Midnight Falls

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Nineteen

Save It, Ginger.

Anna

"Lottie, truth or dare?" Sophie asks her.

The girls came back a couple of days ago and in those past two days we have been taking every chance to hang out with each other before school starts again since our school gave us a week-long winter vacation for Christmas and New Year's.

Today is New Year's Eve and we decided to have a sleepover at Lottie's house, because her father is still in Scotland and he trusts Colette with the house. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't mind if we do a party or trash down the house, just as long as we clean up everything after we're done.

"Uh, truth because I'm too lazy to do anything," Lottie replies, before popping a chip in her mouth.

"Okay," Sophie says. "Percy Jackson or Harry Potter?"

"No," Colette whines. "That's way too hard."

"Just pick one, Lottie," Riley tells her.

She groans frustratingly, "Fine. Percy Jackson."

"See? That wasn't too hard," Sophie says.

"You guys don't understand the struggle," Lottie claims.

"Don't worry, Lottie. I understand it," I comfort her and she gives me a smile.

It really is hard to choose between a demi-god and a wizard.

"Anna," Riley says. "Truth or dare?"

"Dare?" I answer, questioning myself more.

"I dare you to..." Riley trails off, tapping her chin like she's thinking.

"I got one!" Sophie says excitedly.

"What is it?" I ask.

"I dare you to call a Chinese restaurant and order a pizza," Sophie grins.

I know it's such a ten-year-old dare, but frankly we are too lazy to do anything more exciting.

"Yes!" Riley shouts enthusiastically.

"Okay," I shrug.

Sophie gives me her phone and I dial the only Chinese restaurant I know in this city, M.Y China, then I put it on speaker. There's a huge chance they might recognize my voice because I eat a lot there.

"Hello. Welcome to M.Y China. May I take your order?" A girl with monotonic voice says.

"Hi. Can I please have one large vegetarian pizza?" I ask in a bit of a high-pitched voice.

Riley slaps her hands over her mouth to muffle her laughs, while Sophie nibbles on her bottom lips to contain hers and Colette stuffs her mouth with more chips.

"Ma'am, this is a Chinese restaurant. If you want pizza, call Pizza Hut," she states, before the line goes dead.

Riley, Sophie and I burst out laughing and Colette tries to hold her laughter in because of the chips in her mouth, but she ends up laughing too and the chips splatter out of her mouth, sending crumbs everywhere.

"That was amazing," Sophie chuckles, taking deep breaths.

"Yup," Riley snickers.

That's when three phones go off and Riley and Lottie grab their phones from on top of the bed and I hand Sophie hers.

"Wow, people are really having fun at that New Year's party," Riley stares down at her phone, scrolling through it.

"Huh?" I muffle out in confusion from the piece of cupcake in my mouth.