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the only thing I can think of to get him to stop; I bite him.
    “Ow!” he yelps.
    I push him off of me and jump off the bed. “What the hell was that?” I almost shout.
    “Shh. Okay, I’m sorry. Please don’t tell Jessica or Daisy,” his voice is quiet.
    “Are you kidding me? Why did you just do that? You are dating my best friend!”
    “I couldn’t help myself. But now that I got it out of my system, I won’t do it again. I promise,” he stands up.
    I take a step back, “You are crazy if you think I won’t tell them.”
    “Come on, think of how happy Jessica is with me. You will just make her sad. And what if she doesn’t believe you? Then she will get mad at you for making it up .”
    “She would believe me,” I say grabbing the door.
    “Would she?” he says. Would she? I don’t even know.
    I leave the room and go to the bathroom. The tears start to fall out of my eyes. I have known Lance for years, why would he do this? I call Luke on my cell. I don’t care if he is meeting his girlfriend somewhere; I can’t stay here.
    “Hello?” he picks up sounding irritated.
    “Luke, can you pick me up?” I say through my tears.
    “What’s wrong?” he asks sounding more worried. He can probably hear me crying.
    “Uh, nothing,” I reply. Well that wasn’t very convincing. “I just can’t stay here any longer.”
    There is silence and then he says, “Okay, I will be there as soon as I can.”
    I hang up quickly. I fix my makeup which was running a little bit and wipe my tears with my sleeve. When I am sure that there isn’t any possible trace of my tears, I walk into the hall. I run into Jessica who has her arm around Daisy. They are both smiling.
    “Did you guys make up?” I ask putting on a smile.
    “Yeah,” Daisy says.
    “Best friends again!” Jessica says way too excitedly.
    “Well, as much as I wish I could stay and be a part of this love fest, I have to leave,” I say.
    “What? Why?” they ask at the same time . It’s like old times.
    Lance steps out of his room and I flinch, “Yeah, why?”
    “No reason,” I lie. “ Luke is just coming early.”
    I say bye to them, pretending like Luke had already pulled up in front of the house. I leave through the front door and sit on the curb. I sit there for about ten minutes before Luke pulls up. I almost leap to the car and as soon as I shut the door behind me, I start to cry. I feel like such a baby, but I just couldn’t help it. My best friend’s brother/my other best friend’s boyfriend just stuck his tongue down my throat.
    I could see Luke looking concerned, confused, and uncomfortable at the same time; if that’s possible.
    He starts to drive and asks, “Are you okay.”
    “Yeah,” I say wiping my tears away again. “I just got something in my eye.”
    It is quiet the whole way to his house. He parks in his driveway and turns off the engine. He turns to me, “Are you going to tell me what happened now?”
    “Nothing happened,” I avoid eye contact.
    “Jenna, I consider us to be friends, right? You can tell me anything,” he gives me a little smile.
    And because I have no one else to talk to, I tell him, “Lance kissed me.”
    Luke looks blank at first and then what I said must have sunk in because he becomes kind of angry, “When?”
    “Today,” I take a second to breathe. “While Daisy and Jessica were in the other room trying to make up. I tried to pull away but I was sort of stuck.”
    “What do you mean stuck?”
    “Well I was lying on the bed when he did it so, I was stuck between him and the bed .”
    “Did he do anything else?” I shake my head. “Did you tell Jessica or Daisy?”
    “No.”
    “Why not?”
    “I am afraid Jessica won’t believe me and it will cause a fight. And she is happy with Lance. And he told me he wouldn’t do it again so there is no reason to-”
    “You have to tell her Jenna!”
    “No Luke, listen. You can’t tell anyone. If it happens again then I will, but I don’t think