The Tale of Us

19

The next day is pretty calm.

Mia comes over and we try to watch all of the Harry Potter movies.

And this is only between you and me, I stayed up and watched all of them. It was awful for me but the movies were great. I'm kinda a big fan of the Harry Potter franchise. I'm a RavenClaw bitches.

Anyways, we supplied ourselves with candy, food, and lots of caffeine.

I ended up drinking two Bangs and a cup of coffee. I thought I was going to die.

I didn't, of course, but I still felt like I was going to.

When we got to like the fourth movie Mia had passed out but I was still going.

When our the first day and night of our sleepover ended, we decided to sleep for a really long time.

We woke up at like 7 pm the next day, we order an Uber eats of a fuck ton of food from basically everywhere. The people arrive we grab the food and run upstairs.

"Oh my god, this is like heaven in the form of food." I moan.

Mia agrees, "Mh, Penelope I have to tell you something."

"Yeah, what is it?"

"Brayden asked me out!" She shrieks.

"OH MY GOD! What did you say?!" I yell.

"I said no," I stop being excited and give her a look of confusion. "I SAID YES DUMBASS!" we start screaming again.

"THATS SO GOOD!"

Mia smiles and laughs. "He makes me so happy. Have you seen his dimples when he smiles, or when he's driving how he always grabs my hand, he tells me that I'm beautiful. Penelope, he thinks I'm beautiful!"

I smile gleefully at her.

She rambles on about Brayden.

And then, when Mia and I are trying to figure out how people do yoga at 1 am I get at text.

I immediately run away from where we were and Mia falls.

"The boys want to meet up." I tell Mia.

"When?"

"Twenty minutes. At the park near here."

We give each other the look and scramble to my closet.

I put on a sweatshirt Alessio forgot to take back from me and some black leggings.

Mia wears my Tommy sweatshirt and black shorts. Why would she wear shorts? I don't fucking know.

I put my hair up in a bun and so does Mia.

It's our sneaking out ritual. We always put our hair up in a bun.

I run downstairs to check if my parents are awake, they aren't, so I run back upstairs.

Mia has already made fake bodies so I don't have to worry about that.

I open my window and we climb out. We jump down onto a shed near my window in the back. Then we climb down the ladder that's on the side of it. I open the hatch to the back of my gate and we hop in Mia's Jeep.

Mia drives us near the park. We get out and walk the short distance to the park.

I see Brayden and Alessio on the play set, sitting on the roof of it.

"There they are." I point to them and we quietly run up to them.

"You boys shouldn't be here." Mia says in a surprisingly good deep voice.