Julia becomes Lucy's new best girl friend or something of that nature, because suddenly she's everywhere. With Lucy, that is. And where Lucy went, so did Will, which meant that Jayden usually wasn't far behind, along with the rest of their friends.

The girl was shy and extremely quiet at first, but Jayden sometimes swore that Lucy was magical or something because pretty soon Julia was smiling and laughing along with everyone else.

She wore less blue, and more clothes from the colour spectrum, as Lucy and Faith had taken her shopping one day.

She came with Lucy to lacrosse practice and they sat in the bleachers and watched, most days. Like today, only practice had already ended and Lucy is hovering over Will, who had been blindsided which resulted in a black eye.

Jayden heard Julia approaching before she actually came into his line of view.

She took a seat on the bench beside him. "Is something wrong, Jayden?"

He'd been thinking about Faith again, as per usual, and about how to confess to her. He'd never been particularly great at expressing his feelings, and ones of this magnitude? It'd probably be pretty catastrophically, at best.

"Nah, I just…" he's just going to lie, say that he's tired or something equally as believable, but the way she's looking at him—like he could tell her his deepest, darkest secrets or the ones of the universe, and she wouldn't tell a single soul—make him rethink it. "Julia, have you ever been in love with someone?"

It comes out abrupt and kind of angry, and she practically jumps out of her skin. He expects her to shake her head or look confused.

Instead, she avoids his gaze and fingers her pale pink cardigan. "Um, J—Julia has a vague idea of it, yes."

He raises a brow, but decides not to comment. "Okay, so, did you tell them? You know, that you liked them and whatever?"

She gives him a sideways glance, and laughs a little. It's sweet and sounds sort of like summer. That is, if summer had a sound. "Ah, Jayden, it's kind of a complicated situation."

"So you didn't," he concludes, and she smiles and looks away.

"No, Julia didn't."

Jayden leans forward a bit, because this is a side of the girl he hasn't ever really seen before. She doesn't talk about her personal life much, and he's curious. "Any reason why not? I mean, like a specific one?"

She tilts her head back and looks up at the sky, eyes filled with something. Clouds are gathering, dark and furious, but he doesn't care right now. "Mm, Julia doesn't think he feels the same way. She guesses it's kind of dumb, falling in love with someone who probably won't ever love her back, but," she laughs, and it sounds flat, "Julia doesn't have the best track record in making the best decisions."

"Oh," he says, because he doesn't know how else to reply.

Julia brushes a stray curl aside, and smiles a little. "We'd better go, it's going to rain."