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June 27, 2006

"Stop stop!"

"It hurts to breathe!"

The cackling of teenage girls filled the bedroom as they huddled around one another.

"Ew, that was nasty!" One girl cried, trying to scrub the hot sauce off her tongue.

It was 11 o clock that summer night of '06 and the five senior high girls were having a sleepover.

"Sam,"

She looked up, pushing her short brown hair from her hazel eyes. She was staring at the novel she was reading on the floor.

It was Pennellope Walker who spoke her name. She had a smug grin on her face as all eyes fell on her.

"Truth or dare?"

Samantha Redding, a junior in high school, was the shy one out of her friend group. She was on the introverted side and didn't like involving herself in late night events. But Penny had invited her to come to her birthday bash and wouldn't have wanted to say no...

"..I don't think I'm going to play."

"Oh come on, Samantha," Gigi Gallagher persisted, "It's all in good fun."

"Yeah," Clementine Fowly chimed in.

"Truth or dare, Sam?" Penny asked again.

It was silent as they awaited the girl's reply. She did not want to be there at that moment. What could she do? How could she get out of this?

She couldn't.

Sam shut her book but held it tightly in her lap, "Truth."

They all looked at each other.

Jillian Green whispered something in Penny's ear. A smirk creeped up her friend's face, making the shy one tense.

Pennellope locked eyes with Sam once more and asked, "How long have you had a crush on Tommy Fletcher?"

Samantha's face turned straight crimson.

"Jill!"

"What?"

"I told you that in confidence! You weren't supposed to tell a soul."

Jillian shrugged, "But we're all friends, right? You can trust them."

Could she?

"Well? How long have you liked him?"

Sam looked down at her toes and the cuffs of her purple pajama pants. She adjusted her square glasses and mumbled, "I guess since April."

She didn't want to talk about it anymore. She wanted to sleep or go home. But her body was planted in her spot.

Clem smirked, "OOOO!"

"Samantha and Tommy sitting in a tree," they all shouted at the top of their lungs, "K-I-S-S-I-N-G!!"

Make it stop.

"Gigi, it's your turn to ask me," Penny said with a wink.

"Alright," the other girl grinned as if she was the Grinch, "truth or dare."

"Dare."

"Okay," Gigi glanced at Sam and back at Penny, "I dare you to call Tommy and ask him if she has a crush on Samantha!"

Sam nearly choked on her breath.

WHAT?!

"Oh my gosh, do it!!"

"Okay hold on, I have to find his number in my telephone," Pennellope said with a giggle.

"Wait g-guys I don't like this-,"

"Chill out, Sam. It's all in good fun!"

This was FAR from anything she'd consider fun.

Reading was fun. Sleeping was fun.

But asking if her crush liked her was NOT fun!

"I found it," Penny said smirking to herself.

Sam felt her body begin to shake.

Gigi and Clem were chuckling to themselves as Jillian crawled herself closer to Penny dialing Tommy's number.

Ring.....

Ring.....

The ringing gave Samantha a chill down her spine as it sounded in the semi-quiet room.

She hated this, "Guys I-,"

"Hello?"

It was Tommy, he answered.

"Hey Tommy...," Penny fluffed her hair as if he just waltz into the room, "I just have a question for you."

"I can't hear it, put it closer to us!"

"SHUSH!"

Sam stayed in the back of the room and just hid her face.

"Uh, sure. What's up?"

Penny glanced over at the timid girl, "Well, a little birdie told me that Samantha Redding has a MAJOR crush on you."

"Samantha?"

His voice sounded like he was genuinely confused.

"The really quiet one," Pennellope stated.

"Oh, yeah I know who you're talking about."

"Do you like her too?"

It was so silent in that room that they could hear the crickets from outside.

"Uh...I mean she isn't repulsive."

"But do you like her?"

"...No."

All the girls continued around the phone while Sam remained silent, listening to every word.

None of the girls looked disappointed.

"Why don't you like her?"

"She's too quiet, I guess. There's not much substance to her."

Penny liked this, "What else?"

"...I like girls with a good body. She could at least put some makeup on once in a while."

"Or lose the turtle neck," Clem whispered to Jill, totally forgetting Sam was even there.

"Yeah, she isn't pretty?"

"Not to me at least.. Aren't you friends with her though?"

Penny avoided the question, "Well since I have you on the phone, how do you feel about me?"

Tommy was a little quiet.

The other girls had smirks all across their faces.

He started to answer, "Where should I start?"

"Anywhere."

"I mean, speaking from me you are gorgeous. A total babe."

Gigi covered her mouth and giggled.

"Really?"

"Totally, I'd date you if I was ever given a chance."

Penny was loving this attention, "Why don't you right now?"

"You're serious?"

Pennellope bit her lip, "Yeah, if anything just to hook up."

"Sure, how about tomorrow night we'll hang at my house."

"Sounds like a plan..."

She hung up.

All the girls squealed around her.

"OMG!"

"How did that just happen?!"

"I wanna be you so bad, Penny!"

They all began to talk about Tommy while one girl in the room fled to the bathroom.

Samantha shut the door behind her and sat down on the toilet seat.

She began to sob into her knees.

Why....

Why........

August 10th, 2017

"Whoa, get a room you two!"

Samantha and Dylan pulled away from their kiss.

Kevin and Angela not so far away from them, smirked at the two.

"Ah...sorry man,"

Sam looked up at her boyfriend as he apologized, his face flushed.

"No worries, just don't get too carried away there," Kevin said with a wink.

The newly weds walked away as randomly as they came.

Sam remembered back to that time where her "friends" put her in that uncomfortable situation. She didn't want to do that to Dylan.

She was so stupid.

"Wow, I didn't mean to get too carried away like that."

"No no that was all me..," Dylan said sheepishly.

Sam felt like crying at the flashback, "I've just been feeling strange and confused I-I, I shouldn't have done that..."

"Sam," Dylan reached for her hand, "It's okay. If you're not comfortable with anything, you just have to tell me. I'll understand."

Its not me that I'm worried about, Sam thought.

But she just changed the subject, "Okay...let's just go get some food."

Samantha walked away quickly towards the table of treats