CHAPTER 18

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✪✪✪♡✪✪•CHILDHOOD FRIENDS(2)•✪✪♡✪✪✪

                       ☯╬☯ARIANA'S POV☯╬☯

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Do pick a nice song to read this chapter. Infact nice songs alleviate one's mood while reading stories.

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My hair covered my face as I was bent forward. I raised my head up to the view of Selena. Selena broke my fall. She was at it again, she was such a pretender. Someone who had shoved me harshly to the ground countless times without a care in the world.

"Ari."Cole placed his hands on my shoulder." Are you okay?"

"Yeah."I smiled at him, maybe the fall was worth it. He spoke to me first.

"Selena, thank you." He held her hand. "You know I was about to break your fall but Selena was so fast. I can see why she's on the school's running team."

He was praising her again. It was true that she was a super fast runner I mean for a girl who's 5'9 tall with long legs it's expected that she'd be able to run that fast, and she was surprisingly strong for a girl.

"Oh! It was nothing Cole, I couldn't let her fall when I could have stopped it. After all she's our dear Ari. Ari, are you okay?" She held my hand and tightened her grip, scratching my skin with her nails in a way only I could see and feel.

"Of course." He smiled at her before going to talk a dude on our soccer team.

"Stay away from Cole you whimp." She whispered through a fake smile showing her white spotless teeth.

"We'll definitely talk soon okay. I've really missed your dad's baking." He gently stroked my hair, hugging me for a while before going to meet the boys on the soccer team as they took him away. I could still smell him, the magical scent of vanilla.

Selena went to hug Nicole who was still busy with the cheerleaders. " The boys are having a match soon with Hayfield college." A cheerleader said.

"Nicole!" Selena skipped to hug her.

"Oh my love. I've missed you soooooo much." Nicole loved Selena. A friend of Selena is obviously an enemy of mine. I was happy Nicole didn't say anything to me. I looked around to see that Melanie left. I didn't see her after Selena broke my fall. I turned to leave when I heard what caused my fall.

"I didn't expect you to break her fall Selena." Brianna rolled her eyes.

"Well I couldn't let you hurt dear Ari, and let Cole's whole attention drift to her. He wouldn't leave her if she got badly hurt."

"You should have let her fall. You can't be a sucker for Cole all the time." Palome deadpanned.

"Now, now Palome, Selena breaking her fall was smart. Imagine Cole having to stay with her in the nurse's office cause she hit her ugly face on the floor. We all can't have that happen, right?"Nicole cooed with glee.

"Totally." The said simultaneously bursting into laughter the other cheerleaders joined them to spite me. They said it out loud just to upset me, but I wasn't going to give them that pleasure.

I walked away, but faintly heard. " You had to see how terrible she looked when I pushed her into the pool at the party. She kept acting like a chicken whose feathers had been plucked off. She looked like she was going to die." Nicole laughed. "Low-key I wished she did die."

A tear slipped from my eye, I didn't understand why Nicole hated me so much, so much that she'd want me dead. I didn't want to think about the party. Cole's seventeenth birthday party. I didn't want to remember it. It was a terrible cold night. Cole returning to school was so much different than I imagined. I thought it would be better than that. I was so silly. He left for soccer, I didn't blame him though.

The boys would want to talk to him but it didn't mean that we couldn't FaceTime at night. We didn't communicate much since he went to England. My major concern was Melanie, I needed to find her. I checked the class to find Carver and Melanie with Eva. Really, she left me to sit with them. First those demons make my mood bland, and my face pale. And my best friend ditches me.

                 ╬☯╬ CARVER'S POV╬☯╬

Ariana left the chemistry lab along with a few other girls and boys too.

"Where are you all going to?" Mr Ian fumed but none of them spared a minute to listen. "You all will get detention for this." He threatened but they left anyway.

Eva stayed still. She didn't say a word. Mr Ian sighed. " I can't give the assignment or teach if you all aren't complete. We'll complete this next class." He took his backpack and left.

We left after the teacher. I was walking in the hallway and Eva kept following me without saying a word. I had to admit she gave me the creeps with her hair covering half her face, her other eye staring keenly at me and this stoic expression she has. Everything freaked me out. I spun around again from time to time only to see Eva when someone crashed into me.

"They're back!" She continued running in her cheerleading uniform. She didn't bother to apologize. I sighed, frustrated but whatever she said rang in my ear. My curiosity drove to me the angels that fell from the sky. I had to see who was making everyone so excited. Usually, I wouldn't be bothered, but I didn't want to be clueless either.

I got to the hallway close to where the principal's office was to see a few number of students gathered outside, cheerleaders and boys from the soccer team where there too. They stepped out of the office they didn't look important to me. They did look cool, but it made no sense as to why they gathered outside the principal's office making such a ruckus. They didn't look like any teen celebrity I had heard of. Sometimes I wondered if the school had a principal, she barely acted like one.

Everyone hugged, shook their hands and fist bumped them. Selena crashed into the boy like a mad dog. I suddenly remembered Eva, and spun around to see that she was gone. I had no idea  when she stopped following me. At least she left. I looked back at the scene to see Ariana stare at Selena and the boy linking arms. She was burning red with anger, her facial expression said it all. Melanie spoke to her before going to meet the boy. It began to get boring, there wasn't much to see so I left and slowly my mind drifted away as soon as I plugged my ears so I could listen to NF's The Search.

I almost got to class when someone tapped me from behind. I was scared that it would be Eva, my heart skipped a beat. I was relieved when I saw Melanie. I disconnected my ear pods from my phone.

"Jeez! I kept calling your name like a weirdo. I had no idea you were plugged." Melanie pouted her lips in a funny way.

"Well I had no idea you kept calling my name."

"I know that."

"So?" I asked confused.

"Nothing. I wanted to say hi, that's it." She smiled.

"Hello."

Melanie frowned. "Really? That's it?"

"Yup."

"Oh hey! You should come meet Cole." Her frown turned to a grin.

"Who?"

"Cole. He's a really good friend of Ariana and I. I'm sure you'd love him. He just returned today. Don't tell Ariana I said anything, but she has this huge crush on him."

"Oh wow." I replied coolly. It was really non of my business. I stepped into the class.

"Way to be sarcastic." Melanie said.

"It's what I do best." I took a sit in class.

"I see a promising career."

"What?!" I chuckled.

"Hey." A cold voice said, it was loud but it felt like a whisper. I knew that voice.

Melanie and I turned to look at Eva. I sighed.

"Oh huh? Hey." Melanie looked startled. I was glad that I wasn't the only one she freaked out.

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A/N

And that's a wrap. My fingers are tired and so am I. Eva creeps me out too. Just joking I think she's really cool^_^ after all she is my baby. Was she really walking after Nathaniel or not?

Cole is so sweet isn't he? If you don't think he is well that's your issue. Sorry not sorry if that was harsh.

Honestly, if I was Carver and Eva was following me like that, I might have made a run for it cause wtf (≧▽≦).

This is such a beautiful chapter though (•‿•) can't wait to see more of Cole.

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