“WHY DOES HE EVEN STICK around?” Julie asked Claire at school on one of the few days that they were without Lucas. “He has a job. Why go through high school? Why even exist if he’s just a thing?”
Claire shook her head. “I am going to preface this by saying I’m your best friend, but the way you turned him down was a real b***h thing to do.”
Julie’s mouth dropped. “Did you just call me a ‘b***h’?”
“He was made for you! You even asked someone to make him and then you use him to get Lucas? That’s so cold.”
“People aren’t made, Claire,” Julie tried to explain. “Victor is an ‘it.’”
Claire just shook her head.
“If you’re so in love with him why don’t you date him?”
Claire looked away.
“Oh my god, you asked him out, didn’t you? How long did you wait after I turned him down?”
“Why do you c
