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Chapter 12: Setting a Foundation & Dumping Bitches

Lo's POV

I had set my alarm clock the previous night for 5:45 so that I could wake up my dad for work. So, at 5:45 my fuzzy pink alarm clock (courtesy of Lorelai Victoria Danes) rang and signaled that I had to get up; on my off day.

I walked sloppily down the stairs, hair a mess, gray sweat pants low on my hips, and pink camisole riding up my stomach. Just as I suspected, my parents were asleep on the couch the way I had left them. I walked over quietly and lightly shook my dad's shoulder, careful not to wake my mom.

"Dad, dad, it's time to get up," I whispered. I got a groan in response and I sighed audibly, "Jesse William Mariano, get your ass up!"

"Five more minutes Luke," he said as he covered his ears and face with a stray pillow. He was so frustrating!

"I am not Luke, dad! Now get the hell up!" I yelled in exasperation, completely forgetting about my mother.

"Lora?" he asked as he wiped the sleep from his eyes.

"Yes, now get up and get ready for work. I got up at 5:45 on my off day so that you would get there on time so GET UP!" I said and threw the covers off of him and off of my mom in the process.

"All the yelling," mom mumbled, sitting up in the process.

"Sorry mom, but somebody," I looked pointedly at my dad, "wouldn't get up," I explained.

"It's okay Hunnie; I would have had to get up soon anyway. My God Jess why didn't you just get up," mom said.

"You know how I am," was his lame excuse.

"Yeah, well get up now or you're going to be late," I said as I walked back upstairs and collapsed on my bed.

I could here my parents scurrying around downstairs and then my dad; I could tell by the footsteps, came up the stairs and knocked on my door.

"Yes?" I said.

"Can I come in?" he asked.

"Yup," I answered.

He opened and closed my door quietly and then came and sat down on the bed next to where I was laying, my face turned away from him. I was on my stomach.

"What are you doing today?" he asked.

"Shouldn't you be getting ready? You're going to be late," I told him.

"Hey, I'm trying to have a talk with my daughter here, now talk and stop being evasive," he ordered.

"Fine; Tara, Stacie, Lexis and Tabs are coming over," I paused, "maybe Nat, but I'm not sure."

I turned my head so that I was facing him and he had a smirk on his face. I smiled back and gazed up at him.

"More friends, my gosh girl, how do you keep them straight?" he joked. He slid down so that we were eyelevel and I glared at him playfully then stuck my tongue out at him.

"I just remember the important people's names," I told him snidely.

"Oh yeah?" he asked, "And who are they?"

"Tabby, Lexis, Lou, Kat, Mike, Justin, Nat, Scott, Matt, Tara, Stacie, Ben, and Tyler," I list off to him.

"Ah, I see," he laughs quietly and ruffles my already messy hair.

"You need to get ready for work," I remind him.

"Yes, I do," he says reluctantly and climbs off my bed.

"I'll be good, I promise," I smile up at him.

"Bye kid," he leaned down and kissed my forehead then walked out of my room to go get ready.

After thinking about how much my dad was my best friend I fell back asleep and didn't wake up again until 11.

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At 12, Tabby and Lexis came over, at 1, Tara and Stacie showed up and at 1:15 Nat called and said she might be over later but that she had some work to do.

"So, where's Natty?" Tabby asked as Tara and Stacie took a seat on the floor in front of the couch.

"She had some work to do but she said she might stop over later," I shrugged and got up to get a drink, "Anyone want a drink?"

"Yeah, a beer, got any?" Stacie smirked and looked over her shoulder at me.

Stacie was tan with warm, dark brown hair that stopped about an inch below her shoulder and bright green eyes.

"Stace, it's not even 5 yet," I laughed and made my way to the kitchen and grabbed sodas for everyone.

"Doesn't matter, a drink is a drink," Tara retorted.

Tara had a slightly lighter tinted skin than Stacie with chestnut tendrils, kind of like my mom's, and warm brown eyes.

"I told my dad I'd be good," I shrugged and sat back down on the couch with a plop.

"You're never good," Lexis quipped.

I gasped, "Am so! You're the naughty one. Hooking up with Mike, what were you thinking?"

"I wasn't thinking, I was drunk, he was drunk, he knows that, I know that. It's all good Hunnie, we know what we are to each other," Lexis brushed it off.

"Yeah, fuck buddies," Tabby muttered under her breath.

"Bitch!" Lexis said and playfully slapped Tabby in the arm.

I could see the amused looks on Tara and Stacie's face as they watched the scene unfold.

"Oh stop, you know I love you and Mike," Tabby sipped her soda and gave Lexis a monstrous hug as Lex pouted.

"Okay, I gotta know…who's this Mike character?" asked Tara.

"And is he hot?" Stacie finished.

"Oh he's hot alright," I supplied.

"Uh! Anyway, he's one of our best friends. You see, at parties sometimes we get a little drunk-," Lexis started.

"A little?" I interrupted.

"Okay, so we get plastered, but anyway, we end up hooking up sometimes and yeah that's basically it," Lexis finished.

"Mmm, sounds interesting, you guys party?" Stacie asked.

"Every weekend," Lexis said matter-of-factly.

"Speaking of parties, Stevie is having a party tomorrow and she wants you," she pointed a finger at me, "there, you whore," Tabby smirked.

"I will definitely be there as long as my dad's cool with it and my mom doesn't have another freak-out," I told them.

"You guys should come too," Lexis proposed to Tara and Stacie.

"Um, as long as uh…Stevie?...doesn't mine then we will most definitely be there," Stacie agreed.

