It Follows

Besties

I stand up to answer the front door. I unlock the door and see Alexander looking at me straight in the face. She drops her bags and practically screams, "Kit-Kat! I've missed you, I mean I saw you at school on Friday, but that was only for like 2 classes and lunch." She wraps me up in a big hug.

"Hey, Alex. I've missed you loads too. Come in," I say as I step out of the way to let her in. I close the door and lock it.

"Is Rose not here yet?" She asks me as she carry's her bags and sets them down by the couch.

"No, not yet," I answer as I walk over and position myself so I'm leaning on the island. Alex looks around the house, and her eyes hover over the spot where my mom was killed.

"How's it going?" Alex asks me as walks over to sit on a stool by the island.

"Fine," I say as I look at the detail on the counter top.

Alex doesn't buy it, "No really, how are you doing?"

I look at her and see in her eyes that she really cares, "Not great, but the worst has happened. I hope, I don't no if I can handle anything else thrown at me."

"I don't know, you can handle anything. Like how did you catch up on homework, I'm at least a week behind and I haven't missed a class. Ok maybe a few, or like 3 times a week," Alex says as I start to giggle, "So, what have you been doing all day?"

"Oh, not to much just looking at some of my mom's old stuff. Hade a nap, and cleaned a bit," I say as I move to the opposite side of the island.

"Sweet, were those her pj's?" Alex asks as she stands up.

"Ya, there really silky," I say, "Do you want something to drink?"

"Sure, do you have a cream soda?"

"Ya." I grab us both a cream soda from the mini fridge in the island. I take my seat on the couch and Alex follows.

"So, can we talk about that science test?" Alex asks me as she opens her pop.

"Ya, it was bad."

"Totally, I got a 75% on it and my average for science before the test was a 90%."

"I got a 82% and my average was a 97% before."

"So much of the stuff on the test she didn't tell us we needed to know. I was so mad."

"I know, number 18 was really bad." The door bell rings and I pop up from my spot on the couch. I walk over to the door, unlock it and swing it open. Rose stands there and pushes past me. I laugh and so does Alexander, I close the door. "What's wrong?" I ask as I rush behind her into the kitchen, Alex follows me.

"Just like everything. First it was school now I'm close to failing French, second me and Kyle are on a break, and now me and my parents are fighting because I'm not getting my grades up," she says as she reaches into the mini fridge for a ginger ale.

"Everything is going to be fine think of this as a good thing," Alex says to Rose.

Rose takes a sip of her drink and questions Alexander, "How?" Rose walks to the pantry and grabs a container of assorted candy.

"Well since you and Kyle are taking a break you have time to focus on school," I suggest to her.

"Ya, you can get your grades up in French," Alex adds on.

"Which will please your parents," I continue.

"And Kyle will come running back because your so smart," Alex says.

"And kind," I say.

"And pretty," Rose imputs.

"Exactly, he won't be able to stay away," I finish.

"Maybe?" Rose questions.

"So what are we doing tonight?" Alex asks as we walk back over to the couch carrying the candy.

"Doesn't matter to me," I say, "We can play some games, watch movies and text and call people."

"Sounds good." Rose says. She pops open the candy lid. We all start to munch on it, and I choose a movie to watch on t.v. It was the horror movie, The Messagers.

The movie was pretty scary and had quite a few jump scares. The movie gave me a great idea. Ding! The oven goes off. We stand up and walk over to the oven and we take the pizza out and cut it. Rose dishes the pizza on to plates. Alex gets all of us new pop. We sit down at the table and start to eat.

"Durning the movie, Jacob kept texting me telling me how he knows how me and Kyle are on a break. I think he likes me. What should I do?" Rose asks us as she wipes her hands on a napkin and shows us the text messages.

"Just change the subject," I say after I finished swallowing some pizza.

Alex suggests to Rose, "Prank call him. Then he knows it's a friend relationship."

"Ok, I'm in," Rose says as she opens her contact list to call Jacob. She clicks on his name and the phone starts dialing, she shushes us right before he answers.

"Hello?" Jacob asks over the phone.

"Hello. This is the Sperm Bank of British Columbia. You squeeze it, we freeze it. We were calling regarding your last sample," she says to Jacob.

"I think this is the wrong number," Jacob answers well confused.

"Are you Jacob Shuquick?"

"Um, ya. Is this Rose Flinn?"

"No this is Courtney from The Sperm Bank of British Columbia. So your sample contains the HIV virus. So we can't give out your sample."

"Ya, ok."

"Would you like it back? We can ship it free of all costs to what ever address you want."

"Bye."

"Bye, please donate again. Well not in your case. Sorry." Jacob hangs up and Rose turns her phone off. We all start laughing so hard that there are tears forming in our eyes.

"That was great," I confuse to Rose.

"Why thank you," Rose speaks as she does a fake bow. After we all recover from the prank call, the idea pops back into my head.

"What if we played with that Ouija board I have?" I ask Alex and Rose.

"Omg, that's an amazing idea," Rose says as she takes our plates to the sink.

"Are you positive you want to do that?" Alex asks me as we lock eyes. I'm not really sure if I am ready.

"Yes," I say.