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SO… THAT WAS FRIENDSHIP?

And they were also buying school stuff. I thought they had already
bought theirs last week. Were they lying?

Mom wanted to talk to them and their parents, but I resisted. I

mean, wouldn’t it be embarrassing to see both of us shopping at the
same mall, buying the same things for school—when some of us

shouldn’t even be there?
At home, while we were having dinner, Mom kept looking at me

weirdly. Smiling, actually—just like this morning.
I looked back at her and asked, “Mom, why are you looking at me

like that again?”

“Oh, just accepting the fact that we saw your friends at the mall,
they said they hate—and another girl laughing with them.”

“So? That was probably another friend. I can’t be the only one.
And besides, they didn’t say hate—they said dislike. No problem.”

Then Eliott started looking at me even more weirdly.
“Ugh, what now?” I said, annoyed.

“Are you jealous?”

“What? No!” I slammed the fork back onto the plate.
In my room, I tried texting my friends about today’s coincidence,

but what if they said I couldn’t trust them because I had seen them with

another girl?
Although they lied to me.

But Eliott was right. I was jealous. Like—why wouldn’t I be? They
lied to me, and they don’t even like that mall!

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