Leilani is originally a girl's name, but for this story, it's a boy's. Enjoy!

"What... what do you mean you don't like me anymore? What's that supposed to mean?"

"It means I don't like you anymore!" Raina Riele had snapped at her former best friend, Leilani. "Keep up, slowcoach!"

She had been ignoring the poor guy for two weeks now, and Leilani didn't even understand why she was going so cold on him.

They were supposed to be best friends, not the other way around, so what was the problem here?

Leilani didn't know.

As far as he was concerned, he didn't even do anything wrong to her in the first place.

Unless he secretly did?

Raina Riele's parents didn't even know that she had fallen out with Leilani, so anytime they had asked her about him?

She had to pretend that everything was OK with them, even if it wasn't.

Raina Riele had successfully managed to get into that cheerleading group, the one in which she had been fawning over because they were extremely popular and whatnot.

Popularity was overrated in Leilani's opinion, hence why he had always had a small group of friends that were authentic and loyal, instead of a large group of friends that weren't.

They were all pretty much surrounding Raina Riele now, and there were five of them in total.

Cecilia, the Indian one.

She had mysterious blue eyes and she also had curly waist length hair too.

Sheniqua, the Nigerian one.

She had box braids at the moment, which had started off being dark blue then it had turned to light blue instead, it was actually really pretty.

Sakura, the Japanese one.

Indiana, the American one.

And last but not least, Bianca- the British one.

She was probably the worst one in the group to be honest, being as rude as Sheniqua, Sheniqua being even worse though.

They had all gone to a fictional high school known as Cyprus High School, all wearing their cheerleading outfits because they had practised at lunchtime.

Which come to think of it was another reason as to why Leilani hadn't talked to Raina Riele earlier. Because she was with them, although he didn't know that she was with them.

If that had made sense anyway.

Their cheerleading outfits had consisted of a red sleeveless top with a white line at the bottom, along with a red pleated skirt too with the same thing.

The letters CHS (short for Cyprus High School) was in white handwriting at the top.

"Look, Riele doesn't like you anymore so just leave her alone, you get?" Sheniqua had yelled at Leilani, who didn't say anything.

They were still two steps higher than them on the stairs, with Leilani just looking at them. Sheniqua had then placed an arm on Raina Riele, looking down at her friend.

Leilani was about to say something although he had stifled it because they had then left him.

After everything he had done for her, this was how she had treated him?

Did their best friendship not mean anything to Raina Riele anymore?

Didn't really seem that way.

If that wasn't the case then Raina Riele didn't show it, with everyone watching Leilani as he had gotten publicly embarrassed by all of them.

His other best friend Rayselle (who didn't know Raina Riele) along with Leilani's adopted sister Sienna Rose had seen what had happened.

Leilani was expressionlessly watching Raina Riele head inside with her new clique, sighing over her, not realising that it was actually her loss and not the other way around instead.

"Don't worry, my brother," Rayselle had whispered behind him, gently placing his hand on Leilani's shoulder, then he had sighed. "It's her loss. Not yours."

"I just don't understand why she would do this to me after everything in which I've done for her," Leilani had complained.

Complaining had gotten him nowhere to be honest.

It wasn't as though Raina Riele would have just changed her mind. She could have done so in the future maybe, but for now?

Heck to the no.

Leilani didn't know what on Earth he had done wrong, that was until his adopted sister Sienna Rose had said something.

She had a feeling that she had known why Raina Riele had just suddenly decided to leave Leilani like that, but she wasn't so sure about it at the same time.

"I think it's because you're too available," she had stated, with Rayselle as well as Leilani just looking at her like crazy.

Leilani inevitably wanted her to elaborate, even though what Sienna Rose had just said to him was very clear in her opinion.

To each their own, she guessed.

"Girls like a challenge, I know from experience. If you do too much work for her then she'll feel as though you'll never leave her, which isn't good as she'll take advantage. I guess some men are like that as well."

"Ain't that for relationships though?" Rayselle realised, slowly folding his arms at her. "Leilani and Raina Riele were just best friends. They didn't like each other romantically."

A lot of people had said that they would have made a good couple, so the two of them had tried it.

Somehow, it didn't work out, with them both agreeing that they were better off as best friends instead. The two of them had been friends since they were fifteen.

Raina Riele was supposed to be in university right now, although as she was failing her high school classes, she therefore wanted to do a repeat.

Her parents forced her to do so really, but she also wanted to do so herself at the same time too.

"It's for friendships as well. Don't make yourself too available for her."

"So you're saying I should change who I am to get her to like me again?" Leilani summed up.

That wasn't what Sienna Rose had meant at all, though she had completely understood why Leilani would have said something like that.

It wasn't good for someone to change just for someone else to like them. That was why popularity was so overrated half of the time.

Leilani shouldn't have been someone that he wasn't just to impress Raina Riele again. She wasn't worth it, simple as.

He had deserved a lot better and he had a lot better too. It was her loss, not his.

There was a concert going on at their local library today, which had normally taken place every two Wednesdays (so every Wednesday fortnight, in other words), as school had closed earlier on that day.

Wednesdays were shorter because it was the middle day of the school week. This was the perfect opportunity for Leilani to hopefully move on from Raina Riele.

And thank God he didn't have any lessons with her today as well, aside from one lesson (but they sat far away from each other) otherwise he didn't know what he would have done right now, at all.