"You know the feeling when you know you have to eat, but you're really not hungry and when you eat something you swear you puke? That's how I'm feeling lately." Karma sits down next to Shane and Amy in the courtyard. They look at her confused. "Is everything fine Karma? Why don't you eat?" Shane looks at her, but Amy places her hand on Shane's mouth. "Oh shut up, jerk. Look, I know it's finals week, but you're gonna make it, I know you will. And when it's over we'll celebrate in our traditional way, so look forward to that." Amy winks at Karma and Shane pulls a face. "Bother to explain me what you traditional way is?" He puts quotationmarks in the air when he says traditional ways. Karma giggled and answers him "It's a Netflix night, duh. But I think I'll pass. As you probably know, Liam is throwing a Party on the last day of finals, so why not go there?" Amy doesn't look pleased, but as always she can't say no to Karma. "Oh great, you two drunk at a party? Great combo, really, but please stay away from each other." Shane is still really pissed about what happened last week, when he found the girls kissing in the janitor's room. The girls shoot him a look. "Come on, we told you it was a one time thing." Amy says, and Karma adds "Yeah, it's not like we did something like this before. We promised you it would never happen again." They had to promise him to prevent Shane from telling Liam about it. "It's not like you faked a relationship last year." He says raising an eyebrow at the girls. "Really? That topic, again? I really can't hear about it anymore." Amy is quite annoyed everytime someone mentions that fake relationship. It made everything complicated for the girls and their surroundings. The only positive things it brought with it, is the friendship to Shane and Karma's relationship with Liam. "Fine, I won't talk about it anymore, but please do me the favor and stop being so flirty around each other." Karma and Amy look at each other, both with a look of confusion, then look at Shane. "Flirty?" Asks Amy, "We're acting exactly the way we did before everything happened." Karma adds. She was right, the best friends went back to normal after the weird kiss. Both of them thought of each other quite often now, but neither admits it. They look at each other again. "You see? That's what I mean. The smirking and the blushing and stuff." Shane waves his hands angrily on front of their faces. The girls chuckle. He is kinda right, though. We've been acting a bit shy around each other, Amy thought, still looking at Karma. But whatever, that will fade eventually. "What are you guys talking about?" Liam joins the three with s huge smile on his face."We were just talking about your party on Friday," Karma said charming, leaning over to kiss Liam hello. Amy pulled a face and there was a certain sickness in her body, watching them. Shane saw it, but didn't comment on it. Yeah right, just best friends. Go and fool someone else with your little game, he thought. "You're all coming to the party, right?" Liam asks still with this huge smile on his face. "Of course we will, right Amy?" Shane nudges Amy's ribs and she realizes she was still pulling a face. She quickly recovers and smiles a bit. "Yeah sure, Jasmine and I sure will be there." She doesn't sound too delighted about going to the party, but if it makes Karma happy, she will be there. "Okey, please tell us, why you look so disturbingly happy." Shane finally says when he can't take the smile anymore. "I got early acceptance in NYU!" Shane's eyes widen and his mouth drops open. Amy's face doesn't change and Karma puts her hands in front of her mouth. "Oh my god! That's amazing!" Karma went in for the tight hug and kissed Liam on the cheek. "Way to go, man." says Shane hugging him after Karma. Amy puts on her best fake smile she can produce in that moment and hugs him really quick and backs off really fast. She's still not comfortable with him around. The rest of the lunch period, they talk about college and how they're going to stay in touch. Everybody bashed about how amazing college will be, everybody accept Amy. Karma notices and gives her a questioning look. Amy pulls out her phone and starts texting. After she puts away her phone, Karma's phone starts to buzz, and she pulls it out
I don't know how I will manage college if we don't get into the same one.
Karma smiles at Amy. Oh my god she's so cute. How could I not love her … in a platonic way … as my best friend of course. They both sigh simultaneously and start laughing. The guys ignored that, thinking it must be some sort of inside joke.
