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Bernie giggled at DJ, [color=b3463e][b]"Might take you up on that offer DJ if this doesn't work out."[/b][/color] she teased, her hand squeezing Issac's under the table for a moment. Bernie was glowing, for the first time in so long she was feeling important and wanted. Sure, she had the attention of a few boys at Sterling Heights High but it never lasted long, and in the shadow of her best friend- well, it wasn't often that she had the spotlight- if only for the moment. 

In the midst of the boys cussing out Trevor, and Rob taking Ara outside something inside of Bernie snapped. It may have been teenage hormones, or maybe this year had just been one gut punch after the next- but as her face contorted and her eyebrows strained on her face, Bernie became absolutely livid. She dropped her pizza onto the plate, as she declared to the table, [color=b3463e][b]"I'll be right fucking back, I HAVE TO PISS!"[/b][/color] she shoved past Trevor, walking out of the auditorium and straight into the girl's bathroom- her upper lip quivering.

How could Ara have kept this secret from her best friend for all of this time? Did she not trust her enough? She had seen the two at Robert's house multiple times and thought they had just been working on a project together or just hanging out as friends. Was she that stupid? Were the snide comments her classmates made about her being just a airhead true? Slamming the door of the larger handicapable stall, Bernie slid down the cold tile wall and let out an anguished and muffled by her fists against her mouth scream. 

Soon after the tears came.

Bernadette was happy for her friend that Robert had been her first, it made all the stories of her ex as well as Ron not seem so bad in retrospect. She wasn't happy that Ara hadn't told her this, she knew that when she eventually lost her virginity that Arabella would be the first person she told, if not the only. Wiping her eyes with the outer part of her thumb, she pulled her legs up to her chest. Her own secret hung heavy in her heart. Was she any better, if she had hid her own secret from Ara? She didn't know truly, and she was too upset to really want to think about it anyways.

Gathering herself, she went up to the mirror to check her makeup and fix up her hair a bit from where she had slid down the wall. A classmate looked over at her, and offered a pity smile. [b]"It's okay, there are a lot of fish in the sea."[/b] she said as Bernie nodded. She didn't want to share her life story with Aimee Johnson, who had earlier in the year been revealed to have chlamydia. Taking her leave, Bernadette noticed that Alice had not been in the bathroom any wondered where she had gone off to, she debated texting her privately but didn't want to disturb her if she had really been in the bathroom but having difficulties.

Deciding to go back into the auditorium, Bernie wrote a text message instead directly to Ara. She sat down on the lower bench of a bleacher away from her friends, taking an actual moment to write out a thoughtful statement:

[quote][b]I know that you are with Rob outside but I wish that you wouldn't have lied to me. I'm not as dumb as every one thinks I am. I wanted to be happy tonight, and have it be MY day for once. Isaac asked me to be his girlfriend tonight, and I didn't even get to be excited about it with you, because even during Rob's secret being revealed it became a day about YOU, YOU, YOU! I want you to know that I love you and you are my best friend, but I just-[/b][/quote] 

She deleted the entirety of the text replacing it with;

[quote][b]SO HAPPY 4 U BABE. TTYS?![/b][/quote]

Walking back to the table with her friends, she took back her position as she took a bite of her pizza, the slice since had run cold.