It's safe to say, the rest of the week was uneventful. But by the time Friday came, I was so done with Elderwood High School and all of its students. It's not that they're nosy, no, that's not what really grinds my gears. What gets me is that they have no shame in coming up to you and asking if you and your boyfriend will be breaking up for good. What's really irritating is that I get this terrible stomach pain when I tell everyone 'no' because Sebastian and I aren't even really together anymore.

The only relief I get is when the bell rings at two in the afternoon. The weekend is here and I can rest easy, away from eavesdroppers and nosy students. Only there will be no full resting because homework is still a thing and you get no breaks when you're in your final year of high school.

Stepping out of the school, I welcome the slight breeze. It's not cold enough yet, but it isn't as humid as what August was. I walk down the steps and head towards the parking lot. I'm not sure if I should walk home today or hitch a ride with Sebastian. I've kind of been trying to distance myself from him a bit in hope of not getting my heart shattered when all this is over.

But as I see him waving me over, I know that we'll end up doing something today. I'm too weak to pass on spending time with him.

"Hey, long day?" He asks once I reach him, throwing an arm over my shoulder.

I press my cheek into his chest, sucking up all the comfort I can get. "Yeah, long and tiring. I'm ready to get this weekend started. I need a break from questions about you and Micah...speaking of," I pull my head away from his chest to look up at him. "Did you ever apologize. I completely forgot."

"I did." He nods, giving me that charming smile of him. A sigh of relief leaves me at not having to worry about that anymore. "You shouldn't worry so much, Emie bear."

"If I had a dollar for every time someone said that to me, I'd be as rich as you, Ten." I tell him, sucking my cheeks in after. With an exhale, I motion to his truck. "Let's go. By the way, are you coming over? I think mom would love to cook-"

"Emie!" I hear from behind me, effectively cutting me off. I turn my head to see Jenny walking towards us, Greg trailing behind her. "Ditch the boyfriend and come with me."

I tilt my head to the side as I observe the couple in front of us. They were such opposites, but isn't that how it goes? Opposites attract. While Greg was rather big and bulky, Jenny was skinny and almost twig like. But they were about the same height with Greg only being about five-foot-eleven and Jenny at five-foot-ten. Small difference, but you couldn't really tell from a distance. Their personalities were the biggest difference between them.

Where Greg was like a big teddy bear, Jenny could be a bit hard to approach. It's not that she was mean, but if you aren't a friend, you're bound to get waved off. It's why Greg is seen as the friendly one of the relationship. They balance each other out quite nicely.

"What are we doing?" I ask, pulling my bag off my shoulder as I start to feel a familiar ache. "And please tell me it doesn't involve anything wild."

Jenny playfully rolls her eyes as she stops next to me. She loops her arm through mine, looking down at me with her chocolate brown eyes.

"Just a sleepover." Jenny shrugs, but I know that it's always more with her. "Plus, I even invited your terrible friend, Micah."

"Jenny!" I gasp, shaking my head. "If I'm going to a sleepover, I don't want to hear any fighting between you two. I don't want my whole weekend to be that."

Jenny steps away from me, a grin on her face. She pulls her arm away from mine and claps her hands together. "Great! Let's go, we can drive to your house for your things."

I won't admit it to anyone, but I'm secretly happy that I won't be hanging out with Sebastian this weekend. I just don't think that I'd be able to with our circumstances. It's not that I'm upset that his sexuality is different, it's that it still kind of hurts that he lied to and used me. Of course, I hate that the man I'm in love with will never love me back the way I want, but life is full of heartbreaks. This is my first and it certainly won't be my last.

With that said, I turn towards Sebastian and blow him a kiss. While Sebastian and everyone else may think it's a facade, I do still love him. My feelings won't just disintegrate with the blink of an eye. Everything I've been doing has been real and I think it'll always be real.

"Emie! Come on." I'm snapped out of my thoughts by Jenny as she pulls me towards her car. I distantly hear Greg asking Sebastian for a ride home.

"Why are you so excited?" I look over at Jenny as we walk to her car. "We've had plenty of sleepovers and you've never been this excited."

She gives me a small, secretive smile before she pushes a curly strand of hair from her face. "Can't I be happy to have a whole weekend with my best friend?"

"And Micah," I quickly add.

Jenny rolls her eyes and nods. "And Micah. Yeah, but mainly you. I feel like it's been a while. Hey, maybe me and Micah will finally end our petty differences."

I narrow my eyes as I look at her. Jenny can be sneaky when she wants to be. Once in sixth grade, she had taken my favorite stuffed animal and tore it up before planting it on her dog, Snuggles. Poor Snuggles had been framed because Jenny was mad that I hadn't invited her to the movies the weekend before. She only admitted it was her when Snuggles died a year later after getting hit by a car. The guilt was too much, but not as much as when I didn't talk to her for a whole month. The end result is that we aren't meant to keep secrets from each other, yet this year is full of them.

"Hey, it's the last week of September. We need to talk about our plans for Halloween," Jenny states as she pulls her keys from hr bag and unlocks the door. She gets in with me following. "Movie night, handing out candy, or should we find a party?"

Slowly, I turn my head to look at her. "Jenny, who the heck hosts parties in Elderwood other than the elderly. I've never seen anyone have a party here."

"Not true!" She shoots back, her hands shooting to the steering wheel to grab it. I watch as she removes them and starts the car. "Hilary Morgan had a debutante party that one year. When she was carrying the bowl of punch out and spilled it all over herself?"

I shake my head in disbelief that she's even bring that party up. Hilary Morgan was a snob back then and I know she still is now. She's two years older than us and she got out of Elderwood the first chance she got. She had always thought she was better than everyone because her dad was some kind of government operative or whatever. The only thing is, Hilary saw her dad once a year and the rumor is that he had gotten her mom pregnant out of wedlock. Now, most of us in Elderwood know better than to use that against her, but there are still some that would gladly knock Hilary off her high horse. Last I heard, Hilary is pregnant with her third child after marrying some man she met in her first year in college after getting pregnant the first time.

"Only, like, five people showed up." I remind Jenny. The whole event was disastrous if I remember hearing correctly. We, of course, hadn't been invited seeing as we were younger than Hilary, and definitely not her friends. "Party is definitely off the list. I think we should have a movie night, Make our own little kickback."

Jenny scrunches her face up, her lips shooting out in a 'duck face' type pose. It's the face she always made when she wasn't impressed with something. It's quiet for a moment as she contemplates, her eyes focused on the road as we head towards my house. The ride isn't long though and once she parks and turns the car off, she finally speaks.

"Fine, but I'll plan it. Boyfriends are invited and no backing out! I want this to be fun, I mean, it is going to be our last Halloween together for a while," She says sternly before ending in a quiet tone. I don't even want to think about the fact that pretty soon, we'll all be heading in different directions for college.

"Of course you're planning it. Who else?" I give her a wide smile, hoping the mood will lighten. We still had the whole school year together plus summer. Now wasn't the time to get sad.

"Damn, you're right. Now get out. I want to get to my house as fast as possible. We're going to make the best fort we have ever made," Jenny speaks rapidly as she pushing her car door open and steps out. A laugh leaves me as I get out after her.

How the heck will I survive without my best friend?

*Another chapter done. Thanks so much for reading this far. I hope you keep reading, because next couple of chapters are going to be pretty crazy. Well, as crazy as teenagers can get. So, how long do you think Emie and Sebastian will keep this up? Will it last the whole school year, or will everything start to blow up in their faces? Let me know what you think with a comment and don't forget to vote.*