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I shaketo say “Don’t start with this again”

“We don’t understand why you and Trent aren’t together, is all”

“Because we don’t like each other”

“Relationships don’t always begin that way, Demi”

I gape at her “I’m pretty sure they do”

“Well, I think it’s time you reconsider Spend some time with him”

I ju one of my best friends!”

“And your best friend, as you call her, is a harlot of a girl who is going nowhere in life and doesn’t deserve him She’ll end up forced to join her parents in real estate”

“What’s wrong with that?”

“Nothing, if you want to gamble on the market to protect your future”

“Her parents do well”

“And Trent’s own an airline Tell irl is better suited for him than you?”

Mycomes out, so I shake my head instead

She doesn’t knohat she’s talking about

Krista is seous; she’s kind and respectful to her parents, wants to be a teacher and a ive a da it? Yes, but what seventeen – eighteen in days – wouldn’t when their father is willing to allow them to?

Not to in when she slept with Trent – not a harlot!

My mom is an asshole and has no room to talk

She purses her lips “I will let you go to this party, but I’ to ask that et a few minutes alone”

She’s a fucking nut

“You don’t have to take it further, but this is your last year of school, and at so to leave her because he knows she’s not what he needs, and when that happens it needs to be you he thinks of, especially before you two end up at schools on opposite ends of the country”

I ets the hint I want her to leave “I won’t, and you should stop saying things like this All you’re going to do is uilty the entire time when I have no reason to We’re friends, and if you want us to at least be that, then leave it alone”

A sickening displeasure glares back atbefore she exits “Friendships should never trump futures”

“Futures are supposed to be earned, ained by the choice of spouse”