Chapter 20

Bo let out a soft moan as she awoke to the most amazing feeling in the world. She began to pant as her hands glided down her stomach and entangled themselves in blonde tresses. She let out another pleasure filled moan as she began to reach climax, her fingers pulling at blonde locks as she felt herself come completely undone.

As she began to come down from her high, Lauren slid up her stomach before placing her head down on Bo's chest as she smiled up at the brunette.

"Wow. You really know how to say good morning to a girl." Bo let out with a small chuckle as the blonde just smirked up at her.

It was Tuesday morning; the girls had opted to skip school the day before, a surprise suggestion from Lauren. Bo was sure that Lauren had never skipped a day of school in her life, but who was she to argue? The two had spent all of Sunday night up talking, and most of Monday doing the same, never really bothering to leave Bo's bedroom except for food. Sunday evening Bo had explained with as few details as possible to Trick that Lauren was going through a rough time at home, and that she needed to stay with them for a few days. Trick had reluctantly agreed if Lauren let her father know so that he would not worry. It was the last time either girl had used their phone. Lauren had sent a passive aggressive text to Jack to let him know where she'd be, even if he was out of town. She had no intention on talking to her father and most likely he wouldn't even notice her absence at home anyway.

"Was, was it okay?" Lauren asked her smirk fading as she suddenly became self-conscious.

"What?" Bo asked still in a daze, only half listening to Lauren.

"Um, I mean, I know I'm not your first, so I just wanted to make sure that I did it right, er, um." Her cheeks flushed as she sat up pulling the sheets over her naked torso.

"What? Lauren." Bo couldn't hide the smile as she snapped out of her daze. "That was better than okay, that was amazing." Lauren flushed again at the praise and smiled back shyly.

Bo sat up and leaning forward raised a hand to cup the blonde's cheek. "You are amazing. And no one else matters." Lauren felt like her heart might burst at the amount of love she saw in Bo's eyes. "However, school does, and I think we maybe should try and go today." She chuckled as she glanced back at the clock. It would be a tight squeeze, but if they started getting ready now they could still make it in time before homeroom.

Lauren sighed and pouted a little.

"Do we have to?"

"Why Lauren Lewis!" Bo raised her eyebrows. "I think that I have been a bad influence on you, you not wanting to go to school?" She giggled as the blonde rolled her eyes at her and collapsed on the bed, rolling over onto her back.

"I know. But I like it here in our own little world." Lauren sighed out as Bo rested back, shifting to her side and propping herself up on her elbow.

"I know, I do too, but eventually we're going to have to leave. I mean you do want to graduate right?" The brunette teased. "I don't think Yale accepts dropouts."

"First of all, I've already been accepted, second of all, technically I could miss every day of school from now until graduation and still graduate, I do everything independent study, I could have graduated two years ago."

Bo's eyes grew wide as she stared at the girl. She knew Lauren was smart, she knew that she was going to an Ivy League school, but she hadn't really stopped to consider exactly how smart Lauren might be.

"Seriously?" Was all she could manage to ask as Lauren rolled over to face her.

"Yeah, my dad wanted me to have a 'normal life' though so he held me back, normal life." She scoffed. "Add another log to the fire."

"Hey," Bo said as she reached out, stroking the blonde's cheek. "I'm glad he did. Otherwise I wouldn't have gotten to know you." Lauren looked back into Bo's eyes and she could feel her rage that had begun to build, suddenly begin to dissipate. "I mean, I guess that sounds selfish." Bo rolled her eyes at herself.

"No." Lauren shook her head. "I am too." She added with a small smile.

As the girls pulled up in front of the school Lauren felt a swarm of butterflies in her stomach. With each step she couldn't deny the feeling of dread creeping up in her. They went to a small school, in a small town and news traveled fast. She was sure that the events of the dance were the talk of the school, and based on the 57 texts, and 20 missed calls she had ignored from Crystal the truth of the bet must have come out.

Bo tightened her grip on Lauren's hand as the girls pushed open the double doors leading into the crowded school. Through the hustle and bustle as soon as the pair entered it was almost as if everything went silent. The shuffling of papers, the closing of lockers, the zipping of backpacks, the idle babble, everything ceased, and all eyes fell on the couple.

They walked down the hall hand in hand on their way to Lauren's locker. As they passed they could hear quiet conversations, words like 'sad', 'pity', and 'loser' stuck out amongst others. And Lauren cast her glance down toward her feet as she overheard a group of girls wondering to one another if Lauren had absolutely zero self-respect, while another made a joke that maybe Bo was just that good in the bedroom.