"Yeah, we'll bring Ben and Ty if you want," Tara suggested and winked when she said Ty's name.

"Sure," I blushed subtly and eyed Tara.

"Who's Ty?" of course Tabby caught my blush.

"Ha-ha, Lo over there only pretty much fucked him in front of everyone," Stacie explained.

I was blushing profusely by now, "I did not!"

"Close enough, you gave a show. It was funny seeing Ben and Tyler's face afterwards," Tara said with an easy grin.

"So my little Lo-Lo gave a little sex show and I wasn't there? How dare you," Lexis nudged me from her place next to me.

"I did not have sex with him! We were sitting in the middle of 8 other people, gross!" I exclaimed.

"Anyway, bring them, we need some new hotties," Tabby got that glint in her eye she gets when thinking about boys and bit her lip.

Stacie laughed at her eagerness, "Okay, we'll bring them, but we'll probably need some place to crash."

"Um, who's turn is it this week?" Lexis asked.

"Mine," Tabby raised her hand.

"Great so we all crash at Tab's house. Who exactly are you taking in? I know Ally can take some if need be," Lexis said.

"Lo, you, Tara, Stacie, Mike, Justin, Ben, Tyler annnnd I think that's it," Tabby answered, "The rest can go to Ally's."

"You still mad at Lou and Kat?" Lexis asked.

"Wait a minute! Why are you mad at Lou and Kat and how come I didn't know?" I exclaimed, turning my body towards Tabby.

"It was nothing," Tabby shrugged it off and looked down.

"Fruit Loop, it had to be something, come on, tell me," I prodded.

"It's just, Lou's not as innocent as we thought," Tabby confessed.

"What are you talking about Tabs?" I asked nervously.

Tabby looked down at Tara and Stacie. They took this as their cue.

"Um, we'll just go into the kitchen and get a refill, be right back," Stacie said as she pulled on Tara's arm and they entered the kitchen.

"Alright, now tell me Tabitha," I demanded seriously.

"She-she just—it wasn't right," Tabby was nervous and I could tell: she never gets nervous.

"Tabitha, Hunnie, you have got to tell me what is going on," I coax her into telling me.

"Lex and I were walking down the hall and we saw Lou and Kat standing with Bryan in the courtyard. So naturally, we were going to go up to them when we see Lou start to kiss him. She kissed Bryan, Lo," Tabby cried.

Bryan was the only boy that Tabby had ever cared about but he cheated on her so they broke up. He was off limits to almost every girl in that school; especially our crew.

"Oh Hunnie," I breathe out and hug her into my side, "Where does Kat come fit in to all of this?"

"Well, I found out that; at that party we went to Saturday? Yeah, Kat hooked up with him that night. And she had the nerve to stay over here after what she did. That fucking bitch! How could they do that to me?" Tabby exclaimed and Lexis joined me in hugging Tabby.

Tara and Stacie walked in and saw Tabby crying. Tara put down her soda on the table and rushed over.

"Hunnie, what's wrong?" she cooed.

"Nothing," Tabby smiled through her tears, "I'll be fine."

"No, Babe, you're not. Tell Tara-poo what's wrong," Tara said with a sad smile.

Tabby sighed, "My supposed best friend hooked up with the only ex that I ever cared about and my other supposed best friend kissed him in the middle of our school courtyard," Tabby explained. She never opened up to anyone besides the Crew, she must really trust them.

"What a bitch!" Stacie exclaimed.

Tabby laughed, "Yeah, exactly."

"I would have slapped her across the face," Stacie said.

"Against the Crew rules," Lexis said.

"What?" Tara asked, confused.

"You're not to ever hit a member of the Crew," Lexis recited.

"Yeah, well as far as I'm concerned they aren't part of the Crew. What does everybody else have to say?" I asked.

"None of them are talking to them. The only people in the school talking to them are Bryan and his friends and Kayla and her friends," Lexis explained.

"Figures," I muttered, "I need to call Justin. Be right back," I left the couch and went to the kitchen to call Justin.

"Hello?" he answered distractedly. He must've had Olivia over.

"Justin, listen you're obviously distracted right now but I need to talk to you about Crew business. I just found out about Lou and Kat and we need to figure out what we're going to do about it," I rambled.

"No, I'm not too busy to discuss this," I heard some shuffling; "I say we dump them. What they did was simply ridiculous and hurtful."

"I whole heartedly agree. Does everyone else?" I asked him.

"Yup, I checked. As long as you are okay with it, they're gone," Justin explained.

"Alright, I'll call them," I told him and we hung up.

My next call was to Lou. It rang a few times before a very timid Lo picked up; she obviously knew I was going to give her an earful. It was like she was waiting for my call.

"Who the fuck do you think you are?" I yelled.

"Lo, just-," she tried.

"NO! You just shut-up and listen to me."

"Okay," she replied meekly.

"What you did was despicable. You and Kat should be ashamed of yourselves. You don't know exactly how much you hurt Tabs. Although you should know damn well how much that would hurt Tabby, you didn't. I don't think you even thought about the repercussions of your actions. Now listen here, don't even think of coming anywhere near the Crew. We're done with you. Same goes for Kat, so if you could, pass that on to the other whore will you?" I hissed.

"Look, Lo, I truly am sorry, and so is Kat," she tried to apologize.

"Save it. You're dead to me," I seethe at her and hang up. I think I heard her crying, but it didn't matter. She hurt my Fruit Loop and that was that. She was gone; if she was going to be a bitch than we didn't need her.

I went back in the living room and smiled at Tara and Stacie who had got Tabby laughing again as they planned Friday night. I had a feeling Tara and Stacie would be around for awhile.

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