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“Hi you must be Marie, we’re so pleased to meet you” I looked up to see a tall blonde woman and her daughter, she looked my age or maybe AnnaBeth’s…

“Hi I’m Emma” I looked at the blonde girl walking up to me, putting on a fake smile so I didn’t have to stay at red river any longer I went to say hello but Emma quickly wrapped me in her arms.

After about 30 seconds the older woman called out “Emma that’s enough”. She separated me and Emma and grabbed my hand “My name is Tiffany, are you ready to go sweetheart ?” I nodded and we walked to their car.

Driving away from red river I couldn’t help but feel hopeful, hopeful that I’d never be back here, hopeful that I’d have a fresh start with the Meyers’s. Hopeful that I could find happiness again.

6 years later

“OH MY GOD MARIE, BREAK” cate yelled from the passengers seat of her Audi s8. I slammed on the breaks right before I drove through her house. I turned to face cate, she had a terrified look on her face and I could hear how fast her heart was beating.

“Sorry cate” I said quietly as we got out the car.

“Holy shit Marie you almost killed us” said a dramatic Emma as she draped her arm over my shoulders.

Quickly defending myself I replied “I did not almost kill you guys, you could have gotten injured but you wouldn’t have died."

“Yea, yea, yea I’m telling everyone you tried to kill me” , the blonde shot back as she laid down on cates bed.

“You’re so dramatic Emma” cate said while sitting at her desk. I laid next to Emma and checked my phone.

The super 7

7:38 pm

Andre🦾: yooooo what we doing tonight

Luke🔥: we could see a movie

Andre🦾: you wanna see a movie on Friday night…
Andre🦾: does anyone who isn’t Luke have ideas

Sammy: this girl named justine invited me to a party at her house

Emma💕: and you wanna go?

Andre🦾: keep your fighting out the gc

Emma💕: shut up metal boy

Jordan: I think the party sounds fine

Luke🔥: same

“I think we should go to the party” , I said breaking the silence in cates room

“Of course you think we should go." Emma spoke back.

“What’s that supposed to mean?” I asked genuinely.

“It means wherever Jordan goes…”

“Emma."

“What cate it’s true."

“Leave her alone Emma."

Rightfully confused I finally chimed in “Ok I don’t know what you guys mean, but do you want to go to the party or not?”

“Of course we wanna go Marie” , Emma replied.

“Kk I’ll let them know” I replied while already texting the group chat.

The super 7

7:42 pm

Marie: me cate and em are down

Jordan: wya

Marie: cates can you guys meet us here?

Jordan: yup

Andre🦾: alr otw

Sammy: same

Emma💕: get gummy worms!

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Marie—->jordan

8:02 pm

Jordan: I’m outside
Jordan: let me in?

Marie: just a sec

Jordan: hurry Moreau

Marie: I’m coming hold onnn

“Finally” , Jordan said with a sigh as I opened the door. They were in femme form wearing a black long sleeve, pattered cargo pants and black and white Jordans.

“I didn’t even take that long, stop complaining” I watched as Jordan’s eyes looked me up and down and I can’t help but think they will say something nice but they always say something like…

“You’re wearing that?”

“It’s a shirt and jeans, what am supposed to do wear a ball gown?”

“No, but you look good in anything”

I’m so glad Jordan can’t hear my heart right now.

Finally breaking the short silence I speak “Sooo are you coming in or?”

“Actually I was thinking we go for a drive, you know how long cate and Emma take.” I always love when Jordan leaves me openings to bicker with them

“Cate and Emma? You take an hour to get ready in the morning.”

“You know I’m not a morning person Moreau” Jordan said trying to pull me toward the car. I hate saying no to them.

“Jordan I still have to get ready, come upstairs.”

They put a sarcastic frown on.

“You’re no fun.” They sounded like a toddler.

“Ahh you found Jordyyy” , Emma quickly had me and Jordan wrapped in her arms, along with a half drunken bottle of vodka.

“Holy fuck Emma you drunk this much by yourself” Jordan grabbed the bottle looking at Emma with raised eyebrows.

“Hey cate had some too” , Emma took the bottle back taking a long sip.

Cate raised her gloved hand “I only had a shot”.

