Though I hadn't been hanging out with my old group as frequent as I'd like to, Lily's accusation went through me incessantly like when you were awakened by your mother knocking over your bedroom's door before school. Faye's text flashed in mind, "Seth's okay, still in the hospital. We're going to see him soon, u coming?" that was hours ago, but it came down on me that Lily hadn't told anyone about our last encounter.
So I shifted uncomfortably on the chair by the window, fixated by casualties of our time spent in this coffee house, people-watching and all that. The door swung open, blasting the warm and sunny weather throughout the entire room, revealing an all too glittery curvy girl sliding over the counter to order. Brook hadn't seen me yet, it seemed, as I brought the iced coffee to my lips and took small sips, the ice already melted away around the cup.
"Over here!" I waved my arms enthusiastically over as Brook turned around with a cup of coffee in hand and looked around. She beamed at the sight of me across from her, walking over and pulled up a chair while the strap of her purse rattled against the table as she put it down.
"I've actually never went to this place." Brook stated matter-of-factly, looking down over her phone and typing away. "Well, actually, I did, but forgotten about it. Did you wait long?" She asked.
"Um, no, not really." I shrugged dismissively, staring immensely over Brook's long-sleeve black glittery top that she matched with a skinny jeans that accentuated her curves in all the right places. "So... That school assembly thing is tomorrow." Holding out my phone for her to the announcement about the school's prevention for alcohol and drug abuse—one that I was dreading to attend, but the bottom of the flyer said mandatory in bold.
Brook glanced over for a split second and sighed. "They're still trying? Damn." She groaned, taking a sip from the coffee and typing away over her phone.
"It seems to be." I stared at the lanyard around Brook's neck, the vape dangling at the bottom. "You think that we were being a little much about that phone call?" The prank call from a few days ago to Seth still lingered in the back of my mind—haunting—so did Lily's immediate callout.
Brook looked into my eyes for the first time in a while, dropping her phone on the table as she shook down her cup and took another sip. "Will you forget about that? It's bad enough that the school's doing that stupid assembly and that attention-seeking guy committed suicide for it. It's just too much." She rubbed her hand against her temple. "By the way, this coffee is kind of shit."
"Yeah, we came here for the scenery." The glass door facing the main road of the town where the cars were milling on and about, busy as it might be, its hustle spread over the college students crammed up the tables working away mindlessly with their laptop in front of them around me.
"Sorry if I seem distracted, but-" Brook went back to her phone and the device chimed each time she typed away. "Logan's about to be released soon, we're trying to talk over some things."
"Wait, is he?" I caught a scrunch over Brook's forehead, the girl barely flinched when suppressing anger, but showed it by one single expression. My phone had been buzzing with texts lately, which I'd been dodging, but I finally opened the bubble notification and led me to the group chat with Brook and the others. "Logan doesn't want to leave? The hospital that reeks of bacterial antiseptic and sick people?"
Brook nodded along. "He's being an annoying lovesick puppy." The room was engulfed by the stench of bakery being microwaved in the register area, its smell was enough to make me drool and mull over to waste away my allowance on a single overpriced croissant.
A reply chimed off again, this time it was Nellie, suggesting that we all should break in and sneak Logan out of his room. The rest seemed delirious and agreed in unison, as if the thought that the hospital had actually granted Logan's permission to leave, never crossed their mind. Though I didn't point that out, replying with "okay, sounds like a plan" instead, for the idea of sneaking someone was once top tier TV scene—the adrenaline rushed through me over having to remake one of the greatest television episodes.
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Teen Fiction"We've so much to teach you." Molly Montgomery's world goes upside down when she rekindles with a former friend on the last year of high school. She used to the comfort of her current friends; coffee and secret places only they know about. But she...