When the pair reached Lauren's locker, Lauren looked up to find an infuriated Crystal leaning against her own locker, her arms folded across her chest as she glared at Bo, a look that could send a million sharp knives through her skull.

Lauren dropped Bo's hand as she went to reach out for her locker, the second she did she turned just in time to see Crystal drop her arms, pulling back her right elbow and swinging her fist directly at Bo's nose. There was a lout crack.

"Shit! Crystal!" Lauren shouted as she moved next to Bo who was leaning forward, holding a hand over her bloody nose.

"No it's fine." Bo insisted holding out her free hand to push Lauren back. "I deserved that."

"Actually I think you got off easy." Crystal spat as a teacher rushed over to them.

"Crystal, principal's office now." The teacher bellowed as he checked on Bo who shooed him away insisting that she was fine. The teacher gave her a once over before ushering a still infuriated Crystal off in the direction of the administration offices.

As they walked off Lauren and Bo could hear Crystal scoff and mumble, "Totally worth it."

The rest of the crowded hall who had been silent through the exchange now turned back to what they were doing, uninterested now that the potential fight had been broken up all too soon.

"Bo are you sure you're alright?" Lauren asked placing a hand on the brunette's back, as she was still hunched over, a small pool of blood collecting on the floor beneath her.

"Yeah, yeah I'm fine." Bo said as she pinched the bridge of her nose, sending a shiver through her body at the bolt of pain that surged through her nose as she pinched it. "Your buddy sure packs one hell of a punch though." She tried to laugh.

"Military family." Lauren mumbled as she moved forward taking Bo's face in her hands as she tried to appraise the damage. "Let me see." She asked Bo softly. The brunette dropped her hand and allowed Lauren to examine her. "You need to get to the nurse." She said after a moment, "it's broken." Bo nodded as Lauren took a step back.

"I love you. I'll see you at lunch okay?" Bo asked as she wiped her bloody hand off on her dark jeans. Lauren nodded and she watched as the brunette took off in the direction of the school nurse. It was going to be a long day.

Lauren had tried her best to concentrate all morning, trying to tune out the whispers and rumors that followed her. It seemed that if they weren't talking about her they were talking about Ciara and Dyson. The word going around was that Dyson had ignored her most of the night before dumping her at the dance during the last song; an apparently distraught Ciara had allegedly gone home and spilled the whole thing to her parents and demanded to transfer schools. She hadn't been seen or heard from since.

Lauren had felt a stab in her heart as she heard those rumors, she knew exactly how Ciara felt and what she was going through. Bo's deception ran though her mind, and it didn't help that everyone around her either pitied her, or thought she was a chump for staying with Bo even after, many accusing Bo of still trying to win the bet. She tried to drown out their voices, she tried to ignore the ones in her own mind telling her that they were all right. That Bo was still making a fool out of her, that she was still just playing some sick juvenile game, and toying with Lauren's emotions. It got to the point that she could hardly take it, and as soon as the lunch bell rang she ran out of Advanced Biology and to the closest bathroom, where she splashed cold water over her face again, and again, and again. She was so wrapped up in her own thoughts that she hadn't noticed when the bathroom door opened and closed and two students walked in.

"Well, well, well if it isn't the brainiac." A gruff voice taunted behind her. "Tell me, how is it that with all those brains you could still manage to be so dumb?" The voice laughed, and Lauren whirled around to see two girls standing there appraising her, smirking.

Both girls were in their field hockey uniforms and Lauren recognized them both as being in her grade. They were notorious bullies, the one who had addressed her was Rosette, she was thin, her cheeks gaunt, and stood taller than her accomplice. Her long, light brown hair tied back in a braid behind her, a menacing look on her face as she smirked. The other girl she recognized as Bianca, a girl with medium length slightly darker brown hair that flipped out at the bottom. Her face was round, and unusually warm, which gave you a false sense of security, usually right before she head butted you.

"I asked you a question." Rosette sneered.

Lauren was unsure what to do, normally she didn't think she even registered on these girls radar, and she knew that in a physical altercation, given their stature, and number, they would win.

"I'm, I'm not sure what it was." Lauren responded shakily. Both girls laughed as they closed in on the blonde.

"How does it feel to get fucked by Bo just like everyone else?" Bianca snorted, the double meaning not escaping the blonde.

"I mean she is one fine piece of ass," Rosette chuckled, "but a little too well traveled for my taste." Bianca smirked, neither taking their eyes off of the blonde as Lauren's eyes grew wide and she desperately looked for a way out, finding none other than the main door behind the pair now looming over her.

