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I sighed and went to class, I’d worry about dinner later, I’d just remind my parents that we’d split up and they’d cancel dinner, easy In the back of h, I kneouldn’t work out like that I plopped down next to Stacey, who slid o?" she whispered

I shrugged, "He wants to get back together, I told him no"

She frowned a little, "Why don’t you take hiested, nudging me with the elbow

"Stace please, you’re supposed to support hed, "You’re right, you don’t need hiot the hot booty calls now," she teased, waggling her eyebrows,passed exactly the sa if I was ok The boys asking if I was now free to date By lunchtirabbed a sandwich and drink and sat doith Stacey and the rest of irls, when out of nowhere, Mark plopped down next tohis arain, he kneouldn’t make a scene and embarrass him I wasn’t the type of person to hurt someone on purpose, so he would use this as his opportunity to tell everyone ere back together, knowing I wouldn’t protest Asshole!

"Hey baby, ave hilare, "Mark seriously, don’t ly He kissed me, he actually had the nerve to kiss me, full on the lips too, what an ass! I pulled back quickly, "Mark, I’ my head I didn’t want to hurt hio along with this little charade for the sake of everyone else He gaveface as he brushed ot flashes of Ja and how soft and cute he was last night

"Givein to kiss et back with hi me out, I wouldn’t have to make a scene in front of everyone, I wouldn’t have to hurt Mark I knew he loved h I gave him no reason to doubt me, he shouldn’t think so little of ht? Shouldn’t he have faith in me?

As his lips touched mine I ju off quickly into the nearest bathrooms, where I burst into tears Stacey i so she et easier, Ellie," she cooed, rubbing ht I was upset because we’d broken up, when in all honesty I was crying with relief It was hard to keep up the act of being in love with so shells so I didn’t upset him and make him shout at me I felt kind of free without him, I couldn’t wait to just be on , have fun

The afternoon passed with people whispering in the hallways, I kept e to keep up of sorts People looked up tocaptain I needed to show people I was still Ellie Pearce, with or without, Mark Barrington

After cheer practice and no further incidents with Mark, Stacey drove ht "So, you want to do so to cheer ht Hopefully I’ll be able to get ht

"No, actually I have soether

"Ok, call me and let me kno dinner went, ok?" She s, thanks for the lift" I clied over tohow cute Ja ot a text froot home ok Bless him, he was so adorable I quickly text hi to the Photoshop

I headed over to the counter, pulling out Ja while he was in the shower "Hi, can I help you?" the lady asked, s froot ripped and I ondering if there was any way you’d be able to restore it or so over his photo

She looked at it for a while "We should be able to do so, I’ll scan it into the coether and try and blend in the daed pieces It won’t be perfect, you’ll probably still see the line slightly and these bit’s don’t join properly at the bottom, so there will be a little hole which I’ll have to fill in, but it should look ok, not perfect but ok," she said s atout my purse

"It’s 18 for a full restoration like this one, that’ll give you one print and a disk too" She s a little white envelope to put the photo in