Å LITTLE BRÅVER

21 -°TAKE A THONG?

•SALOME ALAN•

"I'm sorry I ran away, I was so scared." Zara's voice pierces through the speaker of my phone. I sigh for the umpteenth time, stuff another summer dress in my bag and take the phone closer to me.

"Really? After leaving me stranded?" I ask, trying to sound as serious as ever. If only she knew how it ended up been a blessing in disguise for me though. I was happy but still... I still need to know why she abandoned me.

"No... It's not like that," Zara tells me. I hear honk of cars beneath but decide not to pay attention.

Looking at my phone on the fluffy pitch center rug, I blindly tuck in another dress. "Then it's like what?"

"Did Mr. Alex punish you for it?" She asks and I hear her jam the door of a vehicle closed.

I open my mouth to speak but close it back. This isn't heading anywhere. I loved been with him, my teacher, in his space. Zara was just scared and disappeared into thin air. I would do the same... I think.

"I'm downstairs," She enunciates, pulling me out of my reverie. A small frown grease my forehead as I quickly get up from the bunch of clothes surrounding me, my legs stumbling from seating in one position for too long.

I draw my blinds up and there is she, her phone in her ear and keys swinging in her free hand. Zara drove here?

"Oh my..." I grab my phone from the rug and end the call. She was already on her way here when I called.

Typical Zara.

I've never raced as fast as I did just to open the door for my best friend. She has a lot of explaining to do.

"You drove here?" Is the first thing that left my mouth the second I pull the door open. Zara smirk devilishly and glance over her shoulders. She wave the car key in my face.

"Yep! As you can see..."

"Woah..." I push her aside to take a view of the wine shinny Benz in front of my house. I'm not good with car names but this one... is freaking sexy!

"Zara... How did you..." My words coming out and trailing off. I look at Zara who's already making her way in then to the sexy vehicle again. "Wow..."

"Stop wowing and get your fat ass here Salome." Zara says, chuckling. She's struggling with two big gift bags and walking up the stairs.

"I mean-" I reluctantly close the door and fold my arms around me. "Yeah you told me you've gotten your driver's license but I didn't just-"

"You didn't just believe that I'm now a pro driver right?" Zara pause on the stairs to ask. She sigh sharply and shake her head. "Bad girl thing Salome, bad girl thing. And are you going to keep looking at me like you swallowed a fish or help me with these?" She raise the bags for me to see.

I take my wide eyes from her to the bags in her hands. Blue big shopping bags with the items in them poking out due to how full there are.

"For me?" I bath my lashes, fawning closer to her. She stretch one of the bags to me and I happily take it from her, just for the weight of the bag to drag me with it.

Zara burst into laughter, walking up the stairs and leaving me behind. "Lazy girl." I hear her whisper.

I end up using my two hands to carry the same bag Zara carried with just one hand.

This girl though...

"Just wait till till you see the sexy outfits I got for us," Zara sings, advancing in fast strides and bouncing at the same time. How does she even manage to carry that heavy loaded bag like its nothing?