“Come on Eve it’s really yummy” Thomas urged me again, we had ended up staying at my grandmothers for dinner and all us youngsters, as my grandmother called us, were sitting in the upstairs bedroom, Thomas and Jacob were trying to get me to take a shot of some kind of alcohol and it was black, which in Denmark usually meant licorice and I hate that stuff.
“I’m a minor guys” I tried but knew it wouldn’t hold up in court.
“Not here you aren’t” Thomas smiled evily, they were only doing this cause they knew I hated licorice and made funny faces at it. there’s no legal drinking age in Denmark there’s only a law against buying alcohol not drinking it. Mom and Dad were really Danish when it came to this they knew we would drink anyways so they didn’t really care they were just always lecturing us about knowing our limits and never take drinks from strangers.
“Fine give me the damn shot” I groaned, suck it up Eve you’re partly danish you should like licorice. I downed the shot and was instantly met by the saltiness of the licorice and knew by the laughter erupting in the room that I was making a YUCK face. “That’s so disgusting how do you guys drink this?” I asked.
“It barely tastes like alcohol cause of all the licorice” Julie answered still laughing “It’s delicious just don’t drink too much, you’ll hate the smell of licorice once you’ve gotten too drunk on this stuff” She said shaking her head looking at Anna who nodded her head in agreement.
“I hate all of y’all” I stated making them all smile that was my catchphrase, I was the youngest so they were always going after me, all of them.
“It’s time to go guys!” Dad yelled from downstairs and we all got up, I was looking forward to going home to my bed, I was exhausted.
We all got up and went downstairs to say goodbye to everyone, after a lot of hugging we all piled into the cars all of us quiet and exhausted.
it was a 30 minute ride but it felt like 3 hours, when we finally pulled up and got all our luggage into the house it was around midnight and we all just went into our rooms to get some sleep.
I switched on the light in my bedroom and carried my luggage inside.
“You must be Evelyn” My heart jumped out of my chest and I screamed only to find a gorgeous blond girl sitting in the bed opposite mine.
“Oh god you scared me” I sighed trying to get my heart to slow down. “I’m sorry I totally forget you were going to be here, you’re Rachel right?” I asked reaching my hand out to hers
“Call me Roe, everyone does” She smiled and shook my hand.
“I’m sorry did I wake you?” she was in a pajamas and her hair was a little messy.
“Yeah but it’s okay mom said you guys were coming later then planned” She smiled and nodded towards my suitcase “Need help with that?”
“No thanks I got it” I said smiling it was a little awkward sharing a room with someone I didn’t know and I just stood there awkwardly staring at her, this was why I didn’t have many friends I was awkward, I only ever made friends through other friends like Jeremy.
“I’m sorry am I in your bed?” She asked getting out of bed “Mom said you sleep in that one” She said pointing at my bed.
“No, she was right that’s my bed” I said pointing at my bed and she got back in her own.
“You must be tired so I’ll let you get to bed, maybe we can talk tomorrow? Get to know each other?” She asked smiling and boy was she beautiful she had long blond hair and beautiful green eyes a lot like Jeremy’s, and just perfect, she could be a model and I suddenly felt underdressed for some reason which was totally dumb, since she was in PJ’s and I was in actual clothes.
