Have you ever had that feeling of extreme happiness that no matter how tired you are you have a lot of energy because of how happy you are? Well that was what I was feeling the day after Shawn asked me to be his girlfriend.

I walked to school with so much energy that everyone looked at me as if I were crazy. Is it a crime to be happy now?

I met Shawn on my way to Chemistry. "Hello my beautiful girlfriend." I put my hand in his. "Good morning, my beautiful boyfriend. How's life?" I gave him a big smile and he reciprocated it. "I've never been better."

We walked to my locker to pick up my books. I looked up at Shawn and smiled. "What is it?" He said with a small laugh. I shook my head. "It's nothing. I'm just really happy. I mean, who else wouldn't be happy that their hot best friend is also their boyfriend?" He hugged me and let go until I made fake choking noises. "Let's go. I'll walk you to class."

On the way to class we crashed into Steven, who was going to the opposite side of the school. He smiled when he saw us. "So it's true? Are you finally my sister in law?" I gave him hug. What is it with me and giving hugs today? "We're finally family!" Shawn cleared his throat and I let go of his brother. I rolled my eyes at him and got inside my class.

For some reason my overflow of happines and excitement was making the day go much faster than it usually does. It was also making me work better. So much better that most of my teachers had to ask me if I was okay.

By the end of the day I was ready to hang out with my friends until I remembered that life isn't so perfect and they still were chained to Ashley.

I was about to text Shawn when he appeared right next to me. "Wanna go eat some frozen yogurt? We could go to TCBY. They put a new one at the mall." I gave him a smile. "You seem overly excited for frozen yogurt." He laughed and took my hand as we walked. "Nah. I'm just overly excited about hanging out with you. And it's friday, so, freedom!" We laughed and walked to his car.

"I'll text my mom and tell her we're going to the mall." He gave me a nod and started the car.

The mall in The Town is relatively small. It has probably only thirty five stores and a small food court. And most of the time it's full of middle school girls and high school freshmen.

We headed to TCBY and bought our ice creams. We sat at one of the little tables and started eating.

"Why didn't you tell your friends that you're moving?" I put my spoon down and sighed. "I wanted to but we're all at such a good place right now that I didn't want to ruin it by saying that I'm leaving in eight months." His expression turned sad. "You only have eight months left here?" I took a spoonfull of my frozen yogurt. "Technically seven. My mom wanted us to leave a month early to get used to everything before I went back to school." He nodded and stayed silent until we were both finished eating.

While we walked through the mall I was thinking a lot. About the future, about school, senior year, college and finally if Shawn and I would stay together when I moved to Florida.

I wanted for us to try a long-distance relationship but that would be unfair to him. Making him wait for me when I was so far away. And if we didn't go to college together then all the effort would all be a waste.

"Emma!" I turned my head to him. "What?" He sighed. "I asked you if you've thought about the next thing we're going to do before you leave." I thought about it for a few seconds and an idea that had been in the back of my mind resurfaced.

"What do you think about ending the rivalry between your friends and mine?" He stopped walking and shook his head. "You are the most crazy human being I know. How do you plan on doing that?"

My grip on his hand tightened. "I don't know yet. But I do know that we cannot continue holding this grudge for so long. It's not healthy." He rolled his eyes and I wondered what I'd done wrong. "Why did I have to fall for a smart girl?" I kissed him on the cheek and said, "So you'll help me?" He groaned and rolled his eyes. "Fine. Let's go to my house."

A week later everything was ready. We had our plan to make the two groups come together.

It was a sunny Saturday afternoon. One that I could have spent with my wonderful boyfriend but instead I was at the pizza place near school waiting to hopefully teach a bunch of immature teenagers to forgive, even though I'm pretty positive they're supposed to teach us that in pre-school.

I was about to text Shawn and Tamara to ask them where they were when I saw them walk through the door. I let out a breath of relief. Finally.

The first ones to come in were Shawn's friends. Shawn waved at me and smiled while James glared at me. He was about to sit at the other end of the restaurant when Shawn said something to him and they changed direction. They started walking over to my table.

Then my ex best friends walked in. James turned around to see who was coming in and his eyes lit up at the sight of Ashley. She tensed. Weird.

Ashley gestured for them to go to another table but Tami had other plans. She pointed to my direction where the Idiots were already sitting. My friends started to argue but Tamara had the last word and they all shut up.

