Sorry this took so long to write, I've been really busy lately. Anyway, enjoy!

Disclaimer - I don't own Bully.

Chapter 10
Friends Again

It been a week since Halloween, and Gary hasn't spoken to me at all. I tried to speak to him a few times, but he acted like he hadn't heard me. So, I gave up. I realised I'd been unfair to some of the people in my life, just because of my growing feelings for Gary. They were mad at me, so I doubted they would listen if I tried to speak to them. Instead I took a walk down the beach, I found it soothing. On the pier near the old beach house, I could see two people sat at the small part over the water. I walked closer, one of them looked kind of muscly and the other not as muscly as the other. Then I heard a really fake British accent.

"Ha! There is no way you can beat my swimming record!"

"Just watch me, in fact let's race," said the muscly one. He didn't have that fake accent and he didn't sound like that jerk Bif.

I walked closer and was surprised to see that it was Ted! He was actually hanging out with a prep! I couldn't believe it, it was like being told that the nerds were athletic. Something you had to see to believe.

Ted stood up and waved at me. "Hey, Zoe, can you time us?" He shouted.

I had nothing better to do, so I walked across the small pier to them. "Sure, not like I'm in a hurry or anything."

"Awesome. Right, Justin get ready." Ted handed me a stopwatch, I knew how to use it because I'd been hanging out with Mandy and the jocks lately. The guys were always competing; who was the fasted runner, who could throw the most foot balls in 30 seconds, and so on.

It was when they stood up when I realised they were wearing only swimming trunks. I flushed red when they jumped in the water, I immediately pressed the button on the stopwatch. Ted was a lot buffer than I thought he was, now I could see why Mandy liked him. He was just her type, muscly and good looking. Ted maybe more athletic, but Justin was certainly the better swimmer. He beat Ted to the buoy and made it back first. I stopped it and showed it to them, because I wasn't paying attention.

"Record time," Justin declared smugly.

Ted just laughed and said, "Yeah, yeah. I'll beat you next time." He was actually joking with the prep.

Justin laughed, then he looked at me. "Oh, what time is it? I promised Parker we would play poker."

I checked my watch. "5:30," I replied.

"Oh, heck! I was supposed to be there twenty minutes ago." He grabbed his towel and rushed into the old beach house.

I looked at Ted for a few moments, I never suspected that he would be friends with a prep.

"How did that happen?" I asked.

"What happen?" he replied. He rubbed the towel on his wet hair.

"You, make friends with Justin," I said, stating the obvious. Then again he wasn't gifted with brains.

"Ah, first year. I doesn't bother me that he's a prep, because that's not totally who he is."

There was something in what he said, that reminded me of Lola. I'd met her on my first day at Bullworth, and we got on straight away. I realised, I had to suck it up and apologise to her. If Justin and Ted could make their friendship work, then why couldn't me and Lola? When Ted had got changed he walked back to the school with me. Mandy was waiting at the gates, she threw her arms around his neck and kissed him on the cheek.

"See you both later," I said. Neither of them noticed, they were too busy making out.

I headed to my dorm, I was going to leave a note for her then go to Harrington House and sort things out with Gord. As soon as I entered the dorms, Angie walked up to me.

"Hi, Zoe. I was wondering, if you weren't doing anything, do you want to hang out at the carnival?"

"Yeah, sure," I replied. I figured I might as well, I needed something to get my mind off Gary.

"Great! I'll meet you at the school gates at seven!"

She headed off to her dorm. When I arrived at my own, Lola was getting changed. I decided to just apologise to her.

"Lola, I'm sorry," I said sincerely.

"No, it's me that should be apologising. When Christy told me she'd see you hanging out with Mandy, I was mad at you. I thought you'd ditched me for her. But Mandy told me what happened to you, and I felt really bad for acting like that."

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"Because sometimes it's easier to be angry, than admit you were wrong. Sorry for my behaviour."

"It's ok, I probably would have acted the same way."

We both laughed and hugged each other. I was glad we were talking again, I'd hate to lose a friend like her. It turned out that Angie had invited Lola aswell. She helped me pick out a outfit to wear and I did her make up for her.

It was like we'd never fell out.