and your mom was such a wuss and couldn't even call the cops for the first 7 years of your life! You probably have psychopathic genes in your blood!

God, I can't believe you just assume Kyle is going to madly fall in love with you because plot twist Norabella! He doesn't! So suck it up and accept the facts that nobody will date you, just stop begging for attention and pity when nobody cares to give it to you!"

Have you ever thought that you're invincible to someone?

No matter what they say to you, you don't get upset because you know that you're a better person then them?

That's what I thought.

Not so much anymore now, though.

The She's right. I'm crazy. Why would he want to date me? God, I'm such an idiot!
But she insulted my mother. I can't let that slide.

"You will never, ever speak of my mother or dare insult her again! She suffered more abuse then I did and 10x times worse then I did! She got killed! Don't you think that's bad enough!? Why do you have do insult her when she's already dead and gone! That does nothing!
I can take insults but if you ever insult my mother or Kyle or Joey and Daniel you're asking for your funeral!"

She rolls her eyes and flattens are dress out a bit.

"I can speak of whoever I want to, princess. No wonder you're crazy. You were raised by fags anyways"
Oh...

Heck no!

She scoffs out and begins walking to the door but I step in front of her.

"I strongly dislike you, Kessica. That is the last time you're ever going to insult my fathers again. You should know, that I have really changed since I was 10"

For old times sake. I raise my hand up, and slap her ugly ass face!

That felt hella good! "You bitch! Kyle is never going to even be friends with you after what you've done! God, you freak!"
She shouts as she cups her cheek.

"Go away before I do it again, hoe!"

She rushes out of the bathroom.
And when she opens the door...

Kyle is standing right there.

***

It went downnnn.