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"Pia! darling! Stassi is here!" my mom, shouted from downstairs.
"Okay!" I shouted back as I got up from bed and started walking to the door, and as clumsy as I am, I just so happen to trip over a few books laying on the floor and ran straight to my dresser hitting my knee in the process.
"ouch!" I cried out.
"Pia? Darling? is everything alright up there?" my mom asked worriedly, "yeah., I'll be down in a bit!" I say as I maneuvered myself out my bedroom door and down the steps.
"Olympia, honey are you sure you're fine? you seem to have hit yourself again." Aunt Vicky, Stassi's mom say, as she saw me coming down the stairs, she was sitting in the sitting room together with my mom talking. I smiled at her and said, my greetings and asked where Stassi was,
"oh, that daughter of mine! she must be in the kitchen again! pigging out on what Elaine has baked, please tell her to save enough for you to bring to the bonfire honey" Aunt Vicky said as I turned and walked to the kitchen to leave the two mothers talk away in private.
As I round the corner to the kitchen I heard Stassi talking on the phone with somebody, I walked up to her and grabbed the brownie she was about to devour.
"Hey! that was mine!" she said as she glared at me.
"I gotta go Heather" there was a pause. "Yeah. she just got down. we're leaving in a few minutes yeah, see you" Stassi closed the lid of the container where the brownies were put, as she hung up the phone. "I didn't get a chance to buy you coffee. my mom was in a hurry to get here," she said. I shrugged my shoulders.
"so? you ready to go yet?" she asked standing up. I nodded my head yes and started leaving the room.
"Where are you going?" I asked as I bent down to grab something from the fridge. "I am getting us a ride," she said as she walked up the stairs and walked straight to my older brothers room. "hey mom? me and Stassi are leaving." I say as I passed her by.
"Grab a jacket darling! it's getting chilly outside." my mom reminded me. I nodded yes and headed to the coat closet to grab a sweater, just as I was closing the door, Stassi is walking down the stairs with my brother in tow.
"Mom! we're heading out now!" Stassi called out walking to the sitting room. "I thought you weren't coming?" I asked raising an eyebrow at him.
"Me too," Alek said as he was rubbing his hand on the back of his neck, walking out the door to start up the car. "Come, come peasant. our chariot awaits!" Stassi cheerfully says as she pulled me out the door, and into the back seat of my brothers 2013 Honda city. Alek drove off as our mother's waved goodbye from the front porch.
"So? What dirt does she have on you this time?"
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It was an awkward 30-minute drive to the outer part of town. After my question I somehow noticed my brothers ear slowly turning red, and my best friend squirming in her seat, not looking at each other and avoiding eye contact, and I somehow noticed that my question has put them into that state, huh, I wonder what happen upstairs.
"Can somebody open the radio?" I asked as I leaned my head by the window. I thought they were going to ignore my simple request but, both of them reached for the radio at the same time, their fingers touched, for a brief moment they had eye to eye contact, as if the were the only ones in the car.
"ahem"
And then they pulled away and returned to avoiding each other. So, when the car stopped you don't how fast I jumped out of the car. You could slice the sexual-tension in the air with a knife.
As I was walking along the beach parking lot I heard somebody shout my name. "Pia!"
"About time you guys' got here. Where's Stassi? is that your brother's car?" Heather asked as she approached me, I almost didn't recognize her. "yeah, leave the two alone for a moment." I told her as I gave her the container full of brownies, and continued walking to the beach. Heather is the Student body president, she is in charge of activities inside and outside of school, and since it's still considered as the last day of school, she said she'd be glad to organize it.
Richmond High's start of the summer beach party is traditional here in our little town, it's usually just a bunch of teens trying to celebrate the start of their summer, the party kicks off with a beach bonfire, dancing, games, and ends with teenagers drunk and the traditional fireworks, that symbolizes summer is here.
I looked around and I was a small crowd of students, good enough to start a party. "Pia! good to see you! have fun tonight!" Megan, my 8th-grade science partner called out as she pulled with her a very reluctant boyfriend of hers, Matt Damon, Connor's best friend.
"so? Matt's here, which means not too far away is his goodie-two-shoes best friend." I rolled my eyes as Stassi popped up next to me.
"It's a High school party, of course, he's coming." I tell her as we start walking down to the bonfire. "oh, you know what else?" she asks.
"If Connor is here, of course, his girlfriend is bound to be around," she says, and that definitely bummed me out. "Ugh," I groan. Connors girlfriend. Kathy McAllister. Don't get me wrong, but there's nothing wrong about Kathy. She's pretty and nice, and talented, and she's cheer captain. The perfect girlfriend, and that's what irritates me. She's too perfect! sigh.
"Oh, don't be like that Pi," Stassi says, as she hangs her arm on my shoulder. "I know you're going to have an awesome night" she dragged me closer to the water. "Maybe, just maybe, you should just forget about Connor." she sat down on the edge of the water, she looked up to me, and patted the spot next to her. I sat down and looked out to the water. Minutes passed, and there was silence. The comfortable type, she looked at me, paused, and putting her head on my shoulder.
She sighed. "Pi? don't keep on rooting for a guy that won't even give you a second glance. You'd only get hurt." she paused. Stood up pat down her shorts, and started walking back to the party.
Did she just say what she just said? did she indirectly say she had feelings for my brother? HOLY COW! my best friend has feelings for my insanely idiotic brother! and he may or may not have feelings for her too. I was pulled out of my thoughts when somebody sat next to me and asked,
"What's a beautiful girl like you sitting all alone over here when the party is all the way over there?" I looked up at him, he looked familiar but different, I can't say what. He was looking at me and I realized he was holding up a cup waiting for me to grab it.
I said nothing, taking the cup from his hand, but not drinking.
"I'm sorry if I'd disturb you. I was just minding my business when I caught sight of you. I mean I don't mean no harm but its a high school party, why are you all alone out here?" he asked taking a gulp of his beer. I went back to look out to the water.
"I guess I just wanted to sit here-"
"and be lonely little Pia?" he added, as he grinned at me. "No. Okay, maybe" and we both started laughing.
"How's college?"
"It's fine, had a hard time adjusting but, it's not too bad," he said shrugging.
"your home early," I say while taking a sip of beer.
"I had nothing better to do, say why not go home early and attend the beach party?" he answered with a cheeky smile. "how 'bout you sport? how you holding up?" he asked as he looked at me.
"Nothing really changed. I'm still boring little ole me." I say as I looked at him, and he was looking up at the sky. "You smile a lot now. college must be doing you a lot good." I tell him.
"college did both of us good, You're talking to me now," he said closing his eyes.
"Touche!" I say chuckling.
"So how has my brother been treating you?" he asked. I shook my head while smiling. "What's new?" I asked with one eyebrow raised looking at him.
He laughed and pulled me in for a hug. "I told you too many times. He isn't worth it," he said now turning serious, but still hugging me tight to him.
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Under Human Made Stars
RomanceOlympia Gray is your average teen trying to pass her Junior high and together with her best friend Stassi their planning how to get the ever Irresistible Connor Evans to finally notice her-Over the Summer; But, what she doesn't know is during the Su...