Drift

Chapter 3

After school Emma and Eli invited me to come over to Eli's so I could meet Talia. I texted Callie real quick, and Sent a "hey," to Josh on my walk to Eli's. I preferred to walk, so I could text Josh a little before I got there. And the scenery was a plus.

Josh ended up not getting back to me before I got to Eli's. He was probably hanging out with his friends, or playing football. That's all we did in my hometown, party and hangout, go to football games, go to school...

I guess you could say I was part of a popular group at my old school in New York, but not the bitchy kind. Or at least I wasn't the bitchy kind... Some of Josh and I's friends on the other hand, that's a different story.

I arrived at the address that Eli gave me, and walked up the steps to ring the doorbell. The door was answered by Emma, who had frosting on her face.

"Oh you arrived just in time Anika! Eli was going to eat your cupcake," she said nonchalantly.

"Well Eli, if I do not get a cupcake I will call satan into this house!" I called loud enough for him to hear in the house. Emma let me inside and led me to the kitchen were Eli stood trying very hard to look innocent.

"Don't even try that Eli, give Anika the damn cupcake," Emma said sternly.

"Fine. Here ya go Anika," he said as he tossed me a cupcake. It was a red velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting, and it felt like angels were break dancing on my taste buds. Yes, they were that good.

"Talia! Come and meet Anika," Emma called.

A tall girl with really curly dark brown hair came out of what looked like a living room. She had light brown skin, soft brown eyes and her hair was in wavy ringlet curl type things, if that makes any sense.

"Hola, sir. I'm Talia," She said extending her hand to me.

"Anika," I replied shaking hers. "Sir?"

"Don't take offense I call everyone sir."

"Well, now that you are officially part of our little group Anika, time to have some fun," Emma said wiggling her eyebrows.

"No meds today, Emma?" Eli said with a smirk.

"Of course not. They make me feel like Godzilla in slow motion," she replied, trying to imitate a slow godzilla.

"Meds?" I asked.

"Yah, she has ADD, so she takes meds to help her focus," Talia explained to me.

"So I have a way better imagination than you, you, and you," Emma said giggling and pointing to all of us individually.

"I won't disagree on that," Eli said raising his eyebrows. "Your art is amazing."

"Oh Emma can I see it?" I asked.

"Sure. One second, just let me grab my sketchbook and I'll meet you guys in Eli's room."

We all climbed the stairs and Talia and Eli led me to a dark blue room. We sat on a blue fuzzy carpet, and from there I could see 'E+O' written on the wall along with some other doodles. I haven't even met Oliver yet and I already thought they were an adorable couple.

Emma sat down next to me after five minutes, with a black sketchbook in hand. She handed the sketchbook to me, and I flipped through the pages.

There was a drawing of a zombie pinup girl, the joker, Ron Swanson, and the latest one caught my eye. There was a girl with an umbrella, and a lot of different colored, shaped and sized eyes in the sky above her. The eyes were crying rainbow tears, and they were falling onto the ground and the umbrella.

It was beautiful and graceful, but at the same time, it looked like something that somebody on ecstasy would see.

"These are great Emma! Where'd you learn to draw like this?" I asked her, clearly impressed.

"I kind of just taught myself. Now guys, we should play truth or dare," Emma replied, her voice full of mischief while saying the last sentence.

We all agreed, and we played for about an hour. I learned a lot about them in that one hour. Talia is a fantastic singer, and she likes doing nails and hair, she's also a cheerleader. She's hillarious, and doesn't seem the type to be a cheerleader, but she is. She also loves Bring me the horizon, and a lot of other bands. We were definitely going to get along.

Emma is a great artist, as I explained before, and loves double stuffed Oreos and candy corn. She plans on dying the tips of her hair pink, and wants to marry a punk when she gets older. Weird, I know. She loves old music and little kid shows.

Eli is openly gay, He loves writing, and he also loves food. Hes a freak about his hair, and he makes hilarious dirty jokes.

We were about to finish truth or dare, and Talia was left to ask someone.

"Anika, truth or dare?" She asked me.

"Dare," I replied courageously and laughed.

"Okay," Talia replied and an evil smirk grew on her face. "I dare you, Anika, to go to Kade Carpenders house, and ask if he has a spare condom."

"Oh my god!" I exclaimed as Eli and Emma started laughing. "How am I even going to get there?" I asked, hoping it could be my loophole of freedom.

"The luxury of having a car," Talia replied while jingling her car keys.

Oh god.