The days went by and finals were exhausting, especially for Karma who studied a lot with Amy. Amy kept explaining her everything because that seemed the only way that Karma could memorize stuff. Amy was always the first one to finish the exam, and since they had to sit in alphabetical order, she had the perfect view on Karma who sat in the first row. Amy was always worried about Karma's school work, but this time she had a good feeling about Karma. Karma was always one of the last ones to finish, one exam she barely finished in time, but she made it. After every exam, Amy would stroll to Karma's desk and ask how she thinks it went. Karma gave always the same answer: "I'm not gonna ace it, but thanks to you, I'm going to pass and graduate." And starts to leave after she pecks Amy on the cheek. The final exam arrived and after it was done, Karma ran up to Amy and surprisingly hugging her, that the girls almost fall over. "WE DID IT!" Karma jumps up and down and runs out of the classroom leaving Amy standing there, quite confused about what happened. Karma's next victim was Liam, she runs up to him and passionately kisses him. "I'm so happy finals are over, I don't have to study for a whole summer!" She squieled in his ear. "Wow there, relax for a moment, please." He says laughing, lifting her up in the air. "I have to head home to prepare for tonight. Do you want to get there early? You can help me?" Karma looks at him as he sets her down again. "Hmm, well as irresistible that offer is, I have to pass." She starts to walk away and only turns her head around to look at him. "You know I like to make an entrance, so I'll be fashionable late" She winks at him and heads back to Amy.
"Here we go," Amy and Jasmine stand in front of the entrance and Amy doesn't dare to enter. Jasmine and her never been to a party together, and she wasn't really happy when Jasmine agreed with a scream of happiness. She loved to party, as though she doesn't seem like it. "Let's just get inside, it will be great, you'll see." Jasmine gives Amy a reassuring squeeze with her hand and they enter. The house is filled with drunk teenagers who occasionally made out with random people. As someone who's not comfortable to be touched by other people, but Jasmine and Karma, Amy finds this quite uncomfortable. Jasmine lets go of Amy's hand and heads to the kitchen to get something to drink. Amy searches for Shane whom she quickly finds in this mess of people she doesn't like. "Hey there, darling. How are you?" She just shrugs as an answer. She looks around the room. "Where is Karma? Isn't she here yet, or is she somewhere with Liam already?" Amy disgusted the thought of Liam and Karma doing … things together, but they are a couple, so they do such things. "She hasn't arrived yet, and Liam is over there talking to Soleil." Amy looks over to Liam, she wants to check if he's faithful. They stand pretty close to each other. If he does something to hurt Karma, I will kill him. So he better stays away from that girl. Shane sees Amy's look and tries to calm her. "Look, he wouldn't do anything you wouldn't do." She purses her lips and mumbles "Yeah, that's what I'm worried about." She's relieved that Shane didn't hear her. Jasmine comes back with drinks in her hand. She hands one solo-cup to Amy and she looks at the fluid in the cup. It looks redisch, but that could come from the red color of the cup. "What exactly is it I'm going to drink?" Jasmine chuckles a bit at Amy, but only winks at her. "It's only vodka cranberry, so don't worry. It tastes amazing, try it." Amy takes a sip. It tasted disgusting, who would drink something like that? The taste of alcohol was burning her throat. She wasn't sure if she would drink any more of that stuff. "I wanna dance, please dance with me?" Jasmine was pulling on Amy's arm, but right now, Amy really wasn't in the mood of dancing. "I'll dance with you, let the loner bore herself to death." Shane grabs Jamine's hand and starts dancing off with her. Amy's eyes are still focused on Liam, who's still talking to Soleil. Ah, fuck it. She drowns the whole cup. On second thought the stuff doesn't taste that bad. She goes to the kitchen to get herself a new drink.
When Karma arrives everybody is quite drunk already. She shakes her head at the people making out next to the entrance and finds Liam quickly, sitting on the kitchen table, next to Soleil. Karma really doesn't like Soleil, but whatever, she says her quick hello, marks that Liam is still with her, by kissing him passionately and runs off to search for Amy. She finds her sitting on the couch, making out with Jasmine. "I think I'm gonna throw up." She mumbles going back to the kitchen to pour herself something to drink. She drowns the first cup of whiskey and coke in the kitchen and gets herself a new drink. She didn't think it would be that hard seeing them here together, but booze makes it more bearable. She walks back to the living room where the love-doves have finished their make-out-session and are now talking to Shane. She walks towards them and greets them. She instantly realizes that Amy is drunk. She leans over to hug her, but her movements are pretty uncoordinated. Well that explains the making out in front of so many people. She turns on her heels and walks away from them. She can't handle them together right now. Not with Liam next to Soleil. That's too much for her right now and her cup is empty again. She feels a tap on her shoulder and Shane stands right beside her. "So how is