A Summer To Remember

Game Face

Chapter 3

"Is that the time?" I asked Nancy, who was painting her nails red.

"Uh, yeah." Nancy says, still not looking up from her toes.

"Shit!" I explode, jumping from the bed, slightly jostling Nancy, and collecting all my things, stuffing them into my backpack.

"What is it?"

"I'm late. I promised Roxanne I'll stop by and help at her new shop." I hop while trying to strap on my heels.

I blew my blonde hair away from my face and faced her. "Thank you for that evil yet brilliant plan." I kissed her cheek.

She giggles. "You're welcome. Go give him hell and I'll see you tonight."

With one last wave at her, I was gone.

Since, I didn't have my license yet, I have to endure 20 minutes of walking in heels to Roxanne's boutique. I didn't mind the walk, what I do mind is those frat boys hollering from their cars as they pass me by. They were a bunch of overly muscular dudes, all in tank tops or shirtless and sunglasses. They made my skin crawl and made me flush with anger. They keep shouting something along the lines of 'Hey, girl! Wanna go on a ride on the Mike train? Choo choo!' or something more repulsing.

I got to the shop and saw Roxanne, Becky and some hot guy at the front.

"Hey, there you are!" Roxanne gushed at me, kissing both my cheeks.

"Hi, Mia!" Becky clings to my bare legs.

"Mia, I'd like you to meet, Kyle. He's the instructor at that aerobics gym I just joined. Kyle, this is Mia, she's my son's girlfriend." I stared at Kyle and knew immediately something was off about him. Gay. I rolled my eyes internally. How do I know? Well, the owner of the gym is a woman and would never ever let a guy lead an all women aerobics class and besides that, he's freaking handsome! Too handsome for his own good, therefore, he's gay.

"Oh." I said in fascination and gave her a pointed look. "Nice to meet you, Kyle."

"Shall we go inside?" Roxanne says.

I was folding and hanging shirts when Becky sat on the little plush chairs.

"Becks, how was the dance?" I remembered because I taught her some of the moves I learned from cheerleading and dancing.

"Oh, it was super fun! And I did that backflip thing you taught me during my solo and they all clapped!" Her face was practically glowing while she tells me this.

"That's great! I wish I was there to watch you perform." I pout at her.

"It's okay! Our teacher was really nice!"

"Oh yeah, Mrs. Cavanaugh, right?"

"Yes. You should've seen my daddy when he saw Mr. Cavanaugh! He's like this huge guy with muscles and tattoos and daddy was shaking so bad!" She giggles.

We stopped our conversation when we heard a commotion outside. Becky turned her attention to Kyle and hopped on his shoulders. We all ran outside to see who was causing so much racket. I was the first one out and saw a big tire roll by that had a hand clutching it from the inside and blonde hair.

"Higgins is in the tire!" Lenny said while trying to catch up with it. Kurt and some lady with big bulging muscles following behind him. Eric was also behind them, coughing and red.

"Of course!" Roxanne says.

When we moved on from that little incident. We all headed back in and I started to look at Roxanne's new designs.