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back onto Luke’s pillow.
    “I think we fell asleep in the middle of the movi e,” Luke’s voice is groggy.
    I nod. I wasn’t going to mention that I actually saw the whole movie and he was the one that fell asleep.
    “Did I fall asleep on your shoulder?” he asks.
    I was about to say no when I stopped myself. Why lie? “A little bit.”
    He laughs, “Sorry about that.”
    “No big deal,” it was a huge deal actually.
     
    We get to school on time and I find Daisy at my locker.
    “Hey, where is Jessi-”
    “Probably with her boyfriend, right? I mean, that’s always who she is with nowadays,” Daisy says angrily.
    I put my arm around her, “Well don’t worry, you have me today. Where do you guys meet after school?”
    “At Lance’s car, spot A1,” she says still sounding glum.
     
    I walk to the parking spot as the end-of-summer heat blazes down on me. The car in the first spot is small and white. I don’t know what kind of car it is, though. I am the first one there, as always. I wait a few minutes and finally Daisy appears, angry, her new normal the past few days.
    “I should have warned you not to get here too quickly. Mr. and Mrs. Turner take their time getting to the car,” she complains.
    “You are so overdramatic.”
    “No, they are,” she says, pointing to the red-head and senior boy walking towards us, hand in hand. Lance Eskimo kisses Jessica and I hear Daisy gag.
    “Yay, everybody is here!” Lance calls. Daisy gestures for him to unlock the car and so he does. She quickly opens the back seat door and gets in. This surprises me because I was expecting her to get shotgun. I see Jessica get in the passenger seat and I finally realize why Daisy has always been afraid of one of her best friends dating her brother.
    We arrive at the house I have been to about a billion times before. It is like my second home. As soon as I walk through the door, Daisy pulls me into her bedroom, “You are staying with me,” she slams her door.
    There is a knock on the other side of the door and I hear Lance’s squeaky voice say, “Daisy, she came to hang out with all of us, you can’t hog her.”
    “Uh, she is my best friend; I can hog her if I want to.”
    There is a sigh and a pause. I think he has gone away until the door bursts open and Lance runs in. He comes over to me, lifts me up over his shoulder, and carries me out of the room, screaming like crazy the whole time. He drops me on his bed and slams the door to his room shut. I breathe in and smell Jessica’s perfume in the sheets. Well that isn’t good, is it? His room is a whole lot of white and is much neater than Luke’s. There were a few jeans on the ground but that was it.
    “What was that for?” I ask half laughing.
    Jessica looks at me from Lance’s desk chair, “You need to make Daisy forgive us already.”
    “What do you think I have been doing?”
    “Well, what exactly is it about us that makes her so mad?” Lance sits next to me.
    “ That you guys are always lovey-dovey around her. That is why she doesn’t like sitting at lunch with you guys and she has been eating in the library the past few days. And seriously, you make her sit in the back seat of the car and Jessica gets the front. What is up with that?” I want to try and help Daisy in any way I can.
    “So what do I say to apologize?” Jessica stands up.
    “I am not going to tell you. You should know what to say.”
    She sighs and leaves the room. I am lying on my back on the bed so I push myself up a little with my forearms and raised myself a little bit off of the bed.
    “It’s nice what you are doing for them; helping them makeup,” Lance says staring at me.
    “Well they are my best friends; I have to do som-”
    And that is when Lance leans forward and crashes his lips into mine. I try to pull away, but I am trapped between him and the bed. I tried to push him away next, but he is too strong. Next thing I know, I feel him shoving his tongue into my mouth. I do