Beep! Beep! Beep! I look at the clock to find that it’s 6:30am. The first annoying sound that screams END OF SUMMER! and FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL! Aaahhh it was nice while it lasted. The days at the mall trying on outrageous outfits just for the fun, and the splash fights at the Beach with my best friends. Thinking that it’s over now, I get up and rub my eyes to get ready for school.
After I get out the shower, I put on my jeans and royal blue plaid shirt, with my black wedges and purse to match. Touch up my carmel skinned face with black mascara and eyeliner to brighten my brown eyes and comb my long black new layered curls. Then I grab my keys and head to my car.
Once I’m in my car, I turn up my radio and head to Vanessa’s house. I live in Southfield Michigan where everything looks purely decent. It’s a small town it’s not like downtown Detroit where everything happens, yes I like it here, because of my family and friends and my school which I have grown up in and accustomed to. Usually I know everyone in this town so when I see a dark blue Mercedes with tinted windows, I’m astonished. We stop at a red light and I try to get a look at the person but I might as well have been trying to fly. What’s amazing is how interesting the person seemed, like a magnetic pull of some sort. I have to know who that is. Why am I so excited? Why am I getting butterflies? I figured I would find out soon enough or maybe my friends would know, so I let it go. For now.
I pulled up in front of Vanessa’s House, turned down my radio and looked through my shades to find her wearing red skinny jeans and an amazing top to match along with her red and white plaid converses with her long straight Cherokee black hair falling to her waist with freshly cut bangs. She lives in a cute red bricked house and white windows with a freshly cut lawn, with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Barton along with her two cats Darla and Mandy. We have been friends since 2nd grade have been inseparable ever since.
I tilt my sunglasses to look at her.
“The bangs are awesome!”
“I know right! I wanted something different..you look awesome to with your layered curls”
“Thanks! You ready for the year?”
“Yes I’m ready for the parties, and stuff but not the work”
“I know how you feel…Hey do you know if anyone moved to town?”
“Nooooo…Why?”
“I just saw a Mercedes with tinted windows and I didn’t recognize the driver, so I was wondering if you knew anything about it”
I don’t why it was bugging me so much, it’s like I had to know who this person was and why I felt that strange connection like I should know who that was.
Or.
Could it be that I’m just excited to find something new in this town? That I just want a mystery or something to solve or something to do?
Hmm…Maybe Maria will know. Clearly Vanessa let it go because she decided to take the conversation to other matters.
“I hope things will be different year”
“How so?”
“I want this year to be special”
“Like?”
“Like. I don’t know. Maybe well all get boyfriends and go on dates together and a lot of parties since everyone will be turning 16.”
“You could have a boyfriend if you wanted one and a party for your sweet 16”
“Not really”
“What do you call Mason and Henry??? And they still like you..even if you’re to blind to see it and why not the party?”
“Yes but Mason and I didn’t work out and Henry and I are better to just stay friends and the party is a great idea”
“Okay… I hope you get what you want Nessie”
“I have a good feeling about this year, but for you mostly ”
“What does that mean?”
“It means I think this year will be special for you”
“Hmmm…I guess we’ll see”
She shrugs and says “yep” then turns up the radio….
We arrive at the school and I pull up next to my other best friend Maria. She’s Cuban, she has lighter skin than the most of us making her eyes look hazel and she’s wearing cute brown top with some nice fitting blue jeans and brown wedges and purse to complement the outfit and her skin tone, with her long dark brown curls. She lives in a white house along with perfectly clean grass and her parents Mr. and Mrs. Valentine and her 3 younger brothers Marcus, Malcolm, and Marvin.
Vanessa went to talk with her friend Henry.
“Hey Maria!” I say as I hug her
“Hey Vicky!” she says as she hugs me back.
Now let’s get down to business.
“Do you know if anyone knew moved into town or something?”
“Ummm no, why?
“I saw this Mercedes with tinted windows and I don’t know who it was”
“Interesting but I haven’t heard anything”
“Okay…I really have to find out who it is…it’s been really bugging me”
“Maybe it will be another one of your admirers” She smirked
“Hahahahaha…I bet that would make you happy but I doubt that, and speaking of admirers have you talked to Wilson?”
This perks her up.
See me and Maria are pretty serious and mature for our age and we like guys but that doesn’t last very long. Nessie likes guys and they like her back and they usually date, and we are always happy for her, plus we get to mess with her about it and so now Maria has found a guy that met her standers but just so happens he went to a different school, but we’ve been messing with her and now they think I’m due to meet my prince charming. HA! Like that’s going to happen soon.
“Yea, we texted each other this morning, wishing each other good luck on our first day of school and agreed to talk after school to see how everything went”
“Oh that’s sooooooooooo cute!!!”
“Whatever. Ready for the year?” She smiles
I shrug “I guess so”
That’s when Nessie comes back and me and my best friends head inside the school for another typical year.
Hehehehe, little did I know it was all about to change….
