This use some elements mentioned in #UnexpectedDiscoveriesAndAwkwardness but since is not really a chapter of the #Sweet,Friendships&Boys . So this could be considered an Interlude.
Could be set between #UnexpectedDiscoveryAndAwkwardness and #TrustAndAccidents, in universe, and set after episode 40 of the series #EmperorPenguin but before episode 43 #LeagueOfShadows.

Also from now on I'll be messing up with the timelines.

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Carol Ferris was tying her hair in a ponytail with the violet scrunchie Hal Jordan had gotten her as a gift for her eleventh birthday.

One of the few gifts he had gotten her since they met when they were eight.

Also one of the very few she had not broken in rage when Hal had texted her to break up with her.

She had been so upset when she read his text that she didn't think about the consequences of destroying all their photos and the very few notes that Hal Jordan had taken the time to write (at her urging but she had to make him realize that he was romantic guy)...and her cellphone.

(Well, she still had some photos of them in her laptop but it wasn't the same)

After the Saint Valentine dance, she had assumed that he would talk to her but he didn't...even though he had said that they needed to talk.

(Also he had taken her ring, she had taken it back while her mother visited Mrs. Jordan but she was still angry at him for it)

He had ghosted her again.

She didn't know why he was so scared of her, she never meant ti hurt him.

(The cut she made on his arm had been an accident.

She had never hurt him on purpose)

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Two months had passed since then and he hadn't given her a look,but at least he didn't seem to have grown closer to the Jessica Cruz.

Instead he had suddenly changed his attention to Barbara Gordon, that was interesting to say the least, and she had seemed to grown a little too close to him for the Star Sapphire's taste.

And so, Carol had cornered the girl one day after gym class and had told her to leave her boyfriend alone.

Yes, she knew that Hal Jordan had broken up with her but she had to clear things up to the girl; he was still hers.

Surprisingly the other girl didn't seem scared , like most girls in Coast City did, or annoyed, like Jessica Cruz; instead Gordon seemed angry at her.

"I'm not dating him, if that's what you are...saying" The redhead had said shrugging "I'm just tutoring him"

Jessica Cruz had been about to intervene but Pam had distracted her and Gordon's other friends had just looked at her for Prince, she had just said that every woman had to face her battles alone from time to time.

Cowards, all of them, except for Prince and Jessica Cruz.

"Just tutoring" Carol repeated trying to make her voice sound like Gordon's "Do you know how many times girls have used that excuse to get closer to him?"

The other girl didn't seem impressed and just shrugged while saying "Believe what you want, Carol" and turned away "We are friends, nothing else"

By the way, Barbara Gordon had the last word and..Carol may believe her just yet.

But then the final game of the season happened.

She didn't go because she had gone skating with Doris and Harleen and well, they weren't exactly careful and so she broke her leg.

So, even though she was captain of the cheerleading team she had to stay at the hospital as her mother wanted.

But Selina had sent the photo that confirmed that Hal Jordan had indeed changed his interest to Barbara Gordon, that ginger had gifted him a pair of Lombard XLX, something that not even Carol had gifted him.

And had, somehow, introduced him to Steve Lombard, his long-time idol.

They had also hugged, Hal Jordan never hugged anyone whom he didn't consider a close friend or family...or girlfriend.

She saw violet.

"He'll go back to flirting with Jessica" Pam said rolling her eyes.

The ecologist had decided to sleepover as she disliked to go to the rallies and stuff.

"Are you sure?" It wasn't everyday that Pamela Isley talked about this kind of things.

"I'm sure" The redhead said with an almost smile,but Carol was sure that it wasn't a reasuring smile.

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A few weeks later though Barbara Gordon and Hal Jordan seemed to have drifted apart, just a little but apparently Barbara Gordon was in love with Allen, and since Hal Jordan's grades had improved considerably they only met to study for exams.

Curious.

But, the problem was that he had grown closer, again, to Jessica Cruz.

They had entered a golf tournament and trained together regularly, which of course led to rumours of them dating.

And of course, Carol had taken into playing golf too, she just had to take Selina with her as she was the only friend she had that had not been banned from that place. Apparently Doris had destroyed the castle and Leslie had "accidentaly" electrocuted the barista of the cafeteria.

She didn't know what Harleen and Pam had done but they were banned too.

One day she was watching Hal Jordan and Jessica Cruz while they talked, sometimes they hands would brush and maybe his hands would touch her shoulders as a way of catching her attention.

That was driving her mad.

"You should get over him" Selina said and then added almost in a purr "You are not getting back together"

"You don't know anything, Selina" Carol said making a face "We have a connection, you wouldn't understand"

The other girl rolled her eyes and commented "He seems to have his attention focused on other..."She saw the Star Sapphire's reaction and smirked while finising her sentence"...things, like football and his grades"

She just grabbed her golf club and hit the ball, but when she raised her arm, with the gold club of course, and she hit something, well someone.

After a few minutes of half-apologizing, she wouldn't fully apologize for hitting him when it was his fault for coming too close, he told her that his name was Thaal Sinclair and that he would like to take her out for ice cream.

She was about to say "no" when she saw that for a moment she had caught Hal Jordan's attention.

Interesting.

And so she said yes and they exchanged numbers.

A few weeks had passed by, she and her friends had started to cause some havoc again, the super hero girls stopped them most of the time though the Invincibros did too, less than the girls but they fought sometimes.

Hal was never with them.

(Carol wondered if his school friends were the Invincibros, Lois Lane had bragged about discovering the Super Hero Girls identities by talking with someone from the football team amd since both super heroes teams were friends, one could only wonder)

Also, she and Thaal had gone in a few dates since they met, he was no Hal but he was a gentleman in a way that no guy had been before him and he had those romantic details that almost made her heart flutter.

Anyway, this guy could help her achieve her goal.

To win Hal Jordan back by making him jelaous.

She knew that he was asking his football friends to ask their cheerleader girlfriends about her new boyfriend.

Thaal and her weren't there yet but if it helped her to win Hal Jordan back...

Well...things one does for love.

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This is a little Interlude before I get back at writing more regularly.