The Hungergamessin House

5. Zoe's (MY) POV

*and after a long break we're back!!! some things have happened we'll update you in the stories!!*

I'm sitting at a table on the deck out back with Baylee. It's been a few months since Zaylee broke up. Brangelina too. Sad. But I've moved on. I do still love her, but in a friend way. I guess, with my depression and anxiety, I was just so relieved to be loved in that special way that I didn't face how I really felt. No harm done. Our relationship is better, actually. We don't have to try so hard to please each other. 

"You know," I say to the now red-haired girl sitting next to me, "They took Black Butler off Netflix. Or maybe my TV's being weird. Either way I haven't been able to watch it for, like, months. And I am...frustrated." 

"Kissanime.com," Baylee pops a chocolate into her mouth, "And then all your troubles will be over." 

"You're a good friend." I say, quite sincerely. 

She does the finger guns, purposefully awkward smile thing at me. 

I do it back. 

We're watching the trees sway in the wind, when Demi comes running out of the forest, screeching at the top of her lungs: "TRRRUUUUUUUUMMMMP!"

I race to help before she trips on the steps up the deck. "Demi calm down! - "

"TRUMP IS PRE - "

"I know Demi, I live in the U.S - "

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" 

"Stop hyperventilating! - "

"AAAAaaaaAAaAaAAAaaa!" 

"Fine I'll join! Here: AAAAAAAAAAAAAA - "

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Demi and I are screaming at each other. But no, we're not mad at each other or anything, we're just strange.  

We nearly pass out together, sit down, and listen to Baylee laughing: "I was totally filming that." 

"Of course you were." 

Nisha and Rosie come running out the forest, shouting - at the exact same time - "Finally!" 

Demi shouts back. "No!"

"Hold her down, Zoe!" Rosie screams. Nisha just looks both pissed and amused (pissamused?) and doesn't say anything. 

I do my best to hold the screaming and laughing Demi down on the deck. "I have no idea what's going on!" 

When Nisha and Rosie get to Demi, they begin tickling her. She laughs even harder, and I am even more confused. 

"Did you get her?" Myrthe shouts from the upstairs window. 

What...is...happening? 

"The water balloons are ready!" Yfke exclaims proudly. She and Margot are busy loading water balloons into their slingshot. 

Um. What. 

Abby comes out with gloves on. "You do the dishes on when it's your Dish Day, or you get the treatment. How many times do I need to remind you?" 

Oh. "Demi....." I grin. 

"Would you like to do the honors?" Abby hands me the gloves. 

"Absolutely." I slip the gloves on, and Baylee hands me the dish soap. 

"You 'forgot' to do the dishes, Demi, so now we're going to do you like you're the dishes." 

Elsa/Eden/Elliott is standing on the roof, ready to pour two buckets of water on her. 

And with that, we all surround her and begin to scrub her clean. She's howling with laughter, trying to escape. 

I love my friends.