My jaw clenched in tightness when I saw my ex best friend standing there. "What the hell do you want?"

She looked guilty with her big eyes pleading. "Can we please talk?"

I groaned in response and lead her to my room. "Why Zoey, why the fuck did you not have my back that day?"

"Duncan you don't understand! If his parent found out that he started acting out again because of his MPD, they would've sent him away to this mental institution in Switzerland!" She cried out.

"Yea, well maybe he needs to go there! Zoey he needs help ASAP otherwise he's just going to get more abusive and you know it!" I was so tired of her being in denial about her sick, unhealthy relationship with that douchebag. She could do so much better but the problem is she doesn't want to break things off cause she thinks no one else wants her which is dumb cause she's a good-looking girl and she needs to have a boyfriend 24/7. I took a deep breath before looking her directly in the eye. "You're like a little sister to me and seeing him abuse you like that, it kills me.

She didn't say anything. She stood there, staring at me for a good minute or so before bursting into tears. I wrapped my arms around her, rubbing small circles on her back. "Y-you don't understand h-how hard it is!" She sobbed. "I-I love him s-so much and he is a great boyfriend when he doesn't have that one e-evil personality. I know I should break up w-with him but it's too hard!"

I let go of my hold on her. I placed my hand on her shoulders and looked her directly in the eye. "Zoey, I know it's tough, but you are such a strong person who deserves to be happy. You need to go to the principal's office when school starts again and tell them what really happens so that Mike can go get that help he deserves."

She let out a deep breath and shook her head. "I know…and Duncan, I really am sorry for not telling them in the first place."

I smiled at her. "It's all good, Calgary isn't so bad." I should actually be thanking her for sending me there cause if it wasn't for this whole fiasco, I wouldn't have moved and met Courtney, well meet up with her again.

She smiled. "That's great! Meet any cute girls down there?" She asked, nudging me.

I scratched the back of my neck nervously automatically thinking of Courtney. "A few, yea..." I could feel myself blushing, shit…

Zoey definitely noticed and let out an excited squeal. "Oh my god, who is she?" I stood there, trying to see if I could avoid talking about Courtney with Zoey, I don't like that mushy girly crap talk. Zoey walked over and sat on my bed. "I'm not leaving until you tell me the deets!"

I could only sigh in defeat.

I was battling a tongue war for dominance with Anastasia on my bed. For the past two weeks, she would sneak into my bedroom for some hot make out sessions. "I really like you." She whispered breathlessly before attacking my lips. I fucking love that Russian accent of hers!

"I really like you too." I told her before flipping us around so that I was on top. However, I was oblivious to how much room we had on the bed causing us to fall off. She started to laugh really hard and I did too but I quickly covered our mouths not wanting my parents to hear. "Quiet, I don't want to wake up my parents, especially my dad, he would literally put bars on my window to keep you away."

"Well we wouldn't want that now would we?" She says before leaning in to kiss me again.

I soon heard a knock from on my door. "Jasmine?" My dad's voice called.

"Shit!" I whispered. "Uh hold on, I'm getting changed." I ran to my window to lift it up so Anastasia could hop out of. She gave me a swift kiss goodbye before leaving. I quickly closed the window and hopped back into my bed. "Come in."

He opened the door and took a spot beside me on my bed. "Jas, we need to have a talk." He says seriously, shit he knows about Anastasia sneaking in.

"I'm caught up in calculus and got it bumped up to a B!" I nervously spat out.

He laughed. "Sweetie that's not why I'm here, though I would prefer you to have an A." He finally looked me in the eye. "I want to talk about your recent coming out, I know I haven't been the best parent lately and I wanted to apologize." Was he seriously doing this right now? "It's just, I already have a little bit of trouble with the whole gay marriage deal and to find out that one of my daughters was a homo, it was heart breaking to me, and I didn't know how to handle it. You're my little girl and I don't want to see you get bullied by this."

I smiled, he may have phrased some things a bit offensively but he was trying and I had to give him props. I put a reassuring hand on his shoulder. "Dad, I can defend for myself and like I said before, I still want you to walk me down the aisle on my wedding day and I want to have kids, I want you to be accepting of who I am."

He smiled. "I know, sweetheart and I will, just give me some time, I'm trying." I smiled and hugged him.

I was getting ready for Geoff's New Year's party. Duncan's flight wasn't expected to land for another 3 hours or so, so he told me he'd meet me there. I decided to wear a lacy, white dress with a pair of black heels. I decided to curl my hair and wear a little more makeup than I usually do. I was NOT getting dolled up for any guy, I just wanted to look nice.

