It all started the summer that Theodosia started working at the local pool. This story, however, isn't about Theodosia, it's a messy, messy story. Let's get started.

'I'm coming over,' Theo texted her best friend, Angelica one night in July, 'I've got so much to tell you.'

Shortly after, Theodosia was on the floor of her bedroom telling the Schuyler the events of the day, "So I was working the gate today, and some boys kept coming in and out and," She said, pulling a torn piece of notebook paper out of her purse. There was a phone number scribbled on the back of the piece of paper.

"Is he cute?" Angelica asked, examining the piece of paper.

Theodosia smiled, "Look up his Instragram, I think he is."

He was VERY cute if Angelica did say so herself.

Over the course of the next several days, Theodosia and this boy, who apparently just went by 'Lafayette', talked day in and day out.

During dinner one night, Angelica got a call.

"Come to the park and meet Laf with me," Was the first thing out of Theo's mouth, "I don't want to go alone."

Angelica had a horrible problem with agreeing to whatever anyone wanted her to do and ended up going.

It was an awkward experience, to say the least. Lafayette was every bit as attractive as she expected him to do, but Angelica didn't really like him. At all.

A week later, however, she ended up back at the same spot with Theodosia and Laf.

Angelica had learned that her sister, Eliza's, boyfriend, Alexander, was friends with Lafayette. Whenever she brought him up, Lafayette ended up going on and on about the stupid things that he would do with Alex whenever they saw each other. However, during this time, Angelica got called a buzzkill multiple times, many of those times by Theo.

"Sitting on the couch and watching Netflix all night is fun," She promised Angelica later whenever they were back in the safety of Theodosia's house, "I just wanted to seem not boring."

Angelica nodded along, but inside she was DEEPLY annoyed. From then on out, her and Lafayette didn't get along. They would glare at each other whenever they saw each other in public, Theodosia forced Angelica to add him on Snapchat and in that process he told her she was a "fucking bitch that nobody actually liked". That's where they were in their relationship. That was until the school Angelica and Theodosia went to played Laf's school in basketball. The girls were both cheerleaders and had been dreading this game since the beginning of season.

The cheerleaders were practicing whenever the Laf's school's boys ran onto the court.

"I made eye contact," Angelica yelled to Theodosia while they were getting ready for the game. The night went by fine, they didn't talk. They didn't even make eye contact after that.

The night went fine until about 2 a.m.

Angelica woke up to three snapchats. Two from two people she talked to regularly and one from somebody she hadn't talked to in months: Lafayette.

The snap message read, 'Hey, whenever you wake up, I have something I want to tell you,"

Angelica rolled her eyes as she responded, 'What?'

Half an hour later, Angelica had forgotten about it until she got the next message.

'Nothing, I just wanted to say that you're really freaking cute'

Angelica read the message over and over. Had she read that right? The boy who just months before had called her a bitch was calling her cute? 'We hated each other, I don't know if you remember that or not, but we did' She replied.

'I know and I'm sorry, I should have never said anything that I did'

'So what do you want here?' Angelica asked, the boy's intentions still very fuzzy in her mind.

'I think we could have something here and if you'll let me I think that I might be able to win you over,' came the reply

'You're very confident in your ability,' Angelica replied, finding herself smiling at the screen.

The reply came almost immediately, 'It's because I think that we really do have something here'

Before Angelica responded, however, she texted Alexander, "On a scale of Hercules Mulligan to John Laurens (the local fuckboy) how bad of an idea would Lafayette be?' She asked

'I don't know' Was the only thing Alex could come up with.

'Fine. I'll let you try then.' She said whenever she finally respond to Lafayette.

'Really?'

'Since you're so confident, yes.'

That's how it all started. Just some words, Angelica never would have thought that this would be one of the BIGGEST mistakes she would make.

Angelica had a game that night, but Theodosia couldn't come.

As they waited for the bus, Lafayette was doing on of the first things that would make Angelica fall for her.

'I couldn't stop staring at you last night,' He said.

The other girls on the squad noticed her smiling and forced her to fess up.

"That's the boy from last night," One of them said, looking at the image on Angelica's screen.

"Get it, Angie," Another said.

'I'm serious,' Laf's next message said, 'I saw you and it's like something just clicked.'

He was like that constantly; like the actual sweetest person you'd ever meet.

After the game, Angelica was still talking to him, 'I need to take my makeup off but it seems like a lot of work,' she told him.

'I'll come do it for you,' He said

'It's not usually a two person job,'

'Yeah, but you'd like it.'

That was just the first day, it only got better from there.

Constant compliments and constant attention is mostly what Angelica got from him, and she loved it to say the least.

There was a problem, however; Angelica was terrified to tell Theodosia.

"You're making a mistake," Theo told her whenever she finally told her.

Angelica didn't care; Angelica did what Angelica wanted.

There's so much more that could be written about, but I'll just tell you that every other day for the most part had been like the very first one.

One Tuesday, Angelica convinced Alex and Eliza to go an hour to watch Lafayette play basketball.

"Is this creepy?" Angelica asked as they pulled out of the Schuyler's driveway, "Going to surprise a kid I'm not even dating at his game an hour away?"

Eliza smiled from the driver's seat, "Maybe a little, but it's alright."

The entire way there, Angelica freaked out, "Just turn around, we're not actually going," She said to Eliza on multiple occasions.

"No," Eliza finally said, "I want to watch a decent basketball game for once."

Whenever they arrived at the school, Angelica hyperventilated the whole way in. They finally found a seat, and Angelica calmed down a little. She hadn't told Lafayette that they were coming and he hadn't realized yet, she'd be okay.

"I think he just realized that you're here," Eliza laughed during the first timeout, "He just did a double take up here."

