Take Me As I Am (Completed)

Chapter One

 Chapter One

"Turn. It. Off." I demanded as I swung my arm around blindly to smack Caleb and get him to turn that darned radio off.

"What?" Caleb raised an eyebrow with a smirk playing across his lips. He grabbed my hand and sang loudly into my face, "YOU DON'T KNOW YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL." 

"Pretty please turn it off." I repeated with a grimace. Eventually, Devin obeyed and shut off the little portable radio. 

"You're such a weird teenage girl, Al, not liking One Direction." Nick teased. "I thought there was some sort of rules for girls. You know. 'All girls must be in love with One Direction.'"

"Yeah, Allison, why don't you like them?" Caleb contributed to the teasing. 

All three boys were grinning like madmen, obviously enjoying the fact they could team up against me. If I didn't know them better, I'd probably have punched them silly by now. But since I had known them since I was young, and they had helped me through quite a lot, I knew all I could do was make sarcastic retorts in annoyance.

"Don't you dare call me Allison. You know better and I will hurt you if you do it again. And because they're little cookie cutter popstars. They're not real, everything they say is scripted and they suck money from poor innocent girly teenagers who think they have a chance of marrying them." I shot back. The three boys just started laughing at my statement and I rolled my eyes.

The topic drifted off of my hearty dislike for fake boy bands and I grabbed Devin's laptop, flipping it open and doing the normal scroll through Facebook. The four of us had no problems with taking each other's belongings, what was theirs was mine, what was mine was theirs.

It had been that way since we became a 'group' six years ago. Eleven year olds who met in school, during a fire alarm. Strange story it was, but when we Nick and I decided to involve Caleb and Devin with our prank on our teacher, we had unknowingly knit together an extremely strong friendship. Too bad the teacher had been able to see the glue on her chair. 

Since then, we had matured in our pranks and we had not once gotten caught. 

"That was a total cheap shot," Nick growled at Caleb and my eyes flickered to the screen where the two boys were playing Call Of Duty. 

It was a typical Sunday night for the four of us, lounging around Devin's house and eating everything we saw. Devin's mom, aunty Kelly, knew us well enough that she had ordered three pizzas and made four dozen cookies. 

My eyes scanned my feed. "Woah, you and Natasha broke up?" I saw the update and looked towards Caleb, who shrugged in response.

"That lasted a whole week." Devin snickered.

"Not surprising though, I told you guys. She was way too needy," I said, before going back to my mindless scrolling.

"No on thought it was going to last. By the way, what are you doing for prom?" Nick turned to look at me.