What If... All Your Friends Turned On You

by Liz Ruckdeschel

  She felt good as she strode away; she felt strong. She’d stuck to her principles. She’d stuck with the plan.

  Coco’s plan.

  The trouble was, Coco wasn’t even sticking to it anymore. And neither was Cecily, Sasha or Whitney.

  Everywhere Haley went that week she saw one of them nuzzling with their now-rehabilitated exes. There were Sasha and Johnny, making out by their lockers. There were Coco and Spencer, walking hand in hand through the halls. There were Cecily and Drew, cuddling in the cafeteria. And there were Whitney and Matt Graham, newly hooked up and huddled together near his car, Matt’s eyes glued to Whitney’s cleavage.

  Spring was in the air, and romance was blossoming for everyone except Haley. She watched Reese from a distance all week, wishing she had someone to hold hands with too.

  Maybe I was too rough on him, she thought. Maybe I made a mistake, blowing him off that way. After all, he did apologize, and Spencer may really have been the one who got him drunk. It does sound like something Spencer would do….

  She thought of tossing away her dignity and begging Reese to take her back. Whenever she ran into him at school or in the neighborhood, she found herself staring at him longingly. But he didn’t return the stare. He only turned his back on her and walked away.

  The message was clear: he was over her now. There was no point in trying to get him back, Haley realized. In her stubbornness in refusing to forgive him, she’d lost Reese for good.

  THE END

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places,

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  Copyright © 2009 by Liz Ruckdeschel and Sara James

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