Always Us (We Were Us Series Book 2) by Unknown Read Free Book Online Page A

beyond livid.
    “Do you not see this?” She screamed in my face and held up a block of cheese with teeth marks in it.
    “Just cut off that part,” I said. I was half joking, but kind of serious at the same time.
    “Are you serious? I can’t afford to buy new food. She took a bite out of all the food!” She shook the cheese in my face.
    “I get that.”
    “She can’t get away with this stuff, Jenna! Why would she do this?”
    “I don’t know.” And I didn’t know. I mean, it wasn’t really unlike Michelle, she pulled pranks all the time, and I usually helped her. She was probably just blowing off some steam. Stef could be really intense sometimes.
    “You have to say something to her. She doesn’t listen to me.”
    “Okay,” I said and took the cheese from her flailing hand. “And I’ll buy some new food. Okay?”
    “Well, that’s not the point, but thanks.”
    “Is Michelle home?” I asked.
    “No, she’d be dead if she was.”
    I sighed. This was becoming comical now.
    “I’ll talk to her.”
    I helped Stefanie put all the food away then shut my bedroom door and fell face first onto my bed. I thought about the food. Michelle is bored. That’s the only explanation for her behavior. She loved to prank people and I think Stefanie was the wrong target. I remembered in high school, she’d filled the back of her dad’s truck with cow poop from the fields then put the poop under the door handles of all the cars in the freshman parking lot. Another time, she saran wrapped all the toilets in the teacher’s lounge and bathrooms. No one found out who it was though, but the junior class got in trouble, we almost lost our Prom.
    I mulled over what I’d tell Michelle. I’d probably just tell her to quit and hoped she’d listen. Maybe she could get a job, but then that would mean she’d need rides to and from work, and she’d already stopped getting rides to school, so probably not. I guess we’d just have to wait it out until next semester when she started more classes.
    Maybe I could get her to do all my homework for me. I laughed and rolled over onto my back.
    Andrew’s words from earlier came forward. I’m here and I want you . Josh had never said that he wanted me. We spent the whole summer together, we kissed, and we had sex in a moment of weakness when I needed him. When I wanted him, he wanted Michelle or something else.
    I pushed myself up and sat on the edge of the bed. I wandered over to the tiny closet Michelle and I shared. Everything was so crammed in there that I wasn’t even sure what was mine and what was hers anymore. I dug around and found a long sleeved black shirt and a pair of tight black athletic pants.
    I had plans last year to go to the campus gym every day. I wanted to stay in shape for softball season, but I failed miserably. I didn’t go a single day and I was terribly out of shape for softball last spring. I thought maybe I should start going again, but I laughed at myself. Who I was I kidding? I had enough of my plate as it was.
    I raided Michelle’s drawers for black tights. The girl had a strange obsession with tights. She wore them with everything, shorts, skirts, ripped jeans. I found two pairs and tossed them on the bed along with the shirt and pants. I’d start building my costume this week and hoped to have it done by the end of the week.
    A knock at the door snapped me out of my thoughts.
    “I’m here,” I said.
    “Hey,” Lauren said as she opened the door.
    “Hey, Lauren. What’s up?”
    “Did you know someone took a bite out of all the food?” She flipped her long blond hair and plopped down on the bed next to me.
    “Yeah. Michelle. She’s poking a bear there.”
    “Oh.” She twirled her hair around her index finger.
    “Are you going to the Halloween party?” she asked.
    “Yep, are you?”
    “Yeah, but I still don’t know what to go as. I’m bringing Brandon and he’s just wearing a Jason mask.” She scoffed.
    I laughed. “Who’s