Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Chapter#4 - Minerva Loghart

I woke up to my mom screaming in my ear. 'Cheryl! Get out of your bed!'
'Mom, what happened? Why are you screaming?'
'I slept in! It's already 7:45.' she said alarmed.
'What??!!' I screamed and ran off to get my clothes, I took out my black and white striped shirt and ran off to brush my teeth and change.
She went out of my bedroom to wake up Harmony. It wasn't her fault really, I'm turning 17 this year and I still don't sleep with my own alarm and her routine can get very tough. Doing her job as well as seeing the house and taking care of three crazy obnoxious daughters wasn't easy.
But now what, I was going to be late on my second day of school.
We hurried towards the dining table in the kitchen, mom handed us all including dad a buttered bread and ushered us out the door.
I got to school at 8:03 sharp and there was only two minutes before the second bell rung. Lucky Harmony, she would be in her class till now and lucky lucky Zabella! Her school started at 9.
I ran through the empty corridors into my maths class, 5. 4. 3. 2. 1 second left, I was almost there 1! 0! And the bell rung just when I was in the corner of the corridor. I ran towards class and saw Mr. Thompson had started teaching. I opened the door lightly and knocked, 'Sir, may I come in?'
Everyone was in the class, not one person was late.
Well except Ryder of course.
Just as I was trying to do my magic standing at the door, I was suddenly pushed inside and I went falling into the class with Ryder gliding just behind me.
'Ryder! What the hell?' I said.
'Sorry I was running, ' he said apologetically. I picked up my books that fell out of my bag and Ryder stood up, he gave me a hand and I got up.
'Why are you both late?' said Mr. Thompson and we turned to him.
'I'm so sorry Sir, I slept in and my alarm broke,' I said. Lies.
'And I was waiting for my coffee at Starbucks. They made it late, and gave me capiccuno instead of my cold coffee like what the...' and before Ryder could complete his sentence Mr. Thompson cut him off. 'Stop trying to change the topic Mr. Smith,' he frowned at the use of his surname, 'This mistake should not be made again both of you. Be on time.'
We nodded and went off to sit beside Stacie.
Ryder and Stacie though were siblings but Stacie always came to school on time before Ryder because she was always an early riser and Ryder came to school later because he always liked to get his cold coffee before that. Hey, i'm not a stalker. Stacie told me this.
The boring maths class soon ended and I made way to English.
After the three classes of English, Chemistry and Social Studies, it was break again.
I decided to break the news to the girls as all of them were here.
'Jennifer's coming back,' I spoke suddenly.
There were a couple of 'whats' and gasps all over the group.
'Let's plan a murder Cheryl, we could kill her the first day,' whispered Alice.
'That's a good idea. But maybe we could start a prank war, make her eat Colgate Oreos and puncture her car every single day,' said Anna in a excited voice.
'Or maybe we could kidnap her and take her to a deserted island, where we could leave her and come back,' said Ashley dreamily, huh, the group dreamer here guys.
'Don't be stupid, Ashley, we cannot do that. We don't have a deserted island in our reach. I think we should stick with Anna's plan and add torture to it,' said Bella.
'Yes, and make her eat broccoli, Ew Ew broccoli,' said Grace.
I just stared at them all, 'Guys.' They didn't hear me, too busy in planning something for Jennifer.
'Guys! That's enough,' they all turned to me.
'These things can't be done. We are not killing her. We're not torturing her,'
'But...' I cut of Anna's sentence.
'No Anna, we can't prank her. Actually I was thinking of warming up the relation between us. Maybe we could tell her how her boyfriend did cheat on her but not with me. It am innocent in all of this. I hate her ex boyfriend and hated him when he wasn't an ex, eh?'
Everyone shook their heads and I heard a few 'no's' here and there.
'Come on,' I tried again.
'Cheryl, you know Jennifer's a bitch, she isnt going to understand what you have to say. She's just going to blame it all on you and be the brat she is,' said Kacie.
'Woah woah Kacie, don't say 'female dog.'' said Delancy, I nodded. Kacie just rolled her eyes.
'Cheryl, but you know that Kacie is right,' said Bella said with a small smile.
'Guys we could try at least, I really want to do this,' I took a bite out of my sandwich, 'I can't just be like this. Jennifer and I used to be friends. I want to be like that again. My mom's hoping to warm up relations between the two families and I can't stand a wall to that. Please understand, I think we should give her a chance after trying to somehow explain her what really happened. Yes, she is a brat. But we can't help that right?' I looked at them with an expectant expression.
'okay,' said Bella. All of us nodded and held hands around the table, and smiled at eachother.
'But once she does something and I'm killing her in her sleep,' said Grace. We all laughed. I love my friends.