Like Fridge Magnets

Chapter Seventeen

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

ELAYNA

       Walking towards Hannah’s car I put my phone into the pocket of Adam’s jacket simply for something to do as I tried my very best to ignore the stares of the girls.

“Okay, I can’t take this anymore,” Selena exclaimed, “What’s up with you and Adam?”

“Yeah, we leave you alone for a day or two and return to find you guys all coupled up,” Faith added, “What happened to being barely able to stand each other?”

“Can we please just go to the mall,” I laughed out as I tried to avert answering their questions, “I’ll tell you what you want to know if you buy me lunch,” I bargained.

“Deal,” they all replied in unison, including Hannah who had quickly become a well-loved member of our trio.

“We’ve got to find ourselves some decent shopping malls around here if this is where we’ll be living for the next four years,” Selena said while we all piled into the car. The radio started playing just as Hannah turned the engine on, Train’s ‘Drive By’ was playing.

“Oh turn it up,” Selena said from the back seat next to me, “This is my song,” she said before she started singing along to it. With the windows rolled down, we all danced in our seats and sang along to the parts of the song that we knew as we drove by several amused looking drivers on the freeway.

We finally reached the shopping mall and parked in the underground car park, “Ya’ll make sure you remember where we parked because I know I’m really useless at remember stuff like that in huge car parks like this,” Hannah said as the locked the car doors.

“Don’t worry we’ll remember,” I said as I laughed at her serious expression, looking at the girls I suddenly felt a little underdressed; they were all in skinny jeans and different cute little sweaters, I looked down at my harem pants and high heeled laced up converse boots, “I guess my shoes make up for the outfit,” I said as I looked up from my shoes.

“You look fine,” Selena said, “Plus you look cute with those shoes and that jacket. It looks like you came from your boyfriend’s place,” she said in a tone that implied that I should elaborate on what was going on before they came to the apartment.

“Uh uh girlie,” I told her shaking my head, “You’ve got to buy me lunch first,” I stated in a mater-of-fact tone.

“It’s going to be some late lunch,” Faith pointed out, “It’s already a quarter to four.”

“So?” I said looking at her, “Food is food, regardless of the time,” I added winking at her before snaking my arm through hers, “Where shall we eat?”

“I heard there’s a nice little Mexican place in the mall,” Selena said as she linked her arm through Hannah’s, “I miss my mum’s cooking so let’s go there,” she informed us.

We walked into the food court and found the Mexican restaurant that Selena was referring to; it was an exquisite place. The inside was made to seem like as though it was actually in Mexico, with textured walls and big beautiful painting on the walls from canvases of people at a tomato farm to women in a kitchen cooking and the warm inviting colours gave the place a homey feel that instantly put you at ease; the restaurant was definitely going to become one of our regular hang-outs.

“Hi, eating in or taking away?” The hostess that stood behind the podium that we had walked up to asked us as she smiled brightly at us.

“Eating in,” Selena replied just as cheerily.