"Lil, what happened, how did you guys get kicked out?" Kimi questioned, as she flipped the light on in Lil's room. Lil was flipped on her stomach on the bed, with the blanket thrown over her head, there was no way she could look at Kimi… the guilt would be highly evident on her face.

"Misunderstandings," Lil mumbled, refusing to take the blanket off her head.

"About what? We were barely there for half an hour before you two got kicked out," Kimi questioned, taking a seat at the edge of Lil's bed.

Lil could feel pain in the pit of her stomach, "Ran into Sean, I think he thought we could continue the events of that horrid party, and the security just happened to come across when Tommy was telling him I wasn't interested…" just saying his name made a blush of shame fall on her hidden face.

Lil was never that friend; she hated girls who were that type of friend that would betray their friends for a guy. She thought of being pressed against a shirtless Tommy earlier as he had aggressively devoured her mouth, and she wanted to sink into a dark pit and never come out. She was not the one to initiate that kiss, but boy, if that was not one of the most heated and passionate kisses of her life. She's never felt like her whole body was made out of jelly like that. But it was so wrong. He's Kimi's boyfriend –even though she's not sure how long that will last after tonight's revelation.

That just made the pit in her stomach churn in pain; she's never felt guilt like this before.

"Oh, bad move Sean," She said with a shake of her head, "He's lucky Phil wasn't around for that."

Lil mumbled incoherently under the blanket, and Kimi took that as her cue to leave, she was already feeling light headed from the alcohol and needed her bed. She switched off Lil's light, "Goodnight Lil,"

"Night,"

Lil finally lifted the blanket off her face and sat up, what the hell happened tonight?! How did they go from a friendly night out to such a mess? She thought her life was a mess last night, but all she had to deal with then was ignoring Tommy and pretending like she didn't remember trying to kiss him… but now… she had to deal with the kiss they actually shared, what it meant for any hope of their friendship (which seemed pretty doomed now), as well the repercussions their fight and his revelation would have on his relationship with Kimi. Lil didn't want her move to this school to end Kimi's relationship and to ruin things between her and Kimi.

It was supposed to be so simple, as it always had been in high school… she was the decoy and she tested them for Kimi. How did this get so complicated?

And why did the memory of their kiss bring butterflies to her stomach… butterflies that she wanted to stomp the life out of.

It wasn't until next morning when Lil was finishing her cereal at the counter that she had to deal with the repercussion of some of last night's events. Kimi stormed out of her room,

"Lil, how does Tommy know about the decoy thing?!" She questioned with her face completely pale.

Lil froze midway with the spoon half way up to her mouth, "What did he say?"

"I called him this morning to catch up about last night, and he just seemed really pissed off." Kimi said, her eyes tearing up –which completely broke Lil's heart into shreds, "And then he just went off about how I never trusted him, and how I knew you were going to test his loyalty, and he can't be with someone who would do that!"

Lil approached her, "Kimi, can you please sit down, you need to breathe!" She said, noticing that Kimi was freaking out.

She let Lil lead her to the couch, "What the hell happened last night?" Kimi demanded, as Lil took a seat beside her.

Lil tried to calm her own racing heart, "Kim… I slipped up." She began hesitantly, "He's been really confused about why I had tried to kiss him that night being you're best friend, and he wouldn't let it go… and I just… I told him I had done it to test him, but I swear I didn't mention a word about you knowing… he just somehow knew."

And your boyfriend kissed me.

The last part was omitted for obvious reasons.

She could see the pained look on Kimi's face, and Lil took her hand in her own, "I'm so sorry, please know that I did not think it would end up like this, I honestly had believed it would've helped things not hurt them, and I never wanted you to be thrown under the bus like this."

Kimi nodded, "I believe you, Lil. I know you would never screw me over."

Lil flashbacked to her body being pressed against Tommy's bare chest, his hand firmly on her naked thigh, and his lips roughly devouring hers…

Lil felt her eyes lower in shame, and her hold loosed on Kimi's hand, "I'm so sorry Kim."

"It's not your fault Lil, the reason he knew that I would've known about what you were doing is because he knows I've been overly paranoid and had trust issues… and he tried convince me to trust him and give the relationship a true chance but I just couldn't do it," She cried, now covering her face into her hands. She curled her legs onto the sofa and let Lil put her arm around her as she cried against Lil's chest.

