Sarah's POV

"Carly!" I ran over to my best friend and jumped on her.

"OW! Sarah! Warn a girl before you squish her like a bug!"

"Haha. Whoops." I climbed off of Carly and pulled her to her feet. "and besides. We're the same height smarty pants. So there is no possible way that I could have squished you like a bug. That's gross…"

"Wow you're special."

"And you love it!" I grinned like the Cheshire cat and Carly rolled her eyes adjusting her bag on her shoulders.

"Can you believe we're already seniors?"

"Almost to be graduated seniors Carson. We only have a month of school left."

"Ugh… don't remind me… I still have a month to deal with whats-iz-name."

"But its only a month until we are done with school entirely!"

"College smart one ken-obi."

"Shut up Carson."

She grinned smugly and sat down on the bench outside the library.

I sat next to her.

"Have you even started your college essays?"

"No. I still need to get the applications."

"You need to get that done."

"I know! Right along with all my other Ap friggin homework." I sighed and rubbed my temples. "I am so glad its Friday. Can we have normal food when we get home?"

"No. we don't have any."

"Great." I slumped down farther and said hi to my old English teacher as he walked by.

"Sarah, hide."

"Why?" I looked at Carson (my nickname for Carly) in utter bewilderment.

"You are so oblivious! Fred's coming moron! Hide!"

"Crap!" I jumped up and ran inside the library, crouching behind the book shelves just inside the doors below the windows. I heard Fred greet Carson and make small chat with her. I rolled my eyes and tried not to groan. He just had to ruin my Friday. I hissed a sigh and sat cross-legged where I was, preparing to wait a while for him to leave. And then my phone rang. I jumped, bumped my head on the book shelf behind me, squealed and got a frown from the librarians. I pulled my phone out and shut it up before he could hear but I just a little slow on the uptake.

"Are you hiding Sahara?"

"No. I just wanted to sit in front of the books. And don't call me Sahara. Only Carson is allowed to do that." I stood up and scratched the back of my neck. "Just leave me alone okay? I really don't want to talk to you. Peace." I gave him the signature Vulcan hand sign and walked out of the library.

"Sarah, I think we got off on the wrong foot."

"Ya think Fred?"

"Yeah I do. And I think that you regret what happened just as much as I do."

"Maybe I do, maybe I don't. I guess you'll never know. As I recall, you forced me to let you out of the relationship and then decided that my answer wasn't good enough and when I didn't come running back to you, you tried to make me feel just like you did. You didn't need to because I already felt like crap and ate a whole half gallon of ice cream that night."

He laughed a little and I frowned. "Sorry. But I mean why can't we just be friends?"

"We tried that. It didn't work too well remember? Now leave me alone." I followed Carson out of the school and down to the benches at the bottom of the stairs. "When will you give me permission to slap the crap outta him?"

"When you give me permission to slap the crap outta Stephen."

"Ugh. You're so difficult." I slouched farther down in my seat as we waited for Carly's mom to pick us up.

"Yeah well I could always leave you here and you could not spend the weekend and not get double stuffed pizza."

"Bugger," I mumbled, slouching even farther. "I'm gonna go say bye to Carlton and Gunnar."

"Gunnar has a class."

"Yeah but he loves me enough to not yell at me."

"Have fun. Don't be too long or we really will leave you."

I stuck out my tongue as I started trudging up the stairs. When I got to the doors I poked my head through them to make sure Fred nor Stephen were around. When it was clear, I booked it across the commons area and up the stairs to the top floor in order to get to both my teacher's rooms. I decided to just skip Carlton and headed to Gunnar's down the hall. I popped my head through the door and smiled at my old teacher when he looked at me. "bye Gunnar! I'll see you on Monday!" I ran out the door and got into my locker, getting my bag of sleep over stuff and my two AP books. "Ugh… so heavy…" I slammed my locker shut and then jumped down the stairs to the commons and ran towards the doors. Slamming into Stephen along the way. My stuff went flying everywhere.

"Ow…" I picked myself up off the floor and started gathering my crap.

"Let me help…" the brown hair boy tried to grab my bag and I snatched it away.

"I'm good. Thanks anyway." I started walking towards the front doors when Stephen told me something that made me nearly pass out.

"Hey Sarah, will you tell Carly that I still love her? More than anything?"

I turned to stare at him. "You broke up with her."

"I know. but will you just tell her please? She won't listen to me, I know she'll listen to you."

I blinked at him a few times and then ran outside and down the stairs to Carly's car where she was getting in the front seat. I opened the back, threw my crap in and hopped in the back seat. My phone rang again as Kerrie (Carson's mom) pulled out of the library parking lot.

It was from Stephen. –Thank you.-

I groaned. You know, sometimes I really hate my cousin.