Winter's P.O.V

"Come on! Tell me!" I say to Amanda as I grab onto her arm, jumping up and down. Since we were in sport with the whole year, I basically couldn't care if everyone was looking at me like a complete wierdo.

"Fine, fine." Amanda says and I immediately let go of her arm.

"She said the reason she doesn't like you is because she was jealous of you. You being with Sam, you being friends with me, you having a great life..." Amanda trails off and I look at Sam confused. Sam rolls his eyes.

"Load of bullshit. I mean, what about before Winter started living with us? What about before you came to be by Winter's side again? And Winter definitely didn't have a great life especially with Gemma making it worse for her. So, I call bullshit." Sam says and I nod.

Everyone stays silent for a little bit until an idea pops into my head, causing me to speak.

"I'm going to go talk to her." I say and all heads snap to me.

"What the fuck?" Amanda says, her eyes going wide like the size of beach balls.

"Are you crazy?" Hayden says, raising his eyebrow at me. I sigh and shrug.

"I just think this will help everything. Besides, if what she says is true-"

"Which it won't be." Sam says and I roll my eyes at him.

"-maybe everything will stop." I continue and Alec nods.

"I think it's a great plan." Alec says and he gives me a fist bump and I smile at him.

"See? Alec thinks it's a good idea, why can't you guys do the same?" I ask and they all shrug. I roll my eyes and stand up.

"I'm going now." I say and they all nod.

"Try not to get killed!" Cole yells.

"Think of me and you'll be fine." Sam says.

"If she touches you, beat the living shit out of her!" Amanda shouts.

"Have fun." Hayden says.

"Good luck." I hear Alec says and I shake my head, chuckling to myself as I start to walk towards Gemma and her followers.

I have such good friends, right? I know, I know.

I look at the group of girls who stood around the tree and sigh.

I'm suprised she still has her group of girls after what happened with Josh. She must be cheering. Not literally, but you know what I mean.

As I walk past the basketball court, walking closer and closer to the group of girls, I can't help but wonder how I am actually making myself do this.

I really hope luck is by my side right now.

I suck in a deep breath when I realise I am so close to her group now. A girl notices me walking towards her and her friends and she pulls a disgusted face.

"Ew! It's Winter the Whore!" The girl screeches and when the other girls hear this, they turn around and see me. The girls look over me in digust until Gemma raises her hand at her friends.

Are they even her friends? I mean, not every single girl here is her friend, right?

"Girls, please. I have a headache, remember?" Gemma says and she sighs, walking away from the girls. I follow her.

When we are away from the girls, Gemma sighs again. "Your here because you want to know the truth, yes?" Gemma asks and I narrow my eyes at her, my eyebrows furrow.

"Huh? How did you-"

"I knew it was you and Amanda who called me the other night. I'm not stupid. So, obviously you are here to find out if what I said was true about me being jealous of you. To answer you question, I am." Gemma says and I look at her, my face softens. Gemma rolls her eyes and continues.

"Okay, I'll explain from the very start. I liked Sam. I liked him so much that everytime I saw him, he made my day better, even if I wasn't upset. But I knew he would never like me because of the person I am. I know I am a bitch... people say that to me everyday. Anyway, when I realised Sam would never like me back, I fell for Josh. I don't know why but I just did so that is why I came to you. You are a nice girl Winter and I knew that I could come to you with the letters because I knew you weren't going to reject me. Don't take this to heart but I knew you were weak so I thought, why not?" Gemma says and she flicks her blonde hair over her shoulder and sighs.

She seems to be doing that a lot...

"But when I heard that you were living with the person I loved, I didn't know what to think. I started to be a total bitch to you even though you didn't deserve it. You didn't deserve anything I put you through but I couldn't stop myself. That's when I got Kate on the whole thing. That's why Kate poured the coke on you that day because I told her too." Gemma says. I raise my eyebrow at her and cross my arms over my chest.

"What about you being jealous of me and Amanda?"

"Seeing your friendship made me feel so angry. You might not know this but Amanda used to be friends with me. We used to do so much stuff together but when she disappeared because of her parents divorced, she cut off all connections between her and I. Then, when she appeared at the school and I saw her with you, I was furious. She didnt even give me a reason why she completely dogged me. That's when I hated her too. I basically hated everyone at that stage and I became a bigger bitch, a nastier bitch to everyone. Especially you."

Woah, okay what? Amanda used to be friends with Gemma? And she didn't mention any of this? Okay, I have to remember to talk to Amanda about this later.

"And what about the whole tape thing? Why did you even tell Amanda and I about the whole thing you were going to do if you knew it was us? Why, why, why?" I ask, getting frustrated with the whole thing.

"I told you guys because I was tired of doing all this to you. I am tired of doing this because you didn't even deserve it. I am so tired of acting like a bad person towards everyone because it is such a hard job to keep a straight face and act like you don't have a heart. It's tiring, so very tiring." Gemma says. I notice tears forming in her eyes.

"I never wanted to become this type of person. I wanted to be a girl who was loved by everyone and just lived a normal life. Not a life that is draining my inner happiness. Seeing people cry over the words I say and shit like that, hurts me so much more. I never wanted to be this person, Winter. I wanted to make my mother proud and show her that I am the good girl she called her daughter but just not on the outside. But I changed from the person my mom used to watch grow up to the girl I am today. I was too focused of thinking about how to destroy people's lives and make them miserable then to worry about my mom and now she is gone..." Gemma says, tears falling. I bite my lip and look at Gemma, deciding on one thing.

I walk towards Gemma and hug her. I hug her tight. "I'm sorry, Gemma." I say and Gemma hugs me back, her sobs getting more and more controllable.

"Your a-a nice girl, Winter. I should b-be saying sorry." Gemma says, letting go of me. She wipes her tears carefully, trying not to ruin her makeup and I smile at her.

Girls.

"So will you still do it?" I ask and Gemma shakes her head.

"I'll destroy the tapes and I'll give the money to you and your family." She says, a small smile on her face. I raise my eyebrow at her and Gemma rolls her eyes playfully.

"I'm only doing what's best for everyone." Gemma says before giving me one more smile and walking away. I start to walk back and thoughts flood my head but that one thoughts pushed through all the other thoughts, causing me to frown.

All of this happened just because Gemma had fallen for the bad boy...

Woah.

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WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME WHEN I'M NO LONGER YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL? WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME WHEN I GOT NOTHING BUT MY ACHING SOUL?

Sorry, I have been listening to that song on repeat while writing this chapter and OMG it's stuck in my brain. My boyfriend even started singing it when he heard me singing during the whole day. Ugh, funny.

Anyway, do you guys like the sixtieth chapter? I hope you did because I definitely want to just sleep after writing this chapter... so much thinking.

Ugh it is so close to ending and I legit don't know what I am going to do with my life. This is my first ever book and I feel like even though it's all over the place, I completely have fell in love with it.

So, please vote and comment and yeah... I'm really tired so I will just sleep now... goodnight to all you beautiful readers.

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