Bittersweet Revenge by J. L. Beck Page A

backpack weighs more than me.” A mischievous grin showed on her face. “No. I will not be giving you a piggy back ride.”
    “But- but… please… you're my best-friend.” She says giving me an obscene looking pout. “What does being best-friends have anything to do with me having to give you a piggy back ride, I didn’t sign any contracts.”
    She purses her lips at me “Yes you did. Now yee-haw.” She says all but jumping onto my back. If this is the benefits I get of having a best friend I’m not sure I want to keep her.
“Can I get out of this contract at all? Being friends no longer has any good benefits to it.” She hops off my back and pulls me in to face her. “How many friends would plan to help you sabotage your crazy, rumor spreading, asshole, ex-boyfriend?”
    “Okay you have a point there?”
    “You’re damn right I do.” A door at the far end of the hall opens, and Mimi and I both direct our attention to it. It’s Rex and Corey, one with utter shock on his face and the other with excitement.
    “What are you guys doing here?” Rex stutters out. He never stutters, and that can only be a clear sign of one thing. Crossing my arms over my chest I look him up and down,
    “The better question is, what are you doing here?” I feel the redness creeping into every pore of my skin.
    “Move out of the way losers, we have somewhere to be.” Corey all but ignores the fact that Rex and I are in the middle of a conversation.
    “Awe that’s sweet Corey, you forgot to call us sluts, are you turning over a new leaf or something?” Mimi says baiting him. Something in that girl begs for a fight, and if I didn’t know better I would think that there may be a spark of something between the two.
    He takes two steps backwards, swivels around and eases her against the wall. His arms encasing her, their faces mere inches from one another.
    “Don’t challenge me Mimi, you might not like what you find, and I’m not turning over a new leaf I just could care less about the two of you, you're old news, and I’m onto bigger and better things.”
    There’s a challenge in Mimi’s eyes, and for the first time ever I wonder what she’s going to do. She bites her lip as she looks him straight in the eye, showing me that she clearly has more balls than anyone else in this school.
    “So I’ve heard. Who’s your newest flavor of the week… Paige? Hmm, yup, definitely sounds like you're into way BIGGER things.” Her voice is seductive, her smile anything but sweet.
    “Leave it be Mimi, if you get involved it could end horribly for you.” Corey says as if warning. Their eyes never leave one another’s, and Mimi breaks the silence, pushing off the wall.
    “Challenge accepted, let’s get going Jenna, we have a party to get to.” Mimi says grabbing my arm and dragging me down the hall. For a second, I almost forget about questioning Rex. He sends me a smile as Mimi pulls me further away. We make it to the double doors just before the exit to leave the school. I stop her, putting all my weight into removing my arm from her hold.
    “Hold it the hell up. We’re not leaving this spot until you explain to me what that was about. Were you flirting with Corey, because I’m pretty sure you were and I didn’t get to finish talking to Rex, which isn’t cool.”
    She rolls her eyes at me, before glancing down the hall. She’s definitely not acting like herself and possibly a little bit more paranoid than usual.
    “You can tell me if something’s going on Mimi.”
    “Not now Jen, when we get in the car we'll talk. Can we go?” She asks aggravated.
    I open the door and gesture for her to go, walking behind her to her jeep. I open the door the same time as her and we both shift into our seats. She leans her head down unto the steering wheel and silence surrounds us. It causes me to start thinking about all the possible things that could be going on with everyone, the lies that are possibly being told to me, and the