Finding Freya

He Must Think Supermarkets Are Exotic

[A/N] Hello everyone! Thank you all for reading. This chapter is dedicated to my friend Chelsea (Edme_Wolf). Make sure you read her story Rules Of Despising You. It's really good. She also has another story Galaxy Of The Beasts which is also really good, but Rules Of Despising You is my favourite. Hope everyone likes it. Votes and comments are appreciated.

- Chloe :)

The next morning, I went down to the beach along with Lachie. He told me that it would probably be worthwhile to catch a few waves, considering the fact that he hadn't been out in the surf for a while. I went off to go meet up with Hayley and Jordan, my best friends, We always come here in the summer.

We lay half in the shade of the huge umbrella Jordan brought along. We watched the waves crash over the breakers and people running up and down the shoreline.

I sit up. "Ellie's getting married."

"What?" exclaimed Hayley. "Ellie?"

"Ellie," I repeated.

"Whoa!" says Jordan, flicking off a fly. "That's crazy! They've only been going out a month, no three months. I would never marry someone that quickly. I haven't even met him."

"Me either," says Hayley

"Ellie reckons that when love hits, you know." I explained, sifting the soft, quartzy sand with my fingers. "And once you know, you know."

"Still," said Jordan. "I wouldn't marry someone that quick."

"So," asked Hayley. "Where did Travis propose?"

"At Coles supermarket," I answered her. "Beside the spice rack."

"What! And she accepted him!" said Hayley. "If I had a boyfriend and he proposed to me there, I'd smack him out."

"Ellie didn't seem to mind."

"I want it to be somewhere exotic," said Jordan, gesturing to the places around her. "Like on top of a cliff above a wild sea or in a hot-air balloon at sunrise."

"Some people may think that supermarkets are exotic," I said.

"Pssh! Only if you don't have a life!" Hayley smeared coconut oil all over her arms. She wiped her hands on her towel and slipped on her sunglasses.

"Is Travis a hottie? He must be hot! You'd only say yes to a proposal like that if he was absolutely hot-hot!"

"He's alright looking I suppose," I said. "But Ellie isn't really worried about looks. She likes Travis anyways."

"Well at least he doesn't look haggard or anything. Because since she has to wake up beside him every morning. And if he looked haggard, the first thing she's going to think when she rolls over is, "I feel tired."" Most of the time having an opinionated best friend is a good thing. But when Hayley gets on a roll, she's hard to stop.

"Ellie's asked me to be a flower girl," I said. "They're getting married in spring. Probably November."

Jordan fiddled with the hem of her blue, green and white tie-dyed sarong. Hayley was deathly silent.

"Travis' sister, Gemma, is going to be one too. She's about the same age as us."

Jordan stared at me over sunglasses "But you!"

"Yes."

"You can't stand people staring at you," said Jordan. "You actually vomited over the guest speaker in Year Seven at assembly when Miss Patterson made you say thank you." It was true, I did have a tendency to vomit at inappropriate moments, particularly if I was experiencing extreme stress or nausea.