A City Of Canaan

Chapter One

"You're crazy!"Emily, my best friend since 7th grade, sneered at me while we walked to our cars.

"Sure I am, what's your point?" I joked.

"Breaking into a closed zoo is the craziest thing you could possibly do on the weekend," Emily says," do you plan to do this stuff AFTER you graduate too?!"

I keep on walking, ignoring my friends concerning lecture. Emily's usually the one to talk me out of a stupid and dangerous situation, like last week. But that's a different story. This is something Emily can't change my mind about.

"Come on ,DeDe." Emily mocks. She knows I hate that name. My mom would always call me that before I went to college and made sure I was miles away from her, so I would never hear that name for years to come.

I turn around to face Emily, shes smirking, asshole.

"Your one to say that name, teachers pets." I say, as I dig my finger into Emily's chest." I'm going to that party and I'm going with the boys to the zoo, and you can't talk me out of it!"

I turned around, victorious, and drove away in my car. Immediately, I recalled to what I has just said. I felt slightly guilty . I thought it about more, until I decided, eh, whatever, I'm an insensitive prick anyways.

I get to Emily's dorm and she isn't there, like usual. I stay in her friends room, since after last week, she isn't coming back for a while. the party doesn't start until 9:00 and emilys not here, so I'm just going to have to wait until then. I take a peek at the clock. 5:47. This'll take a while.

It's finally night,8:59. I wait impatiently for Jo, Erik, A.J., Taylor, or Louis' call. I haven't moved from that spot since . They told me 9 exactly. It's one minute away but it feels like another hour away. Then it turns to 9. I immediately get an OoVoo call from,"IMCOOLERTHANYOU." I forgot how immature they are. I pick it up. It's Erik.

"G'day mate." He says in the worst Australian accent ever. He's definitely not Australian.

"Hey Erik." I rejoiced.

Erik is European, with golden hair and the most pale person I've ever seen, he might as well be a vampire. Everyone calls him Goldie locks with his long blond hair, but he doesn't really mind. He's the smartest out of all of us, and takes higher level classes. He's usually the one to think of the escape plan in a situation gone wrong.

"Where's the others?" I ask.

"I told them to download OoVoo so we can see each other like this." He responded.

Not a while after, Jo, A.J.,Taylor, and Louis join the call.

Jo is Hispanic and the leader of this group, and the richest. His father gave him tons of money before he left for college, but only enough to survive in the most expensive way possible. The rest, Jo stole before he left. He always having an expensive party before the breaks, and usually the one to bail out his favorite people. Not us, however. We've never been caught.

A.J. is black, and is always getting in trouble. There isn't a time where A.J. is sitting nicely in class, doing what he's told. He's either throwing pencils, cursing out the teacher or his girlfriend, or on his phone. He has also has the temper of Bruce Banner, which explains why he's always yelling. He's the muscle of the group, and probably the dumbest in our group. Hes my favorite.

Louis and Taylor are white, but there isn't much to say about them, other that Louis is obessed with memes and Taylor is insane. They are also brothers and can't stand each other. They're the distraction in case the cops get here. Jo just bails them out.

"So what's the plan?" I ask.

"Jo?" Erik says.

Jo sighs before answering," we're going to the party at my place, we have fun, blah blah blah." Jo rabbles. He didn't say that last part, I just stopped listening.

"then we stash some food, for the animals, and a crowbar, and break into the local zoo!"

We all clap sarcastically for him thinking all this up, when Erik told him all this before we went home. There's no way he made this all up.

"This is gonna be epic!" A.J. sang out.

"I'm gonna ride a lion!" Taylor shouts.

"You can't do that, it'll eat you alive." Erik adds.

"I hope." Louis sighed.

"Guys, we should totally ride the giraffes!" I exclaim.

Everybody is rabbling on about what they're going to do, while Jo is trying to get everyone's attention.

"GUYS!" he finally yells out. Everyone stops.

"The party is about to start, and you all will be late." He says, leaning in his chair.

"WHAT?!" We all gasped, and one by one, we all hang up. I quickly grabbed my purse and jacket, and ran out the door. I practically dived into my car, started the engine and drove off. Jo's house is like a thousand exits away, because and I quote, " I want to be far enough to use my helicopter." He isn't supposed to be off campus,but he just bribed adminstration.

Spoiled brat is what he is, but that spoiled brat is my spoiled friend.

I arrived at the house and park accross the street. Theres a huge line of cars in frony of the house, leading all the way around the cul de sac. I barely take a step when my phone starts to vibrate, with "hotline bling" as the ringtone. Andre. I pick up.

"Hey there." He says.

"Hey, are you inside?"

"Nah,I'm on my way, though."

"Do you need something." I hop atop my trunk."you usually don't call me unless you need something."

The line gets silent and I heard a quiet 'shit' through the phone, before A.J. says," I talked to my girlfriend recently, things weren't going so well with her."

"No." I gasp, puting my hand over my mouth, "I never would of thought, I assumed with all the agruing and insults you two were perfect together."

"Wow, you really are an insensitive prick."

"Awww, was it that obvious?"

"Im starting to regret calling you in the first place."

"Ok, ok, I'm sorry," I apologize," why did you call me?"

"Look, we've been friends for a while now, 3 years, right?"

"Yes?" Where is he going with this?

"And we hang out a lot without the others,and... Ohfuckit, do you wanna go out or not?"

I'm completely silent, I can't even be sure if I'm breathing, or if my heart is beating.

"Diana?"

Shit.