"I am never going back to New York with you!" I laugh and and dodge someone who has about to elbow me in the nose. High school students are not only reckless but also unaware of their surroundings."

"Kevin watch it. You almost elbowed my girl." Issac chastises Kevin, a sophomore that Issac gives advice to often.

Kevin turns around and looks up at Issac. Kevin is 5'8 which is shorter than Issac by a lot. He has fawn brown hair, dark brown eyes, and a dorky smile on his face.

"Sorry man. I think it was a bad idea to smoke the amount of pot I did this morning." Kevin looks at me and I finally see the that his eyes are dilated and he is rather pale.

"Sorry Bay." He says and I nod my head. Issac guides me through the crowd and we end up at our lockers.

"Oh come on. It was on accident Bay."

"You nearly tripped me on the ice. I could've busted my head open and died. I thought you loved me." I murmur.

"Hey." Issac takes up my hand and brushes his thumb against the promise ring. "This proves that I love you." He kisses my palm and drops my hand to my side.

"Oliver please!"

"Get the hell away from me!"

"Oliver!"

That sounds like Victoria. I look behind Issac and Oliver Fray is emerging from the crowd, his face red with anger. Victoria runs through the crowd, her face red and tears running down her face.

"You are unbelievable Victoria. Get the fuck away from me!" Oliver booms making everyone in the hallway jump, including Victoria. Gasps opposite the hallway that we are in sounds and everyone stops looking at Victoria and Oliver. Sienna, Talia, Mariana, and Zara emerge through the hallway with Sienna in the middle and the other three girls behind her.

Victoria looks over and she scoffs. She looks like she is ready to burst into tears at any moment.

"Sienna, y-you're friends with Talia, the girl who-" Victoria says,her voice breaking every few words in.

"You made an enemy out of a friend who knew your biggest secrets. That's not very smart. Talia is my new best friend." She says and looks at her blonde friend. Talia glances at Oliver who is staring back at her with a regretful look in his eyes. Victoria stares between Talia and Oliver and I could practically hear her heart breaking.

"Ollie?" Victoria says, looking at Oliver hoping he would answer her.

Oliver looks at her. " Stay the hell away from me. We are done." He storms off and away from the scene. Talia looks at Victoria with a cold, icy glare that could give frostbite if you stare too long.

"I can't believe this." Victoria mutters before running off in the direction of the West wing.

What I am about to do is probably going to be the worst decision of my life.

But I have become a good person recently and I am silently hating it right now.

I run off in the direction Victoria went in in hopes to find her and console her. Victoria Hughes may be a bitch, but what's happening to her is pretty sad. Yes, if she had the chance, she would do this to someone else, but I would hate myself if I didn't help her now.

I see something blonde in my peripheral and I turn to my right and walk inside the girls bathroom. Leaning against the bathroom sink crying her eyes out is the fallen Queen Bee Victoria Hughes. Victoria Hughes used to be someone who you would look up to because of her fashion style, her wealth, her social status, the people she would date, and just her being her, which isn't always a good thing, but eh.

Now as I look at Victoria, I don't see the girl who would walk down the hallways with her head held high with her best friends behind her. I don't see the girl with the high social status or popularity. I don't see Eastside High's Queen Bee. I see someone completely different.

I see someone who is broken.

I never realized how Victoria's life may be. I always thought she was some stuck up bitch whose goal in life was to know how many times she spread her legs for guys she didn't know, but I guess it was all just a plastic mask and everything that is happening now is the fire that is burning away that plastic. Everyone is calling her a baby killer and a cheat and even though there is no good enough excuse for killing a fetus, look at it from her point of view.

She was a 17 year old girl who had her whole life ahead of her. She got pregnant for a guy who wasn't her boyfriend and Oliver was dating someone. You think Oliver would've left his girlfriend for his pregnant hookup? No.

She was scared and she probably didn't tell her parents what she got herself into. She felt alone and on top of that pregnant. Being popular or having all that attention on you is harder than you think. Just ask Issac.

