The three of us stared at the teen in shock as he leaned back in his chair. The shock quickly turned to rage as Lily glared angrily at him. Me and Rose narrowed our eyes as we folded our arms across our chest.

“You did what?” Lily shouted. “The fuck for?”

“You really don’t remember me do you?” He asked with a raised eyebrow. “Fourth grade. We were best friends. All four of us and we did everything together. Hell, I even liked Daisy a bit for a while. And yet in fifth grade, you guys just suddenly stopped talking to me. And it wasn’t because you guys knew I had liked Daisy because I told no one.” We all looked at each other in anger as I snapped my fingers with a faint blush.

“I remember you!” I exclaimed. “That’s why your name was so familiar sounding! Lily, Rose, we were friends with him back in school. I don’t remember why we quit being friends with you. But I can assure you, we didn’t mean it.”

“Oh that’s lovely to hear,” Micro Chips said sarcastically. “You three meant and you know it. It was probably because I had gotten glasses at that time. Wouldn’t wanna be seen with the nerdy four eyes, now would you?”

“That’s not true!” Rose wiped a tear away from her eye. “You could have ruined our lives with what you said! And you screwed over those three girls. We hated them and I almost hate no one!”

“So what?” He snapped. “You three deserve to have your lives ruined. After all, having my three best friends suddenly abandon me ruined mine for a bit there. At least I found Starlight. She’s a good friend. Unlike what you three were.”

“Bro,” Lily growled as she stepped forward. “Why not come talk to us? Why not tell us what you were feeling? We could have talked this out and sorted shit out instead of this. We could have been friends again.”

“Because I didn’t wanna be friends ever again with you or your sisters. I wanted you three to suffer,” he answered angrily. “You won’t believe how long I’ve been living with this. You three made me feel like I wasn’t good enough for anyone to be friends with. You needed to know how that felt.”

“But why? I’m sorry if we hurt you,” Rose mumbled as she stepped forward. “That never was our intention. I remember now what happened. There was that whole cooties joke going around and everyone stayed away from each gender for a bit. It was just a joke but I guess we took it too far accidentally. I am so, so sorry. I guess we just forgot to ever say that. You seemed like you never wanted to talk to us again in fifth grade. Can you forgive me at least? I don’t want to live with that. And as we got older, I guess we just forgot about you. Our memories of back then is fuzzy.”

A tense silence fell over us as he glared at us, standing up. I don’t know why Rose wanted to be friends with him again. What we did was wrong now that the memories are hitting me but this is beyond that. We were just playing a game as kids. Not spreading rumors.

“No,” he said and Rose’s face fell. “I have Starlight. She’s the only friend I need. I don’t need you girls anymore. You showed your true colors. I felt no one ever wanted to talk to me again. You were my first friends for God’s sake. I was the only one people avoided for being a nerd and being into all forms of computers and robotics. I hate you all.” We collectively flinched at that as Lily squeezed my shoulder.

“Let’s go,” she said coldly. “This is pointless. He made up his mind about this. We can’t change his mind.” I nodded and glared at him as I walked out of the room with Lily. He and Rose maintained eye contact.

“I’m so sorry Micro Chips,” Rose whispered and ran out of the room, pushing us aside and walking ahead of us.

“What now?” I asked angrily. To say I was angry was a understatement.

“We all screwed up. This was just a huge misunderstanding on all of our parts. We should have tried to talk to him no matter what we thought in fifth grade,” Rose whimpered as Lily hugged with one arm. “I don’t like knowing people hate me. It’s an awful feeling.”

“We can go tell Principal Celestia and she’ll punish him. We did kinda fuck up but he didn’t need to do that. We all could have sat down and talked it out but it didn’t happen. We all have to choose our paths like he chose his. Maybe one day he will change his mind,” I reassured my younger sister.

“We shouldn’t tell on him,” Rose commented firmly.

“Seriously?” Lily asked incredulously. “He got us ostracized!”

“He screwed up our lives!” I added.

“And we screwed his up,” Rose retorted. “I feel responsible. I don’t want anymore guilt if he gets expelled. He has to live with what he did. Isn’t it a better punishment for us to see him have to live with that than him getting suspended, expelled or arrested?” Lily stared at Rose before she nodded with a sigh.

“Okay,” Lily said finally. “I’ll keep it a secret if you really want Rosie.” I tilted my head curiously at her. I expected Lily to be the most eager to turn him out of all of us.

“And you Daisy?” Rose asked hopefully as she and Lily looked at me. As much as I wanted revenge, I didn’t wanna hurt my sister. And we already have a certain trio of girls to make up with. I sighed in defeat and nodded. Rose squealed and hugged me. “Thank you!” I grunted and nodded again.

“No problem sis.”

Author's Note

If anyone is like oh he fucked up yes he did. But for a reminder, teenagers are stupid and do stupid things so I wanted to show that a bit here. He might return later on and get redeemed who knows.

I also wanted to have Rose be the forgiving type. Daisy is too but she's more open to getting people in trouble. And well, Lily just holds grudges easily.