3RD POV,
OAK VALLEY FOR TROUBLED PEERS

The Next Morning, Miss. Bergstine walks into her office and sees Eleanor Reese sitting behind her desk table, fiddling with her pocket knife.

"Eleanor? What are you doing here?" Miss. Bergstine asked her.

"You have a small drug lab here, Maisie Bergstine. I'm just here checking on it." Eleanor Reese said, getting up and slowly walks up to Miss. Bergstine with a straight face. "I know Violet was here. I have a few eyes and ears here at Oak Valley."

"I said nothing about the drug lab here, Eleanor." Miss. Bergstine said, frantically worried.

"I believe you." Eleanor Reese said, gently caressing Miss. Bergstine's cheek with her pocket knife. "If you say anything, or even a little bit peep about the small drug lab, I will cut your tongue out with my pocket knife."

"Yes, Eleanor Reese, I get it." Miss. Bergstine said.

"Good." Eleanor Reese said with a dark sinister look in her blue eyes. "I'll see you around, Miss. Bergstine."

Eleanor Reese walks away, but stops walking and looks at Miss. Bergstine with a grin. "I have a surprise for you in your storage cabinet."

And Eleanor Reese walks away.

Miss. Bergstine looks at her storage cabinet and slowly walks up to it and slowly opens it.

A dead body of a woman orderly falls on the floor, dead, with a bloody mouth and a small ziplock bag containing the woman orderly's tongue.

Miss. Bergstine covers her mouth with her hand, frantically horrified.

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SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL

The Next Morning, in the Arts&Crafts room, I'm sitting atop of the round table, trying to figure out how to tell my boyfriend, Aaron, that I kissed Jonny.

So, here I am, sitting atop of the round table. And Aaron slowly walks inside the Arts&Crafts room.

"Hey, Violet. You wanted to talk to me about something?" Aaron asked me.

"Yeah." I said to him.

"What is it?" Aaron asked me.

"Jonny and I kissed. We made out." I tell Aaron.

Aaron looks at me as he progresses what I told him about me and Jonny kissed.

"Jonny and You kissed?" Aaron said to me, but composes himself. "Violet, it's okay."

"What?" I said, a bit confused.

"I'm not mad, I mean, I get it, with Eleanor Reese and everything else, I'm not mad. But I do appreciate your honesty, V." Aaron said to me.

"Aaron? I am so sorry." I said to him.

"It's okay, Vinnie." Aaron said. "Does Monica knows?"

"I don't know." I said.

Aaron and I exchange looks at each other and our phones chimes in our pockets. We both pulls out our phones and looks at it.

It's a picture of Jonny and Me kissing each other atop of his truck hood outside of Jen's Diner yesterday evening.

"Oh gosh." I said.

In the school hallway, the Benton Gang's, and the other high schoolers phones chimes with the same picture of Jonny and Me.

"What the hell?" Monica said, looking at the picture of Jonny and Me on her phone.

                         a short minute after...

Infuriated, Monica walks into the student lounge, eyeing her ex-boyfriend, Jonny. "Are you kidding me right now, Jonny? Making out Violet?"

"Monica?" Jonny said, getting up to his feet, wearing his green Somerville varsity jacket.

"I knew you weren't completely over Violet. But you had the nerve to get slightly jealous of Aaron's and Violet's rekindling relationship. And I'm been a bedfellow hookup with you." Monica said to Jonny.

"It was my fault, Monica." I tell her, standing in the double doorway of the student lounge, causing Jonny to turn around to looks at me. "It was my fault." I said, slowly walks up to Monica. "It was a tenderness moment, Jonny kissed me, and I kissed him back, I know I shouldn't have, but I did."

"Vinnie, don't." Jonny said, knowing what I was doing.

"So, if you want to be upset at someone, be upset with me, Monica." I said to her.

Monica looks at me, with a soften look in her eyes, and calms down a little. "Violet Benton. Always the Heroic Knight. But we don't know who texted the picture of Jonny and You."

"Eleanor Reese, somehow." I said, and walks away.

Jonny looks at me and walks after me, walking out of the student lounge and into the half empty school hallway.

"Violet, wait?" Jonny said, walking up to me. "Taking the blame for our kiss, you didn't have to do that, but thanks."

"I know, and you're welcome." I said, glancing at Cherry, and looks at Jonny again. "I'll see you around, J."

"You too." Jonny said, and walks away.

I look at Cherry and slowly walks up to her. "Cherry?" and gently hugs her, and she hugs me back. "Are you okay? How are you?"

"I'm fine." Cherry said, gently pulling away from the hug. "Besides . . ." she said, with a gently fling of her red hair. ". . . I'm Cherry Jenson. The Grumpy Bee at Somerville High."

Cherry and I exchange smiles at each other.

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3RD POV,
HARPER HOME

That night, in Jonny's night bedroom, Jonny and Monica, are laying in bed, shirtless, wearing his boxer briefs and her undies, with the plush plaid thick bedcover covering her torso and lower half of her body and his lower half of his body.

"Violet actually, took the blame for the kiss in between the two of you." Monica said to Jonny.

"Yeah. It's how she is, Violet's looking out for us, her best friends." Jonny said to his girlfriend, Monica.

"Yeah. Violet has codependency." Monica said.

Jonny smiles a little. "Yeah. She does. But I can tell that she's gonna do something."

"Something heroic knightly." Monica said.

"Yeah. I love you, Monica. And I'm not saying it just to say it, I'm saying it to meant it." Jonny said. "I love you."

"I love you too, Jonny." Monica said.

Jonny and Monica exchange small smiles at each other and they share a kiss.

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BENTON HOME

In the living room, I'm sitting on the three seat sofa, eating a bowl of Fruit Loops cereal.

My phone buzzes on the sofa beside me. I picks it up and looks at it.

Eleanor Reese

I answer my phone. "I thought I blocked your phone number, Eleanor."

"You did, or at least you tried. And by the way, if you want your boyfriend, Aaron, to keep living, I suggest you cut ties with him, or I will do it for you." Eleanor Reese tells me, threateningly, on the phone.

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