A/N: Sorry for not updating the last few days. It had been hectic, some family issues and I had a migraine which tried to kill me :D

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Now go on and enjoy the next chapter of the party that changed my life.

Chapter 16

Wednesday. It had now been a week and a half since my make up with Dimitri and it was the first week that school started again. None of my friends knew what happened and Lissa still refused to talk to me. Instead she was spending time with Avery. A girl neither of us really liked, but who now seemed to take my place as Lissa's best friend.

I tried not to be bothered by it, but it hurt nonetheless. Especially since Lissa still lived with us and that meant I had to see her and Avery not only at school, but also every time they were at our house. Which was almost every day. So I spent most of the afternoons at Dimitri's. Whenever he was still at work and I couldn't keep him company there, I sneaked into his garden house to finish the smaller details. After everything that went down, we took our time to finish renovating. Instead of rushing to complete our work, the way we've done it before, we used a lot of our time to kiss, hold each other and talk. I really enjoyed it. It also helped us healing after the previous events.

With this whole Lissa situation school was uncomfortable. Most of the time I ate with Adrian, Sydney, Mason, who just recently switched to our school, Mia and Eddie with his girlfriend Jill. Though it was fun to spend time with them and talk about God knows what, Lissa made sure I wasn't enjoying myself too much.

In moments like these I questioned our whole friendship. How could she be like this after everything we've been through? I don't think I could ever treat her like she treated me right now.

Flashback

"Earth to Rose." Dimitri looked at me. Apparently my head had been somewhere far away again.

"I'm really starting to worry about you, Roza. You still haven't talked to Lissa, have you?" my silence was answer enough for him. "Roza, you really should start a conversation with her. It can't go on like this. The two of you have been inseparable since kindergarten. I can see how much it hurts you to not be able to talk to her, so please, just try it." Giving him the evil eye I acted as if he haven't said anything. Sighing he continued working and I had to held back tears.

End of Flashback

His words from a week ago still played in my head. I knew he was right, I knew it the second he said that, but I didn't want to talk about it. But at the same time I knew I had to do something about this. Lissa and I would start college after graduation, but I wouldn't want us to hate each other during such an important time. She was still my best friend even if she thought different about it right now. But I honestly couldn't say what she thought about our friendship at the moment since she wasn't talking to me. Her actions however showed her feelings towards me and they weren't pretty.

"What happened to the two of you?" Mason asked, as the rest of my friends looked at me with the same pitiful look. "Mason, I really don't want to talk about this, okay. We had a big fight and that's all. We're not speaking and that's fine." I could see in their eyes that they knew I was lying. Of course nothing was fine but I just continued eating, finished lunch and left them behind. None of them dared to ask me something afterwards and we all sat beside each other during class silently.

But during gym class they all ganged up on me again. "Now, spill. What happened?" Sydney started the interrogation. "Guys, I told you n-" but I couldn't finish my sentence as Eddie interrupted. "Cut the bullshit, Hathaway. We know that something is completely off. Lissa and Avery made your first week a living hell."

I looked down at the floor, but they continued talking to me. "That's obvious. They started a rumor that you slept around with Jesse and Ralf." Sydney's voice turned darker. "And none of them denied that. Of course they don't feel the need to clarify that it's all just a big rumor." Mason added. "Not to forget that she broke into your locker to fill it with foam." Eddie spoke up.

"Or when they ruined your clothes during gym class and you had to get dressed in your emergency pair of clothes, which may I add, you haven't updated since two years ago. Which was clear to see." Adrian reminded me. "And what about when they posted the picture of you from the time whe-" This time I interrupted Jill.

"I know that they did all of this, okay? Believe me, I couldn't have missed that. But Lissa is still Lissa and I won't talk bad about her with you. All you need to know is that we had a fall out and that's it. So please leave me the hell alone with this!" With that I stormed off and sat in the changing room for the rest of the class. Our teacher never even noticed this so I had some time to clear my head. My friends were right. She did a lot of horrible things to me. Things I never thought possible. Still I couldn't bring myself to really hate her. She was Lissa, the girl I made friends with at the first day at Kindergarten when I attacked our teacher with a book for trying to force us to eat broccoli.

She might be going through a phase, but I wouldn't let her down. Ever since her parents died and we stayed at the hospital, she tended to react irrational. If she ever would be willing to talk to me again, I would be there for her to get over this. Also I don't think that she was the master mind behind these immature pranks, if you want to call them pranks, however I'm convinced that she is acting out of hurt and that Avery is actually pushing her, manipulating her to act this way. Lissa is a strong person, but when in this kind of mood, she tends to let other people guide her, even though it's not what she would do under normal circumstances.

The next day after school I was sitting alone in the library when my two favorite person in the world came towards me. "Look who's there, a liar and her friends." Avery taunted me while Lissa just stared daggers at me. "No wonder she has no friends when she lies to all of them." Lissa added and it was then that I couldn't held back anymore. My friend's words from yesterday, the reminder of all the things she did to me came all rushing back into my mind and I blew up.

