The Meet Up

Chapter 1

It was 6am when my alarm storm the room with its loud noise, I send my hand to turn it off. I stayed in bed staring at the ceiling for sometime until my mother interrupted me screaming my name "Elisabeth!" I can tell my mom is annoyed when she calls me with my full name, I wonder what my parents were thinking when they decided to name me after two independent names I talked to my inside self while shaking my head. as I was drifting to places through my mind, I heard a knock at my door, it was beck, "come in!" I called out, oh ya! Beck is my favourite creature in the whole house, a gorgeous being with a good heart. I look at her and everything about her reminds me of dad, her smile looks like his except that she have dimples places you don't usually expect to see. she is 5 years younger than me, as they said the best for the last. "can I borrow your Nirvana T-shirt?" she asked with her pity face, I gave her a nod and she left the room with the t-shirt. I finally managed to get off my bed. I dragged my feet to the bath room and stepped in the tab to take a warm shower, I never take cold shower. I started thinking in the shower, I thought of my class schedule for today, I sighed when I realized I am full with classes. few minutes later, I managed to get ready, my mom was sitting with Beck while having breakfast, "don't leave without having your breakfast" she demanded, "I cant I am already late, I will grab a snack on my way to school" I replied and left before she respond. our home is a bit far from the city, my parents loved that about it. they loved it in the first glance 15 years ago when we moved in to this town, I was 6 years old then, and to be honest I love this town than the one I spent my first days at. I ran to be on time for school, I am always late and you know why. I chuckled hearing my two selves questioning and answering each other inside my mind. I was listening to kings of leon when my phone interrupted with a phone call, I took it out and saw the name "heather" I searched my mind for reasons why she could be calling me this hour, "hey heath" I picked it up, " Bethhhhhhh" she screamed on the other side of the phone which made me smile a little. "what sup?" I responded with a puzzled voice", "well I need a favour" "wha..." "its just there is this place I have to be later on the afternoon and I want you to come with me, please say yesss!" I ran with thoughts for a second, I recall what my best friend jane commanded me before she left, I told myself I should just agree to escort Heath and ran my fingers through my hair, "alright alright, what time is it though?" "yeeeeesssss!!!" I can tell the man next to me can hear her scream with joy, " 5pm, just come around our neighbourhood and phone me to come and get you" I responded with a nod and a yes and hang up the phone. I glanced my head to the taxi window to destruct myself , I realized I didn't even ask her where and who we were meeting I just agreed to it.

