Best friend

Part 3

{Stella's Pov}

School was over now and I was exiting the building with Tom next to me. Bill was waiting outside for us, waving. He was happy that Tom and I finally got along.

I saw Merle waving me over to them, so I told Tom I'd be back in a second. "Hey, what's up?" I asked them, smiling. "We wanted to go to the pool tomorrow. Do you want to come?" Merle said. I nodded in response. "I'd love to! Do we meet there?" "Yes. At 2pm." I nodded again and said bye to them.

Bill and Tom were waiting for me at the bus stop. They had invited me to their home. "What did she want?" Bill asked with a frown. He didn't like her, I knew that. It's justified though. "She wanted to know if I would like to go to the pool with them tomorrow." I answered while getting on the bus and going to the back. They nodded. "You said no, right?" They asked in unison. "No, I said yes." They shared a disgusted look, which made me frown. "Just because you don't get along, doesn't mean, I don't have to like her." They didn't say anything and I just sighed.

They are really cool and I like them a lot, even if we haven't known each other that long, but they think everyone who is friends with them has to hate the same people.

We didn't really talk the whole bus ride until we got to their stop, which was, surprisingly, the next after where I would have to get off. As we walked to their house, I realised that the street where they lived was parallel to mine. "My house is only a five minute walk from here!" I exclaimed. Bill looked surprised. "Really? Then we are practically neighbours." He said happily and Tom just smiled.

We stood in front of their door, while they both were searching for their keys. "Shit." Tom mumblet. I looked at them with a questioning expression. 

"We forgot our keys." Bill finished. They acted like they were one person in two bodies... "Is your mom not home?" Both shook their heads no. "Oh... well we can go to my place?" "Sure." Tom said and we started walking again, goofing around the whole five minutes.

{Bill's Pov}

I laughed loudly at something Star had said. I like her, even though she still is friends with those shitheads from school.

I looked at her. Her blue eyes shining in the sun. Some strands of hair were falling in her round face, framing it perfectly. Her hair was really long, almost reaching to her lower back, mostly her dreads were so long though. She was as tall as me and Tom, usually girls were almost a head shorter. Her skin was quite tan and she had cute freckles. Her nails were painted black, just like mine. And she too had some piercings, though only on her ears.

She came to a stop in front of a gate surrounded by a high hedge. Tom nudged me in the side. "What?!" I hissed. "You're starring." He told me quietly. I just shook my head and entered the garden after Star.

Her garden was huge. Like really huge. There were a lot of trees, covering half of the house, that also looked really big. I could see what looked like a small tower on top of the roof. "You have a tower in your house?" Tom asked as if reading my thoughts. Star laughed. It sounded so pleasant in my ears. "That's my bedroom! Or at least, where my bed is." "Really?!" Tom and I said simultaneously. "Yes. Come on, I'll show you!"

She started running to the front door with us following. Soon we were inside kicking off our shoes and running upstairs. On our way, we bumped in a seemingly 14 year old boy. He looked like what Star would look like as a boy but he had dyed black-blue hair, which was cut into a messy mullet of sorts and slightly darker eyes that Star. "Hey, Rio. Bye, Rio." She said in a rush, before going up what looked like the stairs to the attic. The boy, Rio, looked puzzled. He has a weird name, if you ask me, but oh well. We followed Star up the stairs, coming into her room. It was big. Like really, really big.

When you walked inside you first could see a big sofa with a small table in front of it. To our left was a bookshelf and her desk. You could see a lot of cool decorations. She had some frames showcasing dead butterflies and stuff like that. And she had a fake skull in the corner of her room. It was mostly black and pink. I looked around in awe. Then I saw some stairs leading up the small tower. "Is your bed up there?" She nodded, grinning. "Cool, isn't it?" "Yep." Tom said and jumped on the sofa. I followed right after him and so did Star.

"Is it possible that your favourite colours are pink and black?" Tom asked, laughing. "Why would you think that?" She answered in an ironic tone. We all laughed. 

"That was my brother by the way. His name is Orion, but we all just call him Rio." Star said, once we stopped laughing. Tom and I nodded silently. "Soo... What should we do?" I asked. Star thought for a moment. "Can you climb? Like climb trees?" "Yes. Why?" Tom and I always talked at the same time, which was quiet funny. "We can climb down a big tree, that's is hanging on the roof and then play something in the garden." She suggested and pointed to the balcony door leading outside.

She even has a balcony. Damn...