Jasmine and her new girlfriend immediately ditched me once we got there to find somewhere to make out. I searched around to see if Duncan was here yet, not that I cared or anything, 'Mmhm, sure you don't.. .' My body tensed up a bit once I saw Justin, I immediately turned a different direction avoiding any contact with him. "Looking for someone?" I heard someone say behind me. 'Just Duncan.' Ugh, no!

I turned around to see Heather behind me, smirking. "No!" It was obvious to both of us that I was lying since I could feel my face turning pink and that fact that I made no eye contact with her.

"So who is he, are you going to fuck him?" she winked at me and nudged my shoulders.

I gave her a deadpanned look, did she not know me at all? "Ugh, I'm not like that Heather!"

She scoffed and rolled her eyes. "Jeezus, take a chill pill I was only joking! But seriously though, who is he?"

Before I could even respond, my phone vibrated in my pants. I took it out to see who it was, Duncan. 'Meet me in the attic upstairs in an hour, I have something I need to tell you something.' I couldn't help but smile into the text, maybe he was going to tell me he liked me.

My thoughts were soon interrupted by Heather snatching my phone from me. "Hey!" I tried grabbing my phone but Heather quickly moved away while reading the text.

"Oh my god, you have a thing for Duncan Frey?" She asked a little too loud that caused some people to look over at us.

"Ssh!" Embarrassed that she announced it so loud, I quickly covered her mouth. "Yes I like him, okay, now give me back my phone!" I snatched my phone from her.

Heather grinned. "He totally has the hot's for you too and wants to kiss you at midnight!" She started pulling me. "C'mon!"

She pulled me into the bathroom and locked the door. "What are we doing in here?"

"Courtney, have you ever kissed anyone?"

"Of course! I made-"I quickly stopped myself from telling her that I made out with her ex at Lindsay's Halloween party. I know I should tell her but I wasn't ready to tell her, not yet. "Um, of course I've kissed people."

She raised a brow at me. "But have you ever made out as in using tongue?"

Just say no, just say no. "No." I quickly said.

She placed her hands on both of my shoulders. "Well we're going to have to fix that now, we don't want him to think you're a bad kisser." She was starting to lean in closer.

I took a step back from her. "Uh, Heather, I'm not sure if I'm comfortable with this…" I wasn't into girls like that.

She backed me into the wall and placed her hands on my shoulders again. "Oh relax, I'm not into you like that! I'm just trying to help you get some kissing experience, it's what friends do."

I was still unsure about this. "I don't know…"

She rolled her eyes again. "Oh c'mon!" She leaned in closer again. "Do you want him to think you're a bad kisser?" She whispered in a husky voice.

"No…." I guess that practice couldn't hurt…

"Follow my lead." She seductively said before licking her lips slowly. I licked mine slowly like hers. "Good." She whispered before putting her lips onto mine.

Her lips were soft and tasted like cherry. The kiss started off slow and gently. She put one hand on my waist and the other around my neck, pulling me in closer. Once I was getting use to what it, she started picking up the speed and became rougher. She slid her tongue into my mouth, trying to claim dominance. I wasn't going to allow that, I pushed my tongue out to meet hers. We were now having a heated tongue war until she took her mouth off mine and onto my ear. She started to lightly nibble on my ear before whispering lowly into my ear, "Guys love it when you do this, whisper something seductive and he'll be your bitch for the remaining time." Heather was a really good teacher, I had to suppress a moan coming out because she was that good but I didn't want to make things weird either. She started trailing little butterfly kiss down my neck before lightly sucking the base of it.

She went back to my lips, biting my bottom lip, making me gasp in delight. I froze, a little embarrassed that I did that. She rolled her eyes for the umpteenth time. "Oh who cares, I'm not going to hold this against you, its natural." She reassured me.

I looked at the clock on my phone, fifteen minutes before I have to meet Duncan. Wow, did I really spend almost 45 minutes making out with Heather? "I, need to get going."

"Remember everything I told you." She reminded me before opening the door to leave. She turned back one more time before leaving. "And by the way, you're not shabby of a kisser, Santos." She winked before leaving for good. I felt bad for lying to her about what happened between me and Justin considering she was just now actually helpful. I know I should tell her but right now wasn't the time, not yet.

Damn, Santos picked up really fast and was really good at it, it was like she had experience with making out before. My phone started to ring, I didn't even need to look on the caller I.D. on my phone to know who it was. "What do you want?" I snapped.

"And hello to you too." He said sarcastically, that fucking asshole. "I wanted to see if you wanted to come over, have a little sex on the beach while having sex on the beach…?" I could feel that damn shit-eating grin from my phone.

