I had sat through all my exams and felt pretty good about them. I was taking JJ out for chips after college when all of a sudden he blurted out, "Katie's Emily."

I raised my eyebrows as we sat down, "What are you talking about?"

"Today, when Katie came in to sit through her exam, it wasn't Katie. It was Emily disguised as Katie," he said.

"And you know this how?" I said.

"I just know it."

"Really?" I said.

"We had sex together," he said before covering his mouth.

"What? But, she's gay?" I said. No way that happened...

"Well, she did it for a once-only charity event, or so she said."

I shrugged as our chips were brought to the table. We ordered chips with lemon juice and feta, and chips that had tomato sauce and cheddar cheese. It was a very good post exams treat.

Over the weekend, I went into the convenience store and bought a pack of cigarettes and chocolate.

"Aren't you a little young to be smoking?" the guy at the register asked me.

"I'm 17, so fuck off!" I said. As I left, I saw Katie and Emily walking my way. I also saw Panda.

"Hi, guys!" I said, "How are you feeling, Katie?"

"I'm better," she said.

"Oh, that's great!" Panda said.

"Have either of you heard from Effy?"

We both shook our heads. I tried calling her yesterday, but it just left to voicemail.

"I'm sure she didn't mean it," Panda said.

"Oh, I think she meant it," Katie said, pointing at her face.

"I'm sorry," Panda said.

"It's not your fault, Panda," I said, "Where are you two going?"

"Shopping for dresses for the ball, do you have a date?"

"Nope, I'm not going," I said.

"Come on, Bri. We don't have dates either, but we're still going. Let's go, the four of us together," Katie said.

"You mean, go girls?" Panda said.

"Yea! Right, you got it!"

I sighed, "Fine, I'll go."

After Panda said she'd never do surf and turf again, the three of us left to go shopping. We tried on dresses together, which was pretty fun, I had to admit. We were doing fine until Katie saw Freddie and JJ and tried to cover herself up.

"Is he coming over here?"

"No, he's not that stupid," Emily said, but she was wrong. He was indeed that stupid.

Freddie and JJ walked over to us, "Hey, Katie, I wanted to see how you are,"

"Oh, now you want to see how I am. Thanks, that's well compassionate. Cheers," Katie said.

"Hi, Emily," JJ said.

"Hi," she said.

Awkward.

"I didn't know what to say. I fucked up," Freddie said, hell yea he did.

"No, Freddie. You fucked Effy! When you were meant to be fucking me! Oh yea, after she hit me with a rock."

We left Freddie and Katie alone. I went into a dressing room to try on a light green dress when something fell out of my wallet. I picked it up, and it was a picture of Cook with his presidential campaign outfit on. He looked so cute. I missed seeing his face and hearing his laugh.

"Oh shit! I'm sorry, I thought this was empty!" Emily said, but then she looked down at my hand "Bri, what's that?"

"Nothing," I said. She took the picture from me and laughed, "I knew it."

"Knew what?"

"You fancy him, don't you?"

I shook my head, "No, I don't."

"You do! It all makes sense. Gobbler's end, I mean," Emily said, embracing me in a hug, causing me to roll my eyes and smile.

"Ok, maybe I like him a little," I said, putting my head on top of hers because she was so much shorter than me.

I couldn't believe I said that. I liked James Cook.