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The time says it’s 05:57 and luckily because it’s fall, it's still a little dark. With my hoodie on, I walk across campus checking the message that ruined my moment of lies.

05:38 I'm sorry. I was just mad. But we can talk and work on us.

05:41 I love you so much, Su. Don't ever forget.

Well, fuck. Just fuck my life.

Luckily, I encounter no one as I walk the walk of shame, and let out a breath when I close my door gently. I drop myself on my bed, my face on my pillow.

What the fuck have you done, Su?

I scream into the pillow.

What the fuck is wrong with me?

23

EARTH TO ARCHER DELTONA

Jaden

"I'm never going drinking with crazy ass Martin again. I'm still fucking drunk, the fuck?" Caleb plops beside me on the couch.

"You're a fucking light weight," I say nursing a minor headache.

"You look like death yourself, dickface."

"Death? This pretty face?" It hurts when I try to grin too hard.

"What are you two moaning about?" The very fresh, very alive voice of Archer makes me want to kick his nuts. I love the guy, but he wasn't this annoying before he and Sunshine started having their secret sleepovers. I don't even know why they try to hide that shit and why she is always sneaking out of here in the morning.

They say they aren't doing anything, but honestly even if they were, that would be great for us. But they maintain their innocence. It made me happy when I heard news of her and Archer's sleepover made that fuckers ears.

That will fucking teach him. Summer is still ours. She may be on loan to him, but she is ours, and in the end, she will come home where she belongs. That's the truth, that's what I believe. It's the only thing that's helped me maintain my sanity when I see her hanging on his arm.

Archer freaked us all out with his incident, but I understood fully.

"You don't have to talk so loud, dipshit. Make us food. Something spicy." Caleb groans.

"You should stick with what you're used to and stop trying to compete with Martin. That guy's insides are made of iron." Archer looms over us, shaking his head like a disapproving father.

"You are not our daddy motherfucker. Now chop chop and make us wings," I say

He shakes his head. "Fucking drunkards."

"I would be sober too if I was cuddling Summer every night," Caleb calls after him and I chuckle silently.

Footsteps sound and Harvey comes to drop next to us.

"You bitches look like hell."

The TV turns on next and me and Caleb groans in pain.

"What is your problem, man?"

"Are you hungover like little bitches?" Harvey taunts but lowers the volume.

"I am removing Martin from our circle of friends. He is going to kill us," I say.

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