“Hello?” Luke’s voice sounds muffled like he just got up from a nap or something.
“Luke? It’s Madi.” I say into the phone.
“Oh hey I assume you made it back to the mall safely. Did you find your friends yet?” He sounds amused but slightly worried.
“Yea I found them and Laila reminded me of this party that a friend of ours is having and I wanted to know if you wanted to come with me.” I sound rushed and desperate. I just hope he doesn’t pick up of it. I hear one of the girls make a noise between a squeal and a gasp.
“Uhh… yea I think I can go. Do you care if I bring the rest of the boys along we haven’t really been able to go to parties lately because of the tour.” He says nervously.
“Yea we’d love for the rest of them to join us!”
“Thanks for inviting us Madi. I’ll text you later Ashton’s got my peng… I mean my… uhh” I cut him off before he can finish “I’ll see you around seven bye Luke.” I hang up before he can say goodbye and feel a little guilty but I need to worry about the now twelve girls standing around me and Laila. I give them a look that says ‘don’t mess with me’ and they all stand there dumbfounded and some look a little scared. I walk to Grace’s dressing room and knock. The door opens with Grace in a short red dress. “What do you guys think of this? I was thinking of wearing it to the party tomorrow.” She says while twirling in the dress.
“I like it a lot.” I say ignoring the girls still standing around us. Grace looks at the girls but ignores them. I’ll have to explain that to her later but not right now.
“I think you’ll have a hard time fighting off all the guys in that dress!” Laila adds getting a shocked expression from both me and Grace. I shouldn’t be so shocked she’s always saying stuff like this and I find it quite humorous.
Grace gets changed back into her clothes and purchases the dress. We walk out of the store and the girls are still following us, not as many but still enough to annoy me. I guess Laila senses my annoyance and rudely says to the remainder of the girls “Get away from us! We’re going home and if any of you follow us we’ll call the police!” and at the mention of the police the entire group of girls scramble away from us. I love having Laila around because she says things that I would feel uncomfortable, or awkward saying to people.
“So where should we go for dinner?” I hear Grace ask us. I haven’t even thought about dinner, or about how hungry I actually was.
“Let’s just order a pizza or something I don’t feel like going out to dinner tonight” Laila says when we reach my car. We all agree and I start my car to go home. I hear Grace and Laila talking about some irrelevant boy they saw in Hollister and my mind wanders to Luke and the party tomorrow night. I’m not sure if I should tell Luke about the girls or not. He may become worried or not care at all, and if he doesn’t care I’ll feel stupid for telling him. Why am I over thinking this? I never over think stuff like this. I’m pulled from my thoughts as I hear Laila calling my name several times in a row.
“Madi? So do you agree?”
“Agree with what? I’m sorry I wasn’t paying attention.” I see Laila roll her eyes in annoyance as she repeats it “Don’t you agree that Nash and I are totally perfect for each other?” she finishes and bats her eyelashes at me. I laugh at her silly gesture and agree with her. My mind wanders to Lily and the party. “Hey guys…” I nervously start “Will uhm… Lily… uh be there tomorrow?” I say not looking away from the road to avoid eye contact with my friends. I hear Grace start to say something but is abruptly stopped by Laila. So I’m guessing she will be there. I hate when she goes to parties with us, she always ends up getting extremely drunk and I end up holding her hair most of the night in the bathroom. I don’t want that to happen because it could make things awkward between me and Luke or he might find another girl at the party to hang out with and… Oh my god why can’t I just stop over thinking everything and just focus on whatever the heck Grace and Laila are going on about?
