Starbird

Chapter 10

By the time I got in the house, I could hear the boys arguing over the shower. I rolled my eyes, and headed up the stairs to my room. Grabbing my sweatpants, an oversized tee and underwear, I passed the two boys simply saying, “There’s more than one shower, boys.” I slipped inside and quickly locked the door.

“Whoa! Cam! Not fair, you can’t just do that!” James yelled on the other side

“I just did.” I turned the shower on and heard the collective groan outside as I heard the boys discuss their own shower plans. Stripping down, I stepped into the hot water and let it run over my body. I always thought it was funny how once you got rained on and complained about being wet, you would then go take a hot shower and simply get... wetter. Logic. What is it? Trying not to steal all the hot water, I made my shower short and whipped my hair up in a towel and got into my warm lounge wear. Shaking my wet hair out of the towel, I listened at the door to see if I could hear the boys upstairs, but when I heard nothing I opened the door and bolted to my room. Tonight, I didn’t feel like seeing the boys. No, at that moment, I needed to talk to my best friends. Flipping my laptop open and calculating timezones, I quickly messaged Becca and told her to grab Riley to video call me. The reply was instant as my computer made a noise signifying someone just logged on. I didn’t waste a moment. Pressing the ‘video call’ button, I waited until I saw two very familiar faces. Becca, with her tight, curly black hair, mocha skin, and brown eyes and Riley, dark copper hair fading into a light color, pale skin, and green eyes shining bright.

“Cam-mee!” Becca yelled, the moment our cameras both started working.

“Becs! Riley! Ah! I’ve missed your faces so much!” I hugged my computer screen, hoping they’d get the message that I was attempting to hug them.

“Yeah, sorry, school has been building up and everything, but now! It’s spring break here!” Riley told me, flashing the computer to the sun outside.

“Wow, sun in Oregon, impressive.” I noted.

“Oh shut up. This place is bipolar, you know that.”

“Yeah, I know. But Riley! You dyed your hair! I love it.”

“It’s nothing special. I wanted it blonde, but my parents held a strict ‘no’. But enough about my hair, how’s England?” Riley asked me, putting on a really terrible posh accent.

“This is kind of the reason I really needed to urgently talk to you. Wait, let me get headphones.” I searched my bag until I found them and plugged them in.

“So what’s up?” Riley asked.

“Ok, whatever I tell you, you are not allowed to scream. Even if I almost did, you are not allowed. You will blow out my eardrums.” Becca rolled her eyes.

“Cam, we don’t scream. We’re very mature adults.” I snorted. “We are!”

“Well, for five minutes, you aren’t going to be.”

“Is that a bet?” Riley taunted.

“Yup, I bet you each a Stumptown coffee that you will act like a little kid when I tell you what happened.”

“Alright, shoot. What happened?” Riley waved her hand as if this wasn’t important.

“I met a guy.” I said and their faces didn’t change much.

“Is he hot?” Becca asked.

“That’s the understatement of the century.”

“Oh really?”

“Yeah, but he’s not just hot. He’s really sweet and funny, and yeah, he kind of charmed my decision in an argument today, however, he’s awesome. And he’s also currently at my house spending the night with James.”