Selena's POV

"Alyssa?" I called as I walked quickly into the girls toilets and kicked each of the stall doors. They all opened to reveal no-one behind them, which caused me to start panicking slightly and pick up the pace to get around the school and find her.

I don't know why I was so worried really; she was obviously going to be upset but everyone gets upset. I really can't think as to why I was so worried about her well-being, and I especially can't think why I thought she would do something stupid if I didn't find her.

However, I was right in thinking that she would.

After five minutes of running around the school, looking lost and pretty pathetic, I found Alyssa in the other girls' toilets, sitting in a stall, crying her eyes out.

The stall was locked when I went in and started kicking the doors open but I heard her quiet sobs echoing around the empty room, sounding louder than they actually were.

"Alyssa, open the door honey." I instructed softly as I tapped on the locked door. She didn't say anything or move. I rolled my eyes and began to wonder why I was bothering; it wasn't really my problem that she was upset. But then I realised that it was.

"'Lys, open up or I'm just going to have to climb over." I told her. She didn't open the door after two minutes so I rolled my eyes and went into the stall next to the one Alyssa was in. I climbed carefully onto the toilet seat and pushed myself over the stall and jumped to the floor, just missing Alyssa.

She looked at me with pure desperation in her eyes for a moment before looking back down at her hands.

"Please don't leave me. I need you." She whispered shakily. I almost had to ask her to repeat herself, but just before I did, I realised what she said and felt guilty. Extremely guilty.

"I'm sorry. I just don't feel that way about you anymore. I won't leave you though. I will still always be here for you as a friend, but that's all I can be here as." I told her honestly with a small smile on my lips.

"I love you." She sobbed out quietly a few moments later.

"I know you do. I'm so sorry, Alyssa. I really, genuinely am, but I can't play with your feelings. It's not right. I really just want us to be friends." I admitted as I slowly wrapped my arm around her shoulders and pulled her into a soft hug to try and calm her down.

"Saying you just want us to be friends is like saying the dog died but you still want to keep it." She said with a small smile on her lips. I chuckled quietly and so did she.

"I know. I'm sorry, but it's what I really want right now. I need you to be my friend, not my girlfriend." I replied. Alyssa took a few seconds before nodding against my shoulder to let me know that her answer was yes.

"Okay. It'll be hard but I can't lose you completely. If friends are all we can be then friends is all we will be." She said with a small, obviously forced, smile. I offered a pretend smile back and rubbed her shoulder gently.

"I'm sorry Alyssa; it's for the best though…" I trailed off apologetically. "We need to go to Miss. Lovato to let her know I've found you. Come on." I told her as I pulled her up gently and we left the stall, with her fingers entwined loosely with mine.

We walked silently through the deserted school halls. Everyone was already in lessons so there was no-one else there. The door to Demi's classroom was closed so I knocked it and waited for her to come out.

"You found her, that's great. You two should go to your lesson now, give me your student planners and I'll write you notes." She said with a smile as she came out. She looked down at out connected hands and her smile faltered slightly but she forced out a fake one.

"Thanks. We'll see you at morning break?" I asked her. Demi nodded as she wrote a note in Alyssa's planner.

"Yeah. That note will cover both of you. See you later." She said with that same forced smile on her face. I nodded, I knew she was upset by me holding hands with Alyssa, she probably thought I'd bottled out of breaking up with her.

Without another word Demi went back into her classroom and shut the door. She obviously had a class with her and I wasn't going to disturb her so I decided I would text her when I got to my lesson.

We arrived at out Math class twenty minutes into the lesson, but after we showed Mr. Bryan the note he just told us to take our seats and carried on teaching. I felt my phone buzz in my pocket about ten minutes later and read the text under the desk.

1 new message: Demi. :]

I thought you were going to break up with her?

I knew it. I knew she thought I'd wimped out. There were no kisses on the text so I knew she was annoyed.

I did, we're just friends now xx

I sent the message and waited five minutes before getting a reply. Obviously it's not very fair for Demi to be texting in class whilst she's trying to teach so she would have had to wait until the class were doing the work and text then.

1 new message: Demi. :]

Okay. Sorry baby xx

I smiled and replied with a smiley face and two kisses. I put my phone back in my pocket, not expecting a reply to such a simple text.

