L is for Love

Chapter 25

“Yeah they said it would be fine. I can’t believe it to be honest with you; I thought they’d never agree to it. But they have so...Party on! Right well I’ve got to go Louise I’ll speak to you again! Bye!” I said pressing the red button on my phone, placing it back in my bag. “Hey guys,” I said waving to Aria and Jasmine as they stood by the bus bay. I walked over to them placing my bag down on the floor in front of me.

“My parents agreed to the party so yeah what date are you guys free around my birthday?”

“Um...anytime apart from the Friday after your birthday ‘cause I’m working then. When were you thinking of having it? I think we break up for the summer holidays on your birthday so you could always do it in the weekday.” Said Aria looking at the calendar app on her iPod.

“Yeah I could do that but it’s probably easier for my parents to do it at the weekend that way they can go off somewhere so we can have to house to ourselves. I dare say there’ll be quite a mess to clear up the day after. So shall we say the twenty first then?”

“Sounds like a plan! So who are you inviting?” she said looking at me excitedly.

“Well I was thinking pretty much all of the sixth form. And then Nat and a few other people.”

“Are you inviting Liam?” she said anxiously.

“Um...I don’t know. I guess I prob will because people are going to wonder why I haven’t if I don’t. I mean he practically lives on my doorstep, even if I don’t invite him he’ll probably still only end up gate crashing. It’s not like he’s going to care is he?”

“That’s true.”

I looked up to see Anna, Jason, Amy, Lily and Emily walking down the path towards me.

“Hey!” I said waving to them. “You guys free on the twenty first of July?”

“Becks that’s not for another two months!” said Jason.

I rolled my eyes “I know that but we’re not exactly very organised are we? It takes months for us to sort something out!” 

“Ok point taken. Well I think I am although I’ll have to book the day off work.”

“Well then book the day off work. I’m having you at the party if I have to drag you there!” I said smirking.

“The things I do for you!”

“I know but well you love me really!” I said laughing. “So the twenty first okay for everyone else?” I said scanning the rest of the group.

“Yeah I think so.”

“Right so we have our date!”

Considering I was so against the idea of having a party in the first place I was incredibly excited now. In fact I was ecstatic. I couldn’t wait for the months to pass but before I could get excited for my party I would have to do exams. That was something I was dreading. So much rested on what I got in these. I didn’t want to fail anything. It had always been a dream of mine to succeed in life after school, mainly because my family was so adamant on me doing well. It wasn’t that my parents were pushy; it was my grandparents more than anything. Everyone else in the family before me had done well in a levels and had made it in university. Everyone aside from Dan, my cousin. He had gone to university thinking it would be really easy and he found out the hard way that it wasn’t a walk in the park. I felt really sorry for him though because there was so much pressure resting on him. But now that pressure was on me and if I didn’t do well then I would have the same fate.

Why didn’t I pay attention in Biology I thought to myself flicking through the mass of notes in front of me. I was sure to fail. I could see it now. I would end up working in McDonalds. Although maybe that wouldn’t be so bad, at least I would get free food. Although then I would most definitely end up fulfilling that nightmare that I had about being sad, fat and forty; husbandless and a mess. I went to the library and decided that I had to knuckle down and do some studying.