Finding Cinderella

Chapter 7

Emily's Point of View

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"Oh My GOD!" I screech as we were racing our way back to my house. It was 11:55 p.m. "I'm so dead." I thought.

I was breathing heavily. Tonight was actually one of the best nights of my life and now I was going to be murdered by Adriana.

"At least I'll die happily." I mumbled under my breath. 11:57 p.m. Time was mocking me slowly.

"We're going to make it." Cristal said. 11:58 p.m. Two more blocks to go and I nearly have two minutes left to make it. 11:59 p.m.

I was rubbing my temples together.

"We are not going to make it." I said. We finally got at my street. Cristal parked the car and we raced inside the house. We threw our heels on the ground.

Alyssa went to the closet to get the vacuum cleaner and plugged it in. That way when Adriana calls we turn on the vacuum while talking to make it realistic that I was at the house the whole night.

Suddenly, the phone rang making us jump. I turned on the vacuum and answered the phone.

"Hello?!?!" I yelled through the noise of the vacuum.

"Turn the vacuum off Emily!" Adriana screamed from the other line. Cristal unplugged the vacuum.

"Where were you when the girls called the house?" Adriana said. I looked at the girls shocked. I covered one hand over the phone.

"What do I say?" I panicked whispered. They looked at me shrugging, shaking their heads. I removed my hand from the phone.

"Well." Adriana said.

"I was probably taking a shower, or listening to music in my room and didn't hear it." I said making it sound casually. It was silent at the other line. "Please be convinced." I thought.

"I expect all your chores done by Sunday morning." Adriana said before hanging up on me. I sighed with relief. I turned over to Cristal and Alyssa who flopped down on the white leather couch sighing happily.

"So I guess you guys want to go home now?" I asked sitting down on one of the white chairs. They looked at each other, back at me and stood up from their seats.

"We decided to sleep over so in the morning we get straight to cleaning." Alyssa said. I smiled at them both and stood up to hug them.

"I love you guys." I said.

"We love you too." Cristal said.

We pulled away.

"Do you guys need any clothes or..." I was about to ask.

"Nah we have our stuff in the car." Cristal said. She pulled up her dressed and ran out the door.

In the meantime, Alyssa and I decided for all of us to sleep in the living room. We grabbed blankets and pillows and set them on the ground.

"Why don't we make a fort." Alyssa asked. I nodded at the idea. We did an amazing job of setting up.

Cristal came in and dropped the bags and looked at the fort we made.

"Wow." She said.

We all decided to call it a night, considering it's 1:45 a.m. Our friends will be in the morning by 10:00 a.m.

I got dressed in my plaid purple flannel pants and a purple camisole. Alyssa was dressed in an oversize light grey sweater and her batman shorts. Cristal wore her light pink racer-back tank and light grey floral leggings. We collapsed on the floor on our comfortable fort.