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Chapter One

Karma rocked on her heels as she faced the drop off zone for cars. Amy hadn't been on the bus that morning and if her stop had been after Karma's she would have gotten off to check on her. She checked her phone one more time to make sure there wasn't a text letting her know that Amy would be absent before she craned her neck again, looking for Ms. Raudenfeld's vehicle. She spotted it a second later and as expected Lauren exited but was not followed by her blonde best friend slash girlfriend. She started towards the car but stalled when Shane shot past her, appearing like a flamboyant phantom as he rushed Lauren as soon as the vehicle had pulled away.

Karma with Liam and Ivy just behind her moved closer, all of them stunned silent by the furious look on Shane's face.

As they came up near him he spit out, "You think you've won something you evil bitch? You think what you did to Amy means you're going to be Prom Queen? As if anything justifies what you did?"

Karma was stunned by Lauren's uncharacteristic posture as she stuttered out, "I didn't..." Her own eyes narrowed though when she registered that Lauren had done something bad enough to Amy that Shane looked ready to strangle her himself.

Shane cut Lauren off, "She cried all night!" His glare was thunderous as he snarled, "The only reason I'm not going to destroy you, that I'm not going to tell everyone in this school what you did to Amy is because she asked me not to." He scowled almost petulantly, "She says you aren't worth it."

Karma blurted out before either he or Lauren could walk away, "What did she do to Amy?!"

Shane and Lauren both turned to face her and if possible Lauren's face paled further as Shane lifted his head and breathed out, "Lauren outed Amy at dinner last night, her mother and step-father to be threw her out of the house."

Karma registered the words and for just a moment the sound around her fell away as she processed everything that had been said. Amy had been outed. Her mother, the one parent she had left after her father's death, had thrown her out of her house for being gay. Lauren had done it to hurt her, possibly so that Amy would admit their relationship was fake. And she'd cried all night.

Unbidden, the moment they'd cemented their friendship flashed through Karma's head. The desire to murder the little boy who'd shoved Amy on the playground and the anger that had welled in Karma at the sight of Amy's beautiful green eyes welling with tears, and Karma's admittedly violent reaction to seeing the little blonde cry didn't touch the rage that rushed up inside of her now.

She'd bloodied the nose of the little jerk that had shoved her Amy in kindergarten, and she let out a hiss, intent on doing way more than that as she lunged at Lauren.

Ivy and Liam reacted a second too late to stop her from seizing Lauren's collar but they managed to pull her away before she could do any real damage, which for the record just pissed her off more, "You bitch!"

Her hands were basically claws as she was yanked away, her hands stayed outstretched, and they itched to be wrapped around Lauren's throat.

Lauren scrambled back as soon as Karma was pulled away, "Karma I swear I didn't think they'd throw her out! I just wanted to make her uncomfortable!"

Karma spat out, "Your dad is an East Texas fundamentalist bigot asshole, you had to know there was at least a chance!"

Lauren looked offended by the description of her father for just a second before she realized he was the last person she wanted to defend at the moment, "Karma..."

Karma's eyes watered as she screamed out, "She is my best friend! She is almost your sister, how could you do this to her?!"

Lauren seemed to gain strength from it as she lifted her chin, "She could have denied it. Denied you..." She spat the last words, "This is as much your fault as it is mine."

Karma faltered, "I..."

Lauren's eyes narrowed as she took a step forward, "She loves you Karma, she loves you and she wasn't willing to deny it in front of our parents."

Karma's chest tightened for just a moment before she wrenched out of Liam and Ivy's hold and replied brokenly, "I love her too Lauren, she is my best friend." She breathed out, "I love her more than anything in the world..." She looked Lauren up and down before she turned to Shane, "She's at your house?"

Shane nodded, "Yeah, she didn't feel up to coming into school today." He added after a moment, "It's not like she would have even had her books." He shot an ugly look at Lauren, "Lauren's bastard father threw her out with nothing."

Karma's head shot up as she demanded, "Nothing?!"

Shane cocked a hip, "Nothing."

Karma stood straight as she turned back on Lauren, "Give me your key!"

Lauren reared back, "What!? No!"

Karma took an aggressive step forward and this time Liam and Ivy hung back, "I said give me the goddamn key Lauren!"

Lauren moved back instinctively before she finally reached into her purse and pulled out her keys, "Are you going to get her stuff?"

Karma snatched the keys from her and tore the key from it, "Yeah I am." She turned from the group before she let out an angry huff and spun to face Lauren again, "Tell you Neanderthal boyfriend I need to borrow his truck too."

Lauren stared at her for a long tense moment before she sighed and pulled out her phone to call him.


Karma threw the door of Amy's house open violently so that it rattled the pictures on the walls before she stomped forward barking orders, "Liam, in the master bedroom is a very nice set of luggage, go get it for me and bring it to Amy's room. Ivy, get trash bags for everything we can't fit in the luggage. Shane you're with me."

