I open my can of soda and take a sip of the drink. It doesn't taste a different from regular Sprite so at least I know it wasn't tampered with. Last year a Sophomore's drink got spiked and it was the gossip of the school for months.

I walk a round a bit looking for Mia and not paying attention to my surroundings. Suddenly I feel myself collided with something... or someone. I look up to see Alex Verano staring back at me. Oh no, this is bad. Its not like he's done anything bad, it's just that he has three main factors against him:

1. He's the most popular kid at school.

2. He's really cute.

3. And my friends ship him with me. I swear if Sarah pops out of a corner gushing about how cute we are I wouldn't be surprised. I feel my cheeks heating up a bit but it's probably unnoticeable under the makeup Mia applied.

I'm abruptly taken back to reality when Alex asked me "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine I just have to clean up this Sprite. Hopefully it won't stain." I manage to mumble out.

"Oh my god, let me get you a napkin." I say no but he keeps insisting so I just reply that I'm going with him.

"That's a good idea. I'm kind of lost and you seem to know this place pretty well."

"Don't worry I know this place like the back of my hand. Then again I don't know the back of my hand so we'll, so maybe we should worry." I chuckle.

"Oh, are you Mark's girlfriend? I heard she was going as something Alice in Wonderland themed."

"No but I am her best friend. Speaking of Mia I am looking for her." Seeing his puzzled expression I quickly add "You know, Mia, Mark's girlfriend, my BFF."

How could he not have figured it out? He doesn't smell like alcohol so I doubt he's been drinking. Either way I see the look of confusing disappearing of of his "After we get a napkin for you we can look for your friends. It's really convenient seeing as my friends disappeared when I went to get a water." Shaking a water bottle I didn't realize he was holding.

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We walk into the kitchen to grab some paper-towels when I see Mia sobbing on the floor by the kitchen island. I run over to her while asking her what's wrong. Alex quickly follows me. I give them a brief introduction of "Mia meet Alex and Alex meet Mia, Mark's girlfriend."

"Dahlia I don't think I'm his girlfriend anymore." I hear her sob. If the tears weren't worrying enough than my full name is. She only uses it when she's either stressed, sad, or angry.

"What!! Explain!" I accidentally yell earning us weird looks from the sober people around us.

She immediately starts telling the story about how she found Mark upstairs with Avery. Avery's the schools queen bee, even though I'm pretty sure everyone hates her. The entire school knows she's "dated" the entire football team. Any way, they ended up get up getting into a huge argument when Mark asks her to just listen and Mia yelling 'just listen, just listen. You know what I don't care! We're over!' And then slamming the door in his face. At the end she tells me "I don't know what to do anymore I really thought we loved each other."

"He doesn't deserve you, Mimi. If he wants that horrible being than he doesn't deserve this magnificent one. Come on Mimi let's go home. We can watch movies while eating ice cream and candy."

That's when I notice Alex awkwardly standing there. When he notices he got my attention he whispers (or talks I can't tell with the music) "I feel like I'm invading a really private moment right now so I'm gonna leave."

"Thanks for the paper-towels. I hope you find your friends."

"Me to, I'm the designated driver." I hear him chuckle as he slowly pushes his way through the crowd.

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I was wrong. If Avery is Mark's friends or the friends of his friends then they are defiantly not all good people.

I can't believe Mark would do this to Mia, though. They seemed like such a perfect couple. I guess that's how cheating works. Person A likes Person B while Person C is left totally oblivious. And when they do find out it's like be stabbed in the back with a knife. Or better yet a sword of a katana if you really trusted the. Like a trusted Max.

This isn't about my failed relationships, though. This is about how I stayed up till 4a.m. comforting my crying friend. This is about how I'm currently cleans up ice cream tubs while calling my best friend's parents. This is about how I'm calling because my friend is passed out on the couch and didn't go back home.

Apparently after she found Mark and Avery upstairs she went to the kitchen and had one or two drinks. Let me tell you, Mia cannot, I repeat cannot, hold her alcohol. This would also explain the crying. I'm pretty sure I can count the amount of times I've seen Mia cry on one hand.

Any way, Mia's parents were livid when they heard what happened. They've been friends with Mark's parent for eternity, and are probably the only reason they were even friends. They said that once it was a reasonable hour they were going to ring up the Parkinson.

My parents were fine with Mia staying over once they saw her condition. Now the couch is stuffed with pillows and blankets of all kind for her to snuggle and cry into. They even said that when she wakes up she's gonna have the most pancakes in the world on her plate.

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Not really a lot to talk about but hey you met Alex!!

On another note this chapter is nearly 1000 words long without the author's note and more than 1000 with it!!!

Writer who needs to start writing,

The Author