They sat down at the table and Shawn's friends shifted uncomfortably. When we where all seated Michael spoke. "Okay so can we know why we're here sitting with these guys?" I smiled at him and said, "Glad you asked Michael! Well, we're kind of sick of you guys being such butts to each other so we thought that maybe you could see that the other group isn't so bad."

John rolled his eyes. "They are really bad Emma. Why else would they have done what they did?" Shawn gave him a look. "Why don't you just ask?" John looked enlightened as if that idea had never crossed his mind.

Then Ashley decided to speak. "Yeah. Why did you guys sabotage our play and blame it on us? You guys do realize that we're all still hurt by that, right?" James leaned forward. "Well honey, I thought we'd already discussed this." Ashley's face went red. "Don't call me honey. I'm not your honey. Go "honey" your other girlfriend."

Other?

And then I understood everything. I understood the real reason Ashley was so bitter about Shawn and his friends.

"Ash I swear there is no other girl! I told you already, I'm crazy for you! No body else but you."

Ashley and James were together.

And that was the moment that everyone lost their minds.

Anthony, one of Shawn's friend, looked like his brain was frying inside his head. "Dude but don't you hate this bitch?" James fists balled. "Don't call her a bitch! And I don't hate her. I...I really like her. And I've liked her for a long time. But with all of this bullcrap going on I thought I never had a chance with her. And then I did."

Then Josh, another of the Idiots who also looked like he was having a stroke, said, "Wait but when were you together? Weren't you with Tara and that girl Jessica from Washington High the whole year?" I could tell he only did that to piss Ashley off because the moment he said that he almost burst out laughing.

James glared at Josh. "I was with them but just to make it seem like there was nothing wrong. I've been with Ashley since October."

Ashely glared at him and said, "You were with me since October. We're done, remember?"

My head started spinning, trying to locate what part of this conversation didn't make sense. And then it hit me.

"Whoa. But haven't you been with Brian since November?" She sunk in her seat.

Christopher (the last of Shawn's friends) had a very confused look on his face. "If you're both cheaters then why are you in a fight?"

Both James and Ashley glared at him. "Because I gave him everything and he just took it all for granted. Emma, I can't do this. I'm sorry."

And she left.

After the initial shock we all agreed to leave in peace. There would be no more rivalry between the Idiots and the Witches.

For a few minutes all of us stayed in silence until Anthony decided to ask the question everyone was dying to know the answer to.

"So Shawn, Emma, you really are dating? It's not to just make us come together, right?"

Vincent laughed. "They're together. Trust me." I rolled my eyes and playfully hit his arm.

We started to get ready to leave when Michael said, "Hey, um, we were going to hang out at Tami's for a while in case you wanted to come."

James shook his head. "Nah, we're good. But I'm glad we're on good terms, even if Ashley will most likely not speak to me until we graduate."

John patted his back. "Don't worry. We'll get her back for you." I was starting to leave with my friends when James stopped me by putting his hand on my shoulder. "You managed to forgive Shawn after what he did, do you think Ashley will forgive me after what I did?" I gave him a smile. "She will. She may be...not so very understanding some times but trust me, she'll get over it. If she really likes you then I'm sure she'll come back."

Despite everything Ashley did and how she treated us I didn't hate her. In fact, I wasn't even mad at her. Yes, she'd been a horrible friend but she did what none of us could. She put her pride aside and forgave James.

I think back to middle school, when things were simple. Let me tell you a secret: I used to like James.

From the outside, Ashley may seem like a horrible person, but she isn't.

Normally I don't care about the famous "girl code". You know, where you can't date your friends ex-boyfriend or ex-crush. But Ashley has always been very sensitive about it and I think that maybe that's one of the many reasons she kept her relationship with James a secret.

You see, when I was friends with Shawn in middle school I never once put my eyes on him. But I did on James and everybody knew.

And that's how he and Shawn became friends. James thought I was weird because I had a crush on him and after what Shawn did to me he gave him a chance to hang out with the guys who weren't losers.

I always thought I'd never forgive him. But I did.

And somehow he changed for the better and had fallen in love.

Finally I had the chance to make a difference, to help someone and I wasn't going to give it another thought.

If I managed to forgive Shawn, James and Ashley, how hard could it be for her to forgive the guy she had such strong feelings for? You might be thinking that it's not that hard obviously.

Wrong, it was very, very hard.

This chapter is a little on the shorter side, sorry.
I'm also starting to give up on this book, I don't feel like it's good and it makes me REALLY sad that not a lot of people are reading it:(

But if you are, thanks. And please vote❤