Lil brushed her hand against Kimi's hair soothingly, as she felt her own eyes sting with unshed tears.

She was just supposed to be the decoy… now she's ruined their relationship.

She knew it wasn't her fault that Tommy kissed her, but the fact that it made her feel the way it did… that was wrong, and that made Lil feel like the worst friend in the world. Kimi was crying against her, and to some degree, Lil felt like she was at fault.

A part of her wanted to storm down to Tommy's room and demand that he apologize to Kimi, but the other part of her was too scared to see him.

It had been two weeks since Tommy and Kimi had broken up, and Kimi had taken their breakup pretty rough. She hadn't attended any of her classes the first week to avoid having to see Tommy, and when Lil had finally convinced Kimi to go to her classes, she dreaded the 3 hour class she had with Tommy.

"Please Lil, just sit in the lecture with me! I can't go by myself and sit there alone with him in that class. Especially since he has been ignoring my calls, it will just feel really awkward being there."

Lil shook her head, "Kimi, maybe you can take this opportunity to talk to him in person,"

Kimi shook her head, "He was so cold to me that day when I went to their apartment, I don't want to be embarrassed in front of people. We only have one common friend in that class, and he's closer to Tommy, so I'll have to sit alone."

Lil sighed, as they got up from the cafeteria and dumped their trays, she herself didn't want to see Tommy, so how could she convince Kimi to deal with it alone. Lil hadn't spoken to him since that night, and since they didn't have any classes together she didn't have to worry about running into him at school. Even at their apartment building, Lil avoided the main elevator where she would likely run into him and always took a detour. She had barely even seen Phil in the last two weeks besides the day they went to grab breakfast together on the weekend.

Phil had clued her in that Tommy was pretty pissed off about the whole stunt, and felt really disrespected that Kimi would go behind his back to test his loyalty.

When they walked into lecture she spotted Tommy pretty fast sitting in the back left of the lecture hall, so she lead Kimi to the right side and away from where he was sitting. As they walked up the hall she could feel his eyes on her, but she avoided letting her eyes fall in that direction.

When they had taken their seat, Lil felt her phone buzz against her side and pulled it out to find a text from Tommy;

She needed the decoy again eh.

Lil rolled her eyes and threw the phone into her bag, before putting in her headphones to have music occupy the rest of her time.

The rest of the class went by uneventful and when they had finally gotten to their apartment, Lil had to convince Kimi to not spend another night sulking in bed and to actually go out and enjoy the start of the weekend.

"I really don't want to," Kimi complained.

Lil groaned, "You are not spending another night curled onto the couch, eating take out, and watching Friends reruns… while moping about being dumped. Who cares, if he really loved you he would've given you a chance to explain yourself but he didn't, so screw him, and we're going to go out and get shit-face drunk and forget that you're sad… and instead maybe be happy for the night!"

Lil knew Kimi was happiest and most carefree when she had a few drinks and was just dancing, so the perfect place to take her would be the club a few blocks down and just let her enjoy herself.

Kimi moaned and sunk into the couch.

"C'mon, Phil said he'll come with us too!" Lil added, knowing that Phil could always make Kimi laugh.

Kimi reluctantly agreed, and an hour later Lil has wearing a high skirt with a tank top, her hair falling in soft waves, while Kimi was wearing a tight white dress that showed off her figure beautifully.

Phil met them at the club, and the three of them took two rounds of shots together before hitting the dance floor. It reminded Lil of old times, where the three of them would party together in high school. They were like the three musketeers back in those days, and Lil hadn't realized how much she missed this in the last three years of undergrad. Lil saw the way Phil would purposely do things to make Kimi laugh –and it had been two weeks since Lil had seen her laugh like that, Lil knew she had made the right decision in bringing her here.

Phil, knowing that Kimi was in the dumps, stayed with them on the dance floor, and when Kimi had gone to the bathroom Lil asked Phil if Tommy would be here. And to Lil's dismay, Phil nodded before motioning to the other side of the dance floor, where Lil saw Tommy dancing with a few girls that Lil recognized from the house party they had gone to. She rolled her eyes, and turned back to Phil, and he knew from her look that she was motioning that Kimi should not see him. So when Kimi returned they kept her away from his area, and had some more drinks.

