It's my first day at school not having my cast on, and I'm loving it.
"Boo." I jump up behind Poe.
"Rey!" With his cold, he sounds like a completely different guy.
"Gotcha."
"K, whatever, I gotta go."
"K, bye. Love you."
"Bye. Love you too." He kisses me on the cheek and heads off down the hall, as I walk off in the other direction.
"Rey."
"Oh! Um, hey Rose. How's it going?"
"I'm fine. How are things going with you and Finn?"
I do not like the direction this conversation is going in. "What do you want?"
"An answer to my question."
"We're fine."
"You've been together over 6 months now, right?"
"Yes..." I reply cautiously.
"Wow, that's a long time." As she turns around, I swear I hear her say, "Pity it won't last much longer."
"What?"
"Nothing." She walks away.
"Strange." I shake my head and walk away.
Later that day, I'm talking to Finn, and we're goofing off together.
"You know Rey, you have some nerve." A voice says from behind us.
"What do you mean Rose?" I ask as I spin around.
"I know you're cheating on him. And now you're pretending that everything is fine between you?" I stager backwards. What is she talking about?
"Rey, what is she talking about?" Typical question.
"I have no idea." Typical answer.
"Oh yes you do. I heard you tell another boy you loved him. I was there."
"Rey, is she telling the truth?"
"No!" I whirl around to him. "I would never hurt you like that. I love you! Don't you see what she's doing? She's jealous and she wants you back, so she's trying to break us up!"
"Oh, if only that were true." She says. "I'm not trying to win Finn back. I'm keeping him from devoting himself to a relationship full of lies."
"Rey, why would she tell me if she didn't want me back?"
"You can't be believing her! It's because she hopes that you if you hurt enough, you'll go back to her because she 'saved you!'"
"Rey, did you see her today?"
"I did."
"Then all the points of her story match up." I feel the blood drain from my face and my heart plummets. "I can't believe you would do that to me. We're done." He turns away and walks down the hall.
"No!" I yell after him. I can't stay here right now. I've got to get home. I take off down the hall to the office.
"Hey Luke." I say to Mr. Skywalker at the front desk, who I would call Mr. Skywalker, if he weren't more like my own uncle than faculty at my school. "I'm not feeling well. At all. Can I sign out and leave,"
"Rey! You look so pale! Do you want me to drive you?"
"No it's ok. I have my bike. It's not far." I feel sick. Maybe because I am. I'm heartbroken. Heartsick.
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah."
"Ok. You go on. I'll sign you out."
"Thanks Luke."
"No problem Rey."
I bike all the way home. It takes ΒΌ of the usual time because I have to get away from the school. I lock up my bike in our garage, and go up to my room. I look at my shelf of pictures. I grab the one of me and Finn, and I place it on my bed. I kneel in front of it and I just cry. Great heaving sobs. What am I going to do? Things will never be the same again. He won't want to be friends anymore, if it was a normal break up he might. Our friendship circle will be divided and no one will be able to fix it.
I don't eat. I can't. I'm totally prepared to cry myself to sleep, but Poe interrupts those plans.
"Rey, what happened?"
"Finn dumped me."
"What? That little... why?"
"He thinks I cheated on him."
"Did you?"
I sit up in an instant and give him the death glare. "No! I love him!"
"Then why does he think you cheated?"
"Rose told him that she heard me tell another guy I loved him. I didn't!"
"I know you didn't. I'm sorry kid." He kisses me on the head and leaves my room.
"Poe told me what happened." Ri says the next morning as she walks into my room. "We're going to make you look fabulous so he regret dumping you."
I sit up. "Great."
Ri dresses me in a black of the shoulder top, with lace sleeves. She pulls out a pair of light jeans with the ankles rolled up and torn knees. For shoes, I have a tan pair of heeled sandals. She then proceeds to do my hair in a double knot at the back. For makeup, she gives me smokey eye and light pink lipstick. She hands me my big teal purse and shows me a mirror. I look like a freaking super model.
At school, heads are turning, and I can't help but smile.
"Rey!" Poe shouts from behind.
"Yeah?" I turn.
"First of all, you look awesome."
"Thanks!"
"Second thing, I'm sorry."
"For what?"
"For being the reason Finn dumped you."