"Speaking of taste," Bianca said as she drew a knife out that Lauren hadn't noticed before. "How was she? Still just as sweet as ever? Mind you it's been a while now since I was there, I prefer boys, but Bo was some fun during my experimental phase." She drew the knife up and traced down Lauren's jaw, pressing just hard enough to draw a line of blood along its path.

Lauren squeezed her eyes shut and sent the knife out of Bianca's hand, flying across the room onto the ground at the far end of the bathroom.

"What the hell did you do that for?" Rosette asked her cohort, un-amused.

"I, I didn't do it." Bianca sputtered still trying to figure out how the knife had slipped her grasp.

"Doesn't matter, I have something better." Rosette gritted out as she sent her fist flying into Lauren's stomach. Lauren felt the wind rush out of her as the strong girl's fist connected with her abdomen, making her stumble back, before she felt one of them move behind her and pin her arms up, before the feeling of another fist connected with her jaw, her body flying back into the girl holding her in place.

"You should have known better, I mean really, what would she ever see in you?" Bianca's voice asked, her lips practically touching her ear as her warm breath tickled Lauren's neck, making the hairs there prickle. Lauren's eyes shot open as she concentrated on pushing the girl off her without even using her arms or body for help. She felt the girl let go of her suddenly as she turned her face to see Bianca fly back across the room before her back collided with the far wall behind her, her body slumping to the floor.

"Oh you are really going to wish you didn't do that." Rosette threatened as she leaped on top of Lauren tackling her to the floor before pulling her fist back and sucker punching the trembling girl beneath her in the eye, the ring she wore on her first finger slicing through the skin just under the socket.

The blow was so hard, that Lauren's head which had been slightly risen at the time slammed back onto the tile floor, and she fought to maintain consciousness. She squeezed her eyes shut expecting another blow that never came. Instead she heard muffled shouting and the next thing she knew strong arms were lifting her up. She opened her eyes to see the familiar slightly plump figure of Mrs. Beasley guiding her down the hall. She looked up into her favorite teacher's concerned eyes.

"I've got you Lauren, we'll get you to the nurse, you're going to be fine." She reassured the girl. Lauren shook her head.

"No, thank you ma'am, I'm fine."

The teacher shook her head and gave her a small smile.

"No Lauren, I want you to get looked over, Rosette and Bianca are on their way to the principal's office, but first I need to make sure you're alright."

Lauren just nodded back before she felt the sweet enticing call of unconsciousness again. She didn't know what to do anymore. She thought she could be okay with her and Bo, she thought that maybe they could get through this but now, now she wasn't sure. However it was something she didn't really want to think about right now, and so she greeted the darkness calling for her, with open arms.

An hour later Lauren found herself being ushered by the school nurse into the surprisingly crowded principal's office.

The stern balding man with the thick ginger mustache sat in a tan suit behind his desk glaring at the mess of students in front of him. There were six chairs arranged around his desk. Directly in front of him sat an irritated Bianca and Rosette in the formal office chairs. Then in a semi circle set up to the right of his desk behind Bianca sat three desk chairs occupied by a very bored looking Dyson and Tamsin, and then finally in the last chair mostly facing the door sat a miserable looking Bo, her nose taped at the bridge.

Along the wall where the doorway stood, sat a final chair similar to the dark wood and navy cloth ones Bianca and Rosette occupied, and Mrs. Beasley stood leaning against the wall next to it. Finally noticing Lauren, the principal motioned for Lauren to take the empty seat.

Bo looked up and took notice of Lauren, a look of worry and then anger crossing her face.

"Lauren!" Bo shouted as she jumped up and stalked the single foot in front of her where the bullies sat, grabbing Bianca by the collar. "What the hell did you two do to her?" She growled.

"Miss Dennis!" The principal bellowed pulling Bo's attention away from the smirking girl in front of her. "You have already been involved in one physical altercation today, I don't think you need to be involved in another." Bo let go of Bianca and moved to check on Lauren, but before she could make it more than a foot the principal spoke again, a little gruffer this time. "Sit down Miss Dennis." Bo stopped gave Lauren a longing look before turning and sitting back down next to Tamsin, who was examining her fingernails.

"Really sir, I don't know what this has to do with my brother and I." Tamsin spoke up, her eyes never leaving her manicured nails.

"Oh please you're the one who sent us to ruff her up." Rosette said with a mock innocent look on her face. If she was going down, she was going to take everyone in her path down with her, regardless of their involvement.

Tamsin looked up from her nails to girl before turning her attention to the principal.

"Oh please, like I would hire these two goons, besides what would I have to gain from them beating Lauren to a pulp?"

"Either way, you've already done enough damage." Mrs. Beasley suddenly broke in, leaning forward, scowling at the girl.

