“What isn’t she good at?” Lydia said to the group, with a smile on her face as she nudged her girlfriend sitting on the porch beside her, “That’s why she’s my best friend.” It was a group ritual to roast eachother and giving jordan a hard time for her constant perfectionism was just part of the night. “It’s not my fault that I’m smoother than butter, it’s a gift and a curse,” said jordan as she took her phone and leaned back in the chair next to her childhood friend. “Take a selfie with me, with your perfect friend.” The girls laughed together, it had been a long time since they all spent a whole night together this way.

Tonight things would get interesting, as soon as Ariana, the quiet but hood member of the group, opened the text from her boyfriend the whole vibe changed. “Yo, jordan. Tell me why Aaron asked me if you and his sister got problems?”

“Who, Reyna? I barely even talk to her, we were good, atleast I thought.”

Reyna is Arron’s twin sister, and the current girlfriend of Jordan’s ex boyfriend, santi.

She was polar opposite of Aaron. While he had no problem fitting into the social groups in their town, she suffered from self-isolation and a strange paranoia she was not afraid to show others. And unknown to the group at this time, she suffered from a secret grudge against jordan.

“Wait wait wait, okay now it’s coming back to me,”

Leaning forward to talk to the group, with an irritated look. “You know my middle name is Reyna right? Well Everyone would call me by my middle name in school and Reyna was always in my classes. She got real weird when they confused us.” Lydia started to laugh as she usually did when drama would happen with one of her friends.

“Let me guess, she wasn’t down with being compared to Ms.Smoother than butter.”

“Girl, yes. But it’s a lil deeper than that. I guess she almost didn’t make it when her and Aaron were born, she almost suffocated but they got her out but it did something to her mind.”

“I was so friendly to her, but She used to act like I took something from her.”

“Put it this way, if dropping hints were like throwing rocks, she dropped a whole ass boulder on me,”

“I never really understood what she was accusing me of, but I can take a hint, I just brushed it off.”

Ariana leaned into Lydia’s shoulder, giggling as she said “That bitch did witchcraft on her.”

The whole group laughed together.

“Well I guess that’s the price for having extreme composure?” Again said Lydia while still giggling to herself. “Moral of the story, don’t be so perfect because someone might do witchcraft on you for it.” The last thing jordan said getting up to walk away from the group.

Lydia crossed her legs, watching to make sure jordan went into the house. “I give her a lot of shit but I can’t remember a time when she ever hesitated to help Reyna when we were growing up, jordan is definatly on her high horse most of the time but she had no problem coming down off it to help somebody else. I see why she doesn’t play into the drama.”

“Agreed” Ariana chimed in.

“When we used to stay up all night on the chat line trying to be cute, I met a guy and when I was going to meet him jordan came with me, he had a friend.” Embarrassed to admit it Lydia continued “I thought he would think I was ugly next to jordan and I told her, she asked me if I wanted her to mess up her hair or if she needed to act crazy, she would to make me look better.” The girls both looked toward the house, watching for jordan.

“She would make herself look like a psycho to help her friend, that’s why when I say Reyna is trippin off the wrong person,I mean it.”

Wrapping yarn around a photo, sitting on her bed in her dark room, Reyna repeated the same few words as she continued to wrap the picture and reading from a book.

Over the years reyna had grown to really hate jordan, as she also grew impatient with her delusions that something was in fact taken from her. The group of friends she had were not like jordan and her friends. They only fueled her fire, playing on her paranoia for their own benefit and vendetta.

While beautiful, Reynas anger without an outlet to let it go, became obsessed with magic and gifted in the area of all things that came with it also, unafraid to display her gifts in an intense way, her beauty was shadowed by it.

She was binding Jordan’s photo, with the intention of stopping what ever good fortune,luck,familial relationships,potential love she would have along with it.

“If I could walk around with a bag over my head and two left shoes all day, I would,” annoyed as she walked past the same guys playing dice on the corner jordan walked past every day with Lydia on their way home from work.

Looking at her friend next to her “why? It would only start a new trend or tik tok challenge. Then i would have to do it because I can’t let my best friend look stupid alone. Then where would we be?” Lydia said in her fake sweet voice, as she always would when jordan was feeling down about her strange point of view that the world was being unfair to her.

Jordan stopped walking and looked at Lydia with her “are you serious” look.

Lydia stopped and turned back “I’m sorry but Im not going to feel bad that your blessed in life. Boo hoo, so you get whistled at on the way home and even though it wouldn’t be so bad if they weren’t nasty,” she said laughing again like she would at the wrong times. “So what jordan, the town crazy girl does weird things alone in her room to sabotage you?” While still laughing harder now. “If Aaron wasn’t a nosey ass brother, you wouldn’t even know that happened and you wouldn’t care or be feeling this way.”

“I wouldn’t think too much about it.”

“None of that is even real, so can we let it go girl? I’ll tell Aaron to pop in on her next time, maybe a little shock that he saw will get her to see how weird that is.” They started to walk again, close to home finally. “Okay I guess your right, but I mean it, next time your going to catch me outside in a paper bag and two left shoes.” They both laughed so loud, people walking past stared at them.