"What the hell do you think you're doing Liss?" She gave me a hateful look. "Don't like hearing the truth, don't you?" her cold voice made me raise my voice in anger. "Not telling you something is not the same as lying and you know that. Besides that I don't think you've told me the truth about you and Christian as well!" The shock was clear to see on her face. "What do you mean? I told you about Christian." Snickering I gave her a disbelieving look. "Really? You might have told me about seeing him at the beginning, but after your fall out you never told me the two of you made up again." I accused her.

"W-What… How-" But she had no chance to finish her question.

"I know that the two of you are back together, okay? You haven't been carful enough." Is it okay to say this when you haven't been careful enough yourself? My inner voice wasn't helping my case. Pushing these thoughts aside, I continued.

"First, you should be more careful while talking to someone over the phone when others could overhear something you don't want them to know. I was at home when you had a phone call and I guess you talked to him and you said that you are glad that you two fixed everything. So yes I kind of knew it by then. But then, second of all, don't meet him in public, when you don't want me to know about you two. The bus stop the two of you have been waiting at is right on my route home and so I saw you kissing when Dimitri drove me home the other day."

Taking my books and shoving them into my backpack I let out everything that was on my mind since we've last talked, which felt like ages ago. "So I guess it is okay for you to have a secret and to not let me in on everything, but when I do it it's high treason. That's rich. Really. After everything we've been through I never thought that you could do this to me. To ignore me while you're getting over your hurt feelings is one thing, but to team up with someone like Avery and to talk badly about me, is a completely other thing. And to think that I even defended you in front of our friends." I was now screaming. It's a wonder the librarian wasn't already at our table chastising me for screaming in her holy halls.

"Letting her in on what went down is something I never thought possible. How could you do that to me? To think that I was feeling sooo unbelievably guilty for not telling you about Dimitri. You know what, Lissa, I'm done. I can't do this. Go on, hang out with that skanky bitch over there and be happy, but don't you dare looking down on me for doing what was right for my relationship when you are doing the same thing out of spite or whatever." With that I left them alone and walked back home. On the one hand I felt better for letting everything out, but on the other hand I felt even worse, like I've lost my sister and best friend forever.

Arriving home I directly got in my room and closed the door behind me. My parents were at work, of course, where else would they be. I tried concentrating on my homework but wasn't successful, so I decided to call Dimitri. After three rings the call went to voice mail.

"Hay, I just wanted to chat. I had a little talk with Lissa and things didn't really went well." The tears in my voice were evident. "If you could even call it a talk. I just yelled at her. Anyways, that's all. Talk to you later." And with that I ended that call, just as I heard a knock on my door.

"Who is it?" I asked, but no one answered. Opening the door I saw Lissa, with a tear stained face. Unsure what to do, we just stared at each other. Opening the door wider she walked in and went straight to my bed. "I'm sorry." She whispered. Not reacting I waited until she turned around and quickly rattled down everything in one breath. "You're right I was so angry and never even gave you a chance to explain it. What's even worse I let Avery talk me into ignoring you completely. But I swear I never told her what happened, neither about the thing with Dimitri nor about what you did afterwards. I'm really sorry, please forgive me." With that she flung herself into my arms. I wasn't sure how to react, but I embraced her. "We really need to talk." I said and with that we sat down and talked for hours.

"I swear I haven't told Avery anything. She pressed me for details but I just said that you lied to me. After you left the library she wouldn't stop interrogating me and calling you names, so I told her to go to hell." She hung her head in shame. "Sorry it took this long for me to realize what a bitch I was." Sighing I took her hand in mine. "It's not just your fault Liss. I should've told you about him. I was just afraid of what you might say. And I couldn't risk anyone finding out about us. Not that I did a great job keeping this a secret." We both laughed humorlessly at this.

"I get it. Can't say I wasn't surprised and hurt to find out through your parents that you and Mr. Belikov are an item." She admitted. "Sorry Liss, I really am." Shrugging it off she smiled at me. "It's okay, but now I want you to tell me everything." So I told her everything that happened between Dimitri and me. It wasn't much, but when I told her about Baba busting us and the following events, I saw tears in her eyes. Partly because of what I did to myself, but also partly because she as well remembered the last time I did that. Thinking about her family always made her feel sad.

"Do you know how terrified I was when Janine told me that you were at the hospital and that you've done it again?" she was stroking her own scars from the numerous times she did this to herself. "Don't you ever do something like that again." I promised her and then she told me everything about her and Christian. This felt good.

"Talking to you really feels good. I missed it." I confided and we hugged. When it was late she left for her own bedroom and I got into my bathroom, showering, before heading to bed. When I laid down under the cover my mobile phone rang.

The caller ID told me it was Dimitri.

"Ramses pyramid rental, Cleopatra speaking. How can I help you?" I answered, which was met with a deep chuckle. "Here I was worried you were feeling down when I couldn't have been further away from the truth." His voice instantly made my skin prickle and my heart speed up. "And this greeting made no sense. History really isn't your strongest class." He added teasingly.

"Not anymore, I'm fine now. Lissa and I really had a talk this time." I answered, ignoring his last comment. He was so sweet, being so considerate.

"I'm really glad to hear that. How about tomorrow after school I pick you up and then we go to my place and spent a nice evening together?" He asked hesitantly.

Immediately I had a daydream about what we could get up to when we would be alone at his house. "I would love that." We talked for some minutes before we ended the call and I went to sleep.