"Casey?" Mason voice pops up, breaking through my thoughts. I turn to her in confusion. "Are you listening?" She asks slowly.
I frown shaking my head. "Sorry Mason..."
She rolls her eyes, but I can tell she doesn't really care.
"You're fine I guess. I was just asking what I should get Lux..."
I groan. "No! I didn't make him friends yet!"
Mason's mouth forms this big grin from the absurdity of the comment and she giggles girlishly as she always does.
"Alright so Lux is still grounded from getting sent to the office and our mom told him that if he could get ten real friends to show up to a birthday party then he was ungrounded..."
Mason just continues giggling. "And now your brother is making you get him friends?"
I nod. "Exactly, I'm so happy you understand."
It had been a week since my first day here (it's Friday obviously) and now I sit beside Mason in English while we wait on the teacher to arrive (which will force me to sit by him again). We were apparently discussing a gift For Lux's upcoming eighteenth birthday.
The school week had been calmer than my first day but I was still going through relentless teasing by Hunter and fun conversations with Noah and hateful spiels against Arabelle. I sneer just at the thought of her before realizing Mason is speaking again.
"Anyways...I'm serious. I want to get him something nice. I hate getting crappy gifts for people."
I groan. "Um, buy him a flannel, he loves flannels."
Mason sends me a dead look.
"What?" I ask in confusion. Jeez, I gave her a gift idea!
"You know what?"
"What?"
"We're going shopping tonight. I don't care what you say, we are getting your brother a gift!"
I groan. Shopping's fun and all but not when you're being forced to by the girl who has an unhealthy crush on your brother (who very obviously shares her feelings so their romance is nice and all but just killing the whole baby sister spirit created from watching your brother fail in his romantic endeavors)it becomes slightly less enjoyable.
Once Jamie was celebrating a Christmas with her boyfriend and I was dragged on endless shopping through freaking shorts stores (Ew!) only to end up getting him a watch we ended up seeing within the first five minutes of shopping while passing through Macys.
That relationship was not even worth the eighty bucks she spent (like at all, they broke up New Years Day). Yet I still went on the most depressing shopping trip ever so I made a promise to myself never to help a friend shop for their 'love interests'.
But here Mason was, forcing me to break that promise.
"Everyone back to your seats unless you want to be counted tardy!" Mrs. Hendrix growls from the front of the room.
Swarms of people; myself included, headed back to their seats. I drop down into mine beside the Devil himself.
"You don't look too happy Sweets. Any way I could help?" He winks.
I don't bless him with a response as I pull my pencil from my hair that I had thrown up hastily this morning.
"What did we say about ignoring me Sweets?"
I look at him, my expression bored. "I slept on a balcony last night with a baby blanket and crunchy leaves for my pillow." I growled out tiredly.
And it was true. I don't know how I did it but once I woke up this morning I was in yet another strange sleeping place.
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The Unconventional Ways Of Casey Jayne
Humor-Going through editing. I am adding edited chapters, which have all been labeled as such. Casey thought, at first, that she was not prepared to leave her life long home in Georgia and head towards New York state. In actuality New York was not prepar...