She took the stairs two at a time and tore into Amy's bed room before pausing for just a second. The bed was unmade as it usually was and Amy's laptop was open on the bed. Karma moved quickly and located the case before closing the computer and putting it away with the cord.

She pointed at the closet, "Her clothes are in there. If we fold them we can fit more."

Shane's nose wrinkled, "Ugh I hate laundry." He flounced forward a second later, "At least it's laundry in the name of Amy."

Karma let out a slight chuckle as she made a beeline for Amy's dresser just as Liam and Ivy hurried in, "Her dresser is off limits. I'll take care of the stuff inside." She took one of the bags from Liam and opened the bottom drawer, blushing horribly as she grabbed Amy's underwear and shoved it into the bag. She'd seen Amy in various states of undress more times than she could count but still. She muttered as she crammed the last of it in the bag, "Who knew she owned so much lace..." She smiled fondly after a second, "The boy-shorts aren't a surprise." She moved onto the socks a moment later, grinning despite the situation as she came across Amy's horde of fuzzy socks and holiday themed stockings, "God you're a dork."

She made quick work with the rest of the dresser before she stood and turned her attention to Amy's bedside tables just as Liam spoke from his place near the closet, "Do you guys have like... toys?"

Karma turned to stare at him, wearing what she was sure was a disgusted look as Ivy slapped him hard in the stomach and growled out, "Fucking boys! God!"

Karma returned her attention to the bedside table and then her face smoothed out when she took in the picture Amy had on her nightstand. Amy's wide eyed look in the picture had always made Karma laugh, not just from the expression on Amy's face but because of the reason for the expression. Karma had been messing around when she'd grabbed a handful of Amy butt during their photo-shoot for the school's tumblr, but the results had been amazing. Amy's goosed expression was immortalized on the picture as was the mischievous smile on Karma's face. When Karma had asked Amy why she kept a picture that reminded her of Karma's moment of inappropriateness, Amy's answer had been the sweetest thing anyone had ever said to her.

The warmth that Amy's response still inspired was one of the reasons Karma worked so hard when she was kissing Liam, hoping to inspire even a fraction of the same warmth.

"You just... you look so happy. I like seeing that smile before I go to sleep... and when I wake up."

Karma blinked as a tear splashed the glass of the picture before she brought the framed picture to her chest, hugging it in lieu of Amy because she desperately needed to hug Amy. She cleaned out the nightstand quickly and stood, suddenly more impatient than she'd ever been in her life.

"Hurry up, I want to be gone just in case Ms. Raudenfeld comes back."

She sped through putting the clothes in the bags with Shane and Ivy while Liam stuffed Amy's shoes into one of the trash bags he'd brought up from the kitchen. The room was stripped bare in just under forty minutes and it broke Karma's heart to see the bedroom Amy had occupied since birth almost gutted of any evidence of her. They hurried the stuff down the stairs and into the truck bed and on Karma's last trip she paused in the hallway in front of the row of pictures in the hallway to stare at the first picture she and Amy had taken together as kids. Their smiles were nearly as big as the man holding them on his knees was, Amy's father with his green eyes and blond hair that so reminded her of Amy. They even had the same smile, Amy and her dad. Karma shifted on her feet for a moment before she finally reached up and plucked the picture from the wall.

As she exited Shane let out a scoff as Ms. Raudenfeld's vehicle pulled up, "Bad mommy alert..."

The tall blonde woman exited the car and to Karma's disgust she demanded, "What are you all doing at my house!?"

Karma moved forward and replied, "I'm taking care of Amy... what are you doing?"

Amy's mom reared back before she folded her arms, "Is she... Karma..."

Karma nearly exploded, "What the hell kind of mother are you?! Letting some man throw your baby girl out!"

Ms. Raudenfeld stiffened, "She's gay Karma."

Karma snarled, "So. What?" She stepped forward, "She is still Amy! She's still the same girl." She wasn't sure why she didn't just tell Amy's mom that Amy wasn't gay except that she couldn't know for sure why Amy hadn't done that herself.

Ms. Raudenfeld tore her gaze away from Karma as she whispered, "She's in love with a girl... how am I supposed to support that?"

Karma swallowed as hurt welled up inside of her. Amy was in love? Amy was in love with someone and she hadn't told her?

She was quiet just long enough to realize that it wasn't just hurt she was feeling before she spoke, "You ask her about this girl. This girl who is lucky enough to have Amy love her, to have someone as kind and smart and loving as Amy love her." She shook her head after a moment, "I'll never forgive you for this, for hurting Amy. And her dad? He dad is probably spinning in his grave because some butt-monkey you've known for a year threw his baby girl out of her own home. You should be ashamed of yourself."

She marched away from Amy's mother and hoisted herself into the truck before barking, "Get us the hell out of here."

Liam threw the car in drive and glanced at her, "Are you ok?"

Karma didn't look at him as she muttered, "No."