Last Year of Seventeen

r is 'the' Allesandra Evellon, a world renowned Fashion De

the heir of SLSF Insurance Company Inc. We didn't like each other very much back then so I didn't really care. And she was perfectly happy that it didn't work out for us because she's already completely smi

think you're

iately what

's adorned and flashy and every bit flamboyant, while her friend is always just modest and unpretentious. She talks a lot and all the time, August ne

hear?" Gwen really decided to come for m

t judgmenta

revulsion. I could've

son you are. You'll fuck

tare August always has. She was more amusing than scary

f your conquests? Something you need to w

e the one who made the Ice Bitch fall, even if it wasn't real. The other part was

see it. I like August and if it goes anything

her small frame. She pushed me back against the

anything. You are going

ugust decid

I heard her call. I didn't turn but she said it anyway

d have

was restocking the books on their shelves. Such a dire task but she looks more calm and less pressed. With how the afternoon

completely in the zone that she mis

Removing her headphones she said, "What?" clearly annoyed that I have

your final

didn't have to come here. You

that's no fun. Also,

hy

ortant. I ju

e's reading a case study. "We're pret

the one who's getti

ell, I'm rejecting yo

to stay.

ed, "If you're staying th

nd started stacking th

asked when the stretching si

my hand and stacked it herself on a level much too high for her. She was met with difficult

do you

me on a wall and told m

's doing it out of habit. Her focus was still o

ou two eve

y n

ded her a book and in a second she found what section it belon

o loud and really

Stale?" she said

ow-blow yourself." I scoffed.

d pushing a library ladder from the succeeding aisle. She climbed the first step and pointed at the books on the lowest level of the cart. It took me a second t

riends since grade school. My mom was the school's doctor and

iers de la Roine. I didn't go there since that was the time I was

e in a lot of things. It's just hard to recognize it from the outside I guess." She stopped for a minute. Her face lit

riendship is the same as what I have with Theo. Maybe theirs is even d

m here to get to know her, not Gwen. "Why are yo

st mockingly. "I do like books. But have

your mom's

people there don't often have money to pay for her service. They pay her

ot even well-off. I just

eady a Highb

for everything else. Not my food, not my bicycle maintenance, not for any other sch

y you've entered this tr

alf smile on her lips, "

d her what she'll be using the price money

need that mon

means we're friends. And

t." I r

and indifference, a not so subtle