After a few weeks, I was already best friends with at least half the group, there was Bella, who laughed like a horse, and her birthday was tonight! She was so funny, I loved her already. Toyah, who I met first, became the best-friend automatically, we have twin-power minds. We say things at the same time, and I've met her mum, she's awesome! She also has a sister apparently, but I haven't seen her yet, I don’t think she goes to this school… There's Claire, who's great for advice, and the sisters; Kayla and Toni. They, well they're mental. So, all is good there. There's Kristy, who is just… Kristy, Lisa, who says weird stuff… and Bianca, who loves My Chemical Romance. There's also Zacharie and Kale, Zacharie and me have loads of stuff in common, but Kale is Claire's boyfriend. There's loads more, but I don’t know them all yet!
"So," Toyah started, lounging on her bed, staring at me, "About-"
"The party, yes. What the heck are we gonna wear?"
She laughed… and I knew why. She was thinking those exact words.
She rolled her eyes at me.
"Why, are you looking to impress?" she smirked.
"Of course," I replied, "I'm English. English people always impress. They can just say 'I like tea and crumpets' here, and everyone loves them."
We both snorted at the exact same time.
I rushed to Toyah's wardrobe and opened it with a flourish.
"Ooh. Hot clothes Toy."
She groaned.
"I told you to stop calling me that."
"Well, how else am I supposed to shorten 'Toyah'?"
Toy sighed.
I pulled out a pretty cream dress, cut just above the knee.
"This is hot. I'm stealing this. Can I try it on?" I asked.
Toyah waved me off, and I rushed into the bathroom to change.
Once I came out, Toyah was already done. She looked really pretty, her hair straightened, a pink flowery dress on, with a cream cardigan. Envy surged through me, but I ignored it. I was her best-friend! I winked at her, and grabbed a light pink cardigan.
"Opposites attract."
Toyah rolled her eyes at my comment.
"Come on."
We both left the room, and walked down her wooden steps. Toyah's mum, Talia, smiled at us from the bottom of the stairs.
"Well don’t you girls look beautiful!" she exclaimed.
I bowed, and Toyah went to get her bag. Once she was ready, all of us went outside and got in the car.
Talia started the engine, and soon we were at Bella's house.
Before we'd even knocked on the door, we heard manic laughter and the door swung open.
"EBONYYY! TOYAAAH!" Bella screamed.
"Bella." we both smirked.
She laughed, at, well, nothing.
Toyah and I walked into Bella's house, and was greeted by the whole gang. Zacharie beamed at me, and all the others said "Hey" to us.
We stuffed our faces with sausage rolls and mini pies, while Toyah just had cheese and spinach puffs, because she's a strong vegetarian. Then we 'hit the road' as Bella called it, and wondered around.
Suddenly, my phone light up.
(1) Message= 0492876545
Curious, I opened up the message.
'Hey. ;]'
'Who is this?'
'Zach. Hah.'
'Ohh. Hi ;3'
I looked up at him. He's pretty good-looking, really funny and we have lots in common.
We text all day, Toyah and Claire telling us off every second.
By about 4 in the afternoon, we had started to entertain ourselves, by sweeping the road. We also just lay in the road, and soon Toyah had an idea to pretend to pull a rope from each side of the road when a car came, to see if it stopped.
About 10 minutes later, a red car came along and Toyah and Claire 'pulled' a 'rope' across the road.
The car automatically slowed down, and honked at us, before swearing loudly and zooming off. All of us couldn’t stop laughing, it was such an amazing idea.
By night time we had settled outside, across Bella's house, laying on the grass, looking at the stars.
"I wanna sleep outside tonight." Bella said.
"Me too." Kristy replied.
"Same." said me and all the others.
We all sighed.
"I doubt your mum will let us though, Bells." I told her.
"True…" she said, dragging out the 'u'.
Soon enough, Bella's mum came out, and called for us to come in.
Shock crossed Zacharie's features, and I looked at his face worriedly.
"What's wrong?"
"Look." he pointed upwards at the stars.
I squinted to see what he was getting at, and saw a small shooting star.
I gaped a little and turned to the others, who were getting up.
"Look guys! A shooting star!"
They all looked, and said.
"Wow."
"Come on!" Bianca said. "Bella's mum will kill us."
Once we'd been fed, again and watched a few Shane Dawson YouTube videos, it was pretty late.
Toyah, Claire, Kristy, Calie, Bianca and Lisa went to bed, and I think only me, Zacharie and Bella were still awake.
Soon, Bella passed out, and me and Zach realised we shouldn’t keep talking because we'd keep the others up, so we went back to texting.
'I think everyone else died. :L' I text,
'Yep, just us now. XD'
'Hah.'
'Ebony, can I tell you something?'
'Sure, go for it ;D'
'I really like you.'
I looked up at Zach, but I couldn’t see his face in the darkness.
'I like you too.'
I heard quiet snoring sounds coming from across me, and squinted hard to see that Zacharie had fallen asleep. I smiled softly at him, before closing my own eyes and letting sleep take me.
