The girls and I had been meeting at the park every Tuesday after school to share the drama and today it seemed that even the trees were closely listening to the news that could make or break everything.

“Taylor? Do you want to start?” Maddie asked me, her eyes curious and impatient.

“Umm… sure. I guess….” I answered nervously, and I felt all eyes on me. I hated doing this. People’s reputations and their opinions of me could go way down just because I decided to butt in to their lives. But that was the price to stay with Maddie and Ava’s friend group. And I was sure that the others felt the same.

“You… you aren’t gonna like this,” I warned Ava, before she could get mad at me.

“What do you mean?” She asked cautiously, not wanting any drama that had to do with her, unless it was good, of course.

“Well… it’s about Logan.”

“What about Logan?” Maddie interrupted, not wanting to miss out on this, obviously.

“I…” I hesitated, Logan’s name stirring something in me, before continuing, “I saw him kiss Maya. Behind the bleachers on the field. Yesterday.”

In the seconds that passed, everything turned to calamity, with Maddie and the others gasping, texting their friends while an angry Ava called her boyfriend, who would soon be her ex.

I put my head in my hands, the guilt eating me up. Yet, secretly, I had struck back at Ava and Logan, even if I still loved him. And this was only the beginning.

I smiled, a wicked, antagonistic thing when I got a message from Maya telling me, _You owe me, Tay. _

_Step one, complete_, I thought to myself as I heard Ava crying over the phone to Logan. _But if only the next step was as easy…_

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