watching your boyfriend flirting with someone else?" His smile is mischievous, but Karma only stares at Liam, clenching her fist, destroying the cup in her hand. "I'm gonna get something new to drink" Shane says walking to the kitchen, "Want something, too?" Karma nods silently. When Shane comes back with their beverages, Karma turns her head to him. "This is harmless, right? I mean I don't have to worry, do I?" Shane chuckles delighted at Karma. "Are you serious right now?" She takes a sip and looks back at Liam. "I know, I'm not allowed to complain, but still. I can't turn off jealousy." She drowns her drink again, feeling slightly tipsy, but not yet drunk. She hand the cup to Shane. "I'm gonna go to the bathroom real' quick." When she sits down on the toilet, she has one of those "I'm more drunk than I thought" realizations. She heads back to the living room, just in time to hear Shane bawl out "SPIN THE BOTTLE!" And some cheers of agreement. Shane sees me and drags me to the circle that forms in the backyard. Amy and Jasmine also join the circle and Karma looks at Amy questioning, but she only shrugs as a reply, smirking at her. Amy's hand lies on Jasmine's thigh, a bit too high up if you ask Karma. A sudden heat fills Karma, wishing that it was her thigh, but she tries her best to shake off that thought. The game has already begun, but Karma couldn't concentrate. She was still looking at Amy's hand, and sometimes Amy's face that was focused on Karma. Suddenly Amy looks at the bottle and smiles wide. Karma feels a sudden nudge from her side. She looks up to find it's her turn to spin the bottle. She spun it and prayed it wouldn't land on … Amy. The bottle stopped of course pointing and the blonde. Karma looked at Jasmine to find no reaction. She must be loaded, she doesn't even care that I'm gonna kiss her girlfriend. Amy leans forward to come closer to Karma, and she does the same. Karma swallows hard, while Amy licks her lips seductively. A second later, their lips met and it felt so right. It felt better than anything Karma had felt with Liam. Even though she was drunk, she felt the same sensation, she felt last week in school during the kiss. Amy's hand found her way up to Karma's cheek and they deepen the kiss. Their lips move perfectly together and the knot in Karma's stomach that was there the whole night, disappeared and is replaced by butterflies. After what felt like eternity, Karma felt a light tug on her shoulder and she pulls back. She looked in the eyes of a panting Amy, and the eyes said they want more. Or at least that's want drunk-Karma tells herself. She shakes her head quickly to forget these thoughts and looks over to Shane who doesn't look too happy about the kiss. "It was your idea to play it." She whispers in his ear. She now looks at Jasmine, who doesn't look happy either. "Yeah, but I thought you would be sober enough to make it a quick kiss, since it was in front of her girlfriend." Getting the death glare from Jasmine, Karma gets up. "By the way, I'm gonna get myself a drink and look after Liam. Be right back." She didn't need a new drink, nor did she want to check on Liam, but she wanted to get away from Jasmine. This girl gives me the creeps, if glares could kill, I'd be dead right now. She sighs deep and goes up to Liam's room. She's quite happy to find it empty, but it's not empty for a long time. She sat there in the darkness, and two people came in, heavily making out. Karma, who stood next to the bed shrieked and tried to be silent. The two people didn't even realize that Karma was in the room with them. The guy threw the girl on the bed and climbs on top of her. They dry-hump for a moment before he takes off his shirt. They didn't make any sound so far, but now she heard the girl say something. She couldn't make out what she said, but she recognized the voice. "Soleil?" The two people jumped by Karma's voice and she turned on the light. Liam and Soleil were lying on the bed, not moving and staring at Karma. "What the actual fuck?! Are you fucking serious?! I just thought that everything was finally fine between us!" Karma runs out of the room, and out of the house. She walked fast when she heard footsteps follow her. She turns around and shouts "So this is your opinion of a new start? This is how you're in an exclusive relationship? Fucking your protest-aff-" She suddenly stops, realizing that it wasn't Liam who followed her, but Amy. "Are you okey, Karma?" She tries to suppress a sob, and stares at Amy blankly. "Do I look okey to you?" Amy steps closer hugging Karma and Karma can't hold her tears back any longer. "What happened? What did he do?" Karma tries really hard to form a sentence. "Liam and Soleil … I saw them making out … They were about to …" She breaks down even more and Amy sits her down on the pavement. "Shh Karma, everything's gonna be alright, you hear me? He doesn't deserve you anyway." Amy acts incredibly sober for the fact that she was really drunk before. In contrast to Karma, who blurts out stuff she never wanted to say. "No, nothing's gonna be alright. Because now I have no distraction from my feelings, my feelings for you. Now I have to watch you being happy with Jasmine and pretend to be happy for you, but I'm not, I can't do this." Amy lifts Karma's head up so she looks her in the eyes. She smiles and kisses her softly on the lips. "I promise you, everything will be alright." She leans her forehead against Karma's and whispers "One day, you're gonna be the death of me."