When Amy woke up the next morning, all of her emotions came flooding back. They sat unhappily in the pit of her stomach. She knew she had to call Karma. While she would have loved some privacy for this call, unless she wanted to do it at 5:00 am before they loaded back onto the van that simply was not possible.

So there she sat, staring at her phone, while her new friends pretended to busy themselves, staring at their phones. But she knew they were listening, waiting to see what happened.

She took a deep breath and pressed Karma's name on her contact list. It rang. And rang. And rang. She started to panic. She hadn't prepared herself to leave a voice mail. Karma always picked up her phone. She never let it out of sight. Amy looked at the time, 10:30 am, and realized Karma must be lifeguarding. That realization hit her hard. It was the first time she hadn't known karma's schedule by heart.

"It's Karma," Amy heard the beginning of the voicemail and her heart raced at the sound of Karma's voice. "I'm not here right now, you can leave me a message after the beep or just send me a text because it's 2015."

"Hi," Amy said. She paused, still contemplating what she was going to say next. "It's Amy," she continued. "Umm I'm sorry I missed your call. Shane got a hold of me last night and let me know your mom was sick. I didn't get all the details. I'm really sorry, Karm." She took a deep breath and said what usually came naturally but for once was a struggle, "I'm here if you need me. Let me know what I can do." She hung up of the phone.

"Voicemail?" Audrey commented, "how anticlimactic." Amy nodded.

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"Ready to go?" Shane asked. It had been silently established he'd drive her home for the rest of the summer. Even Shane didn't have the heart to make her walk in the heat, especially with all she had going on.

"Yup," she slung her bag over her shoulder and followed Shane to his car. As soon as she sat down she pulled out her phone.

"So..." Shane prompted. Leaving the car in park. He wanted the scoop.

"I have one new voicemail." She said matter of factly.

"Play it." He demanded.

"Umm private!" She objected.

"Umm my car my rules." He said. "And my rule is secrets are no fun."

Karma sighed and played the message. Without a word, she put her phone back in her bag and began to drive.

After a few minutes of silence, Karma turned to him. "You told her?" Karma asked annoyed.

"I wanted to make sure she called."

"She's Amy. She would've called."

"I don't think she would have called."

"Well you don't know her as well as I do."

Shane sighed. "Karma, you don't know Amy, right now. You know Amy as the person you've always known. But falling in love with you changed her." Shane had reach Karma's block and he pulled over and stopped the car. She unbuckled her seatbelt. "Hang on..." Shane said, with that evil glint in his eye. "Before you go I want to try a thought experiment."

"No." Karma said beginning to reach for the door.

"C'mon. Don't you want to better understand Amy."

Karma huffed. "You have three minutes."

"That's all I need..." He said confidently.

"Okay so it's September. You and Amy are hanging out like you always do and she has this ridiculous idea that you two should pretend to be lesbians."

"Shane..." Karma starts to object.

He shushes her. "And you think it's kind of stupid. But Amy's your best friend and you want to make her happy, so you say, what the hell, why not. Then I out the two of you and all that and fast forward to the homecoming pep rally." Shane can hear Karma inhale sharply. She knows what's coming next. "You were about to get caught. You cared too much about Amy to let that happen. So you shouted, 'If we were faking it, would I do this?' then you planted one hell of a kiss onto the girl." Shane paused. "And you know what? You liked it. A lot." Shane chuckled, "I don't think that part should be that hard for you to imagine."

Karma shot him a dirty look. "Okay, I see where you're going with this. Are we done?"

Shane shook his head. "You know that's not the end. Now close your eyes." Karma does as she is told. "Your feelings for Amy have been growing stronger and stronger. She's the first thing you think about when you wake up in the morning and the last thing you think about, when you go to bed at night. If you know what I mean." Karma opens an eye so she can glare at him. "One day Amy tell you that she wants you to have a threesome with her and some guy. Hmmm…" Shane thinks. "Let's say Felix. So you're in love with Amy and Amy is in love with Felix. And she wants you to join them for a threesome. So you go shopping for lingerie and Amy's parading around in it and you just can't help yourself from staring. The night rolls around and you dress to impress and you share the deepest, most sensual kiss of your entire life and"

"Shane." Karma said seriously. "I get it. That's enough. I remember. I was there too"

"Okay," Shane said, "but please keep it in mind," he begged. "I told her she had to call you. Because you need your best friend. And I get that. But be careful. She has a fragile heart and you aren't the gentlest of souls."

"I don't know why I hang out with you." Karma scoffed.

"See you tomorrow!" Shane shouted as he drove away.