If she was just a regular student, she could've slid with being pregnant, but being THE Victoria Hughes puts her whole life on display and anything and I mean ANYTHING comes out into the light. She had other options, but she thought like a teenager:irrationally. She wasn't really alone. She just felt alone in that dark time in her life and I pity her.

I pity Victoria Hughes.

Just like a city, she rose, but in the end, she fell.

"Victoria?" I finally speak up. She stops crying and looks up at me. Her eyes are blood shot and her nose is as red as Rudolph. She pushes her blonde hair out the way and wipes her face.

"Came to watch me be humiliated. Where's the hidden camera, huh?" she attacks and stares at me, sadness written over her.

I remember when I was like this.

"Are you okay?"

"Obviously not! The whole school knows I was a high school knock up and I killed my baby! I-" She stops talking and looks at the floor deep in thought. It looks like her actual situation, the actual fact that she killed her child is finally sinking in. Her fall falls, her shoulders sag, and she slowly slides onto the floor.

"I..I killed my baby. I killed it!" she sobs out and clutches her stomach and covers her mouth to hold in her sobs. I walk over to her and sit down on the floor next to her. I wrap my arms around her hoping to offer her some kind of comfort. I am not trained in this. I don't know how to deal with....emotion like this, unless it's like Issac or Zoe or something.

"I- I didn't mean to hurt Ollie. I loved him. I- I cheated on Issac with Oliver and I f-fell in love with him." she sobs.

"I didn't mean to hurt Issac, b-but I loved Ollie and I thought he loved me. I got pregnant and he is with Talia. Stupid me, right? Getting pregnant. I even contemplated on lying and saying it was Issac's. I am c-cruel. I d-deserve this."

If she had lied to Issac about that and he found out-

There would be no Issac Evans, well at least the one we know today.

"Ollie hates me, Sienna left, Cartier barely talks to me, I am alone." she murmurs and sniffles. She brushes my arms off her and gets up.

"Go. Go ahead and tell everyone this. I am done for. I am leaving." she says and takes up her tote and walks out.

"Victoria!" I yell after her. I run out the bathroom and after her as she is storming away.

"What do you mean you are leaving?"

She stops walking and looks back at me.

"I got accepted into college. It's all the way France and I am starting over. No Ollie. No Sienna. No Issac. No Talia. No baby. I am finishing high school online. I- I can't be here anymore. I can't walk the same halls and see Oliver all the time. When I see him, I think of my baby who I killed and that he left. I-I am sorry for everything Bay, but look on the bright side, you won't have to worry about me anymore. I just can't do this anymore." she says. Her eyes flicker down to my hand and then back up to me.

"You are too young to get married Bay." she says with her hands on her hips. I look down at the ring on my finger.

"Promise ring, not engagement ring."

She smiles and it isn't a fake smile or a snarky one. It's a real smile. A smile that I haven't seen since 9th grade.

"Take care of him. He is obviously taking care of you. Goodbye Bay."

She walks away. I don't bother running after her. I have lost the energy and I am missing class.

I watch as she walks away with a scrunch in between my eyebrows.

What Victoria did will haunt her. No matter how far she travels, her memories will travel with her. She will always remember what she did and how she affected other people's lives by it. I hope where she is going, she finds a way to learn how to live with what she has done.

I turn around and walk off to my class with one thing on my mind.

I never asked Issac how he feels about all of this.

I need to. ASAP.

...

"Congratulations Zoe!" We all scream and start clapping. She has a big smile on her face as she waves around her acceptance letter. Zoe got into The Fashion Institute of Technology. She is majoring in design and business. She even got a full ride scholarship.

Zoe gathers up all her Stanford stuff she bought when she was into Stanford and puts it in a clear garbage bag. She grabs a sharpie from off the glass table and writes 'Craiglist' on the bag.

She write under it 'Making Money Moves' and Cartier, Armani, and Asher bust out laughing.

"Issac you're next." Armani announces, clutching his letter to his chest.

"Alright." He stands up and pulls the letter out the opened envelope.

He shows the letter to everyone.

"I got into Duke."

"Fuck yeah!" Asher yells and bro hugs his best friend. Asher whips out his letter that is identical to Issac. Both of them are going to Duke together, both of them got full ride scholarships for lacrosse. I look up at Issac with a warm smile on my face. I am happy for him, but in the pit of my stomach, I feel sad.

