Cracked Secrets {[TBNRFrags & NoochM Fanfiction]}

5. Best Friends

                                        ~~~Audreys pov~~~

"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend."

I inspected my newly painted acrylics as Lori frantically rushed over to me. She startled me, so I stepped back a few steps.

“Preston and Mat want to meet us..” She whispered. I felt my heart stop. I nearly choked.

“Preston and Mat want to meet us?” I repeated slowly. I saw her nod her head and Amelia plastered on a fake smile.

“What’s going on?” She tried to come in between us.

“Umm-n-nothing..we need to, um, go, like, now.”  I stammered.  I payed for our nails and thanked all of the workers, and grabbed Lori’s wrist.

“Let’s go.” I said simply, my lips in a straight line showing no emotion.

“Uhh, whatever, bye.” Amelia said as she scowled. I quickly got into my car as Lori followed. I took a deep breath.

"So, how are we going to do this?” I asked Lori.

“I honestly don’t know.. even if we did decide to do this, do you think.. they’ll judge us?” I bit my lower lip and played with my newly put in lip ring with my teeth. I shrugged, not knowing what to say.

“We can’t.” I concluded. I saw a mix of sadness and acceptance on her face.

“But, why not? I mean, maybe Amelia won’t like us..and Madelyn..and Cody..and Eric..” She huffed out, but barely whispering the last part. She nodded her head as I started to pull out of the shopping center. As we entered the gravel covered driveway, I grabbed my bag and entered my vanilla scented house.

“We’re hooooome, mom!” I hollered to my mother.

“Okay sweetie, I just went food shopping, I got Oreos like you asked!” She yelled back. I saw Lori raise her eyes suggestively as we ran to go see the brand new packet of oreos.

“MmmMMmmMmmmm!” Lori muffled as she stuffed 5 in her mouth at once.

“Watch, Lori, ok?” I asked and she nodded. I politely grabbed one oreo and took a small bite out of it.

“Nice isn’t it? Not choking to death on Oreos?” I smirked and finished eating my Oreo slowly.

“I have a surprise for you, actually. Come to my room.” I told Lori. I led her into my room where about 5 bags of different warheads were lying across my floor. I turned over my shoulder.

“Now you can shove these in your mouth, just not my Oreos!” I pouted. I grabbed 2 bags and threw them at Lori. She caught them immediately, as I knew she would. I sat down on my desk and patted a spot for Lori to sit too.

“Ready?” I questioned.

“Ready.” Lori said, with a tint of confidence. I started my timer and began shoving at least 20 warheads in my mouth. My eyes squeezed and I made a sound in resemblance of a dying walrus. I began shaking somehow thinking this would get the sour taste out of my mouth, but it never did. I slammed my palms on the table and turned my head to look at Lori. I saw her swinging her legs on my desk, while she popped her last warhead into her mouth.

“Done!” She exclaimed whilst brushing off her hands. I raised my eyebrows and gaped at her.

“How..did..you..what?” I questioned. She smirked and answered,

“I have my ways.”