Loving My Best Friend

Chapter: 2

Enid's POV

My phone was blasting the music of 'Hail to the king' by Avenged Sevenfold. People knew how much I loved mornings. Still? Who wants to die? I grabbed the phone from my bed side table and winced at the voice of my best friend.

"Good morning!!"

"Mm hmm.."

"What? Oh! Yeah, thank you to wish me too."

"Shut up!" And I cut my phone off.

Man, was it my biggest mistake? Hell! Not in thirty seconds he was dragging me out of my bed and dropped me on the floor with a thud.

"Ow!" That was the most girlish I could sound.

"Why did you cut my phone?!" He shouted into my poor ears sitting on my stomach.

"You were the one who was out of your mind. It's nine in the morning, A!" I tried to protest. It was all in vain. He dragged me by my feet to the bathroom door.

"Don't care. Now get ready. We need to pick everyone and go to the mall." I didn't try to say anything else.

As I knew everything would be waste. He was that stubborn. I got up and went into bathroom, got ready and went to my closet to get dressed. I put a blue denim and a white t-shirt. I went downstairs going straight to the kitchen. 'Cause I knew Aiden was always hungry. He needed to get something in his stomach every morning, noon, evening, night, mid-night, just like Ethan. I smiled inwardly.

"Ready?" Ethan asked. I nodded. We went to the garage, got into our cars and went to mall. Aiden was as usually with me in my jeep. Ethan went to his girlfriend's house to get her.

"I texted everyone. They'll be on their way to the mall. We don't have to pick them up," Aiden informed me after gulping the last piece of bread.

"Thanks for informing me and asking me if I nedded to have something in my stomach," I said making it sound like as sarcastic as I could, but as usually failed.

"Oh! Right." He put a bread slice with butter on it in my mouth. I knew it. He could never be so selfish. That's the best friend, my best friend.

"Stop grinning. You look like a loon. Now, eat." He commented.

"Thanks mom," I said after eating it.

We reached at the mall's parking  lot where Izzy, Jake, Sam, Will were waiting already. We talked about nothing important and in fifteen minutes Rick arrived with his best friend, Matt and his girl friend, Amy who was the star cheerleader. And then arrived Ethan and Sally.

After seeing Rick, Ethan came to me and asked, "What's he doing here?"

"Don't know. Maybe Aiden invited them." I replied.

"Ugh. Why he has to be your boyfriend!" I groaned.

"What?" He tried to sound like innocent. Ethan found it amusing, huh? Okay, then.

"You know, you enjoy  gay porn, doesn't mean I find it amusing too." Ethan looked pissed 'cause he knew Sally heard it. Sally was little slow anyway.

"Look Amy. It's like we are staring at a mirror." Oh well she was dumb too. No wonder Sally and Amy were best friends. Rick chuckled.

"Shit." Ethan cursed. I rolled my eyes. He always cursed. What was the deal with him?

"You said it before, Sal." Jake said rolling his eyes.

Anyway, we entered into mall. By then it was almost noon, so  we went to order our meal in KFC. We got two tables together and sat. When the order was up, we went to get it. Aiden grabbed the plate with five burgers with french fries. I grabbed three buckets of fried chicken and Rick grabbed the cold drinks and three fat free mango shake. Fat free? Really? What would that even do?

"That's for my beautiful girl."  Rick gave mango-shake to Amy and then to Sally and Sam. He sat next to me. When Rick went to grab a french fry from the center one, Ethan slapped his hand away. Rick was shocked. He gently rubbed the place like it was stinging. I looked at Rick and he looked a little red.

"Okay, you can have from me." I offered. "I won't mind." Ethan narrowed his eyes at us and I glared at him.

Everyone chatted happily. We were all excited that our team was in a good position. We didn't notice the time. We got out of there at three o'clock.

We were on our way to parking lot.

"Babe, we didn't buy anything today, please...," Amy told Rick. Sally almost copied her. Ethan was stuck to go shopping with them. Sally and Amy went to shop hand in hand. Ethan and Rick was trailing behind them.

"Try not to kill each other." I shouted. Both gave me glares.

Oh! Now I was the bad guy?

"I was just warning you!" I shouted again.

We were out of the parking lot to go to Aiden's house. Mrs. O'hara opened the main  door. We greeted her and went to Aiden's room. We were sitting on the bed. Jake and Izzy was on the bin bag. Only Matt sat on the floor. He was shy, maybe 'cause it was his first time at his house.

He was looking a little uncomfortable so I sat beside him. "So what are we gonna do?" I asked first.

"Let's watch a movie." Sam suggested.

"What do you wanna watch?" Will asked.

"Brokeback Mountain." She said smirking. She was the one in our group who was actively involved in LGBTQ community's support. She organized this group in our school and we had to go there. We agreed without any argument. It was not like we didn't support them. It was that we wouldn't go that much. Only Jake went in every meeting. It was for her that our school became so open to this idea.

"Are you sure?" Matt whispered into my ear.

"About what? Watching the film?" I asked looking at him.

"Yeah, I mean..." He started, but I cut him off.

"It's also love. Why? Are you homophobic?"

"Who? Who's a homophobe?" Izzy asked eyeing Matt.

"No one. I was just asking." Poor Matt. Izzy was scary when she got mad. In the mean time the two other couples came. Mrs. O'hara gave us snacks knowing our group.

We all settled in front of the TV like we were in a big field and was watching it on a projector. Aiden sat beside me and gave me a small smile which was returned. On my left side was Matt. Beside him Rick, Amy, Sally, Ethan sat respectively. On the couch were the other four. We watched the film without a word. Not even when Mrs. O'hara came to give us cold drinks. At the end, when Ennis was alone in the ranch after his daughter left, we could hear Izzy's faint sobbing. The film ended and Aiden went to turn on the light. Izzy was sobbing. Jake was patting his hand on her back. Everybody turned to look at her, except Rick and Amy. They were busy with their make out session. Jerk! We went to Izzy to calm her down. Ethan went to Rick and smacked on back of his head. He glared at him quickly breaking the kiss. Izzy giggled through her sobbing. We all laughed not knowing why. It was true that we were bipolar.

We left Aiden's house after midnight completing dinner and supper. Aiden invited Matt, but not Amy for the next day's brunch. Actually that was that day's. But, whatever. He said he would try. Rick said good night to everyone except to Ethan. No wonder why Ethan or me never liked him. He always ignored Ethan. Naturally, I didn't try to like him either. I hugged Aiden.

"Good night, bro."

"Hm, Enid. I'll see you in..." He looked at his watch. "Almost 10 hours 48 minutes..."

"I'll be here at eleven o'clock, Aiden. Bye." I waved at him and drove off.

Ethan arrived at home almost an hour later. He entered his room and closed it. Not a word today?

'Hmm interesting. I'll talk to him tomorrow.' I thought.

After the whole day's idiocy, I fell asleep too quickly.