Something I Want

Chapter 9

SATURDAY 09:52

I lazily get out of the car and wave to my friends.

-Let's correspond! - exclaims Briana and slams the door.

I breathe in fresh air and with a headache, I step inside the house. As soon as you enter the house, the through that the door of the house is unlocked, which means that mom or Ian is at home.

I kick off my shoes, take off my jacket and groan in pain.

- Honey, are you here? - mother's voice is heard in the kitchen.

I crawl into the kitchen and my mother smiles at me, but her smile disappears.

- Are you feeling well, Grace? Why aren't you in your clothes?.

- The girls pushed me into the pool, so my clothes were wet and praised me, mom.

- I'm going to take a shower. - She sighs and looks at me sadly.

- I'm starting to like it here. - In addition.

Her charming smile appears on her  face again.

- I will bring you medicine and coffee.

- I love you.

Closing my eyes, I rub my head and turn to go to my room. It seems that any  minute I will fall to the ground and fall asleep. Around four in the morning we all returned to David and Olivia's house. We slept for five hours and went home.

Today we still plan to go to the city, but in the evening, since we have to pass the praises... Yes after entering the room, I take out clean clothes from the closet and go to the bathroom to take a shower and wash my head.

After a couple of hours I ate a normal breakfast and I was much recovered. Today the weather was normal.  The sun was shining, it was warm, but the sky had rain clouds.  Olivia said she would pick me up at five o'clock and we would go into town.  Since we're all feeling bad today, we won't be doing much.  We will have lunch and walk to Times Square and several museums.

I put on a white skirt and a red shirt.  We probably won't stay long and I won't get cold.  I also put on white sneakers and put the most necessary things in a backpack.  As soon as the car enters the yard, I run out the door and get into the back of the car.

-Everyone says hello to me

-Like corpses, -I laugh.

-'That doesn't feel good, -David shook the bottle of water.

-So what are we going to do, corpses?

-You're still the same, -Briana .

Late in the evening, thunderstorms and occasional rain visit the city. Well, at least we had time to see Times Square . [we all run to a cosy little café. As soon as I saw its appearance, I could tell that the owner of the café likes autumn. There are endless autumn-related decorations here.
Colourful tree leaves, candles, chestnuts and pinecones, garlands and pumpkins.

We sit down at a larger table and the waitress introduces herself to us. She gives us our menus and asks us if we would like anything right away. But we refuse

-And what will you offer me ? -I look at the menu.

-Everything . You can get your fingers dirty from everything here, -Briana.

I trusted her. She offered to buy a bun and it was unrealistically tasty , so I have no doubt about the taste of it here. I didn't want something fancy. I wanted something casual and tasty , so I order a caesar salad and a mojito cocktail.

In the middle of the muesli dinner, the school queen catches our attention. She was sitting a few tables away from us, but she wasn't alone, she was with a few girls and guys. They were laughing too loudly and I understood why. They were laughing at the guy who was spilling pasta sauce.

-She's a bitch, -hisses Oli.-It happens to everyone. Disgusting to watch.

-You know, you would help him if you would just go up to him and say, -I'll have a mojito.

Liam and David roll their eyes and Briana and Olivia get interested.

-Just walk up to him, bend down and tell him in his ear to pretend he knows you. You'll help him, -I shrug.

-And it looks good, Briana mysteriously bites her cocktail straw.

Liam smiles. Olivia gets up from her seat and, tidying up her skirt, looks at us.

-Maybe he's good in bed, -she smiles and moves towards the guy.

We all laugh and I turn towards Olivia. She walks up to the guy and the guy smiles at her. They both start talking and giggling.

-How's she doing?-Briana giggles when Oli sits down at the guy's table.

-These are Maran's powers, - David rubs his hands.

-Will we have to leave it with him or what? -Liam pays the bill.

We look at Olivia, who is listening to the guy's stories.

-0h yes. They may become a couple.

I smile and grab her handbag, stand up from the chair and walk over to the couple.

-You left your bag, -I smile at Olivia, and quickly leave them to their chatter.

The rest of us get up from our seats and giggle as we leave the café.

After hanging out with my friends again, I slam the car door and they drive out of the yard of my house. There is a rumble of thunder in the distance, but after a second I think it is the neighbours' house. It's drowning in the screaming cauldron again, and the blond comes out again.

-When I read the description of the house on the internet, I was impressed that there was not a single defect, but they forgot to mention that this house has noisy neighbours.

-0h, really? Maybe go to the police and write a statement about lying ?

-I doubt that would work.-He puts the hood of his sweater over his head and approaches me.

-Does your throat hurt? -he smiles crookedly and takes out a packet.

-Don't worry. I won't make you buy me medicine or bring me tea to bed.

-Thank God, -he takes a cigarette out of the pack.

I turn to go home. I stop at the door and notice that he is sitting on the pavement, smoking, not worrying that everyone might see him. At parties he seems like a happy and cool guy, but now he's completely different. He looks at his house and slowly kills his lungs, pulling in smoke after smoke. I wonder how many masks the blond guy has? Would it be possible to remove them?

-You watched my back for five fucking minutes?

His voice came back to me and brought me back to reality. I nod and walk into the house. I need him to fall in love with someone.