The liquor debate came to an abrupt end when we all heard honking, cate looked out the window and reported back that Andre, Luke and sam were outside in Luke’s car.

“Let’s go bitches” Emma yelled while skipping out the room.

I realized I hadn’t finished getting ready. “Wait I’m not ready yet” , they were half way down the stairs by now… besides Jordan.

“We’ll just take my car, we can’t all fit in Luke’s anyway” Jordan was now walking to sit on the bed.

“You’re right” , I was walking towards cates closet to finish getting ready.

Most of cates clothes were too small for me but I still wanted to put an outfit together. Since Emma left me I would have to find something Emma would make me wear.

I put on a red crop top and denim mini skirt, I paired them with my black boots and walked out.

Jordan was on their phone, “Cate said she’s sorry and will meet us there” they finally looked up at me. We stared in each other’s eyes for what felt like hours before they finally spoke, “You look nice” they quickly stood up.

I could hear their heart. If I was a doctor I would say their heart rate was 126 bmp but I’m not a doctor. I’m just a 16 year old girl with freaky blood powers.

Not trying to make it weirder i quietly said thank you.

“Are you ready” I asked holding the door open.

“Seriously. I was waiting on you Moreau”

The drive to the party was short and quiet. We listened to “She” by Tyler the creator on loop till we got there.

We could hear the music and smell the booze from outside. Jordan looked at me with a blank expression “This is going to be a long fucking night”.

Walking you could see just how many people were there. There were people on the stairs, in the kitchen, on the couch and even in the pool.

“Holy shit”, I mumbled under my breath as we walked into the crowd.

“Holy shit is right” , Jordan replied while grabbing my hand to lead me through the crowd.

As we approached the drink table we found Andre pouring an outrageous amount of shots “Who are those for?” Jordan asked grabbing two shots from table, Sliding one into my hand and touching our glasses.

“They are for who ever dares take one” Andre smiled as Jordan and I took our shots “I mixed vodka, tequila, rum and beer”

My smile quickly dropped “Jesus Andre! Are you trying to make us forget our names.”

“Ive had like six and I’m totally fine” Andre proclaimed. I could see Jordan laugh as they filled up two cups.

“For how long?” Jordan handed me a cup and took another one of Andre’s shots “See you later Moreau”.

While they were walking away I replied loud enough so they could hear me “Bye dumbass”.

I patted a very intoxicated Andre on the back and went to find Emma.

After walking around for three songs trying to find Emma, I finally settled on a couch near the pool when some sat next to me.

“This place is like a maze isn’t it?”

The person who sat next to me was Rufus Godolkin high’s very own creep. I scooted to the opposite end of the couch, Cate warned me not to get close “Yea it is”.

He tried to make small talk for two songs which I politely ended each time until I heard a beating sound it was like pounding in my ear so loud that Rufus’s rambling became background noise.

“Sorry Rufus I have to go” I wasn’t sure where I was going but I’m this sound had to stop. I walked around the house till I could see Jordan’s car. The farther I got from the house the louder it was, the more it hurt.

I had never felt anything like this before sitting down on the pavement next to the car I knew I needed to find someone to take me home. Stumbling into the house I felt like drunk ten bottles of translucent vodka.

The sound had nearly stopped as I got to the bathroom. I didn’t even want to know what’s inside. Opening the door I could only say.

“What the fuck”.

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I had never felt so confused in my life. Why did I hear that sound? How did I hear that sound? But most importantly what the fuck does this dude think he’s doing with Emma.

This fucking guy, he was holding Emma up against the bathroom wall, forcing himself on her. I quickly shoved him off of her. His body went crashing into the shower, the loud bang would definitely get some attention but I just wanted to get Emma somewhere safe. She started to fall over but I caught her, I lightly tapped her face calling her name for a response.

People were ducking their heads into the bathroom but no one came to help until I finally heard a familiar voice.

“Marie?” Luke rushed to the ground where I was holding Emma. “Emma, holy shit Maire, what happened?”

I pointed at the creep in the corner. His face is clearly pissed but he nods, thinking. He's often the one thinking for all of us. “Marie, hey,” I look up at him. I clearly look worse than I thought if he's talking to me like Sam during a meltdown. “I need you to go get the rest of us okay, we gotta go.”

