In An Instant

The Party

A/N Hey guys! It's me, the author. Ok so I was writing a story called 'The Necklace' but umm... I decided not to because it's not getting anywhere and this story is much better. Soooo... As a surprise, I'm adding my adders in the story! Yayyyy! If you wanna be a random person in this story, just comment right here. --->
Tell me your personality, your style I guess and...yeah. Mkbye😊!
I stood in the mirror. I smiled to myself. I wore a lose summer dress with a floppy sun hat. I put in contacts for the first time (which was really bothering me at the moment) so without glasses on, I had an advantage to wear sunglasses, so I wore those. I put on some makeup, eyeshadow, eyeliner, and lip gloss. I had scrubbed all of the dirt off of me and I used a sweet-smelling vanilla and lavender body scrub. I repeatedly scrubbed my body, even when it was squeaking. I missed the feeling of clean skin. I missed my family. I missed home. I was looking at myself when I heard the front door open.
"Hello?" Peter called. I ran down the stairs.
"You're back!" I exclaimed excitedly and jumped into his arms. Woah. So down Riley, slow it down. I immediately let go of him. I stood in front of him to see his expression. It was surprised, confused, and... Confused. Awkward...
"Where were you?" I asked. Was he...sweating?
"Umm... I was...running."
"Oh. Ok."
5 seconds of awkward silence later...
"Let's go then." I said and started walking to the door.
"No!" He said suddenly. "I mean... I have to shower first."
"Oh. I'll wait here then." I said and plopped down on the couch.
------------What seemed like forever but was only like 30 minutes later--------------------
Peter comes downstairs wearing basically the same thing he was wearing earlier, a plain gray shirt and dark jeans. Makes sense why it took him like only 30 minutes. While he was coming down the stairs, I really looked at his features. Green eyes, messy blondish, brownish hair, about 6'2. Chiseled jaw, perfect jawline, perfect smile. Everything about him was perfect.
"C'mon, let's go." he said and jerked his head towards the door. I nodded and excitedly jumped up, and raced to the door. We walked for only about one minute until there were echoes of laughter, a light glow of fire, splashes of water, the smell of smoke and almost-burnt hot dogs. My fav! I got excited. Then I realized I didn't know anyone. Being my shy self, I started to walk slower, letting Peter lead the way.
"Josh!" He said to a guy with the same height, a beard, brown eyes, brown hair. Peter started walking over to him, both arms extended. I followed, far behind. I watched them do the bro hug thing and saw Peter whisper something into Josh's ear. Because I'm curious, I frowned. Josh nodded and they let go. Letting them have their moment, I looked around. I saw people around a campfire, a group singing songs and playing a guitar and a banjo. The man playing the banjo was maybe in his 60's or so while a man that looked about the same age as Peter was playing the guitar, also singing. A man was grilling on the grill, flipping hamburgers and checking the hot dogs. I watched as a girl, maybe 6 or 7 run up to him and hugged his legs. He smiled and put his spatula down to pick up the girl and showed her what was cooking. She smiled and said something to him. He smiled at her and put her down. I watched her run to her mom, to deliver the message. One day, I plan to have a family of my own. I let my mind drift off but quickly snapped it back to reality. Someone was calling me. I turned my head towards that direction of the sound and saw that Peter was frantically calling me. I blushed with embarrassment and quickly started walking over there. Once I made it over there, Peter put an arm around me. My heartbeat speed up. Riley. Stop. He's just a friend. Nothing more. I heard a faint murmur and I think I heard my name.
"So, Peter, you have a girlfriend?" Josh asked. Realizing that I drifted off AGAIN In the same night, really? My head literally snapped up.
"Naw, I'm looking for the right girl, you know? All of them are so fake and care about fashion too much." I got offended. Letting Peter know that I was still here, I pressed my body against his.
"Oh! I'm sorry, I forgot. Riley, Josh. Josh, Riley." I smiled at him. He smiled back.
"Ahh, so this is the one you were talking about." I raised an eyebrow. They were talking about me?
"Yes well um, talk to you later, Josh." Peter said leading me away. What is going on?
Before I could ask him any questions, he pointed to another group.
"Liv! Chris!" He exclaimed to two girls. One had a long brown side ponytail and was shorter than me. She wore a shirt that said: Sometimes I try to be normal. But give up and be myself. Regular finger-tip length jean shorts and silver flip flops. The other one was about as tall as me, she had long natural blonde hair that could be considered white, and her hair was tied in a upside-down fishtail pinned with small pearls and gems. She wore a black crop top with tiny palm trees. She also had finger-tip length jean shorts and black flip flops. I didn't catch their eye color, didn't look them in the eye.
"Hey Peter!" The tall one exclaimed.
"Hey," said the shorter one. I ducked my head so that I was looking at the ground now lit with mason jar lanterns because the sun had gone down. I let Peter introduce me.
"Riley, this is Olivia-" he pointed to the shorter one "- and this is Christina." He pointed to the other one.
"Hi" was all I could manage. They said hi back.
"Ohmigash, Riley, there's a chocolate fountain, you havvvve to try it." Christina said excitedly, tugging on my arm.
"Guess I'll see you later, then." Peter said to me with a smile and walked away.
Published July 16, 2015
Next update =Saturday or Sunday

A/N Hey guys! You all know how forgetful I am so I forgot to say something...(surprise!) I put my adders in this chapter.
Olivia is orgrifitths.
Christina is MegLiz or MeganGorgi. Both of them follow me and I follow them both. Mkbye😊!