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of water and looked for Jake's phone. Knowing him like I did, he wouldn't dare take it out on the water and risk losing it. How would he communicate with Bianca? As expected, it was resting next to the bed and I grabbed it. What did he say his password was? I tried a few but to no avail. There wasn't a landline and I wasn't about to ask one of the princesses to borrow a phone. I made a few more attempts and when I was about to give up, it hit me. The last four digits of his grandparent's phone number. I punched it in and mercifully unlocked the phone.
    He had several text messages and I assumed most, if not all, were from Bianca. He'd been texting her before he'd fallen asleep. The incessant tapping annoyed the hell out of me.
    I dialed the first few numbers to my house when another of her texts popped up.
    Bianca: Fishing? I'm soooo bored. That mutt following you around everywhere?
    Mutt? I'd never snooped through Jake's phone before, but this text caught my attention. Was she referring to me? Obviously. My heart picked up a few beats and blood pulsed through my veins. I opened up his text messages and scrolled back through at least a couple dozen. What else did she have to say about me?
    Bianca: OMG! I am so sick of her. How can you stand that bitch?
    Jake: I don't!
    Bianca: She stares at you like a fucking creepazoid. So weird like she's going to lock you up in her basement and never let you out.
    I scrolled ahead. Nothing I'd seen so far had surprised me.
    Bianca: How's your filthy mutt? Still sniffing around your ass?
    Jake: She spent lots of time with Zach. What a relief! Poor bastard.
    Bianca: Zach is too nice. He's always feeling sorry for disgusting strays.
    Jake: Lol.
    Bianca: Make sure she doesn't give you fleas.
    Jake: Lol. I'll get her a flea collar.
    Bianca: Brett's going to have to call in exterminators.
    Jake: Or we all have to get vaccinated.
    Bianca: LOL. I wish she'd get the hint and leave you alone. Get some friends like a normal human being.
    Jake: Even tonight she didn't try to talk to anyone. At least Zach got her off my back for awhile.
    Bianca: I would die if I had to spend the weekend with her.
    Jake: Worst day of my life was when she got into Western. Just when I thought I got rid of her for good.
    Bianca: At least you had one year without the freak.
    Jake: But now I'm stuck with her for at least 2 more. I'm going to lose my mind! She drives me crazy!
    Bianca: OMG I hate her so much. I wish she'd go away and die somewhere. Kill herself or something. Do us all a favor.
    Jake: Lol. Me too.
    I stopped reading. Tears were blurring my vision and my body was shaking. Me too? That's all I kept seeing. 'Lol' and 'me too.' He agreed with everything. I was nothing more than a flea-ridden dog, a friendless weirdo. A pariah. I put down the phone and although I was sobbing not a single sound came from me. The ultimate betrayal. My best friend since birth, the person who always looked out for me thought I was a pathetic hanger-on. An albatross. Someone he wished was dead.
    I stood up and methodically packed what little I had. My book? Where was my book? I bolted for the kitchen to retrieve it, happy no one was there. I then ran to the bathroom and threw up. I sat on the cold marble floor for minutes, trying to calm myself. Jake, the person I loved most in the world besides Dad and Grandpa, had said and was complicit in all this. I stood up, splashed cold water on my face and refused to look in the mirror. I couldn't face myself.
    Then I heard the voices. They were all back. I slipped out of the bathroom and grabbed my backpack and went into the main room. They were all milling around recounting their tales of fishing. Some sprawled out on the two brown leather sofas, others milling in the kitchen with beers.
    "Jake," I said.
    He didn't hear me above the chatter.
    "Jake!"
    He turned to look at me, almost irritated that the mutt had interrupted his tales from the high seas. "Yeah?"
    "I'm going. Give me the