During the third quarter, Alexander decided he'd go to talk to Lafayette's mom, "What?" He said as he stood, "I haven't seen her in a while it'll be nice to catch up, you want to come?" He asked Angelica.

"No, I don't know this woman and I'm not dating her son, I don't want her to think that I'm creepy," Was her reply.

Alexander stayed there the entire quarter. Angelica looked over at him once and ended up making eye contact with Laf's mom while Alexander was pointing her out her.

"What did you say?" Angelica demanded as soon as he got back in earshot.

"We started talking and she asked why I was here and I told her you were talking to Lafayette. She wanted to know if that was a good thing and I told her about John so she knew that you couldn't do much worse."

Angelica's heart stopped, "Why would you do that?" She demanded, "That's the actual worst first impression you can give somebody."

After the game, she had a very, very discussion with Lafayette, but nothing of importance really happened there; other than the fact that she realized he didn't understand her sense of humor.

Within the next two days, they talked maybe a total of ten times between the two of them.

'Can we talk?' She asked him that Thursday.

'Yeah,' He responded after his game.

'Is this going anywhere because some days it feels like it is and some days it doesn't?'

'Well what do you want?'

'Obviously I want this, but sometimes it feels like it isn't going anywhere.'

'Maybe it's not,' He responded.

Those three words broke Angelica's heart. She went to Eliza's room and just sobbed. And sobbed. And sobbed.

'So is just over then?' She asked.

'I guess'

'I'm sorry for wasting your time then,'

'You weren't a waste of time,'

'Obviously this was'

'No. I wanted to see if this is what I wanted and it's not.'

'Exactly, a waste of time,'

'No'

She left him on read.

'And once again everything hurts,' She tweeted.

She woke up at 7:10 for school and by 7:21 she had already cried twice.

That day at school was hell. Total hell. And on top of that, the basketball team had a game after school.

Angelica got ready faster than she ever had and went to lay on the gym floor while she waited.

"What was your depressing tweet about last night?" One of her best friends asked, sitting down next to her.

She recounted the story to some of the team, managing not to cry.

"This might be a good thing since you do go to different schools, but I'm sorry that happened to you," One of the girls said.

Angelica nodded, laying on her bag, deciding that she'd take a nap before they had to leave.

"What's wrong," Theodosia asked as she came into the gym.

"I think she's just tired," The same girl from before said.

"No, that's definitely her sad face," Theo said, and Angelica lost it.

She tried to keep it in, but silent tears started to fall from her eyes.

Two of the other girls tried to comfort her until they had to leave.

'The rest of my life might suck right now, but at least I still have these two," She posted a picture of her and the two girls who tried to comfort her on her snapchat story.

Angelica retold the story to Theodosia later and the only thing her friend said was, "I don't even feel bad for you."

After the game, Angelica got a surprise: A message from none other than Lafayette.

'You have me too. Just because I can't be anything to you right now doesn't mean I don't still like you,' He said.

'What do you mean?' Angelica asked.

I'll spare you the details of that conversation, all Lafayette would say is, "I just can't."

Should Angelica given up right then? Yes. Did she? Hell no.

The next morning, she decided she'd give it one last chance.

'You told me whenever you first started talking to me that you wanted this. Now you're saying you can't. No. That's such bullshit. I deserve to be happy and this makes me happy, so please just give this a chance."

The reply came several hours later, 'Angelica. I can't, I'm sorry,'

'Fine,' Was all Angelica could come up with to say. He opened it at 1:07.

They didn't talk for more than a week until one morning he randomly Snapchatted her while she was getting ready for school. No words, no explanation, just a picture of his face. Whenever she asked what he wanted, he left her on read. She decided that he must have sent it to the wrong person. Until he did it the next day. And the next. Soon enough they had a streak, but he never told her why he started it again.

They saw each other the day of the last basketball game for Angelica's season. The entire team had been grieving the loss of their seniors, but when Angelica made eye contact with Lafayette, she was crying for a whole other reason. There new streak lasted for 18 days of them talking once a day before he lost it. Angelica cried whenever it happened.

Their next interaction wasn't a pleasant one. Pleasantly surprised, she woke up to a Snapchat from him. The pleasure didn't last for long.

'To all you girls out there, you need to change your ways,' The message read.

"I need to change my ways. I need to change MY ways?" She mumbled to herself as she wrote her response, 'excuse me?'

'Not aimed towards all girls,' His reply said several hours later.

'Then don't send it all girls.'

'I did it because I wanted to'

She left him on read this time.

Angelica didn't think about him for several months until one day her best friend messaged her.

'I saw someone today.' He said.

'Oh, yeah? Who was that?' She asked

'Lafayette,' He replied, 'at the track meet'

Her heart sunk, 'How is he? Still cute and obnoxious?'

'We talked about you.'

'YOU WHAT?' Angelica said, eyes starting to tear up as she typed, 'WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?'

'One of the girls brought him over and we started talking and you got brought up. He told me his side of the story.'

'He'll tell some kid he just met his side of the story, but he won't tell me,' She thought.

The next day it was like fate. She thought about him constantly, then Theodosia saw him, he posted on his Snapchat story for the first time in FOREVER, Facebook kept recommending his mom's page, she went to the school where they went to watch him play basketball, and a lot of other things other people might have considered 'signs'. If they were signs, Angelica didn't act on them. She knew there was no use. He didn't want her. He never had, and if he did he would talk to her. This was just something that she'd have to live with.

Wow. I promise one day I'll go back to the mushy stuff, it's just ONCE AGAIN I got screwed over by a boy and I deal with my feelings by writing. I promise I'm going to be more active. Leave requests on what you want me to write about. Also, I know how badly written this is. I'm sorry.