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"You You’re like a cactus you’re so prickly"

"You’re not all that warm and fuzzy yourself"

"Yeah, well, if your boyfriend hadn’t coht, I don’t think you’d be all that cheery right now either"

"So he’s your boyfriend now? We’re talking about Bodo, right?"

I stopped walking,in an instant "What’s that supposed to s spread apart and her eyebrow raised in challenge "Well, before you left, you kept uys around here kneasn’t your boyfriend Now he’s e of heart, that’s all I’"

I shook my head slowly in disbelief What a bitch "Screw you, Coli And don’t frigging ith et how helpful you were trying to be and punch you in the face"

I stalked off, trying to ignore the spinning, spinning, spinning of onally instead of straight, and I got tangled in some roots that were just off the side of the path

I went down like a drunk sailor into a pile of rotting weeds, landing on my hurt arm Intense pain to shot up intosensation co over ontoasshole canners!" I was crying now, big fat tears rolling out ofdown into my ears, and they quickly a down to land onthe inin the leaves I’d kicked over onto the path For once she wasn’t being totally silent She put her hand down to help me stand back up on my feet

"Come on Get up"

I slapped her hand away "Get that out of my face"

She put her hand back where it was "Let o alone"

"Fuck you, Coli"

"No thanks" Her hand reh of her callousness and jealousy and whatever else it was that made her such a jerk to me all the time Even now, her te, I grabbed her hand with s at the same time

Her body fleard, her balance thrown off bymy feet to make contact with her chest

I pulled down on her ar back and using the ht to send her forward I grunted with the effort of sending her flying over asping for breath, I let go of her hand and scra to land on the side ofit I screa, while she yelled in anger at being taken by surprise and thrown into the rotting vegetation

She tried to buck rabbed onto her shirt to pull her witharound in the leaves and dirt, both of us yelling and screa for each other I landed a solid slap to her chin and she punched me hard in the boob

"You bitch!" I yelled

"You slut!" she yelled back

"I am not a slut!" I screamed, completely confused as to what I’d done to earn that nickna the one I’d chosen for her

"Yes, you are," she grunted out, pushing my face into the dirt fro rabbed a handful of her hair and plowed her over withher head down into the …slutty…in…o and backed off a little, sure I’d bashed the fight out of her

But I rong

She lifted herself up fast and slapped me across the face, hard

My head whipped to the side, but I caughtback all the way I lifted upwhile I was still onher back down

"You flirt with everyone while you lead Bodo on!" she yelled froain, but froze in theher, my foot poised above her abdo ungracefully into a sitting position and s drely inward, until I was cross-legged