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The ocean washes against her feet. She stands over the water looking down. As she looks down she sees her friends, A rose flower, A star shaped pin, and a can of sparkling water. She leans over and reaches for her friends but a wall of ice blocks her. She looks into her reflection. A pink lip gloss bottle. She balls her hands and slams them against the ice. She slams her fists against the ice over and over and over and-
**[BEEP BEEP BEEP]**
“hm..?” Lip gloss opens her eyes and turns her head to see the alarm beeping at her face. “Shit... right.” She groans, she slams her fist against the alarm clock cracking it a little in the middle. She stands up off her bed and scratches her arm a little. She walks past the boyband posters on her wall and grabs papers off the ground and starts to refill her backpack. She hears a voice coming from downstairs. “See you after school. Remember your still grounded until the end of the week.” her mom yells up the stairs leaving the house. Lip gloss rolls her eyes. She hates how her mom acts when she’s pissed. She sounds nice but in the end it feels demeaning and condescending. But whatever. Lip gloss looks at her phone, still an hour before school starts. Might as well get something to eat.
She sits at the table and eats cereal while scrolling on her phone. She ends up scrolling onto a video of Rose, Starpin, and the Sparkling water can again. They seem so happy right now huh. Now that she’s out of the picture. Maybe this was their plan all along. Getting rid of her. ‘What a bitch’ she thinks towards rose specifically. She sighs and rolls her eyes before she keeps eating.
The school day is slow as usual, nothing for the first period then second she notices Starpin. Always excelling, that's just what she does. Her three arms make it so much easier to work. Lip gloss looks towards starpin watching them work. Until star pin turns back around. “what.” She gives her a threatening glare.
“don't be a bitch, I was just looking” Lip gloss crossed her arms. She couldn't stand how starpin was acting. They were friends only a week ago. It wasn't her fault the fight started. This was so unfair.
The next period she had to deal with sparkling water. The moment she steps into class she has to pick up the 13 pieces of paper. She sits down and looks at all the papers. Then suddenly a paper ball is thrown at the back of her head. Its sparkling water. Of course it is. She takes a deep breath and looks back at the papers on her desk. A small soft paper ball slaps the back of her cap. Her eye twitches. At this point she’d rather take another suspension then deal with this shit. But cant. Senior Ball's coming up soon and one more detention would prevent her from going. Another ball hits the back of her head. ‘I'm going to kill this bitch’
Next period was quiet. It was surely the calm before the storm she knew Rose was in the next class and if the others were definitely pissed then rose would be 10 times worse. During this class she just thought about everything that happened a week ago. She could barely even remember the fight they had. Rose had mentioned her life in ankh before her dad dragged her to the rings. Then it was an argument. Then rose tried to walk away but lip gloss pulled her back. She got elbowed in the nose and that started a fight between the two. Lip gloss got on top of her and started slamming her fist into her face a flash of the dream happens and its like it woke her up in class. She thinks about it and... maybe it was her fault. She feels how quiet this class feels with everyone working and she feels alone. She takes a deep breath.
The next class comes around and Rose sits right beside Lip gloss. Rose surprisingly does nothing. She even looks like nothing happened. She writes like normal, so elegantly, like she’s better than everyone because she came from out of the rings. That bitch. After a few minutes turned into a few more minutes. Nothing happened. This confused lip gloss. No sarcasm? No paper balls? No threats?
“Hi.” She whispers looking in the other way but she glances towards her. Rose gave her a disgusted look before ignoring the fact they said anything at all. That's exactly what Lip gloss hates. Her stupid rainbow face. “Don't ignore me.” she whispers sternly. Rose turned her head towards lip gloss.
“I don't have to listen to you.” she said with authority. That's how she got people to listen to her. Too bad people who are close to her don't fall for that shit.
“don't have that attitude with me. I was gonna apologize but now I'm reconsidering if you deserve it.”
“I didn't need an apology and that's rich, thinking You deserve anything from me. Its not my fault you feel guilty and lonely.” Rose spat out towards her. Ouch. She cant think of something to respond with so she stays quiet. Rose looks down conflicted and sighs. “Not that I forgive you but... We got an invite to glowstick’s party. If you want you can join us.” she said her voice loosing all the sarcasm and sounds somewhat sincere.
“Sure... yeah. I’ll come...” Lip gloss looks away still debating. Should she go to the ball or glowstick’s party. Actually when she thinks about it. How the hell does that work. This could be one of those traps like in those movies. But at this point. She misses the friends she used to have. Maybe this is a way to fix every-
As she thinks, the bell rings. Interrupting her thoughts. She grabs her stuff and travels to lunch. She gets first lunch and she passes others as they enter class. She enters the cafeteria and walks up to get her lunch. She holds her tray of school food and walks over to the table with her ex-friends. She sets her tray onto the table
“What are you doing here?” Sparkling water hisses, her long fennec fox ears dropping.
“She’s fine. Don't worry” Rose tried calming her down, she turned to her calmly, starpin looks confused but stays quiet.
“Rose?? This is stupid. Are you-”
“Yes. I am. Give it a break, it's been a week. Also, I was a little bit of a bitch.” She smiles. Interrupting sparkling water again. Theres a moment of silence like all was forgiven. Of course, it wouldn't be yet, it would take time but at least now she doesn't have to worry about getting jumped after school. She saw what sparkling water’s claws did to one of those weirdos who tried “flirting” with her. Then she looks back up at rose.
Her smile warms her stomach. She looks at all three of their lunchboxes and it reminded her of the school food she has. Because she’s grounded, she was supposed to pack her own lunch. And guess who forgot to. She ate the dry school burger. And it tasted kinda stale-ish. She sat the burger back down and rolled her eyes. “Shit, the school needs to hire better lunch ladies. They’re poisoning these poor bastards” She smiles. The others noticed their lack of a lunchbox “Forgot to pack” she answered, the others laughed, it was like nothing happened. Like she was back in the group.
Then a bell started to ring. The fire alarm, “What the, fire drill today?” Rose looked up and then suddenly Lip gloss froze. Their body suddenly felt a large stab as suddenly time froze. Rose looks at her concerned,
“Lip gloss are you-”