Chapter 5

“And then he broke up with me...again!” Anissa wailed and blew her nose into her handkerchief, “It’s only been two weeks since we got back together, and he does this. He always does this.”

“Your relationship with Erin isn’t at all toxic,” Elsie said halfheartedly. She was shuffling on her feet, trying to keep an eye out for Lettie. In the ten years of their friendship, this was the sixth time she was getting to school before her.

 God, that girl wasn’t going to hear the end of it today.

“...but he doesn’t know that. He doesn’t know me and...hey! You’re not even listening,” Elsie rolled her eyes and turned to squint at her lovely but annoying friend. She sported a dark pink discoloration under her eyes and was putting on a mismatched outfit — blaring signs of her emotional turmoil. Anissa and Erin were Blakewood’s most dramatic couple of the cent