I made it back to my room just in time to find Joelle perched on the stool of my vanity, wide-eyed and distressed. “Are you alright?” I blurted out upon the sight of her. She had done exactly half of her make up, looking quite lopsided with a thick application of black eyeliner to only one of her eyelids. The way she was looking at me though, made it seem like I was somehow the dishevelled one here.
“What’s happening? What did Caleb say?” She shouted back to me, jumping up from the stool and nearly knocking it over. I immediately raised my finger to my lips to shush her. The last thing I wanted was for anyone to overhear her panic and cause any more of a fuss. The rest of this day was to go as smoothly as possible, to make up for the chaos I had caused last night.
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