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across them. He turned around and yelled, “Don’t ever let her drive again!”
    Bret glared at Billy as he walked to the truck. Bret hopped down and walked towards me.
    “You having fun with Billy?”
    I shrugged. “Actually yes. We ate then we shopped…” Billy whistled and I turned just as
    he tossed the sunglasses he bought me towards me. I caught them easily and put them on smiling at Bret. “You like them?”
    He nodded his head. “Yes. They look good on you.”
    Billy called, “That’s because I picked them out.”
    Bret snarled. “So you and Billy dating now?”
    I frowned and pushed the sunglasses on top of my head. “Bret, I have to make friends,
    right? You’ll be gone in a week. And we just talked about this.”
    He scoffed and then glared at me. “Friends? Right, more like bed buddies.”
    I shoved Bret in the chest as hard as I could, making him stumble a few steps backwards.
    “Don’t ever say something like that about me again! You know I’m not like that! I can’t believe you said that. Here! Take this.” I tossed the bag with his necklace in it at him and walked away.
    Bret started walking towards me and I turned around and yelled, “Screw you! I’ve been your friend for over ten years and never ever done anything with you. How dare you assume that I’m with him for a few hours and I’m screwing him! If that’s what you think of me then you should just leave for Indiana now.”
    Bret called, “I’m sorry Artemis! Wait! Please!”
    I hurried to Billy’s truck where he stood with the door open. I pulled my sunglasses down so he wouldn’t see me crying and hopped up into the truck. He shut my door and got in the driver’s side, starting the truck quickly and pulling out of the parking lot. We wove our way down the parking garage while I cried as silently as I could. Billy put his hand on top of mine and rubbed small circles on it trying to be soothing. His touch began making me nauseous so I patted his hand to let him know it was alright and turned to face the passenger door. I let the tears fall then shook my head. I am not going to let him ruin my day. I turned to Billy. “Sorry about that Billy.”
    He rolled his eyes. “Bret is a jerk to you and you apologize to me? That’s a little
    backwards Artemis. I can’t believe he said that to you.”
    I shrugged. “He’s just upset. I’m sure he feels like a jerk especially after seeing the
    necklace.” I thought about it and realized that I didn’t want to see Bret… “Is it okay if I come over and eat chips and salsa and watch movies?”
    Billy smiled wide. “Yeah! My parents are still out of town so we’ll have the place to
    ourselves.”
    I smiled. “Cool. So, what are we watching?”
    He shrugged. “I have like a thousand DVDs so I’ll let you pick.”
    The trip passed quickly and we stopped in front of his house. I climbed out of his truck
    and grabbed a couple of his bags. He opened the door and waited for me to go in. I called over my shoulder, “Where do you want the bags?”
    He whispered, “Here is fine.” I jumped since I hadn’t realized how close he was. He
    laughed. “Sorry. I whispered so I wouldn’t scare you.”
    I smiled. “It’s alright.” I set the bags down in the entryway and walked to his kitchen. I had been to Billy’s house a few times to watch movies with everyone. I took out a soda for each of us and Billy took out the salsa and got the chips down. We walked to his living room and I gasped. A new gigantic TV sat taking up his entire living room wall. “Holy crap!” I exclaimed.
    “How big is that?”
    He shrugged. “It’s a seventy-three inch. We are going to get the eighty inch next month.”
    I turned to my right and gasped again. The wall was an array of shelves of DVDs. “What
    order are they in?”
    “Release year.”
    I walked to the wall of movies and started going through the titles. I finally decided on one of my favorite movies. “Here.”
    He looked at the movie