Demons

Chapter 12

"Girls! Wake up; we have so much to do today! Church starts in an hour, and I thought you might want to go shopping." Ava's mother shouted through the door of Ava's bedroom. She succeeded at waking one of us for Ava was still snoring asleep. I decided to leave her alone; we had a long night. I got up out of the bed, brushed my teeth, washed my face, and fell back into bed. I checked my phone and saw a message from Harry.

Harry: Good morning beautiful ;)

He makes me smile. Yes he can be cliché, but I love his romanticism.

Me: Good morning xD what are you doing today??

Within a minute, Harry replied but Ava snatched my phone before I could see it.

"Aw, you send good morning texts? You two are such lovebirds." Ava giggled, staring intently at my phone.

"Yeah, yeah get over yourself. What did he say?" I asked after she refused to give the phone back.

"He said, 'Nothing; Sunday is my relax day, what about you?'" Ava said.

"Just tell him what we are actually doing."

"I can't, it's too long — we are busy girls — you do it." She whined handing my phone back and I texted him.

"I think you should text Zayn." Ava stated after a brief silence between us. "He was acting all vague last night and you were worried about him; so tell him that."

"I don't have time today to be worrying about Zayn. We are busy girls." I smirked, using her words against her.

"You are a little bitch." Ava and I joined in laughter.

We tagged along with Ava's parents and went to church. Afterwards, Ava suggested the two of us go to the mall and I reluctantly agreed. Shopping is fun, but only when you don't have a pile of bills that need to be paid and only ten dollars an hour as the money to pay them. Lillian doesn't know what she is in for.

"Okay, I just want to make a stop in this one store and then you and I are done for today." Ava said, dragging me inside Forever 21.

"You said that three stores ago!" I whined and found that a beautiful blonde woman was doing the same thing to a guy. My age. He looked an awful lot like someone I knew. She was only an inch shorter than him and was beautiful: model material.

"Lacey! Look, it's Josh!" Ava shook me, whispering furiously and pointing at the same couple I was just staring at. "Whoa, that lady looks way out his league."

"And his age." I mumbled.

"Are you getting jealous?"

"What? No! She just looks older than him or something. But it doesn't matter. Let's just get this over with." I groaned as I followed Ava around the store.

As Ava shopped around, I found myself staring at Josh and his -girlfriend? It seemed like she was.

"You have gone into spy mode. Are you okay?" Ava called me out. She's the only one who knows me well enough that she can.

"What? Yeah, yeah of course; why wouldn't I be?" Was my response; however, after seeing her 'not buying it' face, I added, "I'm not jealous because I have Harry. But the last time I saw him, he called me a whore and started a fight with Zayn. And now, he's happy. He doesn't deserve it. Not after what he did to me."

"Of course he doesn't deserve it Lace, he cheated on you. I'm pretty sure that makes him the whore. And I can tell that model blonde is going to realize who he is and dump his sorry ass. I'm just happy that you can move on from that time in your life when he hurt you and gain something from it: wisdom. Now you won't ever cheat on anyone, because you know what it feels like. And that's going to be a blessing to you later. He has nothing and he needs to realize that." Ava consoled me.