Hey everyone! This is my first story, and I wanted to try out some ideas on an area of Fanfiction that I personally think is underwritten. So please enjoy and review!

Love's Trials

Jane POV

I walked quickly through the halls, desperately trying to put as much distance between me and my worst nightmare. The memory of Billy and Lulu all over each other is fresh in my mind, and the familiar burning behind my eyes only makes me walk faster. Come on, please have a bathroom miraculously appear so he can't find me! I look around. Oh, the main girl's restroom is just down the hall! A few more steps-

"Jane!" The hand that accompanies the voice spins me around and I come face to face with my best friend, Billy. Well, I thought he was my best friend… But that was before I caught him with my tormentor, Lulu Pope.

"Jane stop, okay? I can explain!" Oh, I'm sure he can… And I'm just as sure that I will accept anything he says without question, because he's Billy, and I trust him more than anyone in this world… Which is why I have to be short with him or else I'll break down and fall into his arms crying. To save myself what little dignity I have left I have to act like I'm mad at him, when really I just want to go run and cry.

"Explain what Billy? The fact that you and Lulu were just stuck together like glue, or that you didn't tell me about it?" Okay so far, so good Jane.

"Lulu and I didn't want anyone to know about us for awhile because we didn't know what we had yet, but now we're together for real, and we decided it was okay to come out as a couple." Oh. Well- Wait! He said awhile… Does that mean this has been going on for a long time? I have a sinking feeling in my gut that it has been.

"What do you mean 'awhile', Billy? How long has this been going on?" Please say this is a new thing, please!

"We were together for over three months in secret, then I broke it off for about a week, and now we're back together…" He says something else, but I no longer can hear him. The air has left me like I just took a punch to the gut. I feel as though I'm going to be sick… I have to get out of here fast. Okay Janie, be strong!

"You lied to me all this time? Billy, we aren't supposed to keep secrets! We're supposed to tell each other things!" My head is pounding, and my eyes burn with unshed tears.

"I knew you would take this badly! Ugh! This is also the reason I didn't tell you, because you wouldn't understand!" Another punch to the gut. Pain and betrayal claw at my insides. I've got to get out of here, now!

"I wouldn't understand? Billy, you never gave me that chance… And now it's too late." I can't believe this is happening to us. Just yesterday we were perfect. Just shows you how things can change.

"Janie, don't be like that. You're acting ridicu-" No, I can't listen anymore!

"Don't call me Janie! And you have no right to be judging me right now! *Sigh* Just leave me alone, Billy…"

"You know what Jane? No! I don't care if you don't approve of us, because it's none of your business whom I do or don't date! I can't believe you! You're just bitter because it's Lulu! I'll bet if it was any other girl you wouldn't care half as much! Get it through your head that there are other, more important, things to me in my life than you Jane Quimby!" It would have hurt less had he slapped me across the face. I don't give a response. I just turn around and attempt to walk away without stumbling or breaking down crying.

I don't hear any footsteps behind me, so he obviously deemed me unworthy of his potential Lulu time. I hurt more. How could he say those things after everything we've been through? I guess our friendship didn't mean nearly as much to him as I thought…

I finally made it to the main doors and burst out into the… Rain? Oh, that's just perfect. Now I have to walk all the way home in the rain, where upon arrival I will be soaked and most likely have a cold… Not to mention my clothes will be ruined.

I just want to crawl in my bed and cry. It doesn't matter to me that I just ditched school, or that Ben is going to be worried and possibly mad, or if I'm going to miss work today. I don't care because the most constant thing in my life has just been yanked out from under me, and now I have to get back up and learn to stand on my own.