First Light

27 bowling

Saturday 4th of December 2021

Faye:

Gia suggests bowling as a last group activity before she has to leave to go to her parents' house. She's leaving the day after tomorrow, and I won't see her for the holidays because she is visiting her grandparents with the rest of her family.

She doesn't invite Becca or Emily.

Jonah, completely clueless, apparently then asks Becca and Emily what time they should all head to the bowling alley, thinking that if him and Marlo are invited, that also means that the girls are. Becca then texts Gia about this, to which Gia nicely explains that she's not close with her or Emily so she didn't think to invite them (Gia did not want to be nice).

So now the girls have invited themselves. Despite Gia trying to get them not to. Which is just great.

"Those two being there is really going to piss me off, Faye," Gia's voice comes from outside the bathroom door. "I hate how they treat you. Especially Becca."

"Yeah, I'm pissed off about it too. Just ignore them." I reply, checking my reflection in the bathroom mirror.

I try not to stare at myself or look too closely, because I can list at least one thing I hate about every single feature I have.

"Believe me, I do try, but I can't fucking stand them. Also, who invites themselves to something that they clearly weren't invited to? That's just weird. It's not even as if they like me, so why're they insisting on going?"

I push down on the door handle to reveal Gia sprawled on my bed, her pink and black braids hanging off the edge. She sits up at the sound, turning to face me.

"It is really weird. It's probably because of Marlo, though. Becca definitely has something for him, and she's probably bringing Emily for support or some shit." I say.

Gia scrunches up her nose at this. "Ew. I didn't even think about the Marlo thing, to be honest. You remember the way she wiped his face on his birthday?"

My heart drops at the memory. "Oh, no, don't make me picture it again."

She laughs. "He got so pissed off, though. That was funny."

That wasn't really what I was thinking about at the time, though. I was just trying to work out why Becca felt comfortable enough to do that without a second thought.

Have they ever been more than friends?

He's never mentioned it if they were. But why would he? It's not as if me and him are anything more than friends.

Maybe I want to be.

"Alright, did you want to head off soon? Mikel's texted that he's leaving," Gia says, looking down at her phone, her acrylics clicking on the screen. It always amazes me how she manages to type so quickly with them on.

She checks her makeup in the mirror as I'm tying the laces of my Doc Martens, even though she doesn't even need to because she always looks stunning.

"That eyeshadow is so pretty on you." I say after I finish the last knot on my left shoe, because it's a very glittery pink colour that matches her nails. She's been going through a bit of a pink phase these last few weeks.

She turns and smiles. "Thank you, babe. You can borrow it any time if you want, you'd suit it so much."

This is one of the things I love about platonic friendships between women.

Marlo:

"I still feel so bad about bringing this up to Becca and Emily when Georgina didn't even invite them." Jonah says quietly to me and Mikel.