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I'm currently in the gym, cleaning the floors with nothing but a cloth. Jess is a couple meters from me sitting on a bench with her hands in her lap, her expression is angry. Let me rewind a bit. This morning me and Jess were a bit too competitive and may have broken a school award. We were just arguing over some school test and it started to get physical, she pushed me into the award box and it fell over and broke. It was her fault by the way, so now we are both sitting here cleaning the whole gym, well at least I am. I look up at Jess, “Are you going to help?” my eyes wince at her. She doesn't lift her head up at all and continues to stare at the ground. I stare at her for a few more seconds before giving up, I chuck the rag onto the ground and sit on a separate bench next to her. Jess sighs and looks at me, “are you just not cleaning anymore?” she says. I scoff “it’s your turn now” i say. She gets up and stands in front of me. "This was your fault, so you clean, okay?” her voice gets louder each word that comes out.
I stare blankly, not moving a muscle. She gives up and sits back down.
After an hour, Jess starts to complain about everything. “Ugh i want to go home, this is boring” She whines and whines. I stare blankly, my head is creased from being annoyed. “Maybe if you helped, you would be home..” I whine under my breath. She looks at me with a hurt face. “This isn't my fault, you pushed me first.” she says, ”you were being an idiot then pushed me harder into the award box” i raise my voice. Jess stands up and walks towards me. “This is stupid.” She says. I didn’t expect her to say that. She hesitates but then looks at me, “I'm sorry.” She explains. I look at her confused, she's sorry? What is going on? I try to speak but I have no words. “I-” I don't really know what to say. She stands there in front of me looking down. “I get too competitive sometimes,” she says. I look around awkwardly not very sure of what is going on. “Yeah, me too.” I chuckle slightly. We both smile a little bit but try to hide it. “So, where do you need to be tonight? That's so important?” I ask. She looks at me, “Hm?”. “you just seem really anxious to get out of here, that's all.” She does a half smile and turns away. “Well, I'm going on a date with this guy, he's kind of a pushover and I just didn't want to be late.” I nod. “I'm sorry.” I say. She sighs and turns to me again. “So what about you? Any boys in your boring life?” she says. I chuckle and roll my eyes. “Uhh no boys that's for sure.” Her face is confused, “No boys, at all?” she questions. I hesitate but then spill it out, “Well uh, i'm a lesbian.” i say. The whole school already knew this, I don't understand how she didn't. Her face is in shock. “A..lesbian?” She says. I nod. Before she can say anything else the principal opens the gym door. “Alright ladies, you're off for tonight, get home now.” We both look at each other awkwardly, then we both jump up from the ground grabbing our things and then we leave. That was a weird day, Awkward and fucking weird. She was so shocked at the idea of a lesbian, if she's homophobic I am going to hate her 100 times more. This does not mean we are friends just because we apologized, screw her still. kind of.