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10. The New Year's Eve

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Since my exams have started I haven't been able to update as frequently as before but I'll do it as soon as I can. I hope you can bear with it.

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'You light me up inside like the 4th of july. Whenever you're around I always see to smile. When people ask me how well you're the reason why, I'm dancing in the mirror singing in the shower.' I was singing along with Becky G in the shower. I was taking a relaxing shower after my hectic day. Today is the New year's eve and I'm really excited. Its just 8 in the evening but I had to leave to my friend's place soon. We always had a pre party before the clock struck 12 every new years. Because at midnight we all go to the clock tower at the center of the city where the biggest christmas tree is kept. All most every single person in the city goes there at midnight at count down. We stay there for a couple of hours watch the fireworks and go back to partying.

This year we decided to have a girls night. We'll meet the guys at midnight have fun for a couple of hours and then head back to Julie's. We have a really large group of friends.So whenever we hang out its like a party. There are 8 of us girls and 11 guys in our close group of friends.We celebrated every ocassion together.

I just have over 40 minutes before Mon gets here so we could go to Julie's together.All of us decided to wear black today. So I picked a simple black evening dress that reached my mid thighs and paired it off with black pumps.For accessories I picked a delicate silver chain with star as a locket and pearl ear rings. I applied minimum makeup and went bold with jungle red lipstick. I decided to add little curls to y hair since I had stick straight hair and I rarely ever do anything with it.(There's a picture added at the beginning of the chapter for an idea of what I imagined.You guys can imagine something else if you didn't like it.)

By the time I was done I had 10 minutes left so I decided to call my parents. I wished them early in case I couldn't get the at midnight and we were in different time zones. We talked for about 10 minutes before I heard voices from the hallway. I bid the goodbye and opened the door to see Mon standing there and talking to one of Jace's friends we met at the party. Looks like Jace was not at home so he was standing out waiting outside the door.

"Hey Mon." I greeted her and smiled at the guy.I didn't know his name so I didn't know what to say to him. He smiled at me and said "Hey Eva."Okay now this is awkward. I was just smiling sheepishly when the elevator doors opened and out came Matt. "Hey Archer! When did you get here?" He exclaimed and I sighed in relief. They shook their hands and slapped each other on their backs.

"Hey Eva.How are you?" Matt greeted me with a wide smile. Mon was making goofy faces behind his back. Me and Dillon laughed suddenly and Matt turned to Mon. His smile vanished and he greeted in a flat tone "Monica." he nodded his head at her. "Mattie" Mon replied in the same tone and nodded her head. Matt rolled his eyes at her and turned to me.

"So you going to be at the clock tower tonight?" He asked excitedly. "Yea. We'll be there at midnight." I answered just as excited. I love the new year's eve. "So,is Jace going to be there? " Mon asked Matt curiously. "Why?Are you going to miss him?" Matt answered crossly. I don't get what it is with this two.They fought like kindergarteners. "I won't but someone might." Mon answered with a smirk and teasing glint in her eyes. Matt caught on to this and smirked as well. "Oh I'm sure he will be there.He wouldn't wanna miss it." He said in a teasing voice. I rolled my eyes at them. Weren't they just being rude to each other? Now they teamed up?