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Pretty Girls ⇼ Luke Hemmings

Dogfight.

After my first two classes, I met Mandy in the cafeteria. She suggested that we get our lunch to go and sit outside to eat. I didn’t complain because it was a lovely day outside and my skin has been looking a bit pale lately. Once we were sat down, her brown eyes beamed into me.
“I really like being your friend,” she told me.
“I like being your friend too,” I smiled, taking a bite of my burger.
“You know that you can stay with me… Like, if something goes wrong or you don’t feel comfortable with Lea. You can always stay with me,” she insisted, earning a confused look. Why was she acting so weird?
“Thanks,” I stared at her, trying to figure out what was going on in her head. “Why are you telling me that?” I asked, giving up. She took a deep breath and set her fork down.
“Don’t be mad at me,” she pleaded.
“I can’t promise anything,” I furrowed my brows.

“I shouldn’t have let you go to that party with Luke,” she finally explained.
“Why not? It was very nice,” she smoothed down the top of her hair. She had beautiful, naturally red hair that was pulled half up.
“It might have seemed that way but… Well… I had this friend. She went to one of those parties with Luke, too-” I cut her off.
“I’m not mad at Luke for being with other people,” I laughed. “He and I are hardly even together. We’ve just been fooling around a bit,”
“No, Val… Listen to me,” she nearly begged. “They bet against each other to see who can bring the worst date,” my breath got caught in my throat.
“What?” That was all I could manage to get out.
“I-I don’t know much about it other than just that. They make a stupid bet and my friend was a part of it. Luke took her to that party,” I felt like I could cry at any second. That couldn’t be true.

“What happened to her?” I asked, scared of the answer.
“She put on her best dress and did her hair and makeup. Then, at the party, she won. She won the ugliest date and Luke didn’t need her anymore. So, he told her why he brought her there, collected his winnings, and left her there so he could go buy cocaine,” her eyes were sad, but mine were sadder. Luke did that to me. And Ashton and Calum tried to as well. She has to be lying. No one could be that cruel. But what was I supposed to do? Ask Luke about it? There’s no way in hell he’d be honest with me. “After that, Luke told everyone about it and she dropped out. She was so embarrassed and everyone made fun of her for thinking that someone like Luke would ever go for someone like her,” Mandy told me, but I didn’t want to hear it anymore. “Val, I’m sorry. I didn’t know it was the same kind of thing until you told me about it after and I… I just had to tell you. I don’t want you to end up like Janine,” my eyes finally met Mandy’s again. End up like her? “She tried to kill herself,” Mandy told me as if reading my mind.

Luke spotted us from across the patio and began to make his way towards our table. I was quick to get up and walk in the opposite direction. This was all too much, I can’t bear to see him right now. Luke ran after me, calling my name and grabbing my arm to halt me to a stop.
“I didn’t realize how hot this dress was,” He smirked, letting go of me. Anger boiled inside of me and I couldn’t contain it any longer. How could he do that and go on acting like he cared about me? Like he was interested? I lifted my hand and brought it to his cheek, hard. He took a step back, surprised and placed a hand on his reddened skin.
“Don’t ever talk to me again!” I demanded. “You’re a pig!” I couldn’t stop the tears from forming in my eyes. “I hate you!” I yelled and began to storm off. Out of the corner of my eye, I watched as he took a step forward but promptly stopped. He knew why I’d blown up on him and I’m glad he didn’t come after me.

For the first time in my life, I skipped class without a medical health reason. I ran back to my dorm to find Lea sitting at her desk, watching Netflix.
“Why didn’t you tell me?” I yelled, tears staining my cheeks. She turned to me, a confused look on her face. “You let me go to that party and you knew!” I accused her. Her face quickly fell.
“Val, I-I couldn’t,” was all she said.
“You couldn’t? You couldn’t have just told me not to go? That nobody there gave a shit about me? That none of you ever gave a shit about me?”
“No, that’s not true. I do. I care about you. And… I-I tried, but… I don’t know. I don’t know why I didn’t tell you. It’s just that Michael would have been so mad and-” I cut her off.
“Michael would have been mad?” I asked. “I can’t believe you,” exhausted, I plopped down on my bed. Lea got up and sat next to me.

“You don’t understand,” she whispered. “That stupid party is everything to them and if I told you, I would have lost all my friends,” I rolled my eyes.
“Because friends are more important than the people you live with, right?” I asked sarcastically.
“It’s not as bad as it seems,” she softened.
“They put me in a contest! A contest to judge how ugly I am!” I couldn’t help but sob. She stayed silent for a long time.
“It’s called a Dogfight,” she finally spoke. “And there are rules. They have to be nice to you, they have to buy you a drink, and they have to get you to dance,” she stared at me, but my eyes were locked on my lap. I felt the compulsive desire to flatten out the crinkles that formed once I sat down. “I told you to go with Luke because he couldn’t stand you so I thought that he’d be rude and you’d be disqualified. It… It was the only way for me to help you,” I couldn’t believe how selfish she was being. The only way to help me? She could have told me. “But, Val, don’t you get it?” She asked and I finally looked at her. “Luke didn’t dance with you. He took you home. You got disqualified for not dancing. He tried to stop you from getting hurt,” I scoffed.

“If he didn’t want me to get hurt, he wouldn’t have taken me there in the first place,” I pointed out.
“Maybe he just didn’t realize how horrible he was being until everyone started to dance. The point is, he took you out of there before you could dance,” he tried to stop it. That doesn’t make him as horrible as I thought, and I regretted slapping him. But he still deserved it. Not only for doing it to me, but for doing it to all those other girls, too. “That was his fifth Dogfight,” she told me. “You were the only girl he’s ever left with before the final judging,” I shook my head.
“It still doesn’t make it right,” my voice was quiet.
“No, it doesn’t. And I wish I would have just told you,” she reached over to grab my hand and I didn’t stop her.

“It’s funny. You know, I actually thought that for once in my life, someone wanted me. Hell, I thought that three people wanted me. But it was all a lie. No, it wasn’t a lie. It was worse. It was a joke. I’m a joke, just like Luke said the first day we met. All I am is a joke. It’s just… Funny,” I pinched my eyes shut, trying to stop the tears from falling. Lea shook her head.
“There’s nothing funny about it,” she told me. “It’s plain horrible and I see that now. I’ve never been so close to it before, so I didn’t really care. But seeing you like this, oh my god, Val I’m so sorry,” I was sick of hearing everyone’s apologies for the day. None of them would make this right. “If you don’t ever want them in our room again, I understand,” her phone rang from the desk, but she ignored it.
“I just want to take a nap,” I whispered, pulling my hand away. Lea got up and resumed her work and I silently cried myself to sleep.

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Comments

I've just read this story in about 24 hours and all I can say is Oh My God! How have you written something (and someone) so perfect?

Lois22 Lois22
5/30/19

urgh I love this

Prinny1321 Prinny1321
5/29/19

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Arrogant Boys!!!

Can you tell me what the next One will be called please?

@Prinny1321
I promised I would finish it, and I'm finishing it!