P.S. Destroy

The Box

"Do you want to know what I have in the box?" Mum asks.

"Of course!" I stand up carefully with Ebony still in my hands. I walk over to the box.

"You know it's your birthday next week, right? I know it's a bit early for birthday presents but this one had to be picked up today. The owner didn't have more time to wait. She is moving in with her allergic boyfriend so she had to find Snowy a new home." Mum explains when I open the box. Inside it is a white guinea pig.

"Oh my gosh! You didn't! You knew I wanted a friend to Ebony and you bought one! She's so cute!"

"Actually I didn't buy her. Her old owner is a friend of mine so she simply gave Snowy to me."

"You're the best mother ever!" I put Ebony carefully back in her cage and hug my mum.

"Should we introduce Snowy and Ebony to each other?" Mum asks as she picks up the white guinea pig. She puts her in Ebony's cage. At first they don't know really what to do but then they start to befriend each other. They will become good friends in no time.

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The next day when I come to school the first thing I say to Lauren after she hugs me like she does every morning is:

"Guess what?"

"What?" She asks curiously.

"Guess what mum gave me yesterday as a pre-birthday present!"

"How would I know darling? A dress? A book? A quill? What could make you this excited?" I laugh at her options. She laughs too.

"A friend of my mum was going to move in with her allergic boyfriend and she had to find a place for her guinea pig Snowy so mum said she could give Snowy a home so now I've got two guinea pigs!" I'm practically jumping of excitement.

"That's great! Congratulations darling! I know that you've talked about another guinea pig for so long."

"How are they getting along?" A voice asks behind me and makes me jump. "Sorry, did I startle you?" Andrew asks.

"A bit. They are getting along really well. I'm really happy they do because otherwise we couldn't keep Snowy."

"That's nice to hear." Andrew says. Alex walks over to us.

"Hi Ivy and Lauren! Hi Andrew!" He greets us and hugs Lauren. "Lauren, shouldn't we get going? We have to finnish that presentation."

"Damn it! I had forgot it completely! We better get going so we won't be late with it." Lauren looks sad. "Bye Ivy, Andrew. See you later!" They walk away leaving me and Andrew alone.

"So did you ask your mum if you can come tomorrow?" Andrew asks when Lauren and Alex are far away enough so they can't hear us anymore.

"Yes, she said I can come but I have to be back home before eight. I'm still nervous though."

"Great! I promise you you'll have a good time with us. You won't feel at all like an outsider."

"Who exactly is coming?"

"Well usually it's me, Ann and Peter, Edmund and Max but Lucy and Nick come too sometimes." When I hear Nick's name I start wondering about how he is again.

"Are everybody coming tomorrow?"

"I think so."

"Sounds nice." The bell rings signaling that the first lesson is starting. We walk quickly to our classroom and go and sit on our places.

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When I come home after school I'm greeted with squeeking from Ebony's and now also Snowy's cage.

"Hi sweeties! How are you?" I check that they have water and hay. Then I go to the kitchen and start to make some food for me because I'm starving. I get a text message when I'm eating at our table. It's from Andrew and it's a group message.

From Andrew. To Ivy, Ann, Peter, Edmund, Lucy, Max and Nick: I got my parents to go watch a movie tomorrow. Anything you'd like to do?

Max answers directly:

From Max: Let's throw a party!

From Andrew: I'm sorry but I don't think that's going to happen this time. And Ivy is coming for the first time to one of our meetings.

From Max: Fine then.. Wait, did you mean the Ivy?

From Andrew: Max shut up!

From Ann: Who is this 'the Ivy'? Me and Peter want to know!

From Lucy: I want to know too!

From Edmund: I think Andrew wants to keep her a secret until we meet her. Like he could manage that.

From Max: Should I tell?

From Andrew: Max and Edmund just SHUT UP ALREADY!

From Nick: Hey. What's going on?

From Lucy: Andrew keeps this girl named Ivy, who is by the way coming to Andrew's tomorrow, a secret from us but I feel like Max and Edmund already knows who she is. And me, Ann and Peter want to know who they are talking about. :/

From Nick: You do realise that she's in this chat too so you can simply ask herself who she is, don't you? By the way, hi Ivy!

I answer to Nick: Hi!

From Ann: Question time!

From Andrew: Not now! Tomorrow.

From Ann: Fine.. Ivy, beware of a flood of questions tomorrow. ;)

Me: Okay. Just don't drown me please.

From Ann: No worries!

I put my phone away and take my dishes to the kitchen and directly wash them and dry them and put them in their places. I'm curious too about all the 'the Ivy'-thing but I'm going to have to wait for an answer to that. Because I'm tomorrow going to Andrew's I'll have to get my costume ready today since the dance is the day after tomorrow already. I walk upstairs to my room and to my closet. I open it and look for a few specific things that I will need. I'm also going to need a few of the fabrics we have in our attic and our sewing machine so I walk out of my room to the hall. I take a chair and stand on it to reach the ladder to our attic. I pull it down and climb up. It's not that dusty up here because I come here quite often but it's enough to make me sneeze ones. I find what I'm looking for quite quickly and take it with me down. I push the ladder back up and move the chair away from the middle of the hall. I take the things I took from the attic with me to my room and start to work with my costume.

A few hours later I'm tired and I've got a few small cuts in my fingers from the needles but I'm happy with the result. My costume is ready and I should probably go to bed because the clock is nearly twelve. I've been sewing for three hours! I get ready for bed and the last thing I see before I fall asleep is my costume. I'm proud of what I could do with my own hands.

AN:
Here is the next chapter! Did you like it? I'd really love to know your opinions. It would also be nice to know something about you who reads my story.

~ Stella