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[celawrites]

Day 36

It’s thursday? I’m not sure at this point. The only thing I know is that Hoco is tomorrow and I still don’t have a date. That was a joke, I’m going with Mint but no one knows that so shhh.

“Um. S-sun?” I see one of our juniors approach Sun.

“What?” A flash of confusion passes his eyes as he looks at the girl who called him Sun.

“C-could you go to homecoming with me? I-I heard you didn’t have a date so um-”

“What’s your name?”

“Uh I’m one of the new students here. I’m Astaria” She fiddles with her fingers and waits for a reply.

“What color is your dress” I can tell he’s agreeing against his will, but I also see the flash of amusement in his eyes.

“I-It’s red”

“Well, I’ll be at your door tomorrow with a red tie on so you better be prepared”

“Of course”

I skip off to the student council lounge and hum in amusement. I’m making my coffee when Opal bursts through the door and screams eMERGENCY.

“What happened”

“Sun has a date for Hoco and it’s not Crescent this is the end of the world why is this happening I thought we were finished with potential love rivals please I’m dying no this not ok hHHHHH”

I snicker and Mint chokes on his coffee. Pebble screeches and everyone in the bet is crying and breaking down.

“Wait does that mean Cressie isn’t going with anyone?”

“Nope. I’m going alright, I’m just gong with someone from student council so that I can stay by my date for the night”

“whAT NO THIS IS NOT OK YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO END UP WITH SUN OR SMTH”

“A valedictorian and a student council president? Isn’t that a bit too cliché?”

“Going with a student council member is even more preposterous”

“Even if it’s Mint?”

“Omg are you telling me that the little portion who bet on you ending up with Mint might win? This is a disaster” one student fusses.

“I literally bet my entire college money on this”

“That isn’t very smart of you” I squint in worry.

“Ok so even though they’re going together for hoco doesn’t that mean that Sun still has a chance?” Pebble concludes. “It’s ok everyone, as long as Crescent doesn’t date Mint we’re good”

“What if I just-”

“CRESSIE DON’T YOU DARE”

I snicker and Mint cackles. The date passes in amusement and when homeroom rolls around again, one of our classmates had the genius idea to re-renact cheesy romance films over planning the trip.

“Ok so like the Romeo and Juliet stuff”

“No”

“No nos allowed. We’re gonna do this normally and for the first time we aren’t gonna have Sam and Danny read it”

“bLESS”

“Wait can we act out the excerpt that Serenity posted a while back?”

“Omg the one where she typed out a conversation before a wedding? Because y e s”

“I hate this already” I mumble.

“Cressie you’re reading the groom’s part” wait what.

“Why?”

“Because it makes more sense since she might end up with Mint”

“I hate you all”

“We’re the one who got you into office you owe us a lifetime”

“You make it sound like I had some government propaganda or something”

“Pfft pretty much”

“rEAD”

I sigh and make sure Sun’s on the page. I snicker and start the first line.

“I wonder what could’ve changed if we had never stopped being friends.” I pause for dramatic effect “ Maybe I could’ve been the one walking down the aisle tomorrow”

“Perhaps” He smiles softly. “But I was too scared to ask you out back then. Too worried about who would find out, and who would hate us, what they would think of us”

I let out a soft breath. “You cared too much about other people’s opinions. You struggled to find yourself and be yourself. It was even suffocating for me”

“Probably”

“Anyways.” I smile through the pain. “Congrats on the engagement! She’s wonderful, so take care of her for me alright?”

“Of course”

I turn him around and pat his back. “Now off you go. Don’t keep your bride to be waiting now”

“See you”

As he walks out the door, I let out a shaky breath. “I still wish I was the one you’re marrying”

The class is quiet while I blink back my tears. Then it erupts into cheers. The popcorn that came out of nowhere is being thrown around and even the teacher cheers.

“I didn’t know you guys could make the original excerpt any more amazing than it was! I’m actually gonna cry” Pebble sobs.

“Cressie are you on your period or smth because you never cry that easily” I chuck my notebook at Sam in response. He dodges and laughs.

”Someone check if Sun is alive. He left and never came back” I blnk.

“I’m back. Did Cress finish her mental breakdown?” Sun walks back in.

“You take me as emotionally unstable?”

“Are you not?”

“Only with yoUuuu”

“Cressie”

“Oh right”

“Sun!” I point a finger at him “You better not be cheating on me with Astaria! I like you, and no one could treat you better than me!”

I cackle and my class joins me. It’s strange, this feels like middle school all over again. But of course, all good things come to an end.

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[celawrites]

Day 126

“Alright one more day until we actually test”

“I hate finals with a passion unknown to man” I grumble.

Sun snickers and continues typing on the desktop. Computer geek doesn’t even have a laptop to use-

“Just so you know a desktop runs way faster than a laptop Cress” Sun notes, his hands not stopping from filling out the final study guide. I grumble and continue filling my section of the doc off. Mint finished his yesterday while pulling an all nighter. He’s somehow still asleep.

“Alright slug, time to finish up. We’re waiting on you now” Sun finishes his section and I see him log off the document. I grumble about how unfair it was that the two were both fast typers.

“The fastest bullet can travel up to 2,600 feet per second” Sun notes, and he scribbles it down on a notepad. “You’d need to see a bullet from 3 football fields away to dodge it. The fastest sniper bullet can travel up to 4000 feet per section.”

I grumble and put my headphones on. It takes me another 2 hours to finish that gruesome study guide. How was I not dead yet-

“FINISHED” I cheer and Mint, who woke up an hour ago, calls me to have lunch.

“So should we go over it after?”

“Sure” I bite down on the sandwich. A and Z fight over the fries and the sound of the door being opened catches us off guard. Sun holds up drinks, and we cheer. Finals meant hell but finals also meant treating ourselves to meals we would never eat on a regular.

“I’m going to need to hit your gym when we finish” I grumble, I hate eating too much.

“You say that but then you’re going to go back to the study and slump on that bean bag again” Sun points out.

“I’M HURT”

“It’s just the truth” Mint shrugs and I pinch him under the table. He winces.

“Alright let’s get cleaning up. Crescent start packing on Thursday since you don’t have to show up” Sun reminds.

“Yes love” I snicker.

The rest of the day passes in relative peace. Well, minus the fact that Sun was yanked away to tutor the two in math. Z still doesn’t like living under his brother’s reign. I guess for the time being he’s just glad that he doesn’t need to struggle in student council with his brother.

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