Annabelle POV
Ever since Michael left, I haven’t been speaking much with Rita. It puzzled me that she blamed me for his departure. I get that Rita was into Michael but him leaving, that was on both of us. We both let him down. For two good weeks, Rita avoided me like I was a plaque. When we had class together, which was on most occasions of the day, she would sit across me from the other end of the room without much of a glance. To make matters worse, whenever she passed me, she never uttered a single word. That was too much unfair treatment considering that we had been best friends ever since we started going school here. To imagine that she hated me because of a boy…
Things between me and Shane were complicated. If you recall correctly, we had planned to go all the way after the school
