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Prompt: chronology

"Hold on just a minute. Chronological order please. Emmett sat next to you but he's seeing some graduate assistant?" I could hear the wheels turning in Alice's head.

"Alice, he's in love with the beauty queen that is our teacher. Of course he'd keep it quiet. And you can't say anything because I promised him I wouldn't tell."

Alice leaned forward on the bed, anxious to soothe me if I should happen to burst into tears. "And how do you feel about this?" She asked seriously, patting my leg.

"Stop psychoanalyzing me. I had a crush on Emmett for a week. If he likes someone else that's fine." I drove this home with a nonchalant wave of my hand.

"And Edward apologized?"

"He did."

"And?"

"And… what. There is no 'and'."

"Well, I just thought something else might have happened. I don't know." I watched her flick nail polish scraps onto my bed sheets.

I ignored what she was implying, because honestly? Edward and me together would be like the twilight zone. Pigs flying and hell freezing over and all that.

"I am curious about something though," I said. "What was up with that crazy girl… Tanya? She was nuts."

"Oh!" Alice scrambled to sit up so her hands had ample room to punctuate. She was a full body talker. Especially when it was gossip. "Okay, so. Tanya has been after Edward for ages."

"But I thought—"

"No, they were never together. He avoids her like the plague. But don't interrupt, just listen. Evidentially, Tanya did something to piss Kate off. Wait- you know they're sisters, right?"

"Not just sorority sis—"

"No, no. Twins." She rubbed her hands together and looked so devilish that all she needed was a twirly black mustache to make it complete. "So Kate showed up at Edward's crying about something and totally jumped him."

"He didn't look too upset about that."

"Well, that's just Edward, he's not going to turn it down," she said, then grabbed my arm. "But listen—Tanya is really crazy. Like, I heard in highschool that she's done everything from replacing her ex's shampoo with Nair and signing him up to get gay magazines to running over his Playstation with her car."

"Geez. Good old-fashioned keying his car not good enough for her?"

"I know, right? But that's not the worst." Her voice fell to a dramatic whisper. "I heard she cooked his new girlfriend's rabbit and left it on the stove for her to find."

I gasped. "No way. Just like—"

"Fatal Attraction," we said together and laughed.

"So, let me finish." She waved her hands like I wasn't ten inches away from her. "Kate's mad at her sister, goes over to seduce Edward because she knows Tanya is in love with him… and get this… she sends Tanya a text message from Edward's phone asking her to come over and that he wants to be with her or whatever."

"It was planned!" I exclaim. "So it really wasn't my fault."

"No. And Edward felt horrible about what he did to you even before he figured all this out." Alice sighed.

"She used him." It was hard to imagine anyone using Edward for revenge. He just seemed sort of invincible. I almost felt sorry for him. Almost.

We sat in silence for a few moments.

"So… the rabbit. Do you think that's true?" I whispered.

"I don't know," she whispered back, eyes wide.

Note to self: Never piss off Tanya Denali.