POV: Grace Salmont
It was like a normal day of college for me. Listening to the classes attentively but not really understanding a word muttered out by the teacher. My mind kept drifting off different places, it wasn't really a normal day because Penelope is no longer sitting close to us than usual.
I wish everything could just go back to normal but after everything that happened with me and Penelope. I doubt that's going to be the case. Ever since that monster, Claude came to the picture. I could feel our friendship fading away. I mean we didn't really do anything wrong right? We just did what we needed to do because we were worried about our friend. We did the right thing but why does it hurt so much?
"Alright, class! We are done for today! You may all take your leave now." The teacher tells all of us. Making all of the other students cheer for the end of classes since they never really liked the subject we had right now. I sighed, looking over to Penelope who is at the other side of the room, keeping to herself.
"Yuri. Did we do the wrong thing? I mean we did just disturb them and we ended up pissing off Penelope but that's because we're worried about her right? We had good intentions right?" I asked Yuri what he thought about the situation.
"Honestly, I'm pretty sure we did the right thing. I mean Claude is a bit of a creep taking advantage of Penelope like that but since Penelope is suffering her little cinderella syndrome that's why our approach didn't help her since it attempted to break her little fantasy world." He responded straightforwardly, fixing the collars of his pink cardigan.
"Should we talk to her right now? I mean we can't keep ignoring each other. I can't stand Penelope ignoring me. We're supposed to be best friends you know?" I ranted to Yuri who's clearly feeling indifferent.
"I guess it's worth a try to talk to her though you do realize that bad decisions are sometimes paved with good intentions. People don't really care about intentions they just look at what happened. So let's talk to her. Worth a shot at least." Yuri agreed to it.
Yuri then proceeds to make everyone leave early by making some sort of distraction so that it would only be Penelope and me alone together in the classroom. My heart was beating so fast as if that's the first time we've seen each other.
I then see her, putting her books inside her bag and preparing to leave. Taking a deep breath and clearing my throat, I used up all my courage to come closer to her. "We need to talk Penelope." I stop her, cornering her route to the exit of the classroom.
She remained silent, avoiding eye contact with me. "I don't want to talk to you." She scoffed me off, pushing me off the way but with full force, I grabbed her hand to keep her in place. "We weren't done talking!" I shouted at her, catching her attention to look at me directly in the eye.
"Why are you acting like this? I thought we were friends! I told you that Claude is bad for you and yet you don't listen to me. Yo-" She spoke, disrupting my line of words. "So what?" She said in a hollow voice.
"Wha.. what?" My voice started stuttered. "Are you an idiot!? Don't you realize that you started to get some weird changes when you started "dating" this guy! Can't you see that h-"
"Shut the hell up! You're just jealous that he loves me and he doesn't like you! Don't go acting jealous on me now, pretending that you're concerned, you just want me to break up with him since you wanted that hunk all to yourself just like you always do!" Penelope finally snapped, shouting loudly at me with her eyes full of rage. She was really serious about her dislike towards me. I can feel that this isn't just about Claude anymore. This is more of a personal-level issue.
"Wha.. what do you mean jealous? I told you that he's bad for you! I'm saying that because I'm concerned about you not because I'm jealous!" The tears started to flow down on my face like rain. While she remained rather angry with me.
"Oh please. Don't go trying to do your fake crying now. Grace! You always take everything from me! Don't you realize how it hurts me that all the attention just goes to you effortlessly? Can't you see that I literally have to wear so many layers of make-up just to get noticed and you just act yourself and you get everyone to talk to you!"
Her vision started to darken and her tone of voice started to become more aggressive. It's as if it's no longer Penelope that I'm talking to... "I finally found a man that'll take care of me and loves me and you're just out here acting bitter along with Yuri! Isn't it good enough for you that your family loves you while my family treats you like shit? They barely even care or check up on me. Isn't it good enough for you that you always get better grades than me and would always take the honor spots from me because you're just smarter?"
"I..I.. no.. that's not what I meant I-" I was a lost for words at what she was saying. She's really more in a trance than I had thought she was..
"Anyways! I need to go so stop bothering me got it? Since you guys said that you're doing this because we're friends then we're just not going to be friends anymore ya?" She says it so nonchalantly like our friendship didn't matter to her.
"Bye. I need to go. Stop ruining everything got it?" She snarkily leaves the classroom, leaving me on the floor with a broken heart and a broken friendship. Is this really the end of our friendship?