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The wind's hitting her face as she's sitting down on the warm sand on a Friday night. California is beautiful, of course. The sunset, the sunrise, the beach, the hot weather. Girls in their bathing suits, boys on the surf boards. Yup, it looked perfect. Problem is that… between all those things, people forget that there's a real world outside. Life isn't a dream, it's a bunch of challenge God gives you, then you gotta live with them until you die, that's it.

Mitchie Torres is there, sitting there watching the waves crashing together. She doesn't realize yet as she wrote Shane's name on the sand with her fingers with a broken smile. She'd do it over & over again, erasing it each time. As she's writing it for what felt like the 5th time, she's just staring at the name in disgust. Tears fall from her eyes as she crossed it out.

"Mitchie?"

Surprised by the sound of her name, she slowly turned around and looked up. Alex looked at Mitchie, confused. With all those questions. She was so unused to see her. Sure, they knew each other because they hang out with the same friends, but they never talked. Or they did, but once a time. It all started when Mitchie started dating Shane. The young guy was already Alex's best friend, so, of course she had to be introduced to Mitchie. They were four. Nate, Mitchie, Shane and Alex. Always together, always there for each other. Then, time slowly passed and Alex and Nate started dating. It was predictable. Eye contact, those smiles to each other, the way they talked about each other, everything was. But, guess what? Life happened, again. Teenage drama, again.

"Hey Alex," she said to the singer, turning her head back to the water.

"I heard about you and Shane.. I'm sorry, I didn't know he was like this." Alex whispered with sympathy.

Mitchie let out a sarcastic laugh and turned her head to Alex, "He's your best friend after all right? Good to know how dumb I was. Hell, I'm sure the whole school already know about this… situation."

"Mitch', you were his first serious girlfriend, how was I supposed to know? … you're not dumb, we're young, we make mistakes." said Alex as she looks at her with a concerned look. She never saw Mitchie like this. She was always that shy little girl who was scared to show any kind of feeling. She only shared them with Shane. As Alex is now seeing her like this, her heart is clenching without knowing why. They were not even that close .

"Then can you tell me at least why would he do something like that, Alex?" she said loudly standing up, looking up at Alex with tears in her eyes. "How could he be… cheating on me with my best friend? I can't understand how Caitlyn can be so stupid to do that to me! All over again, it happened! She knew how hard it was for me to trust Shane again!"

Alex watched the girl, crying and pouring her heart out on her. One thing that happened to her when she less expected to. Shane cheated on her with Caitlyn, Mitchie's best friend, in the past. Typical huh? Such a classic. She got her heart broken for the first time with a guy that changed for her and her best friend of almost 10 years. There's nothing much to say, it's just the classic story that came with forgiveness and trust. Then they dated again and.. It happened, again. The young latina looked at Mitchie who's crying, looking everywhere to be sure no one saw in this state. She knew it was weird, but at this very certain moment, she knew she could only trust Alex.

"You want an honest anwser? I don't know! But, you two were already fighting about some idiotic problems! You do know how hard it was for Caitlyn to give up on her dream to be.. A weird kind of musician! Don't just put the blame on them!"

"That's totally bull, Alex! I know it was hard for her, I know we were fighting, but what's the point of cheating in this?"

Alex looked down at Mitchie's necklace. Shane's gift after their reconnection. I found you. was written on it. Mitchie followed her gaze, and saw her necklace. She reached to take it off and put it in Alex's hand. Alex looked at it with a confused look.

"What do you want me to do with it?" asked Alex.

"Anything… I just don't want to keep it." Mitchie said with a broken smile on her face that made Alex melt a little. She just put it in her pocket safely.

"You know what? You're right. It wasn't right, but Nate cheated too you know? Not really similar to your situation, but he cheated."

"Alex, it's different..

"No, it never was."

Mitchie slowly looked into Alex's eyes trying to find something. She never realized how concerned Alex was and it made her feel safe. It made her heart beat a little too fast, but she didn't care. Mitchie broke the eye contact and sat back down on the sand. As Alex sat down next to her, they watched the water passing in a comfortable silence. Mitchie watched Alex who seemed lost in her thoughts.

Alex didn't seem to notice though. She wasn't thinking about Nate at all. She didn't want to think about him knowing he cheated on her. The older girl was thinking of how Mitchie and her were complete opposites. They did hang out with the same group of friend, but that was almost forced since their boyfriends were best friends. They were all best friends, just not her and Mitchie. They were different. Alex was the bad girl kind of person. Bad grades, trouble-maker and who didn't care about school at all. Mitchie was a goody two shoes, always there and never late for class, organized and … a nerd. Or that's what Alex saw. They didn't know each other, and that made Alex asked herself why she was here for Mitchie.

After what seemed like forever, Mitchie slowly put her head on Alex's shoulder. Alex looked down at her. Eyes closed, trying to keep her tears inside, not wanting to cry in front of Alex again. She just looked at her and saw another kind of person in the singer. Mitchie was always smiling like nothing was bothering her, trying to build a reputation with her strong personality. Alex saw her. A broken teenage girl who wrote songs about her feelings, finding the right person for her, the one who was brave enough to put so much trust into someone that if they broke her heart, she would be ready to face it because she knew they would truly love her and that they didn't mean it to happen. But Jackass-Shane just crushed her again and she was only 16, soon-to-be 17. So young and not ready to face love at all.

Alex put her arm around, as Mitchie placed her head in the crock of Alex's neck, moving closer to her. They never were close, close friends. People with the same friends only. That made Alex thought of how stupid she was for not giving a chance to get to know Mitchie better before in the past. They talked, for the first time, they talked about anything. Trying to make each other feel better, trying to heal each other's broken heart.