Once upon a summer|Joshifer

Chapter 9

"Hey Jennifer" the voice sends chills through my spine.
I turn around in alarm to find a girl. But not any girl, the girl in the photo.

"Wow you really are a loser" she spits at me spitefully. Her long blonde hair cascades down her back and she stares at me demonically.
"Let me ask you a question,"
a pause,
"what is Josh to you?"

I gape at her

"Well? You really think he's into you huh?!" she cackles.
A wave of anger travels through my body but I don't know why, shes got a point.

"Ive been with him my whole life, I am his girfriend, you are nothing to him."

Out of nowhere a strawberry icecream materializes in her perfectly manicured hands. And she starts licking it
And licking
And glaring
And I fall to the ground
And the icecream melts onto my head
Into my eyes
It burns
And then evil laughter
Parents and children from graduation
Icecream balls being thrown at me
On stage
And I slip
And-

"Wake up already! I got you icecream!"
I shriek in terror and look up from my bed to see Taylor holding two icecreams. One chocolate and one vanilla.
Few! Not strawberry!

I exhale a sigh of relief since that was just a nightmare.
"Omg Taylor stop scaring me like that, I thought you were the demon bitch girlfriend." I grab an ice cream out of her hands.

"The what?"

"Nothing". I chuckle at her cluelessness and wonder how I've been affected so much by a stupid photo in Josh's room.

I notice that I haven't yet told her that we have new neighbors, let alone that were going to the beach with Connor. When I'm done explaining this she stops licking her icecream and glares at me "And when exactly were you planning on telling me this?!"

"It wasn't importan-"

"It wasn't  important?! They could be hella hot! Oh my gosh I'm so excited! Let's go at once!"

And with that, Taylor chucks some clothes at me and were soon knocking on the Hutcherson's front door.

"Hey" Josh appears red eyed, tired and very unenthusiastic which is unlike him.

"Oh um hi, are you ok?" I say awkwardly just as Taylor giggles.

"Hi nice to meet you Connor, I'm Taylor but you can call me Tay." She extends her hand for him to shake and puts on her best dazzling smile.

"Im Josh." He stares at her flatly and I mentally cringe at the awkward silence.

"So....wheres Connor?" I break the silence.

"Upstairs."

"Ok..."

Taylor rolls her eyes "Well someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed."

Josh rubs his eyes and wonders over to the kitchen, leaving us standing in the doorway. It is evident that he's not going to call Connor down so I call him down myself. As we're standing there waiting I wonder why Josh is being this moody, I've never seen him like this and it's totally unlike him to be rude or not even invite us in. The first scenario my mind thinks of is that he's having problems with his girlfriend and I almost smile but then I stop myself because I'm not an evil bitch.

Just then Connor stumbles down the stairs holding a big picnic bag.
"Jenny! Sorry I'm late but I couldn't find my shorts, they were- " he looks over at Taylor "Oh and you are?"