"Thanks for bringing me here," Kimi said in her ear as they finished their drinks by the bar, and Lil nodded with a reassuring smile, before Phil grabbed Kimi's hand and led her to the floor again. Kimi was an awesome dancer, and Lil watched in amusement as Kimi owned the dance floor with Phil. She knew that Phil would always have a soft spot for Kimi, and she really respected him for spending the night to help make Kimi feel better, rather than finding girls to hook up with.

Just watching them have so much fun together, she really hoped one day Kimi would see how much Phil actually cared for her.

Lil was about to join them, but when she stepped forward she felt herself bump into a hard chest. She looked up startled, and her eyes fell into all too familiar ones. She felt her heart stop, as their eyes connected. Lil tried to side step past him, but he took a step to block her passage. He placed his hands on both sides of the counter to lock her into place, before leaning into her so his lips were pressed against her ear, "Don't you have decoy duties or something," He whispered coldly.

Lil felt the colour drain from her face, and tried to push him back but he didn't budge, "You're such an asshole," Lil heard herself say, "Instead of being a man and giving Kimi the courtesy of a proper respectful end to the relationship, you broke up with her over the phone. How middle school is that?" She challenged, trying to appear more composed then she was feeling.

He tilted his head toward where Kimi and Phil were dancing, playfully doing twirls and silly moves, "I don't see her crying herself to sleep over it, so what's it to you?" he said, with a raised brow.

"Why, does it bother you to see her dancing with someone else? If I recall you were pretty cozy with some girls just now as well," Lil said, crossing her arms across her waist.

Tommy smirked, "Oh, so you were watching me."

Lil felt herself redden, "No-…" She began sheepishly.

"Question is, does it bother you to see me with other girls?" he whispered, his eyes trailing to her lips.

Lil felt her mouth go dry, and refrained from licking her lips. There was something different with this Tommy then the one she had been friends with, his eyes aren't filled with warmth and comfort, instead they seem cold. But that didn't stop him from being hot.

But it was quite evident that he was pretty wasted, just from the way his eyes were glazed over and the strong smell of alcohol from his mouth.

She looked past his shoulder to the oblivious Phil and Kimi, dancing amongst the crowd. She tried to move his arm again, but to no avail, "Why would I care? As long as you don't hurt Kimi, I don't care what –or who, you do." She said coldly.

He chuckled, "Lies, you definitely cared that night when I kissed you," he smirked, "Or do you not remember that as well?"

She glared at him, pushing his chest to put some room between them, "Shut up Tommy,"

"Does Kimi know about that?" He questioned, moving back but not removing his hands from the counter to her sides, "Does Kimi know about the way you had moaned against my lips? The way you had wrapped your arms around my neck?"

Lil's eyes widened in horror and this time she placed more force against his arm and managed to break free from where he had her trapped against the counter, "Fuck off, Tommy," She spat as she made her way past him.

But he grabbed her arm, "Where you going? Do you have another guy to throw yourself on to test them, is that your thing Lil, drunkenly throwing yourself at people like a sl-…" Before he could finish she had raised her hand to slap him, but before her hand could connect against his cheek he had grabbed her hand and twisted her arm behind her back, so that her chest was pushed up against his, their faces inches apart.

"Stop while you're ahead, babe." He whispered hoarsely into her ear, before letting her go and allowing her to stumble backwards.

Lil backed away from him, fighting a bunch of emotions within her… one of which was to wipe that smirk off his face.

But Lil knew that she had hurt him, that he felt that their whole relationship had been a lie. And that fact hurt Lil even more, because she knew he had let her in, he had let her see a softer side to him, one that he clearly didn't display out for everyone. And he had genuinely been affected by Lil trying to kiss him, and he had cared for her hurt feelings and then finding out that it had been a pre-planned test, really made him feel like a fool.

And now he was purposely trying to hurt her with his words. And it was working.

She didn't know why this stranger named Tommy affected her so much, she didn't even know he existed two months ago… and now he made her question her loyalty to her childhood best friend. How the hell was that possible. What the hell was this weird thing between her and Tommy anyways, two weeks ago she knew that she didn't want to lose their friendship… but friends don't have random steamy kisses and all these weird feelings.

Tommy was so wasted that he didn't even care that Phil and Kimi were in sight of them… it didn't bother him about what they would've thought had they caught glimpse of their encounter at the bar. She needed to talk to him, she needed to make him understand her so that he stops this cold demeanor.