Forever and Always

"Finally!" Everyone at the long, square tables in the resturaunt exclaimed. I was late like always, wearing a grey top that reached about mid-thigh, black leggings, and some one inch high heels. My cheerleading coach schedueled a dinner for her and the rest of the cheerleaders at Applebee's. It was almost the end of basketball season, so it was kind of a "Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, goodbye!" party.

"At least I showed up!" I joked. I got a few laughs because I've missed a couple meetings in the past. I sat down next to one of my best friends, Kasey. She immediately grabbed my phone, which she had a habbit of doing.

"I didn't have to..." I mumbled to her. She kind of smirked.

"What are you getting, Kat?" She asked happily. She interrupted my train of thought.

"Um, I have no idea... I don't really like this place"

"Well, I always get this chicken salad. It's really good!" She pointed at a picture of a salad with nuts and chicken scattered over the top.

"I guess I'll get that too. It sounds pretty good."

"Copier."

"Whatever, where's my phone?"

"Right here!" She showed me the screen which had a Facebook conversation (on my account) with some guy named Liam Payne. I knew who Liam was from singing lessons, but I didn't really know him. He was a grade below me, so he'd never crossed my path any other time.

"Ohhh, let me see it!" Courtney, one of my friends sitting a few chairs away, yelled. She quickly grabbed my phone away and started typing gibberish. Liam was gonna think I was insane.

"And for you?" The waiter totally caught me off guard and everyone was staring at me.

"Huh? Oh, um, just a water..." I smiled, trying to look un-embarrassed.

"Nice one." My other best friend, Lauren, joked. She was sitting right across from me, so I just gave her a death stare for a second and then laughed it off.

While we waited for the waiter to come back, we shared a few memories, like the one time we all laughed so hard half of us peed our pants.

The waiter finally arrived back with our drinks. "So, um, what would you like?" He was staring all the way down at the other end at my friend, Lux. He couldn't hear her, so he just decided to go down there.

After we all ordered we shared a lot of funny stories and then 200 million stories later, we got our food and ate.

"Hey, this is pretty good, Kase!"

"Told you."

After sitting there forever, Kasey and I got a cheap chocolate sundae to split. We ate while some of the other girls ate their dessert or laughed with each other. I wasn't even thinking about Liam. He only talked to me once before, only to doubt that I was a cheerleader. I didn't think he'd even cared that Kasey was on my Facebook.

"Alright, gift time!" My cheer coach had given us a secret buddy to give a gift to at the dinner. I had Johanna. I got Jo some expensive perfume and makeup.

I opened up the gift that said "Kitty Kat" and found colored boxes of studded earrings. They were pretty cool. I also pulled out this huge, expensive-looking bottle of perfume. The price tag said £3.00.

"Oops, should've took this off!" Kasey said as she was scratching away at the orange sticker. I wasn't supposed to know she had given me the gift, but it was okay by me.

We all marveled over our gifts for a moment and talked a little more. Then the next thing we knew everyone started chanting, "Fight song!" So we stood up and cheered, of course, a little embarrassed.

We all said goodbye and basically everyone had left except me. I was left to sit in the chilly winter air (which wasn't really all that cold for December) a stare out at the passing cars. The little town was pretty busy for a Friday night. I was there for about ten minutes before my dad pulled up in his shiny, black pickup truck.

"I was the last one again."

"Sorry."

It was a little while home and as soon as we pulled up to our little house, I ran out. I got inside and flopped down on my bed. My phone buzzed and startled me. Strangely, I had a message... I never get messages. Even stranger, it was a Facebook message...