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that.”
    “Well, whatever it is I’m sure you’ll work it out.”
    Yeah right. The thing is, I don’t see Austin as the type of guy who would cheat. I really don’t. But why would Mark make something like that up? He doesn’t even know me that well. There would be no reason for him to lie to me. Plus, he’s played basketball with Austin for a few years now. If anyone would know that type of stuff it probably would be the other guys on the basketball team. There’s a different party pretty much every weekend with that crowd.
    The other problem is this. There’s no way I can ask Austin about it. Asking him would pretty much be like me telling him that I don’t trust him. Not to mention I would have to explain to him why Mark and I were talking about him. Which means I would have to tell him how I told Mark about Carmen. Which also means that I would have to tell him how Mark was the one who told me about how he’s cheated on his girlfriends in the past. Which would clearly make Austin pretty pissed off at Mark. Which would cause tension on the basketball team. So, you see, I’m screwed all around. I have no choice but to keep my mouth shut.
    “How’s the Spanish studying coming along?” my mom asks as she mixes a new bowl of ingredients for another batch of cookies.
    I roll my eyes. Who could concentrate on studying for stupid Spanish after Mark tells me that he thinks my boyfriend is going to cheat on me with Carmen, because he’s
    “done this type of thing before?”
    Once Karli got there it was really hard for me to concentrate with all the thoughts racing around in my head. I could hear the words Mark was saying, but it was like they were going in one ear and out the other. But I can’t exactly tell my mom any of this. So I lie.
    “The studying is going great.”
    “Really?” my mom asks, sounding surprised.
    “Don’t sound so surprised, Mom. I am pretty smart, you know.”
    She smiles. “Oh trust me, I know. I’ve just never heard you call studying great before.”
    My cell phone rings, which saves me from having to explain anymore. I dig into my purse and look at the screen. It’s Alexa.
    “Sorry, Mom, I have to take this,” I announce, jumping up from the kitchen table.
    I walk upstairs towards my room and hit the accept button.
    “Hello?”
    “Jake asked if he could be my date to my party next week,” she announces.
    I can’t help the feeling of happiness that comes over my body as I hear this, even though I’m busy feeling sorry for myself over my current situation. Jake Murphy is this boy in our grade who Alexa has had the biggest crush on for as long as I can remember.
    Now, normally Alexa’s pretty forward when it comes to guys. I mean she’s really pretty, so it’s not like she has any trouble getting attention from boys. But she never went after Jake.
    She said he wasn’t like other guys. That he was her friend. She had been waiting for as long as I can remember for the right time to tell him how she felt and apparently now was that time.
    “Wow,” I say sincerely, “I’m really happy for you, Lex.”
    She gives a little scream into the phone. “Ahh, I know. It’s finally happening!”
    “So was it worth the wait?” I ask her.
    “It’s always worth the wait when you finally get something you’ve been waiting on for what feels like forever.”
    I smile into the phone. “So,” I say flopping down on my bed, “tell me exactly how it happened.”
    ***
    After Alexa fills me in, I get off the phone and try my best to study my Spanish. I have a bunch of notes from earlier today on all the stuff Mark went over with us. But looking at them now, nothing seems to make any sense.
    They just look like a bunch of words blurred together for no real reason. I consider calling Karli and asking her to come over and help me, but then I realize me and Karli studying together probably isn’t the best idea. Talk about distracting.
    Just as I’m considering calling her and seeing if