DISCLAIMER: I don't own them, I don't own them….
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Oh you gorgeous reviewers you. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…
And let me count the cookies- I am officially sending out my metaphorical cookies of love to the reviewers below:
Katydidit, Solus Nemo, Pbuttercup, AKADropsofJupiter, Claddagh Ring, PheonixFireBlack, VegaTenshi, I Am Cow Hear Me Moo, eyes of a child, cghoney, and StarryEyes2003.
But enough counting- let me send out a mini apology to those who were slightly disappointed by my last chapter. Although I am a card carrying member of the ~*Lily and the Left-handed Freak Forever Foundation*~, that doesn't mean that's how all the stories go. I'm sort of just letting this one take me where it wants to go. So expect the unexpected.
And one more thing I've been meaning to mention in these little side notes- if you've read my one-shot "Second Chance", you'll know what I mean, and if you haven't… well, go read it and come back when you know what I mean. But, what I mean is (how annoying am I?) I want to give some official props to the Disney show "So Weird", because that's exactly where I got the idea for that story line, as one of you ingenious reviewers noticed. The whole orange juice versus grape juice situation Ray talks about is pretty much directly form that show, and it was my way of giving them a little credit. I completely forgot to put it in my author's note, and I just wanted to make sure that everybody knew about that.
Anyways, here's chapter seven, and chances are chapter 8 will be up within a few hours, too. I think the next few chapters may be posted in pair, just because that's the way I write. If I find an ending to a chapter, I end the chapter. But I don't like leaving things so boring, especially when I know what I'm going to do next. SO, I am officially done being annoying:
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"Audrey, what am I supposed to do? Two guys in less than a week… You would tell me if I were a slut, right?" Lily couldn't have begun to count how many cold showers she had taken since the night before with Ray; her whole life was beginning to feel like some sort of sick soap opera.
"Sweetie, you're not a slut. You're just… confused. I mean, I've never had sex so I can't really tell you that its normal for you to need to do it with every guy you have the slightest bit of attraction to, but…"
"Audrey!" Lily interjected indignantly.
"I'm kidding, Lil, I'm kidding. Listen, just don't worry about it, it will blow over with. You've been friends with Travis for a few months now, and Ray since practically forever. The drama will go away, I promise."
Lily sighed and flung herself unhappily onto her bed, gazing up at the happy girl with her three best friends in the photo on her ceiling.
"I hope so, Audrey. I hope so."
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Lily trudged into school the next morning with dark circles under her eyes and frizzy hair. Then again, who would expect much more from a girl with so many problems? She made a beeline for the stairwell as she spotted Robbie's mop top of curly hair, and plopped herself down next to him, glad to see someone familiar… someone she hadn't had sex with in the past two days.
"Hey Robbie… you have no idea how glad I am to see you." She looked up at Robbie warmly only to see that he wasn't smiling.
"Why? So you can have sex with me, too?" And with that Robbie got up and left the stairwell, heading in the opposite direction of his first period class, and never bothering to look back at Lily.
Lily's head filled with questions- how did Robbie know? Ray could have told him, but Ray had seemed so… scared about the whole thing she didn't think he would be ready to talk yet. And she hadn't told him, the only person she had told was… Audrey.
Lily took off from the stairwell, knocking into people and banging lockers as she sprinted towards the hallway outside her English class, where Audrey's locker was. Sure enough, Audrey was re-applying her lip-gloss and gazing happily into the mirror mounted to her locker door when Lily found her.
Lily stopped at the door of Audrey's locker just as the princess dipped the lip-gloss wand in for a second coat.
"Audrey, did you tell Robbie about me and Ray? You're the only one I told and..." Lily caught her breath and looked up at Audrey to find a sinister grin plastered to her face.
"Him? You think I only told Robbie?" She let out a condescending sort of scoff and adjusted the mirror in her locker, but Lily knocked her hand away and slammed the locker door shut. Audrey turned to look Lily in the eyes, an all-knowing smirk on her lips. Lily stood almost 3 inches taller than Audrey in reality, but at the moment Lily felt as though Audrey were towering over her.
"Audrey, what the hell is that supposed to mean?"
"Well, Lily, I can't very well have you prancing around this school like you own it just because you screwed a few guys. That's my job. All I had to do to ruin your reputation was tell a few girlfriends about your X-rated escapades and it's all over Roscoe. As if I'd even bother talking to your little curly haired friend."
Lily stared at Audrey in disbelief, and despite the volumes of insults and obscenities running through her mind all she could mange to say was, "I trusted you." in a strained voice before she slapped Audrey straight across the jaw and turned on her heel, intoxicated with pure anger.
Lily wasn't sure if she was imagining the derisive laughter coming from the other people in the hallways, or the snide looks from the girls checking their make up in the mirrors, but she knew she hadn't imagined what Robbie had said, or Audrey. Everything had just gone horribly wrong. She passed by her first period class and headed straight for the exit to the school. She wasn't going to class, not today. It was the first time Lily had ever cut school in her life, but she had done a lot of things for the first time in the past few days.
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A/N: For all of you who didn't notice- this version is revised, I changed the ending from a crybaby Lily, to Lily on warpath. I'm revising the next chapter too, so please re-read that too! Thanks!
