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“Um, Kendra?!”

I turned and faced her.

“We don't need to be enemies anymore, right?! Like... what we did in the past.” She laughed weakly. “And I know we did a lot of things in the past, but this doesn't need to stay between us anymore, right?”

Something inside me made me rethink our closeness. I didn't trust her. I could be a sane person and not let her be raped at a party, but that doesn't mean I liked her. Right?!

“Oh, yeah... we're teammates. Don't worry.”

I gave her a faint smile and turned my back to her once again.

We weren't friends. We would never be.

Arriving at the dorm, the only thing I could conclude was that I had been thinking a lot about Veronica and that was ridiculous. I needed to stop.

“Wow, I thought you had been kidnapped!” Jaz started talking as soon as I walked through the door.

“Exaggerated as always…” I joked.

She laughed as she put on a face mask. Sidney, on the other hand, was watching, or rather hearing, something on the laptop while painting her nails.

“I need to shower and study for Econ.” I announced, immediately regretting it. There was no need to keep giving satisfaction like that. “Well, if you need me, I'll probably stay in the room.”

“Okay…” Jaz whispered , without moving many muscles in her face.

Jazmine helped me put a tight band around my arm, wrapping it around my elbow. I was in a lot of pain in that spot that morning and Karlee asking me to do one of the girls' stuns took a lot out of my arm.

“I need to get blackout drunk, that's it.” I declared, sure of what I wanted. A party and nothing to think about, completely ignoring my responsibilities.

“We have practice twice a day this week, Kendra.” Jaz repeated the information as if I didn't already know.

“Blackout drunk!”

“Since when are you so irresponsible?” Veronica threw herself next to me, sweating like a pig while drinking sports drinks. Her onyx dark eyes stared at me, waiting for some kind of answer.

“Since I work too hard to get everything I want. Normal people have coping mechanisms, you know?” I mocked.

Jaz opened her mouth to say something, but Veronica stopped her, turning completely towards me, leaving her face close to mine.

“So what, are you telling me that the rich preppy girl wants to become a reckless person?”

“Actually, I'm not telling you anything, because I wasn't talking to you.” I take another band to put in my hand.

“How rude…” She mocked with a playful smile on her face. “One day she helps me, takes me to a party, the next she just kicks me... it's hard to keep someone like that around, Kendra.”

Her perfume was permeating my personal space.

“We're not friends, I told you that, but if you need my attention so much...” She didn't let me finish the sentence.

“I don't want your attention, you self-centered bitch, I was just trying to be nice. Aren't we supposed to have a truce?”

I smiled and shook my head.

“We'll never be able to have a real truce, Veronica.”

“Girls...” Jaz tried to speak, pulling us into an area where there might be some reason, but the truth was that all I felt for Veronica was anger.

I was angry that she was good at what she did, that she was a worthy competitor.