Smile Again

Chapter 7

Jackie finally arrived a few minutes later to the sleepover and we make base camp in Rose's room. I really adore her room, I swear I like everyone else's room but mine. She has a single size bed with a cute little night stand next to it. She has a small closet with a bouncy chair in the middle of it and a medium size dresser.

"Woah, cool room Rose," Amelia says and looks around.

"Thank you. I forgot you've never seen it before," Rose says and sits on her bed. Jackie joins her. I go over and sit on the bouncy chair and Amelia sits on the floor. 

"We can't all sleep in here though, can we?" 

"I mean we could, but I just thought we could sleep in the living room on the couch and floor." Rose answers.

"Cool, cool," Amelia says. 

We're just chit chatting when someone knocks on the door to her room. Amelia stands up to get out of the way and accidently lands in my lap. 

"Whoopsie, Delia. I'm sorry," Amelia says, clearly embarrassed.

"It's okay," I say, blushing. My hands don't know where to go without it being awkward. Rose and Jackie are trying not to laugh at me. The person knocks again and Amelia goes and sits on the bed.

"Come in," Rose shouts.

In walks her little brother, James. He's only about ten years old and I think he has a little boy crush on Jackie. 

"Can I hang out in here with you guys?" James asks, with puppy eyes.

"No, Get out!" Rose says and shoves him out the door. He tries to come back in but she locks the door. I'm still trying to process that Amelia was sitting on my lap a few seconds ago. 'I'd do anything for her to do that again.' I think to my self.

"Ayo, Delia," Jackie snaps her fingers in my face. 

"What?" I ask.

"Wanna see if we can go downtown for a few hours?" 

"Yeah sure," 

We all get up and follow Rose to her mom. She asks her if they could get a ride downtown for a few hours and then pick them up. Her mom agrees and we get ready to go. We're almost out the door when I realized I need to grab my money that I brought with. 

"I'll be right back," I say and rush into the room.

I'm only gone a few seconds when I hear Rose shouting to me.

"I'm coming, I'm coming!" I shout and come back into the room.

"I didn't need to know that," She says, "Amelia might though," She whispers into my ear.

"You are so annoying!" I say and smack her. "Let's go!"

Her mom drops us all off at the town square and says that'll she will pick us up around 6 pm for dinner. We wave good bye and decide to head down to our local Wesco for drinks. We'll be downtown for roughly four hours. We're discussing what drink to get when I sense something and stop.

"What's wrong?" Amelia asks me.

"Shhh," I say, "I think we're being followed." I turn around cautiously and see a punch of guys standing a few feet behind us. One of them being my ex, Aidan. "Let's just be careful alright?" They all nod in agreement. 

I tell my friends that we should get slushies and mix them each with a different energy drink and they agree. We each get a different slushy and different energy drink that'll we will try at the marina playground. Aidan and his buds followed us into Wesco but we try our best to ignore it. They wait outside for us and trip Jackie, making her fall on the cement.