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After running around the apartment the boys had bought, Dan chasing me for his phone, he finally retrieved it. I had sprinted up to my room just in case Dan tried something.

As I open the door, I notice my phone is lit up and making notification sounds. I walk over slowly, scared the phone would explode, or implode for that matter.

"Andre, silence your phone please!" I Becca yell loudly from her room. She must still be working on the essay.

Miss lazy pants.

I pick up the phone, still terrified of being blown to bits, when I see the texts are from my mom. My mom who I haven't spoken to in about a month. My mom who still thinks I hate every man in this universe. I open up the phone, inputting my password incorrectly about four times. My finger hesitates over the call button on her contact, and I press it before I could prevent myself any longer, and maybe If I hadn't, I would've blown up from the pressure.

The phone immediately goes to voicemail and I wonder why she would send so many texts and then refuse my call. I check the time and realize she must still be at work when the phone rings again.

Mom.

I take a deep breath and close my eyes, somehow believing it will help me not be nervous. I hit the answer button and bring the phone up to my ear.

"Hello?"

She speaks through the phone, her voice flat, and she must not realize it's me.

"Hey Mom."

The phone line goes dead, and I'm fairly sure she hung up when she replies back.

"Andre."

I gulp.

"Mom, why do I have multiple texts and missed calls from you? What is it that is so important, my phone has been going on and off for hours?"

"I want you to come home."

I drop the phone, and I know my immediate answer is no. I can't leave Dan in a time like this. I'm sure Mel and Becca wouldn't mind staying here, but I couldn't. Dan is honestly the closest thing I have to family right now.

"No." I say confidently, the phone being gripped by my hand. I hear her breath hitch, and she must be in utter shock.

"Andrea Elizabeth Lexington you will come back home. At your age every teenager is still living with their mother and fa-"

She stops and so do I. I realize that I am eighteen years old. I'm an adult.

Eighteen.

An adult.

I can legally move out.

"Mom, I am an adult, and I have made the choice to stay here, to stay with my brother and his financé. To be loyal to my family who was there for when you were not. So, I am staying here."

And then I hung up.

I opened my door and shut it right after. I can't go outside and tell Dan that I'm an adult. It will make him think about me and that's the least of his worries right about now.

I slide down against the door and cry. Fresh tears like rain down my face. Aren't I some mess of an adult? An adult.

An adult.

I don't feel like an adult. I feel as if I'm the weak teen that came into her freshman year, having no clue on what was going on. Clueless. That's what she used to call me. Nexa. She ruined everything she possibly could.

And I swear my life is so cliché sometimes but its real. Its something that has happened to me and its true. I look at the clock hung up on my wall, only to see I've already been home an hour.

A soft knock is heard on my door, making me jump. I stand up, careful not creak the floorboards. I open the door and there stands Emma, something in her hands.

A book?

"Um, I found this at my doorstep. Its says it's for you and all your friends. I don't know what it is but I figured I shouldn't open it without everyone. I called everyone to the park so we could open it there. You gonna come?" She asks, and I can see Dan standing at the end of the steps, grinning at her shirt.

Her shirt is rainbows.

"Yeah. Let me get Mel and Becca." I say, grabbing my converse. I run barefoot down the hall to knock on their doors since their room are next to each other.

"Guys we're going to the park! You wanna come?" I ask. I hear shuffling i n Becca's room, and Mel's for opens.

"Of course." Mel tells me, grinning for some random reason. I look behind her and see that she had been watching an anime. Becca's door opens and she jumping on one foot, trying to put a shoe on the other.

"Yup! I'm in."

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As we reach the park, I see everyone waiting there. Amelia, Jamie, Alexis, Angie and J.J. I realize Kyle can't be here and offer to take it to his hospital room after we open it.

"Andre, you open it. It says 'Andre and her Friends.' Your name, not any of ours." Alexis says, handing me the book. We sit on the grass, everyone getting a clear view of the book.

I open it and it starts with a picture of me. By flipping the pages, you see different ages of me and friends. Emma. Amelia. Mel. Becca. J.J. Then, we come across a photo of someone we don't recognize, and sit there thinking.

Then it clicks. The bouncy curls and bright green eyes. Her blue eye shadow bright as ever. Even though her hair color changed, she's still got the same evil smirk no one can wipe off her face.

I was friends with her.

Nexa.