"Yes." The principal added finally breaking in. "You two," he addressed the girls in front of him, "two weeks suspension, you can wait outside for your parents." The girls looked at one another and then back toward the principal.

"What? What about her?" Bianca demanded pointing a finger toward Lauren. "She threw me into a wall."

"You seem perfectly fine to me, unlike your classmate who aside from her other injuries, you two managed to knock unconscious." The principal roared. Bo began to lose her temper again as she clutched the bottom of her chair, her knuckles turning white as she glared at the girls who were now retreating toward the office door. "As for you three," the man turned his focus to the second set of students. "Mrs. Beasley and I have been discussing your punishment."

"Excuse me?" Tamsin glared at the man. "Punishment for what?"

"For this little bet you seem to have, which emotionally tormented two of your fellow students." The man said as calmly as he could possibly muster. It had been a long grueling day and he wanted nothing more than to address the issues at hand and get the offending students out of his sight. He had already had to send one student home this morning based on this very topic, and had to prepare transfer papers for another student; he couldn't have Lauren Lewis, their highest testing student pulling out as well because these three decided to pull some sort of cruel prank.

"If you are referring to the bet, that did not actually transpire on campus, therefor you have no grounds." Tamsin said in a smug voice.

"Well, you have obviously not been reading your student handbook recently, as you are unfamiliar with our zero tolerance moral policy." The man interjected, wiping the smug look off Tamsin's face. "Now then, as such, the three of you will have one month of detention, and are banned from the rest of the year's school dances."

"What?" Tamsin shouted. "You can't I'm the chairman of the Winter Formal and the Prom committees. I have to be there!"

"Fine!" The principal shouted meeting her volume. "Tamsin you, may attend the dances as part of your committee duties, however you will be barred from the running for either Snowflake Princess, or Prom Queen."

"You have got to be kidding me!" Tamsin shouted as she threw her hands up in the air.

"That will be all!" The principal said as he stood and slammed his fists on his desk. "You are all dismissed, please apologize to Miss Lewis on your way out."

Dyson rolled his eyes and stood, muttering a low "sorry" as he passed. Tamsin stormed over to Lauren and leaned in close.

"You'll be sorry for this." She sneered through clenched teeth before raising her voice. "Sorry about everything Lauren." She said in mock sincerity. Next was Bo who looked at Lauren with sad, guilty eyes as she shuffled silently out of the room. Lauren then stood and nodded at the two remaining adults.

"I'm very sorry about this Miss Lewis, if there is anything else we can do for you please do not hesitate to let us know." The principal said. Lauren just thanked him and quietly left the office.

As soon as she was out the door, a hand grabbed hers and pulled her out of the administration outer offices. Lauren looked up to see Bo guiding her through the vacant halls and out into the front courtyard of the school.

"I am so so sorry Laruen!" Bo said as she stopped them a few feet away from the front entrance. She looked the blonde over, assessing her injuries.

"I know Bo. So am I." Lauren sighed in a defeated voice as she choked back tears.

"What? Why? What for?" Bo asked confused as she stopped checking over the blonde's body to look her in the eyes.

"I can't do this." Lauren said quietly.

"Can't do what?" Bo asked her brows drawing together as she took the girl's face in her hands. "School? We can ditch the rest of class, go back to my place…" She was cut off by Lauren pulling out of her embrace.

"No Bo, I can't do this. Us. I thought I could, I thought I could try." Tears began to fall down her cheeks, stinging the still open cut under her bruised eye, tears beginning to form in Bo's own dark pools. "But I can't. I look like a fool, I feel like a fool, some stupid little girl with a crush, like the puppy who keeps getting kicked but still returns loyally to his master, hoping he won't do it again." Bo was shaking her head no as she went to reach for Lauren again, who pulled away.

"No, Lauren please!" Bo begged. "I am so sorry, I love you, please don't give up on us."

Lauren closed her eyes as tears continued to fall, she knew what she had to do, she knew what she had to say, and she knew that she had to do it before she lost her nerve.

"No Bo. I can't do this with you. It's, it's over." She raised her hands behind her neck and unclasped the tiny silver chain, placing the small pendant in Bo's hand. And with that she turned and stalked off, back into the school building.

Bo just stood there dumbfounded, she felt as if the world was collapsing around her. What had she done? All of it, why had she ever agreed to any of it? How could she hurt the beautiful, kind, caring creature that was Lauren Lewis? But she had. She had done it, and she had to accept that she had hurt the woman she loved. That she had broken something she may never be able to repair. But she knew one thing as she stood, trembling, warm salty tears streaking down her cheeks. She would do everything in her power to get her back.

A/N: What? What? Two chapters, one day. Nice! Haha!

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