I am going to UPenn in Pennsylvania and he will be all the way in North Carolina. I look over to Zoe and she has the same expression on her face. She will be farther from Asher, so she must be hurting.

A lot.

Issac looks over to me with a smile on his face. He leans down and kisses me quickly on my lips before sitting down.

"Armani, now your turn."

Armani gets up and dusts off his clothes.

"So Duke stole my school's idea of blue so fuck you. I got into Colombia, which is only 3.5 miles away from the love of my life." Armani says with a smile that reaches his eyes on his face. He holds his hand out to Cartier, who is sporting beet red on her cheeks. She holds his hand and stands up with her Manhattan Academy of Dance and Music acceptance letter in her hands.

"Full ride" she says with a smile and looks at her boyfriend. "And only 3 miles away from my NYC girl friend Zoe." she says with a smile on her face. Zoe laughs and holds up her acceptance letter.

"Wow, so everyone is leaving me all by myself in Pennsylvania." I say pretending like I am hurt.

"Gurl you only like a few miles away. I can drive down and find myself a UPenn man when Armani pisses me off." she says and laughs. Armani glares down at his girlfriend making her laugh more. She leans up and pecks his lips and sits back down with Armani.

I laugh along with everyone else, BTU I can't help but feel lonely. My best friends are in New York and my boyfriend is in North Carolina.

"Alright. I am opening the tequila. Bay, you know the rules." Armani says, mockingly and I flip him the bird. " Music will be blasted, so drink and pass out." Armani yells and opens a bottle of tequila and starts taking big gulps off the alcohol.

How do you do t-that?

"Come on, let's go." Issac whispers in my ear and we stand up. We slip away from the group that are already getting drunk. We step outside the house and the night breeze hits my skin.

Issac walks behind Armani's house and into the pool area. Issac takes off his shoes leaving him bare footed and walks to the pool. He sits on the ledge and puts his feet in.

"Come on." He says and motions for me to follow.

I walk over and repeat what he did and sit on the ledge with my feet in the water.

"What's wrong?"

"I am going to Duke." He says.

We sit in silence, our breaths mingling in the air and then disappearing.

"And I am going to UPenn. 404.4 miles away from you." I state. A lump in my throat forms and I feel the tears forming behind my eyes. I clench my fists and rest them in my lap.

The universe hates me.

I finally find someone who makes me happy. And the universe sends him 400 miles away from me.

"Is this where you break up with me?" I ask, my voice cracking. I look into the water, that is glowing slightly from the night glow.

"I promised you my heart last week, I wouldn't break up with you if I was 1000 miles from you. "

"Then how can we do this with this 400 mile distance between us." I ask. "We were wrecks when we weren't speaking for that one month. Imagine when we are in college. It isn't fair! I-I finally have you. I am finally happy. We are finally happy. Why?" Tears stream down my face and I wipe it away angrily.

Issac looks down at the water, deep in thought, and doesn't answer me.

"I refuse to break up with you."

"How can we do a long distance relationship? You will be there and I am elsewhere. On the weekends, you will have practice and I will be doing my internship at the hospital."

"After everything we have been through, I am not giving up. I don't care about lacrosse. I care about you. I am nothing without you."

"Don't say that." I shake my head and brush my hair out my face.

"I refuse to hold you back from lacrosse. I-I won't hold you back. I won't let this relationship hold you back."

"Don't you see it Bay?" He asks and looks at me with a determined look in his eye. " Bay, we are not in a relationship. We are in a partnership. I am your partner and you are mine. We will make this work. I have waited for you for too damn long to let you go because of 400 miles."

I look into his grey eyes and he looks into my glossy caramel eyes.

"Promise?" I croak.

"Cross my heart hope to die, to my lover, I'd never lie" He quotes and leans down and connects his lips with mine. A tear slips down my eyes landing on our connected lips, but it doesn't matter if it was pouring rain, I wouldn't break our kiss for nothing on this Earth.

I love you Issac Evans

Cross my heart hope to die, to my lover, I'd never lie.