I nod, slow to move. I don't want to leave her, what if her heart slows and there's no one to speed it up? I ask myself a million questions before she finally opens her eyes. I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding.

“Marie.” Luke says again this time with more authority.

I move fast, stumbling out of the bathroom, rushing to find four people bound to be in different locations. I found Cate and Andre dancing with each other in the living room. I ignored all their questions urging them to go start the car. Then I saw Sam, I was almost relieved until I realised he was about to look in the bathroom. If he saw that asshole in the tub no one would be able to stop Sam from murdering him.

As I was about to rush to Sam, someone put their arm around me. Normally I'd take a breath before responding but I just turned around and swung on them. The person grew taller and I nearly broke my hand trying to punch them.

“Woah, what happened,” Jordan grabbed the hand I just punched them with, “Why are you so on edge?”

“Something happened to Emma, we need to get Sam and get the fuck out of here.” I said walking to grab Sam.

Jordan grabbed my hand tighter and reached in his pocket, “I got it, go start the car.” he put his keys in my hand and let go, walking towards Sam.

I started the car and moved to the passenger seat. It felt like hours of twiddling my thumbs before Jordan and Sam came out. I noticed the blood on Sam's knuckles, it's clear he made it to the bathroom. Jordan pushed Sam into Luke's car and stood there speaking to Cate and Andre until Luke came out. I didn't see Emma until I looked closer at his hands.

Emma had shrunk. Over the years she had got much better at regulating her emotions, and no longer got small without meaning to. Knowing that made me get out of the car, I don't know why I was just sitting there doing nothing when my best friend needed me. I made it over to lukes car where it looked like everyone was getting ready to leave.

Cate spoke first, “Okay, so we're gonna go to my house since Indira already left for GodU, Jordan and Marie, you guys get some food for Emma and meet at my house alright.”

We all nodded and then me and Jordan got in their car. I wasn't sure what to say, this is a pretty fucked way to end our summer but im sure they were already thinking that. I was about to ask about what happened with Sam but we spoke at the same. I let Jordan go first.

“You wanna tell me what happened?” They looked away from the road to glance at me.

I told them what happened leaving out the part where an ominous sound led me to Emma.

“So you got there before anything happened?” They asked, slightly relieved.

“Not early enough, that asshole still drugged her,” I said sharper than I meant to. I softened my voice, “Who was that dude anyway?”

“Liam, he graduated last year, but I think Sam taught him to stay away from highschool parties” a slight smirk grew on their face.

Like an infectious disease one grew on my face too.

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When we got to cates house everyone was in the living room cuddled up in front of the tv. Luke was sitting in front of the couch with Cate and Andre, putting on some dumb movie we had seen a billion times. Emma, who was almost normal sized, was sitting in the middle of the couch with Sam. I flashed her a careful smile, just happy to see she's okay, she did a slight smile back tapping the spot next to her on the couch. I sat down and laid my head on her shoulder.

Jordan passed out the Vought A Burger and took a seat on the blanket covered floor in front of me. Just as Luke pressed play on the movie, Andre broke the comfortable silence.

“Looks like we're a movie on a Friday night.”

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When I woke up the next morning at 1:30pm, my head felt awful courtesy of Andre's shots. I started climbing over bodies to get a glass of water and I noticed one was missing. I figured they would have left already because even though they aren't a morning person, they still manage to train at 7 am every day. Jordan is one of the hardest working people I know. They work everyday like the future isn't guaranteed, which is the case for most people but not Jordan. Jordan was accepted to GODu their sophomore year of highschool along with Luke, they're both practically shoe-ins for number 1 and 2 in the university rankings. Yet they manage to get better everyday. I guess that's something to admire about them.

When I walked into the kitchen Jordan slid me a glass of water from the other side of the kitchen island.

How did they even know I was coming? “What are you, a mind reader?” I spoke quietly so as to not wake up our friends.

“No, that's Cate.” Their more feminine voice shot back clearly not showing the same courtesy to our friends as I was.

“I know it's late but we should still let them sleep.” I sat down finally taking a sip of my water, fixing the desert in my throat.

