Butterflies

Chapter 2

Fresh summer breeze, children's laughter filled the air, in the beaches, the ocean sparkled beautifully with surfers riding waves showing off their skills. Our fun little friend group of 6, I, Alex, Caleb, Angelica, Demi and Jennie.
I raised my head up to see properly with the harsh sun hitting my eyes slightly
"Hey." His lips curled upward revealing a smile. 'You can't always be scared of the ocean, you know' Alex asked sitting next to me.

"Don't start again, you know I'll never go."

    "You look really nice today"

"Julia let's go get ice cream before I melt!" Angelica yelled from afar.

I stood up from the mat I was on, "Wanna come?" I asked the 11th grade Alex.

"Sure."He stood and followed.

The led lights on the signboard was dim and faulting already, the door becoming rusty, you wouldn't know the sweet sensations behind those very doors, "Dunkers", From the sweet cherry donuts to their strawberry shortcake ice cream, every taste and bite was heavenly.
The rest got settled in the booth, and called for a cashier to take their order.

"Look that's just how it is...accept defeat fool!"Angelica raised her voice slightly

"Angie, shut up dude! You fucking cheated!" Demi said hitting her arm.

"I can't wait to get my hands on a *chocolate bomb*"Caleb said beside Angelica
Within a couple seconds the table became filled with chatter.

Alex and I sat outside the cafe so we could be alone.

"Come on jewel!" Alex said, his voice showed irritation "you have to come it won't be interesting if you don't." He continued

"I don't want to go...plus your friends aren't my friends" I said

"Don't start with that again, I tried to introduce you but you cancel each time!" He raised his voice catching the attention of others.

"I'm sorry I'm actually serious about my future! Alex your grades aren't good enough for universities, you know this, you should be looking for lope holes to get extra credit not to party.' I said trying hard to keep my tone cool.

"Just say the truth, just say you don't want to meet them because of the rumors you heard, and quit fucking lecturing me! You aren't a saint ohk?!' Alex yelled and stormed off.

Not knowing what to do anymore I stood up and walked into the diner/cafe and sat beside Demi.
"Where's Jennie?" I asked the group

"Oh she's in the restroom." Demi replied "come let's go outside" She said as she stood up and stretched her arms out to me.

"I told you to breakup with him, the way he yells at you.. it's the same way Mike behaved as well." Demi said

"Demi, it's not like that.."

"Yes it is!"
"You deserve more Julia, he yells at you anytime, anywhere."

"You're.. he's not like Mike. They might be friends but they are not alike. Forget about it and let's go eat." I ended and walked back to the cafe.

My room dimly lit and the latest jam blasted through the speakers, I listened while solving for the common enemy in mathematics 'X', I had a pile of undone holiday assignments on the left side of my desk the other side was a tray of gummy bears as a snack. After a while my phone rang, I stood up to look for it cus I had no idea where I'd misplaced it, the phone rang nonstop making me slightly worried , eventually I found it, and I stretched my arm to the speaker to reduce the volume.
"Hey Jewel." Alex said across the phone

"Alex?" I brought the phone to my face to see an unsaved number.
"This isn't your number though." I said slowly becoming truly worried.

"Could you come pick me up" he sounded drunk.

"Alex where are you?" noticing the obvious music in the background.

"I'm at the party YOU didn't want to come to" Alex said raising his voice at the 'You' in the sentence.

"Alex drop your location" I said and picked up my keys.
It was about a 50 minutes drive to the party house. I got down the car still in my blue pj's I entered the house, the first thing to note was the crowd around a beer pong game, followed by intense *'PDA'*this whole scenery wasn't something I was comfortable with, all I had in mind was to get Alex and get out.

{PDA means public display of affection, chocolate bomb is a nickname for an extremely soft donut filled with chocolate in Dunkers menu.}