Is this Love?

Is this Love? Chapter 1 Page 2: Birthday Week

Chapter 1;

The week after was my 16th birthday, and all I wanted to do was celebrate it with my two favourite girls in the whole world ‒ my mum and little sis.

Luckily, mum bought me a giant butter cream frosting cupcake with a hot pink candle that read "16 today and proud of it".

I blew out the candle and wished that God may bless my family and me so we could have good lives and make our own families. Also, I had passed my drivers license the day before and for my birthday gift I had gotten my own car which was a brand new flashy-looking Ferrari and $1269 to spend all on ME! Who's got the best car on college campus now Kaitlyn? I thought to myself in pride.

"This is the best birthday ever!" I hugged both mum and Eva then said I was going to the mall with my bff Ivory (we also go waaaaay back, even when we were in diapers) the next day, we had planned on having a massive shopping spree bonanza with a dinner party afterwards (the dinner party didn't really work out)... that was two weeks ago.

What to wear? I thought to myself as I was brainstorming an outfit to wear for the following morning, I had woken up at 2:00am in the morning because I couldn't wait for the big day ahead! A few minuets later I fell back asleep, the second time I woke up it was 8:30am, I went straight for my designer wardrobe and crossed my fingers and pushed my hands deep inside of it, hoping that there would be something decent for me to rock today since it was also the first time I and Ivory hadn't arranged to wear matching outfits. After moments of searching I found an eye-catching red River Island slim fit body con dress, and blood red, open-toe strap heels with a gold plait on the ankle. Which weren't too high but medium length and made my gold varnished toe nails look sparkly. It was such a perfect outfit for such a perfect day! (Well, I prayed to God that it would be a perfect day).

I put on some extra thin volume mascara, glittery gold eyeshadow and velvet red lipgloss. As I smacked my lips together I adjusted a pair of gold hoop earrings onto my ears. I slicked my hair down with some gel and put a flower clip on the side. I almost forgot my lucky charm and then I glimpsed that it was on my study desk and placed it in my purse , but it took me ages because my wardrobe has ALOT of clothes and they are hard to search through. Next, I quickly grabbed my bright gold&red Ted Baker hand purse from my bed. I was just in time for the lovely breakfast that mum had made ; it was scrambled eggs, smoked bacon and mac'n'cheese, and I washed it all down with some cherry KoolAid. As soon as I finished I said my goodbyes, took my Galaxy Ace, keys and a pocket purse full of money and headed off to my car.

This was the second time I had driven in my brand new car all by myself and it was a smooth ride. The minute I turned into the parking lot I caught sight of Ivory's jet black Mercedes Benz, it was a 7 seater that kind of looked like a Jeep used in one of the British wars.

We both met at the entrance and glanced at our outfits. Ivory has always had short hair and styles it into a bob because she cuts it every week. She's from St. Lucia, has a mum from the Caribbean, and hates broccoli just like me. Oh and btw her skin is a kinda caramel. She wore a patent leather black and silver studded dress from AX Paris and swede silver wedges on her feet, her toes were painted with American flags on 'em. She had dangly diamond earrings that were very long. And a crucifix chain on. Boy did she look ever so cute! She's older than me by 2 months and 6 days (June 24th) so she's always looked a lot more mature but today I think we both tied in dress code.

First off we went to Forever 21 and bought some cool tanks and Victoria Secret for lingerie, the third stop was JDs where we bought knee-length Hunter boots and Nike Roshe Runs. Then in other shops we bought dresses, jumpsuits, maxis and so much other stuff that my list isn't countable anymore. Afterwards we were heading to UGG U.S to buy some uggs for college. But we ran into somebody unexpected on our way to the counter as we were just about to pay for our last piece of shopping.

It was Joel and this time he was looking even better than before with his bright hazel green eyes staring at me, he wore Jordan Retro 11s in red with a grey shirt and dark denim True Religion jeans, he had also shaved his hair into a shape up. Best thing yet was that Kaitlyn was nowhere in sight.

"This is your big chance Zen" I thought to myself in silence. He looked over at me and Ivory who was not paying any attention as she was finding her credit card to pay for her half of the shopping so it meant that I had to face this all by myself.

I smiled.

He smiled.

Then he winked.

And I blushed.

This went on for some time until the woman at the desk started getting all dreamy around him that's when I put on a straight face and she got the message. As we paid and were about to leave Joel called me over and asked if we could get to know eachother better because unfortunately he'd broke up with Kait. I felt sorry for her and said "sure" in the most casual sounding way I could. Then we exchanged numbers.

Ivory just knew that I didn't care that Kait was single. But at least it wasn't my fault, eh?

We both packed our shopping in the trunks of our cars and gave eachother hugs and said we'll meet eachother tomorrow at camp.

That night he called me and started spilling out why he'd broken up with Kaitlyn (Ugghhh she's just so mean, I can't stand her) and I felt really bad when he said she cried her guts out because apparently she tried to "take things too far" in their relationship which I didn't understand because I haven't really yet been in one and so I went to sleep joyfully, knowing that tomorrow was "Camp Day!"

Aaaayeeee! 😏💃👌