Kite's car arrived in front of my house as early as 7. Mom notices this as she looks outside the window.

"Whose car is that?" she asks me as I finish my bowl of cereals.

"A friend," I reply shortly, chewing on the softened cereal in my mouth.

As soon as I finished, I grabbed my backpack and hurried to go outside when mom grabbed my hand.

"Tell me the name," she says as I swallow nervously.

"K-Kite," I say as she let goes of me.

"A new friend, huh?" she says, crossing her arms.

"Yeah," I say.

"Midterms start today, right?" she confirms and I just nod before saying goodbye.

I got out of the house and went inside Kite's car. He was just silent as he drove me to school. When I was about to go out, he grabs me and places a quick kiss against my lips.

"Good luck with your midterms," he says as he pulls away.

"Aren't you going to school?" I ask, looking at his lips. They weren't as chapped anymore.

"I'll come to school once midterms start and they won't start until next week. Don't worry," he assures. I finally got out of the car after he told me he'd also pick me up later in the afternoon.

I walk inside of the school and that's where I saw Paula leaning on my locker, smacking a gum.

"Are you no longer a virgin?" she suddenly asks and I just look at her with surprise.

"What?" I say.

"Don't act innocent, Amelia," she says as I laugh.

"Of course, of course, I still am a virgin!" I tell her as she looks at me with doubt.

"Are you sure?" she says, still hesitation if she'd believe me or not.

"Yes," I say. "Now, may I please have access to my locker?"

She moves away from my locker, still looking at me with doubt.

"Wow," she exclaims while smacking her gum.

"What do you mean wow?" I say, opening my locker and placing in the books I brought home before Christmas vacation.

"I can't believe you were able to resist Kite and his hotness," she says and I'd be lying if I said I expected another reply.

I thought she was so against Kite but now she's even calling him hot.

"It's not like that," I say. After all, it was him who was restricting himself and not otherwise. I know that I want him.

"What do you mean?" she says as we both walk to the room where we'll take our midterms.

In our school, we are assigned to different rooms, depending on our last names. Since my last name is Young and Paula's is Smirnova, we got to take the exams in one room.

We arrived in the room and I felt a sudden rush of relief, realizing that Cole's last name starts with the letter B so we don't get to share one room.

"So, have you at least kissed him?" Paula suddenly asks and I just kept silent. "Hey! Answer me, Amelia," she says, poking my waist.

"Can you at least tell me your story with him first?" I say as we seated ourselves randomly. We're going to have a seating arrangement later anyway.

"Well, let me remember," she says as if it happened years ago already.

"Do you guys know each other for a long time already?" I ask, ever so curious. Have you guys had sex?

I think I already know the answer to that question though.

"Well, I met him a year ago and things got really wild between us for a week. But after that, we just stopped," she says.

"What do you mean got wild?" I ask as she chuckles.

"You know, the usual shit," she says as I nod slowly. "I'm surprised he got to hold back himself, considering how pretty you actually are."

I look away in embarrassment and remembered his words. He won't do it with me because he knows about Cole and me.

What's with Cole and I anyway?

"So, have you kissed him?" Paula repeats her question as I stopped thinking of whatever I was thinking of just a second ago.

"Uhm, yeah," I say as a group of girls got inside the room.

They all stared at me disgustingly. That's when I suddenly remembered about Chelsea's scandals. Paula noticed me looking behind her shoulder so she looked at the direction I was looking. When Paula saw the girls, she suddenly called them out.

"Hey, Johnson!" she says as the girl almost jumped in surprise. "Come here, won't you?"

The girl hesitated to do so but Paula glares at her so she just walks toward us nervously.

"Why are you looking at her with that expression on your face?" she says, looking at her with furious eyes.

I can feel the nervousness of the girl.

"Paula, s-stop it," I say but she just stares at the girl.

"I'm talking to you, Johnson," Paula presses on as the girl swallows.

"It's not like I was the one with that video!" she suddenly shouts as everyone's heads turn to us.

Paula snapped and squeezed the girl's face.

"Paula!" I say trying to stop her but I know it was too late.

"I can't believe a girl like you watches those kinds of videos," she says through gritted teeth as she continues to squeeze the girl's cheeks.

She tries to remove Paula's grip but Paula was strong.

"S-stop!" she says through her squeezed cheeks.

"I can't believe you even spread it," Paula continues.

"Paula, that's enough," I say trying to remove her hand but she just looks at me and shakes her head as if to tell me there's no way she could stop.

"This bitch was one of the people who spread the video, I'm sure," Paula says as the girl shakes her head.

"I-I d-didn't!" she objects but Paula just squeezes her cheeks harder.

"Deny it all you want, Johnson. I saw you with Avery yesterday," she says as I look at the girl.

"I-is that t-true?" I say but she just shakes her head.

Paula finally removes her hands away from her cheeks. The girl runs away instantly and summons her friends outside.

"Are you sure about that, Paula?" I ask, feeling quite guilty for what Paula did to the girl because of me.

"Of course. I can never be not sure," she says. "I even saw Avery kissed her."

At this, I can feel my blood boil so much. Avery is the root cause of all this. If only Avery didn't exist in this world, I wouldn't have a fight with Cole. If only Avery didn't exist in this world, I wouldn't have met Kite.

Wait...

Would I rather be with Cole or Kite?

I guess I don't even need to think of an answer to that question.

Of course, I'd rather be with Chelsea.