American Honey

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Prompt 12: In which a character pulls an all-nighter

Prompt 21: In which a character kisses someone for the first time

        "You want more friends, don't you? Come on, Annah. We've been threw this already! I invite three friends and those three invite three and those three invite three. You can invite three people, too." Amanda said. Annah sighed, a bit tired of Amanda's dumb idea and the fact that Amanda kept repeating it throughout the whole day. She had never met someone more persistent. "I've never been to a sleepover before and I don't really want to go to one, either." Annah half-admitted. 

"You are such a dirty, little liar." Amanda chuckled, shaking her head. "What? No. I'm not lying. I don't wanna go to one." Amanda groaned.

"Oh, please, please, please. Pretty please, oh, please? Annah, please?!" Annah's eyes widened as she gave Amanda a look of are you insane? "Please, please?" She pouted as she clung onto her friend. "I can't," Annah said, an idea popping into her head, "It's a school night. My parents would never let me do anything like that on a school night."

"Oh, please. You can always sneak out. Or you can say that you're going over to study with friends and that it might take a long time so you have to stay over. They wouldn't want their daught walking alone at night, would they? And then it's too late for them to come pick you up. So? Are you gonna come? You know I'm not gonna give up until you do..."

Now it was Annah's turn to groan.

        "So can I go?" Annah was half hoping they'd say yes, half hoping they'd say no. "Hm. 'Study' with friends until who knows when with no parental vision? What do you take me for? I can't just let you go to a party on a school night. And even if I would let you go, I still haven't given you 'The Talk'--"

"No! Dad, dad, no! God, no! It's just me a friends. All girls!" Annah flushed with embarrassment. Her dad really thought she was going to a party? With boy's most likely trying to strip girls of their clothing as if they were Christmas presents? How could he not know that partying wasn't her thing?

He raised his eyebrows at her comment and asked her, "Are you sure?" and  "Are you lying to me?" a few times before giving her premission to go. She shrieked, thanked him, then dashed off to her room to prepare a bag. She texted Amanda the good news and searched threw her drawers for the right clothes. 

Then it hit her.

She doesn't own a sleeping bag. Well, duh! You've never been to a sleepover before, smart one! Annah scolded herself prior to texting Amanda that she couldn't make it because she didn't own one of the most essential things for a sleepover.

Amanda: dont be silly. you can always borrow mine

Annah: You would let me borrow your sleeping bag? Wow. Thanks, Amanda :)

Amanda: np. hurry over, tho

Annah: Okay.

        Annah asked for Amanda's address then directed her dad to the two-story house. "Hm," he inspected the house from his car as Annah got out, "doesn't look like a party. Unless... The party's inside..." He began to get out of the car. Annah quirked a brow. "Dad?" She called out while he made his way up to the house. "I don't think that's necessary. I promise you there's no party, and I promise you there's no boys." She pinky promised her dad once he came back to the car. "Bye, love you, Annah." He drove off just as she walked toward the cream colored house.