"It's fucking winter, you dumbass!"

"So how long, Senorita?"

I sighed. "I'll be there in ten minutes." I fucking hate this guy, damn him for being so fucking sexy and good in bed.

I sat on the wooden ledge of the window just looking at the night sky. From there, I could see Geoff and the others setting up the fireworks. I love setting off fireworks, it was my favorite thing to do on New years or Canada day. I would be down there if I wasn't prohibited from using them for five years after blowing up my old elementary schools playground, I'd probably still be in juvie if my dad wasn't the chief of police for the British Columbia police department. Instead, I only got six month and stuck on parole for 2 years. Thank god I only have a year left before I can start lighting shit up again.

My thoughts were soon interrupted by someone opening up the door. "Hello, Duncan?" I immediately smiled once I recognized the voice.

I started waving my hand. "Over here."

She took a spot next to me on the ledge, we smiled at each other before sitting there in silence for about a minute or two, it was kind of nice though, just the two of us sitting alone together while looking up at the night sky. "So why the attic?" She finally asked.

I smiled at her. "Cause it's the best view in the house for fireworks."

She let out a cute little giggle. "Where did you even find this part of the house anyways?"

"Geoff and I come here to smoke a bowl or two." I could see her rolling her eyes from the corner of mine, I just grinned. "Look Courtney, the reason why I asked you to come up here was because there's something I gotta tell you that I should've confessed weeks ago." I looked her directly into her dark chocolate eyes. I was starting to feel dizzy, my heart was pounding super loud and fast. This was it, this was the moment I was going to confess my feelings for her, the moment that could change everything between us. I started scratching the back of my neck in nervousness, why was I so nervous, I'm never nervous around a girl. Except this wasn't just any girl, this was Courtney. "I-I-um…" shit, it was like I couldn't form any words in my head. 'C'mon man, tell her.'

"I like you too." Courtney blurted out, giving me a knowing look.

I smiled at her. "You do?" I knew she had a thing for me, it was so obvious to everyone but it was still a shock to hear her blurt it out like that.

She only nodded her head in excitement, she was so fucking adorable. I just wanted to kiss her right then but I wanted to wait until midnight for our first kiss, well first kiss of officially being together. "So…where do we go from here?" she weakly asked.

I grinned at her. "You call the shots, Princess." I wanted to be with her more than anything else but if she wanted to stay just being friends, I was okay with that too. Well I would eventually, I just wanted her to be happy with whatever decision she wanted to make.

"I want us to be together." She was blushing madly, which made the little freckles on her nose visibly stand out. I wanted to admit that I was falling in love with her too but I didn't know if that would ruin the moment or not, I didn't want to rush this whole thing or put pressure on her either. I know she likes me but I wasn't sure if she loved me.

I took her hands in mine and smiled lovingly at her. "I would be honored to be your boyfriend." She smiled back with the same amount of affection. I've never felt so strong about any other girl. I know it sounds cheesy but I could actually see myself being with this girl for the rest of my life.

We soon hear Geoff and the other guys counting down the time, was it really 11:59 already? "5,4,3,2,1, HAPPY NEW YEAR!" everyone chanted as fireworks started to go off. I softly pressed my lips onto hers. I felt sparks throughout my entire body, I loved this girl and I was going to make sure she was going to be mine forever. So far this year rocked!

I watched as the fireworks went off right after 1, I felt a tap on my shoulders and didn't even look to see who it was they quickly pressed their lips onto mine, immediately closing my eyes. This definitely didn't feel like Anastasia yet it felt so good. I finally opened my eyes to see not Anastasia but Gwen right in front of me. "What the hell, Gwen?" She had no right to do that, she knows I have a girlfriend yet she thinks its okay to just toy with my feelings? 'I still love you.' No, I wasn't, I no longer had feelings for her at all! I have Anastasia now.

"I was stupid for turning you down, it's the biggest regret I've even made but I broke up with Trent because I finally realize that I do like you, Jasmine." Why, why now?

"I'm sorry, but you're too late, I'm with Anastasia." I turned around to see Anastasia staring at us, eyes watery before running off, my heart sank. "Anastasia, wait!" I called out before running after her. So far, this yePar sucks!

Whoops I wrote Heathney, sorry not sorry ;P Bet you didn't expect me to update did ya? I did lose interest in this story for a while mostly because I had huge writers block on how to write chapter 8 and because I was so embarrassed by how poorly written it was cause I was so lazy with my edits. You guys did inspire me to continue this though, I cant believe how many follow/favorited this story. Your reviews mean a lot and some of the reviews and messages that you sent is what got me to re edit this story and continue it so thanks again!