"No." And my sickly sweet smile dropped.

"Why not? Come on Julian, help your brother out. Say something, Lily!" I turned to Lillian who was watching us a little bit scared. The three of us were sitting on the floor of basketball court, under a tree. 

Julian refused to look at us as he was typing something in his laptop. Lillian fixed Julian with a pleading gaze, "Yeah Jules, help me out." 

Julian fixed him with a stern gaze one would expect from his mother while doing something naughty, "I think you should man the fuck up and break things with Ariel nice and clean. And you." He turned his pointed stare at me.

"And me?" I mocked placing a hand on my chest.

"You are suppose to be a better person. These types of stunts are honestly disgusting." He said, his grey eyes flashing even in shade.

"What you thought I was some kind of mary sue? I am not nice, Juli, I will never be nice. I was under impression you knew that." I was getting defensive but the mocking smirk on my face remain unbothered. 

"I didn't mistake you to be nice, but I never thought you were a jerk. Even if Silver is fuckwit and deserves everything thrown on his way, Ariel does not." He said, typing something at the speed of lightning on his phone.

What was his beef with Silver I wonder? I mused before opening to deliver something that gotta hurt, "What? Don't tell me you get a crush on your brother's girlfriend." 

He stood up glaring down at me and I felt something akin to guilt. I shouldn't have gone that far.

"Nobody deserves to embarrassed like this. Surely you would have known that seeing how it was back where you came from." He said lowly at me and Lillian frowned in confusion. 

I felt a block of ice sliding in my stomach, all my expressions vanishing as I instantly throw my guards up. He knew, he fucking knew.  

"Nora?" A little husky voice of my best friend pulled me out of my thoughts. He was looming over me with concern that I don't deserve. Julian looked uncomfortable with my lack of speech and Lillian was still looking a bit confused. 

I cleared my throat and pushed myself off the ground, "I got to go, I promised my Dads that I would be back home early to help him with something he needs. See you later, guys." The lie slipped as easily as the expressionless demeanor. Before anyone could have said anything I was out of the grounds and soon calling Dad to come and pick me up. 

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I began avoiding all three of them. At first it was easy, I was able to come school late on days of maths lecture to avoid sitting next to Lillian and I was out of the class before the teacher. In computer, I sat as far as I could and the same routine rushing out of class before he could rope me into a conversation. On ground, I spend majority of time with the girls, through my expressionless demeanor was also worrying them a little bit.

James was hardest, I abandoned him in cafeteria and took the refugee in the empty Physics lab instead, not that I was eating much. I refused point blank to switch on my phone and ended up calling Dad through the nearby phone booth. I then wondered will they even give a fuck to try to contact me? 

But that doubt swiftly poofed up when James called home every single day to ask about me, I just sat by the phone as Papa told him that I am not home. 

It felt good, but then it hurt. It hurts to  much that I skipped school for three days straight. But Papa soon put his foot down, so here I am standing in front of my locker, trying to make it swallow me. 

And that is what I am going to blame on what happens next. 

"We need to talk." A mildly deep voice behind me said, making me swallow a highly embarrassing squeak. 

"I never thought that we were in a relationship, Juli. Why these words in particular? Am I in trouble?" My mouth speaked without my consent. Five days and my walls were slipping once again. 

"Nora, why were you that freaked out about when I mention your previous school?" He said, making me  scoff. 

I turned around and found myself face to face with the three boys I have been trying my hardest to avoid. 

Well, fuck you too luck. 

James loomed over me, while Julian and Lillian matched my height as they stared at me with intensity as if that would make me freeze on spot. 

I signed, admitting defeat, "We need to talk." 

Lillian muttered, "Damn right we do." while Julian snorted at me re-cycling his words. What concerned me is that James was not saying any damn thing, he was just staring at me eerily. 

I looked at him directly in his swirling green eyes, "After school, at the bleachers." 

He nodded mutely, before turning and walking away from me and the Taylor twins. I grimaced, this is going to be hellish to explain. 

Well you did fucked up one good thing you have right now, my inner voice or as I like to call it, inner bitch muttered.

A/N: It's short and it's bad, I know. Previous chapters  are edited but this one isn't, I am really sorry. Hope you give this chapter a chance even if it's mostly filler. I will edit it out, pinky promise! 

Tell me if you like it or really really hate it. I will upload soon! 

Peace!