The rest of the day went by pretty fast. At break and lunch Demi had things to do so she just left us in her classroom with her keys. At 3.30 when the end of school bell rang I went straight to Demi's classroom; Alyssa had said she would get the bus because she figured it would be pretty awkward just us two in my car so soon after breaking up.

I knocked the door and she called me in. There were two boys in there that I recognised as Jack and Michael, freshmen.

"Miss. Lovato, a word please?" I asked her, motioning with my hands for her to come out. She nodded and turned to the two boys sitting at the back of the classroom with their feet on the desk and their chairs leaning against the back wall.

"You two stay there. Don't say a word and don't move a muscle. I'll hear you if you do." She warned them. They both nodded and she came out of the door, closing it behind her.

"What's up?" She asked with a small smile.

"Nothing, I was just going to see if you wanted a ride home since you walked this morning." I asked her with a smile back.

"I'm not leaving until half four, I've got them little shits with me." She said as she directed towards the door. I chuckled quietly and shook my head.

"I don't mind waiting. I've got nothing better to do and to be honest I don't particularly fancy another awkward conversation with my mom when I get home. What have them two done anyway?" I asked her. They were known for being mouthy little shits to the teachers.

"They wrote 'Miss. Lovato is a dirty dykey whore' on the whiteboard in permanent marker. For some reason I think they've probably found out that I'm gay." She added sarcastically. I shook my head and looked through the small window in the door. The black lettering on the whiteboard stood out like a sore thumb and it angered me slightly.

"You should have gone to Mrs Jacobs about it. She'd have killed them. You do need to go to her anyway about getting it removed from the board." I told her as if it were obvious. It kind of was.

"Yeah I know, I was going to go tomorrow, I can't leave them two on their own in there anyway." She said with a shrug.

"I'll go and get her now if you want?" I offered. Demi looked through the window at the two boys and saw that they were writing something on the back wall.

"Shit. Yeah please. See you in a minute." She said as she quickly went back into the classroom and started literally screaming at the shocked kids.

I walked quickly to Mrs Jacobs' room and knocked the door, to be called in a few seconds later.

"Selena, how can I help you?" She asked from behind her desk.

"De- uh, Miss. Lovato asked me to come and get you. Some freshmen are in detention with her now for writing some foul things on the whiteboard in permanent pen. They started writing again when she left the classroom to speak to me, can you go down please?" I asked her quietly. Mrs Jacobs always intimidated me, even though she really was lovely.

"Yes of course. Let's go." She said as she led me through the school and into Demi's classroom, where she was still yelling at the two boys. Their newest graffiti said 'Miss. Lovato licks wet pussy.'

I admit it would have made me laugh if it weren't meant in a cruel way. I didn't laugh though because Miss. Lovato's eyes were welling up with tears, which I guessed the two boys couldn't see.

"Demi, stop. I'll take over now. You can go home and when you come in tomorrow the graffiti will be gone." Mrs Foster said with a small comforting smile. Demi turned to face her and nodded.

"Thank you Mrs Jacobs. I would like these two to get schedule changes because I am absolutely not teaching them." She said firmly.

"Yes, of course Demi. You will also receive a written apology from each of them." Mrs Foster said which caused the two lads to shout in protest. "You can both shut up or the suspension I have planned for you will turn into a permanent exclusion." She shouted at them, which caused them both to fall completely silent.

"Thanks. Come on Selena, let's go." Demi said with a forced smile. I nodded and we walked silently out to my car. Once we were in there and had left the school start, tears slipped silently from Demi's eyes. I wanted to put my arm around her and hug her but I knew I couldn't because I was driving.

"Don't cry Demi, beautiful girls aren't supposed to cry." I told her without taking my eyes off the road. Through the mirror I saw her smile at me so I smiled back.

"That didn't stop you from crying last night." I didn't say anything; I waited for her to tell me what happened. She knew what I was waiting for and started explaining. "They just really got to me with what they were saying. I ended up screaming at them about how being gay isn't a choice and then I accidentally told them that I actually am gay and they started taking the piss. It just really upset me." She said with a saddened look in her eyes.

"Baby, don't worry about them, they're nobs. When we get home you can take a bath or something and calm down then we can order Chinese food or something. Whatever you like." I suggested as I pulled into the estate I lived on.

"Yeah I guess. Come in the bath with me?" she asked with a wink.

