Hey everyone, I know I've been missing in action for quite some time now and I'd just like you to know that the past days were BLUR. Totally blur. I was so busy and when I face my laptop, I just couldn't come up with anything sensible for the story. I guess that's called writer's block. But anyways, now I just got my THING back and I'm quite less busy now. So I'm gonna give you this chapter. Hope you like it.

PS: If there're some words which are not spelled right, sorry bout that. I just got a new laptop and I'm still not familiar with the Word processor and I don't know how to activate the spell check, capitalization, whatever.

~SMELLS LIKE LOVE~

"You are the worst." Liz said through her mouth as I watched Bex nod in agreement. So apprently there were both convinced that what I did to Zach was wrong. I was so pissed actually that they thought I was wrong when they were the ones who told me to just IGNORE him. Just kick him out of my life. And now that I did, they were freaking out that I'd been so mean.

"Just shut up, you guys. You're not actually helping." I told them but they didn't care.

"The only way to correct this mistake is to apologize."

WHAT THE.

"Okay, you guys are insane. More than insane." I said flatly. That was the last thing I was going to do. I mean, seriously PEOPLE. If I ever apologize to Zach Goode, he'd never forget about it and would forever make me remember I apologized to him. It would be like his most treasured treasure.

"Then Zach-Cammie is over." Liz sighed.

"Then good!" I yelled.

Bex smirked. "You're horrible at lying. And I know you're not okay with this whole dillemma thing going on, so PLEASE! Just...do what we're telling you."

"NO." I actually didn't know why I even had to reply to that. It was something that was so obvious.

"Why not? We're your friends, you might as well consider taking our advice!" Bex said.

"Because what you're saying are so full of crap. You said ignore Zach, I did, you said this and that blablabla. So full of crap. Now you're saying I apologize? NO."

"Then we shouldn't be talking." Liz stared at me really badly.

"What?"

Seriously, I was taken aback.

"You've got some issues you've got to resolve on your own, Cammie." Bex said as they both turned away from me, walking away...

I saw this scene.

Right.

This was like Zach-walking-out-on-me.

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This was deja vu, whatever, I didn't really want to know. It was scary. I mean, how could my best friends walk out on me because of Zach? Oh! That was probably because they liked him too, or whatever. NO. Just shut up and focus.

"Homework, Miss Morgan?" Mr. Solomon was extending his hand, waiting for a paper to be turned in but there was nothing. I hadn't done anything.

"See me after class." He said and I just bowed my head so that my hair would fall all over my face and I wouldn't be able to see anything around me.

"Do you need help or something?" I heard Josh's voice from behind me but I pretended like I didn't hear anything but obviously, he knew I was just pretending and that was so pathetic of me to not think that he'd know.

"No thanks." I looked back quickly.

"Seriously," he laid a hand on my shoulder. "You look distressed and you're obviously not focused on school. Which is kind of unusual for you."

"We all have our own moods." I explained.

"You think I'm not noticing? I am convinced that you've got a major problem going on. I saw Liz and Bex walking down the hallways together and then you were by the drinking fountain alone. I know what's going on, you don't have to cover it up."

Oh please. "For you information, I am not covering it up. I could actually walk in front of the class and announce that my best friends just don't like me anymore."

Mr. Solomon glared at me as if to say shut the fuck up.

"I'll meet you after classes." He whispered to my ear.

"I'm just worried that your constant ignorance of your homework will pull your grades down. And you know you are in your Senior year. I know even if you don't say this, you're a candidate for valedictorian, and I don't want to see you not being the valedictorian just because you're too lazy to do your homework." Mr. Solomon said to my face.

"No. Absolutely not, Mr. Solomon." I said.

"Good. Because I know you can do it. What I'm going to tell you would probably make other people kill me but I'm going to tell you anyway. I want to tip you off with some things. I checked up on the students in the waiting list for valedictorian and we only have three. Of course, you, Miss Fetterman, and Mr. Goode. You're all good, but I personally believe you've got what it takes to get that spot in your graduation. I want you to be the one delivering that speech because I know you deserve it. But that doesn't mean I'll let you just procrastinate and exert no effort."

"I promise I'll work harder and stop distracting myself."

"What's distracting you?" he stood up from his chair, crossing his arms to his chest. He started roaming around the room. "Family problems? Friendships? Peer pressure? I don't think you'd give in to those things." He looked at me but I just swallowed my spit.

"Let me guess," he closed his eyes. "ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP." He opened her eyes. "That's it!"

"No it's not it." I said.

"Maybe not. But maybe in the future."

"Uhh..." SHIT.

"You don't have to tell me who the guy is or what happened between the two of you, it's none of my chicken business. I'm just sayin," he cleared his throat. "That you shouldn't sacrifice your education for something that you could pursue later. You could survive high school without a boyfriend, I am sure, right?"

I nodded. OF COURSE. I could survive college without a boyfriend. Even after college. Even my entire life. Well maybe not. But you get what I mean.

"Yeah. I know." I said.

"Just focus and don't be pressured. Have fun." He smiled and motioned for me to leave the room already.

And it was like the real world when I went out of Mr. Solomon's office. I had nobody waiting for me there. I had no friends.

Well maybe they were right. I probably had issues. I probably had to visit a therapist or somebody. I really felt so alienated in this school. Well at least...nobody was in the hallways to see me alone. But yeah, I was alone. Never had it occurred that Liz and Bex would actually leave me or even try to.

"Alone?"

You know the feeling that you are so thirsty in the middle of a desert and then you suddenly see a bottle of ice cold water lying down on the sand? That was how I felt when I heard Zach's voice. I didn't know if I should be feeling like this, but whatever. I didn't care. I felt like it.

I slowly turned my head back to see his face. And it just felt..

"Do I look like I'm with anybody?" I said, my voice shaking.

He didn't say anything to this. Well probably it was because he was mad at me and maybe we weren't in good terms.

Not maybe. WE WERE NOT IN GOOD TERMS.

I just kept on walking and he walked beside me. Awkward silence.

"What's in him, really? Tell me." He licked his lips, looking at me. We were still walking but I really didn't know where we were heading.

I didn't say anything.

"Well, besides that you've always liked him."

"Josh?" YOU ARE PATHETIC, CAMERON. Of course, who else could it be? You are such an idiot.

"I feel disgusted calling him in his first name," he frowned. "Yeah, Abrams."

"Well..." WTF Cammie. Speak up. "I don't know."

"You must really like him. Because if you'd ask me why I like you, I'd say I don't know too."

And that was my feet just stopped walking and I felt like my breath was lost somewhere I didn't know.

"Zach—"

"No. Just...don't mind me, a'right?" he looked at me and grinned. "It's...cool. I mean, just so you know I get rejected once in a while, you don't have to worry that you're hurting my ego or something."

I looked away and didn't say anything. What could I say? That I liked him and he didn't have to do all of THIS? WHAT?

Somebody please...ANSWER ME.

"So?" he was still smiling when he placed a hand on my shoulder. "We're cool, right?"

This was what I hated with these things. We say it's cool even though it's totally not. How could he still manage to say it is cool when it was totally not?

"Yeah, I guess." I shrugged.

"I'll see you then."

"Yeah."

~SMELLS LIKE LOVE~

Hey guys! I don't know if this chap would make up for the LOOONG wait but I hope it did and I hope you won't get upset with how this chap turned out.

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