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Lexi was sitting in her room trying to study. She was finding it hard to concentrate as every love song on her playlist reminded her of a certain kind, gorgeous, drug dealer. Her concentration was completely broken however when a gang of laughing girls crashed into her and Cassie’s shared bedroom. Maddie and Kat were loudly teasing Cassie about every boy falling, so easily, in love with her.
“Doesn’t matter who they are, Cassie bats her eyes and they fall for her!” Maddie loudly exclaims while running over to Lexi’s desk.
“Is it her eyes or her double Ds?” Kat giggled. Cassie herself was laughing along with them, climbing onto her bed as she shrugged her shoulders as if to say, what could she possibly do about it?
Maddie hugged Lexi from behind and turned her around on her swivel chair to face the other girls.
“So who is the newest poor boy?” Lexi asked, laughing at her friend's antics.
“You know Fez? The drug dealer?” Kat asked her.
Lexi felt all the air leave her lungs, and the smile fell from her face before she could stop it. No, no, please no, please say anyone else in the world she thought.
“You do know him, Lexi” Kat insisted, mistaking her shocked expression for a blank one. “He’s friends with Rue?”
“Yeah, yeah I know him” Lexi squeaked out, quickly turning her chair around to hide her face from the older girls. Lexi knew everything about him, his dreams, his worries, how he cares for his family. They call most nights and she’s been to his house multiple times since that one fateful new years party. But maybe it hadn’t been so fateful… had he only been interested in Cassie this whole time?
“So we went to get some stuff from him for the party.” Maddie was explaining, as she joined Cassie on the bed. “And I’ve never seen Fez so animated. He jumped up as soon as Cassie entered the shop, gave us a discount on everything we bought -”
“- even threw in these haribos for free!” Kat interrupted, tossing the packet of strawberry flavored candies to Lexi, who caught them in a daze. They were her favorites, Fez would always make sure to get them for their movie nights.
Lexi’s head was filled with self doubt. Did he actually just give candy to any girls who came into the shop? Were they even really her favorites? Or did they just become her favorites after they ate them together?
“And he was asking her so many questions. I’ve never heard him speak that much before.” Maddie continued.
“No, he was just being friendly.” Cassie half heartedly protested.
“You okay, little Howard?” Maddie was looking at Lexi with concern as she sat clutching the haribos and feeling her heart break open in her chest.
She felt so stupid.
“Yeah, yeah of course.” Lexi could feel the tears coming “Of course he likes Cassie”. She grabbed a towel off the bed. “Just going to jump in the shower” and with that she excused herself and ran to the bathroom.
“I mean most of the questions he asked were about Lexi, weren’t they?” Cassie pondered once the door was closed.