"So it's really over, eh?"

Katelyn punches the side of Aphmau's arm for her comment. Aphmau apologizes, but I seem spacey at the current moment.

My phone is still face down on the floor, but I've kicked it under my bed after turning it on silent.

When the girls came back with Alex, the room had already been blocked off of all possible light and a mess. The pictures of Laurance and myself had been moved or flipped over, and anything that he gave to me was out of sight.

I decided earlier today to pretend that the prank didn't bother me and played it off as if it wasn't a big deal. I even tried to find Laurance to apologize for the way I had acted before, but I couldn't find him. He didn't even answer any of my texts or phone calls.

However, once I say what I saw what I saw, I stopped. I know he responded to my last text, but that doesn't matter.

Every girl wonders what they did wrong once they find out that their boyfriend was unfaithful and cheated. I learned that lesson today, but I'm done thinking that this is my fault. He knows what he's doing, and his actions are not under my control.

"Yeah," I stare at my feet. "It's over. What to I do now?"

"Look, Y/N, I'm not the best person to go to when it comes to relationship advice. I've ruined my past two, so I've learned that I'm just not right for it. I'm not right for love," Alex says, standing up. She walks across the room tracing a hanging frame to a picture of all of us in high school.

"We could always make Laurance~Kun jelaous!"

Alex's head snaps back to us "That's a terrible idea, and I want nothing to do with it!"

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"And you brought me into it."

Gene's currently sitting on my bed, and Aphmau has excused herself to hide in my bathroom. Katelyn is crissing her arms over her chest while Kawaii~Chan seems happy about this. Does she not remember what he was like in high school?

He once replaced all her marshmallow fluff with glue, and he also replaced all her sugar with salt. That was the day the baseball and soccer teams got extremely salty cookies, and Zane tricked Garroth into eating glue. These were some of the calmest things he did to her.

"We'll give you both some time alone," Katelyn says, pulling into Kawaii~Chan's arm to motion for her to start walking outside the door. "Aphmau! Come on, let's go!"

Aphmau yelps from the bathroom and runs out the door past Kawaii~Chan. I move farther away from Gene, and Alex glances at us briefly as Katelyn drags her out.

"You do something stupid Gene, and I'll put handcuffs on you."

"Why do you have handcuffs?" Katelyn asks.

"You don't want to know."

The first few minutes of us being together is awkward, and I walk to my closest to find a few boxes to clean up the dorm. I begin to place the downturned picture frames into the box with care along with other things.

He watches me do this, and he evsn gets up and helps me. When he reaches his hand to the box with a frame in his hand, I lift an eyebrow at him.

"Uh, hi," Gene says in discomfort. He slowly bends down to place the picture in the box and slowly rises once he finishes. He lifts his hands up in surrender and takes a step back from me. "Sorry, I was just trying to help."

I nod my head silently as he continues to help me. I stop for a moment to observe him. He seems changed, and his aura seems to be softer. If anything, Vylad would know about this aura stuff.

"Do you really want to help me make Laurance jealous?" I ask him cautiously.

"I'll help you make him jelaous, but I'm not even sure that you want to make him jealous."

"I do so want to make him jealous!"

I feel as if I'm a child who is trying to prove a point to another person. If only I could act my age and realize that maybe I don't want to do this and instead just talk to Laurance.

But there's the other side of me that doesn't want to talk to him because I know that he won't listen. He does that when he's like this (not that I'm saying he's cheated on me before), and he sometimes ends up storming off.

"Okay, but chill down. You're appearing to be acting like a child. I'm here for you, Y/N, and I want you to know that I have changed since high school. I'm ashamed of the way I acted back then, and I just want forgiveness."

I look down at the last picture frame in my hand and sigh. He hurt me, and here I am trying to hurt him even more by showing him what he lost. I'm trying to hurt him worse than how he hurt me.

I walk over to Gene and give him a hug. His breath hitches, and I soon feel his arms around me in a comforting hug. I lay my head against my chest and sniffle to keep away the tears, but a single tear slips down my cheek.

"I'm not okay," I say.

"I know, Y/N. I know."