The next morning, I was more than ready to make amends with my friends. Unfortunately the feelings weren't mutual.

I walked into chemistry and sat with my lab group. I started to apologize, but I was ignored. No one even made an attempt to hear me out.

Arianna wouldn't talk to me or look at me. And Erin and Andy would only give me required responses that port aimed to the lab.

It felt so cold during those 46 minutes. I was almost thankful that the bell rang. I felt so terrible, I just wanted to get away from there. I've never felt so alone.

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Since I knew I was being ignored, I hung around my last class a little longer than usual in hopes to miss Arianna at out lockers. I don't think I'm ready to face the guilt again today.

After a couple minutes, I head to my locker. Arianna wasn't by our lockers which I guess was good.

I opened the door and took my time with my books and swim bag. Maybe if I was slow enough, I wouldn't see them in the locker room either.

I drag my feet all the way to the pool. When I get down to the locker rooms, I'm the only one there.

I put my suit on slowly in hopes practice will start without me. At least when we're swimming, there won't be time for chit chat, even if they did want to.

I eventually make my way to the door. On my way out, I get pinned to the wall

A hand gets placed over my mouth.

"Is anyone still in there?" Arnesto whispers to me. I shake my head no, so he pulls me inside the girls locker room.

"What are we doing in here?" I ask him, extremely confused, as always.

"I kinda figured when you didn't walk up with your friends, something was up. Thought you probably wouldn't want to practice around them," Arnesto says. He opens a locker and examines it's contents and then closes it.

"Yea. I really don't even know if they're even my friends anymore. After that fight last night, they won't even look at me. I've tried to be the bigger person, but they wouldn't even acknowledge that I was apologizing." I say. I take a seat on the bench.

Arnesto comes and sit next to me. "For what, Lilly?"

I sigh. "Well they think I'm not being a very good friend lately because I spend too much time with you. Isn't that just stupid."

He places his hand on my knee. "That's just stupid. We share our time with you equally. Their just jealous that you have a hot boyfriend that gives you amazing sex. And they don't. "

"That's what I told Arianna and she got even madder. Sometimes she just really pisses me off. I just. Ugh."

Arnesto leans over and looks into my eyes. "Well. I think you should get some revenge on her. Maybe piss her off a little more. What do you say?"

I try to figure out what he's saying, but as usual I'm so blunt I can't get it. It takes me until Arnesto has laid me down in the bench that I understand.

"Right here? In the locker room? what if someone walks in on us.?" I look at him with concern. For a moment Arianna's comment on him using me for sex pops into my head, but I push it away.

Arnesto gives me his infamous seductive look. "They're all practicing right now. We'll be fine. Let's just do this."

Before I even have time to answer Arnesto, he's kissing me passionately, so I let him take the lead.

As he's taking my suit off, Arianna's voice pops back into my head. Once again I ignore it because I know she is wrong. Arnesto is my boyfriend. And he loves me. He'd never use me like that. Ever.