"If that's what will cheer you up, I guess I'll just have to." I replied with a wink back. Demi giggled and shook her head.

"No seriously, come in the bath with me? We can wear bikini's and stuff again." She added. I smiled and nodded as I pulled into the driveway.

"That sounds nice. We can go in my bath, so that we can tell my mom we're just going to sleep for a bit and she will never know. Plus it has the jet things and a massager on the floor of it." I told her, advertising my bath as much as I could. We got out of the car and went into the house.

"That sounds great. I need to make a phone call to the insurance company about my house, I'm going to go upstairs and call them."

"Okay, I'll be up in a bit, just going to go and say 'hi' to my mom." I told Demi as she headed up the stairs and I went into the living room where my mom was sitting on the couch with a glass of wine, laughing at something someone said down the phone. She saw me come in and ended the conversation before hanging up.

"It's four o'clock, where on earth have you been?" she asked me concernedly.

"Demi had some problems after school so I stayed behind to give her a lift home." I explained.

"Okay then. Do you want some dinner?" my mom offered.

"No thanks, we're going to go for a sleep, we'll be about two hours' tops then we're probably going to order a take-out. Demi's had a really rough day today, some kids were writing evil things about her being a lesbian on her board in permanent pen, and then they found out that she's actually gay. She got pretty upset by it so I want her to relax for the night." I told my mom who nodded.

"Okay, there's a bottle of non-alcoholic wine in the refrigerator if you want it. I don't really want you drinking proper wine on a school night." My mom said with a nod toward the kitchen.

"Thanks. Is Maria here?" I asked, referring to the woman who comes round every so often to do our ironing. My mom nodded and asked me if there was anything I needed ironing. I said no and headed upstairs with the bottle of fake wine.

Demi was still on the phone, I could hear her muffled speech through the door that was closed in her room. I went into my room and through to my bathroom where I started running the bath and lighting candles that were already placed variously around the room.

After ten minutes the three-person bath was full and steaming slightly. The candles were all lit, there were two white dressing gowns hanging on the back of the door, white towels hanging on the rail, and the Taylor Swift album was playing at a medium volume through the iPod dock on the window ledge.

I changed into a grey Armani bikini with red embroidery on it, and put a black Ralph Lauren one on the bed for Demi. I let my hair out of the pony tail, put my clothes from the day in the wash basket, and wrapped a white towel around myself under my arms.

Demi came in a few minutes later and smiled at me.

"You look hot in a towel." She stated with a smirk. She seemed to have cheered up quite a bit.

"Thank you. You look hot no matter what." I reminded her. She smiled and walked up to me so that her body was pressed against mine. The towel around my body dropped to the floor and Demi smirked at me again before capturing my lips softly in her own.

"You taste so nice." I told her without thinking. Demi chuckled quietly and shook her head.

"You do too. I'm going to go and change in my room. I'll be five minutes." she said with a smile. I nodded and then realised that I needed to put the 'wine' into glasses. I ran into the bathroom and quickly poured the wine into two glasses then went back into my bedroom.

Demi was standing there in the bikini with her hair down and a bright pink belly-bar in. She didn't usually wear it; she said she didn't like it very much anymore. I smiled at her and motioned toward the bathroom.

"You did all this?" She asked as we walked into the candle-lit room. I smiled at her and dropped my towel onto the floor again. Demi didn't have a towel on so we both just climbed into the bath. We sat opposite each other and I leant over to kiss her.

Kissing soon turned to Demi leaning against the back of the bath and me lying on top of her, making out with her. We started to lose track of time but I didn't care.

We pulled apart when air became an unavoidable problem but I stayed lying on top of her with her head resting on her chest. She was playing with my wet hair, de-knotting it with her fingers and drawing circles on my back with her other hand. I became really tired, having my hair played with always made me feel sleepy.

"This is really nice." I told her with a lazy smile. Demi smiled back and kissed the top of my head.

"I know. It just feels so natural." She admitted quietly. I hummed in response and Demi pushed me up a bit.

"What?" I asked her.

"Nothing, my back's gone dead, I want a drink, and you're falling asleep." She explained.

"I was not." I protested with a small pout as Demi took a sip of her drink.

"You're so cute when you pout. It's adorable." She said, resting her finger under my chin and pulling me into her to kiss me softly and caress my cheek with her thumb.

Best bath time ever.