It takes me the rest of the sleepless night to decide how to tell Izzie. I know I'm too much of a baby to tell her in person, but I don't want to not tell her, because she needs to know that Nate basically cheated on her. I finally decide to slip a note in her locker when I get to school. I know it's pathetic that I won't just tell her in person, but whatever.
I try to slip the note through the vent in Izzie's locker, but the paper is too thick. "Come on." I say out loud. I keep trying, until I hear "Did you write me a love note?" Izzie says, as she walks up to me. My cheeks immediately turn red. "Oh, hey. Hey Iz." I say awkwardly, as I try to hide the note. "What is that?" She asks, smiling widely. "You know what, maybe later." I tell her. "Let me see." She insists. "No, it's not anything, it's nothing." She starts to grab at the note in my hand, and I try to pull away. "It's nothing really." I say. "I wanna read nothing, I love nothing. Nothing's my favorite." She says, smiling. She takes the note from me. Shit. She opens it, and I say, "I was gonna tell you in person, but I chickened out. So I wrote it, obviously." "You and Nate kissed?" She asks, looking up at me. "No, no, no. He kissed me." I say, pointing at the note. "That asshole. I can't believe he did that." She says, angrily. "I know." I reply. "I'm gonna kill him!" She yells. I nod. "Do you want to talk about it?" I ask, glad she doesn't think it's my fault. "Nope. I just need time to think about it." She says, as she starts to walk away from me. "Sorry, I'm not good at this." I tell her. "Yeah." She walks away. Shit. She's definitely mad at me. It wasn't my fault! I would never do that to her. Why would she even think that?
I tell Evan about it when I get home from school. He's pissed at Nate, but glad that I told him about it. "I know that Izzie and I can get through this. I hope, anyway. I feel like we're supposed to be friends." I tell him. When I say friends, it sounds weird. I brush it off. "You'll be okay." He promises." "I hope so."