A/N: Well I had a lot of fun writing this chapter! You'll see why when you get to the flashback. And just in case you forgot: Bold = Journal, Italicized = Flashback.
White Houses
Ch. 3
Cindy finds Libby's journal near the bottom of the pile of books, as she grabs it all of the notebooks on top of it ends up plummeting to the ground. With the mess of books on the ground, Cindy skims though Libby's journal for anything relevant.
Feb 13- Today Cindy finally admitted to me that she likes Jimmy! The fun part was acting shocked, like I didn't know…
'Wait what! She knew this whole time!' Cindy thought to herself but shook it off, she skipped a couple pages.
March 20- Today was the sixth grade fundraiser, me, Cindy and Brittany signed up to do the car wash. It was fun except for the part where I got stuck as the CFO and had to be the one to handle money. Yeah, Cindy and Brittany got to splash around in the water washing cars while I counted money, the worst part was when Brittany decided her and Cindy should just completely slack off and not wash any cars! They practically stopped doing any work, it took forever for all the cars to get washed and we got less money than we should have. I tried to tell them, I had to yell at them to get them to continue working, and then they got mad at me. Seriously! I'm the one who is actually doing what I'm supposed to then they go and get all mad at me. I just rolled it off like I usually do, sometimes I wish I didn't do that, I'm really starting to get annoyed.
Cindy vaguely remembered that day, it was when she and Brittany really started to become good friends, and she did remember how bossy Libby was being. She was just messing around with Brittany, 'It was totally harmless, then Libby had to go and ruin our fun.' She told herself.
March 27- Alright as if last week wasn't bad enough get this, Cindy picked Brittany as a project partner first! I was about to come and ask her to be partners then she goes and asked Brittany. She says that was just because that we're always partners and it would be nice to work with someone else for a change, which I guess I don't mind, Betty's not so bad. I'm not really complaining that she didn't chose me as a partner, because it is true that we're always partners, I'm just complaining that she always does everything with Brittany now. She never has time to hang with me anymore; it's like whenever I ask it's always, "I'm going over to Brittany's to work on the project." I mean I know she's not the brightest girl but come on, Brittany can do her own part, you don't have to babysit her.
Cindy was starting to see why Libby was so upset, but she ignored her feeling s, "Heh, look who's getting jealous."
March 31- Okay now I'm mad! I haven't hung out with my best friend in over a week, so I finally convinced Cindy to hang out tonight. I sold my one ticket to the Boys Pretending to be Men concert because it was the only day Cindy was free to hang and sleepover and I knew I was going to their next concert. So I get everything set up; I rented a movie, got some popcorn and I even blew up a bed for her to sleep on because I know how much she hates the ground. And you know what, the electric pump was broken so I had to use the hand pump; it took me half an hour to get the bed as firm as Cindy likes. So I did all that only for my so called best friend to bail on me because Nick and others invited her to go to the, get this, Boys Pretending to be Men concert! She said she was sorry, she said that Nick bought the ticket just for her. Then I did something stupid, I forgave her! You know what, I'm not doing that anymore! Next time she ends up ditching she'll definitely be sorry! And you want to know the most ironic thing about this, the person who bought my ticket's username was FunKmasterNikYniCk.
Her heart feeling a bit heavy, Cindy couldn't help but feel sorry. She had no idea how much she was neglecting Libby; she didn't know what Libby did for her the night she didn't show up. She skipped the pages until she got their big fight.
April 19- Up until now I would sometimes hang with Cindy during school, up until now I would forget how much she's neglected me, up until now I would ignore the fact that she's been hurting Jimmy. But not anymore, she's crossed the line now! We got into a little spat in which SHE started the violence and she gets one tiny day of suspension; I'm now suspended for five days, gave my boyfriend who I might just love a coma and got kicked out of the student council because of that bitch!
"What!" Cindy accidentally shouted out loud, "How dare she call me a bitch! She's the one who-" Cindy stopped herself when she realized she was still shouting out loud. 'She's the one who started the fight! I mean sure I threw the first punch but she came up to me first.' She continued in her head.
"Kiss him! Kiss him! Kiss him!" The cafeteria crowd shouted, they were somewhat circling Cindy and a kid named Jake. One kid saw him flirting with her and just to make it interesting he started the chant.
Cindy turned to Brittany who was gesturing for her to do it. Then Cindy put on a nervous smile for the influential crowd, faced Jake and closed her eyes. At first she didn't exactly know what was going to happen then she felt a cold pair of lips touch hers and heard a lot of cheering.
"What the hell!" A familiar voice shouted after a few seconds. Cindy broke away from Jake and looked over at Libby who was standing with her hands on her hips looking particularly livid. "Cindy! What's with you, girl?" She began shouting but calmed down at the second sentence.
"I'm kissing a boy, what am I not allowed?" Cindy retorted.
"Not like this! This isn't like you, giving into pressure, kissing someone you just met?"
"This isn't even any of your business! Do you really want to ruin our friendship?" Cindy said raising her voice a bit too high.
"What friendship?" Libby replied raising her voice to match Cindy's. "For the past few week we've barely even talked, it's like you don't even want to be my friend anymore, Miss. Popular!" Cindy balled up her fists. "You don't even care for any of us anymore, your so caught up in your fantasy land that you-"
Cindy couldn't take it anymore she cut off Libby's lecture with a right hook to the jaw. After the punch Libby felt her face for the pain but ignored it and got a fierce look in her eyes. She gave Cindy a right cross to the face, which Cindy blocked due to her years of Tai Chi. However Libby didn't give up, she tried a left jab, but Cindy blocked and countered with a palm to the face. Libby continued firing punches in which Cindy would just block and counter. She mangled Libby up pretty bad, until one of Libby uppercuts to the stomach finally got to Cindy and knocked the wind out of her. Libby smiled despite her swollen lip and took Cindy's crouched posture as an opportunity to pull her hair back until Cindy had no choice but to turn and face the wall, then Libby smashed Cindy's face into the wall over and over again. Cindy just clenched at the pain then once she thought that she had enough Cindy turned and elbowed Libby right in her left eye, smiling as she saw Libby grip her eye in pain. She could see Libby about to return the favor but then suddenly Sheen got in the way.
And Sheen… poor Sheen… I knocked him out! The doctor said I put him in a coma! I can't, I can't ever look let alone speak to him again after what I did! The doctor said he'll be up in a week, knowing him he'll be up in a couple days but still… And I don't even want to go into how heartbroken Jimmy is after seeing Cindy's make-out session.
'Jimmy!' She didn't know Jimmy saw her kiss, what did she mean heartbroken? Cindy mindlessly searched for Jimmy's journal in the mesh on the ground while thinking how much she hurt her best friend.
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