Love Bite

Ch 30: Ready

I wake up to my phone blaring music and look around, rubbing my eyes. It's still dark, and I let my eyes adjust to the new invading light before grabbing my phone and looking at who was calling me. Two missed calls from Anne.

What the-

My phone starts to blare the ringtone I set for Anne again and I answer it, hoping it didn't wake up anyone else.

"Anne?" I ask through the phone.

"OH MY GOD EVA!" She yells through the phone.

"What?" I ask angrily, not really feeling like all the noise this early in the morning.

"What are these photos!?" She yells and I cringe again.

"What photos?" I ask.

"The ones of you in cute clothes! The cosplay!" She says excitedly.

"Oh those." I say "just something I did after school one day with a few kinda new friends"

I listen to her moving and hear clicking on the other line.

"You mean the friends who are fricking Zoe and Sam!?" She yells and I sit there, confused.

What's wrong with Zoe and Sam?

"How- what about Zoe and Sam?" I ask.

"I've been following them for years Eva, they are goddesses" she says and I nod my head and bite my lip.

"Yup, totally" I say, feeling weird that she speaks of the twins like that.

"And they are holding a ball tomorrow night!" She says.

"Uh, I guess you could call it that" I say.

"Are you going?!" She almost screams.

"Uh, yes, look it's-" I pause and look at the time on my alarm clock "5 o'clock in the morning"

"Oh yeah,  you have school tomorrow huh?" She asks and I sigh.

"Yes" I tell her.

"Oh, sorry, I have moderation day" she says.

"Great" I say sarcastically "I really need sleep so I have to say bye"

"Goodnight" she says, sounding mopey that she didn't get to ask anymore stuff.

"Night" I say and end the call.

I put the phone back on charge and put it back down beside my bed on the table. I lie down and fall back asleep.

...

"Wakey wakey" someone hovers over my bed early in the morning, waking me from my comfortable sleep.

I stare up at the now familiar face of Zoe and blink a couple times to try and register that she is actually here.

"What?" Is all I can say, and not particularly just in response to what she said, but what is going on.

"It's school time" she says.

I sit up and she moves out of my way, standing up properly from previously leaning.

"No, I mean, what are you doing here?" I ask her.

"Oh, I felt like coming over" she says casually, as if normal.

"Oh, um, okay" I say and she sits down on my bed just as I get out of it.

"You have a nice room" she says, looking around.

"Mhmm" I say as I grab my uniform.

"Mine is way different, I think mines smaller too" she says and I stare at her, waiting for her to look at me.