The "Best" Friends: Book 1

Chapter 9 - Let The Rain Fall

It was 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and everyone had arrived back in Ohio. And it was raining. Really heavily. They were thinking about getting Bella to pick everyone up from the airport, but that would mean waiting outside for about half an hour (Bella didn't live close). They decided to all walk to the nearest house; H, Carly, Pearl, Bob and Gidget's house, or just, the family's house. After that, everyone else would phone their parents to take them home.

As they got to the house, they realized that someone was missing; Bob. They decided not to panic because he was a weird person and would more than likely find his own way home. The only ones who felt guilty were Jimmy and Emilia.

They all went inside. The first room in the house was the study, then H's room which is where most of them stopped except H and Gidget. They walked through Carly's room and then into the living room where they saw him. Bob was sitting on the couch. Dry!
"What the flippin'?!" H yelled.
"How are you here?! And HOW are you DRY?!" Gidget cried.
"I appeared out of a-nowhere!" Bob giggled. Gidget face palmed. Again.

Meanwhile, Emilia was searching around for blankets, towels and jackets in the luggage. She found Jimmy's scarf and his jacket, TicToc's cloak, her hoodie, Carly's hat and cardigan, and Tea Party's blanket. H walked into his bedroom and sat on his bed.

She purposefully didn't find anything for him because her was already wearing a hoodie. He may have wanted something else, but that's not what's he was getting.
"Sorry that I couldn't find anything like this for you, Pearl," Emilia apologised.
"It's okay. I'll just go to my bedroom and get my blanket," she replied before leaving the room.
"Hey!" H complained, "What about me?!"
Emilia looked at him with disgust. "Nope, sorry. You're not getting anything."

H tried to take Jimmy's jacket, but Emilia slapped him on the cheek.
"Ow!" He said.
"Like I said, you're not getting anything," Emilia replied. H let out a big sigh of defeat, and then walked back into the living room.

TicToc looked at the marble-chained door and stepped through into Carly's room. She looked around the room in amazement at what a real house looked like. She slowly sat down on the pink, black and silver bed. Comfortably, she lay down and fell asleep.

Back in H's room, everyone was phoning someone in their families. Well, Tea Party didn't have a phone, but she did have her mum's phone number for emergencies. She gave it to Jimmy and he phoned her. He realised what he was doing, and handed his phone to the 9 year old girl next to him instead.
"Hi, Mum!" Tea Party cried. Then, there was just noise, "Yeah! I really, really missed you too! Could you come pick me up from Pearl's house?" There was noise again, but everyone just assumed it was Tea Party's mum saying yes, because after that, she replied with, "Okay, thanks!" The young girl ran into Carly's room and cried, "TicToc! You're allowed to stay at my house tonight!" TicToc woke up and smiled. A few seconds later she went back to sleep.

Jimmy noticed that Tea Party had left his phone on H's bed, so he picked it up and phoned his own mum.
"Uh, Mum?" He said, "Hello? Are you there?" His mum did answer eventually though. He had a really long conversation about what happened in Spain, and if he had a good time, but he finally managed to ask her to pick him up. But not until 8 that night.

Emilia didn't phone her mum. Or her dad. She phoned someone else who was old enough to drive and look after her.
"Hey, sis," she said talking into the phone. She didn't like things touching her ears, so she had it on speaker.
"She has a sister?" Carly and TicToc asked at the same time. Jimmy nodded, he had met her before and she was really nice.
"Could you pick me up from H's? We just got back from the airport and it was pouring. Right now, I'm freezing and I'm soaked," Emilia added.
"Uh, yeah sure," came an echoey voice from her phone, "Do you want me to get anyone else?"
"Nah, just me. Could you get me at about 7 or 8?" She asked.
"Okay. Cool. See ya then!" Replied her sister. Emilia hung up.