“Us talking won't wake them,” Jordan's eyes followed me as I sipped on the water. “You guys slept through Tiffany calling like 30 times.”

Oh shit.

“Tiffany. Oh my god how could I forget about that.”

“Forget about what?” Jordan questioned clearly confused. I thought she would know about it seeing as Tiffany and their parents are promotional partners in crime.

“Shes having a lunch party to sell some make-up line idea to Vought investors. Emma and I were supposed to help set up,” I grabbed her wrist to look at their watch. “10 minutes ago. Did your parents not tell you?”

“I'm sure they did. I probably just told them I had training at GODu or something.”

A perk of early acceptance to GODu is you get to join the students during summer training, but that ended 2 weeks ago.

“How many times have you used that excuse?” The words left my mouth with a slight chuckle.

“Well summer training ended 2 weeks ago so,” They raised their eyebrows pretending to be deep in thought. “About fourteen times.”

Light laughter filled the kitchen and it wasn't until then I realised how close we were. I was still holding their wrist from when I checked the time.

Holy shit, the time.

I let go of their wrist, walking to Cate's living room. ”I have to wake Emma up.”

I woke Emma up, she was back to her normal size now and didn't seem down when I spoke to her, I would have to talk to her when we were at home.

“Shit, Emma, we don't have a way home.”

“Let's just wake up, Cate.” We both turned to look at Cate tangled up in Luke and Andre's arms. “Right. Where's Jordan?"

After some major convincing we got Jordan to come to the party. When we finally got there we were 30 minutes late and people were already arriving. I think all three of us realized how awful we looked right as we walked through the door.

As soon as Tiffany saw us she put her hands up storming over to us.

“Yup, I'm gonna go.” Jordan quickly went up the stairs next to us.

“Lucky.” Emma responded basically to herself seeing as Jordan was long gone.

“Oh now my daughters wanna show up. Hey Marie, what time is it?” Before I could answer her question she threw another one out. “Hey Emma, what time were you supposed to be here?” Emma didn't even make an effort to speak. “Youre L A T E. Now go shower you smell like my freshman year of college.” She finished her speech with an annoyed shoo, pushing us up the stairs.

“Geez, what do you think our punishment will be? Post 100 videos in one day?” Emma might have been joking, but only partially. Our freshman year we stayed out past curfew and Tiffany made us live stream for 3 hours. We got so bored we were practically saying anything, we were lucky we didn't get cancelled.

“Not so loud she might get ideas. I do see why she's mad though.” We both stopped in front of Emma's door leaning on the frame.

“Yea but with the shit that happened last night I think we deserve to be a little late.” She cocked her head to the side to prove her point.

“Yea speaking of last night,” she cut me off.
“Marie we don't have to do this, yea it sucked that I was drugged but you got there before anything could happen.”

“But Emma.”

“Seriously Marie, I've eaten drugs like that for breakfast,” She smiled at me while walking into her room. "Besides I've got a super hot boyfriend and a super hot sister to protect me.” She grabbed her door and swung it shut yelling “You're a hero marie, now go shower.”

That conversation was a lot shorter than expected.

When I finally got in my room I collapsed on to my bed just trying to soak up my 5 minutes of alone time before I had to listen to managers yap about how they want “a supe like me” on their client list, but of course I wasn't alone.

“So what did Tiffany say? Are you gonna have to do another live stream where you talk about how hot queen meave is?”

“Stop jordan you guys promised to never ever, ever mention that again” Leave it to Jordan to bring up that awful live steam. He obviously found it amusing seeing as he was laughing so hard tears came to their eyes. I got up grabbing clothes for my shower. “Yea, yea laugh it up, I still don't know why you and Andre were even watching that stupid thing.” with their laugh still echoing into my bathroom I shut the door, finally getting that alone time.

The rest of the afternoon went relatively smooth. I was only told “It was so sweet of Tiffany to take you in.” Twice and I was only given 3 business cards. However I was asked about 50 times where Jordan was by their parents, the answer was in my room and I'm sure their parents knew that seeing as they left their car outside.

The only thing keeping me sane was knowing that there's only one more day before school starts. I know it's foolish but, I have high hopes for junior year.