It was 4:45pm when I finished the last class of my day, "such a draining day" I said to myself, my mind travelled to the promise I made few hours ago, I sighed heavily, should I just call her and say I am sick or something but she would know as I am known for my lame and predictable excuses plenty of times, may be she should add today in those lists. I decided to send her a message because my voice squeaks when I lie and she would know instantly. my phone rang on my hand just before I hit the send button of the message I wrote after I had a war in my head, it was heath.. "hey babe, are you done with class yet, am waiting for you" I mumbled "I hmm.. about that" she yelled back "no no am not gonna buy your silly excuses so don't sell none, I am sending you the address instead because they are already they are waiting for us so I have to leave early" They? who are they? slowly my anxiety started to crawl all over me, where is the place? could it be a fancy shit? am I underdressed? why am I even wearing this stupid boots, its my favourite boots  but then its making it harder for me to drag my feet, "helloooo? Beth? " I jumbled and snapped back and I realized heath was still on the phone, "hey sorry, okay just send me the address I will be there in 20 mins" she said she has already send it and hang up the phone. wait why did I agree to that? oh heath! no no actually jane!! ugh you should see what your promise is making me go through, jane yes jane, it was in 7th grade when the teacher shuffle the students seat he sat us next to each other and now its been 10 years ever since. she is like me if I stood infront of a mirror.  she left to the states a year ago, she knew I wouldn't make new friends and outcast myself from the big crowed so she decided to introduce to her "good" friend heather and made me promise to never wreck the friendship or that she will break my neck. I hoped into the bus and sat in the corner seat with my earphone playing an old indie song. I jump of the bus as soon as my phone hits the address she sent. I found myself standing in front of an old building with poor infrastructure, it had a sign at the door and I read it out loud "Sunrise Bar and restaurant",  as I walked in I witness the compound to be full of trees and small plants with colourful flowers that gave the house a nose tingling scent, "isn't it a shady place to be called sunrise" I said to myself and just when I look up,  I saw heath sitting on one of the tables that were under the trees. My eyes caught a small bar in the corner next to the ancient building and has few chairs for those you want to drink in front of the bartender, I would have been inside and enjoyed the view through the small window but its heath and she enjoyed being seen in the light so here she is waving her hand while sitting outside. I walked towards her seat and noticed there were two man in their early 20s around the table. I noticed her seat was closer to one of them, she jumped off her sit and climbed on me.." yeeey you made it, I thought I was gonna end up with threesome," she giggled while giving them the eye and told me to sit next to the guy who she was sitting away from. I gave her a "what the fuck" face for cracking a lame joke and for making everyone uncomfortable. " This is Beth, you guys are probably friends with her on facebook but its Beth so she wouldn't know" she shrugged and continued, " This is Matt" pointing her index finger to the guy I am sitting next to, I cracked a small smile and nod to make it less awkward, I sort of waved my hand to a guy sitting next to me literally. how childish was that. Matt looked like in his mid- twenties but he is one of those baby faced type of guys people guess his age to be way younger, I can tell he is a drinker with the number of bottle of beers in front of him, he is a bit underweight for his height, he seem like a guy who parties every chance he got from the way his eyes are heavy and red. he smiled back and tapped my shoulder to show his greeting. " and this is..." when she look at Eliot to introduce us, he was on his phone.. "how disrespectful" I spit to myself, " Eliiiiii cmon! enough with that phone.." and snatched his phone from his hand and forced him to look up at me, he looked annoyed and drained from heath actions. " Heath! " he groaned, then look at me.. our eyes meet and I felt my cheeks starting to burn and I flushed.. I was confused with what was going on with me, I decided to blame it with the sun rays reaching to us through the trees. " hi" that was all he could say, " he..hi.." I waved three fingers and stayed quiet. Eliot seem like the rude type, but not rude if you don't force yourself onto him,  I can tell his blunt with the way he handled heather, I see only a beer bottle with half of it being gone so I guessed that he is not a drinker at least not like Matt.  I sat comfortably next to Matt despite the look he was staring at my thick thighs that made me uncomfortable, it was enough discomfort to see how heath is clinging over Eliot in front of us. " so where did you come from?" Matt starts a small talk, " hm here I... I mean from here, I was at school" he nod and asked me what I was studying in college, I scold myself for judging Matt on the first glance, as much as I hate having small talks I guess it was better than the awkward silence... ofcourse heather noise not taken into account. " can I ask how old you are? I mean... I would shape my questions around it if you tell me" I marked.  he smirked and moved his hand as a gesture to point out that he want me to guess it first, I saw this questions coming, I guess he likes to be called out younger. I wanted to know how close my guess was " I would say you are just about 24.." and I squeezed my eyes smiling to see his face expression, he lift his eyebrows and smirked, "not bad Beth not bad".. " you just add couple of years on that" I felt Eliot looking our way when we smiled but I pretended I didn't notice. " Okay enough enough with the private talk, lets bring it on the table" Heath scolded from across the table, for a second I thought it was just me and Matt, we snapped back to heath and Eliot, Eliot... he has a straight face which made it hard to tell what is running in his thoughts, I usual pick on what people think in the first three sentences or with their small facial expressions and I was confused why I could not figure this one. I like deep people but I want to be able to see how deep they are with emotions they express on the outside.