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"Jenny, I was wondering if you could do me a favour..." Preston said, for what seemed to be the 100th time this week.

Ever since the campfire with his friends, since my mom pointed out that I might be getting more reckless, I've been watching out for myself. What if Preston wasn't the kind of guy I wanted to get with? Despite my feelings, how do I know I can trust him, with something as big as my heart? The thought that he might take it and break it is what is my greatest fear with him as of right now. Especially with all these small favours he's asking of me.

"What is it Preston?" I asked as I continued munching down on my spinach salad. It was lunch time and I didn't want to have to get up, just sit there peacefully with my food.

"I forgot my homework for 3rd period at home, and since we both live like 10 minutes away, I'm going to run home, grab it, and I need you to cover for me if I don't make it back in time." he said while getting up.

"What? Are you kidding me? I'll do it but next time please be more responsible." I said, my face softening from the original anger. He'd been leaving at lunch like this everyday and I thought nothing of it. He wasn't my boyfriend, so it's not like I could've been protective of him anyways. I wasn't normally protective either, but I felt a twitch in my hand, as I wanted to tell him to stay.

"Whatever mom." he said rolling his eyes.

I didn't say anything as he mumbled a few incoherent words under his breath before going out.

Just then, I noticed Poppy walking out of the lunch room right after him. I thought nothing of it again, but this is looking bad for him right now.

Later, after I had gone to my locker and grabbed my work before heading to 3rd period, I noticed I felt a bit lonely. I didnt know why, but Marie hadn't been talking to for the past week, and I still have yet to come up with an explanation.

She'll come around eventually though, she always does. And anyways, it's not like it's my fault if I don't even know what I did.

I continued walking to 3rd period classes and noticed that Preston didn't make it. I sat in my seat and stared ahead right as the bell rang.

"Alright settle down, let me take attendance and we can get on with the show" the teacher said as everyone got their things out. Since it was physics, and i was not the most amazing student, only just passing an 85%, that being with some help from Hailey, I tried my best to constantly pay attention.

"Preston Hunter?" She said, and when there was no answer, I figured this was where I had to cover for him.

"He-He had to go home because his sister was sick and his mom told him to check up on her during our lunch period. He'll be back." I said, trying my best not to sound cringe worthy, although I knew in my head I did.

"Well, that may be the case, and Preston isn't the most reliable person ever, but his mother is on the parent council, so I trust her." she said sighing.

Just then, Preston ran in, letting out a small huff, his face looking a bit flustered from exertion.

"Here he is" the teacher says with a bit of sarcasm. "Thanks for showing up Mr. Hunter." she says before turning to the board to start teaching the lesson.

I was curious to know what took him about 50 minutes to do, considering he left 10 minutes into our 40 minute lunch break, so I quickly ripped off a piece of paper from my notebook before scribbling the question onto it.

Where the heck did you go?! -J.L.

I looked over at him, only to see doing something on his phone. He was only a desk over, so I stealthily reached behind the desk and put it on his desk, without him even noticing.

He looked up from his phone for a second at the teacher, and noticed the paper then opening it up. He looked a bit confused at first, looking around the class, presumably trying to figure out who the 'J.L.' was, and stopped at me, making eye contact with me.

He scribbled something on the back of the paper, hopefully going to give me some answers before I turned to the teacher, realizing that I actually hadn't been paying attention in class for what seemed like in forever.

He reached over and dropped it on my desk before quickly going back to his desk.

I opened it up, and looked at what it said, furrowing my eyes, knowing he was lying.

I told you I was getting my homework!

Like I bought that. It doesn't take 50 minutes to go home and grab homework he claimed had been finished already. Or maybe he lied about that, and was trying to scramble to finish it last minute.

Whatever the case, I knew he wasn't being honest and I was going to figure out why.

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After school had finished, I decided Id had enough of the silent treatment from Marie and decided to confront her. In our nine years of friendship, she's done this a few times, but never for more than a few days. I don't know what's going on or why she's being so distant but I guess I'm about to find out.

"Mar?" I said, in front of the door of her locker, which hid her face.

"What do you want." she said in a rude tone.

"You know what I want, why have you been ignoring me?" I asked, sadly.

She slammed the door of her locker, making me jump slightly before she explained to me.

"Jenny, when I started dating Logan, I didn't cut you out of my life, I spent half my time with him, half with you, and sometimes I hung out with the both of you at the same time. I don't know why, but now that you're with, or maybe not even with Preston, you've changed, and not a good change." she said, continuing on.

"I'm sorry that I'm not apart of the cool kids group, because I've seen you weave your way through because of Preston. I can't be the only one who's noticed this change in you, you may think you're the same person, but I see you differently Jenny. When you go back to the normal version of yourself, then you can be my friend again, but I'm done with this side of you." she said, walking away.

As much as I wanted to run up to her, and say that Preston meant nothing to me anymore if it meant she would still be my best friend, my pride kept me from doing that. My pride caused me to be angry and I think that was the biggest mistake I made. I lost my best friend because of a guy who could end up meaning nothing to me.

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Look, I know everything is happening extremely suddenly, but we all knew this would happen eventually. When i edit his whole book, I plan on splitting this chapter into 2 because I feel that even in my mind, it's too much for Jenny to handle, so please tell me if you agree!

chantelle💕