As they say, everyone hides secrets, and some people, very deep ones.
An emotionally scarred and physically abused Dina McCarthy is considered dangerous, rebellious and short tempered by all the students of OakField High School. In other words, peop...
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"I won't let you melt this time.", I said emotionally to the cover of chocolate ice cream in my hand.
"What?", Jess asked. I waved her off and hugged the cover. I quickly pulled out four bowls from the cabinet and dumped the contents of the cover into four equal parts.
"Yum! Chocolate!", Drew said as he picked up one of the bowls.
Ethan had made use of his mind to go and get chocolate ice cream before he reached my place. Jess grabbed another bowl as I took mine and Ethan's and went to the hall. Ethan was busy selecting a movie from the array of CDs I had placed in front of him.
"Hey how about 'Friday the 13th'?", I asked excitedly. Three of them rolled their eyes at once.
"I knew you would only have horror movies. Never mind. I brought some cassettes from my house. Here.", Jess said, handing over a set of cassettes to me.
I looked through all of them and scrunched my nose. All of them were sappy rom-coms.
Jess picked out one of them. "We're watching this.", she said, showing me a CD labelled 'What happens in Vegas'.
I rolled my eyes and sighed. "Really, Jess?", I said. "Yes. Plus, Ashton is bae.", Jess replied. Ethan cleared his throat. I laughed and sat down on the couch, wrapping myself in my favourite blanket while Drew sat beside me. I took my ice cream and started savouring every ounce of it.
Jess and Ethan settled on the second couch with their bowls of ice cream.
As soon as the movie started, my eyes started drooping. I hated such movies. After I completed my bowl, I placed it on the table in front of me.
After an unbearable half hour, I got up to use the washroom. I freshened up and went back to the hall. The TV was switched off and the three of them were casually talking.
"What happened? Why did you guys switch off the TV?", I asked.
"You were too interested in the movie.", Ethan said sarcastically. I grinned, glad that the TV was switched off.
"I told you. We should have watched 'Friday the 13th'", I said.
The three of them rolled their eyes again.
"What's with the co-ordinated eye rolls?", I asked.
Drew made space for me and I settled down beside him.
"I'm hungry.", Jess whined. "You're always hungry. We just had ice cream.", I said. "Pizza?", Ethan suggested.
"But we had it yesterday.", I replied. He nodded and went back to thinking.
"Why don't we make something?", Drew suggested with a grin. "We'll probably set the house on fire. No thanks.", I said.
"Oh come on, Dina! It will be fun!", Jess said. Ethan nodded in approval.
"Fine.", I huffed. "What should we make, though?", Ethan asked.
"Umm....how about pasta?", I said. All three of them raised their thumbs in approval.
I went to the kitchen to prepare the ingredients as Drew, Jess and Ethan followed me.
I took out the pasta and dropped it into water before placing it on the gas stove.
Drew started chopping up the vegetables as Jess and Ethan gathered the bottles of spices and herbs from the cabinet.
Soon enough, the smell of delicious pasta floated in the house. I could already see Jess' mouth watering.
I grabbed four plates and shifted the pasta from the bowl to the plates, handing each of them a fork and grabbing one for myself.
"Yum.", Jess said as she stuffed her mouth with the pasta. "Be careful. Don't choke yourself to death.", Ethan said. She grinned and continued gobbling up the food.
"Let's play something.", Jess suggested. "Yeah let's play hopscotch!", Ethan said sarcastically.
"I'm serious. Truth or dare?", Jess said
After a series of challenging tasks and inappropriate questions, we finally went to sleep at around one in the morning.
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"Yesterday was fun! We should do it again sometime.", Jess said.
Some of the girls in the canteen eyed us nastily when they found out that Ethan and Drew were at my place for a sleepover. Jealous hags.
"Relax Jess. The whole canteen can hear what you're talking about.", I said.
Drew and Ethan were held up so it was only me and Jess for lunch. Jess gulped down her coke.
"Jess and Dina?", I heard a voice behind us.
Both of us turned to look at Carter. "Hey Carter.", Jess said. "Are you both buying the tickets for prom?",Carter asked.
Jess and I slapped our forehead simultaneously.
"Sure! Give us four tickets, Carter.", I said, reaching into my bag for a twenty dollar note.
"Sure thing. You're lucky I came to you first. I had only four tickets left.", Carter said before handing us four tickets and taking the money.
I carefully put the tickets in my bag and turned to Jess.
As Carter walked out of the cafeteria, many girls wailed over having lost the tickets. They glared at us and walked out of the cafeteria.
"When's the prom, anyway?", I asked. "You seriously don't know? Come on, Dina.", Jess said, rolling her eyes.
I pursed my lips and shook my head.
"Next Friday. 9th Feb.", she said. "Let's get to class.",she continued, grabbing her bag.
