KIDS 1995

CHAPTER 3

She finds a cab first "You can take this one I don't mind." "No don't worry, I'll find one soon."

"Kk, bye love." She gives me a quick hug and gets into the cab. I'm still pretty drunk but sober enough to understand what's going on right now.

Ok so how the hell do I get home without my parents finding out, oh fuck it. I just won't go home then. I tell the driver to drive me to the nearest coffee shop. "Thank you." I pay him and get out.

What am I even doing... Why didn't I just go home. Guess I'm still a little drunk. But god knows I'm not embarrassing myself like this. It's like 6am at this point and I go into the bathroom to freshen up, I'll just drink some coffee fix my hair and finally go home, and finally stop embarrassing myself for today.

I look into the bathroom mirror, ew. What even happened to me tonight. I brush through my hair with my hands and and take a tissue to wipe off the dried mascara that wiped off my eyes. I fix my dress and my jacket. Ok, so I look a little better now. Time to get a coffee so I don't physically pass out.

I order myself some caramel coffee thingy and I admit, that was amazing. Maybe I'm just hungover but yum. I'm looking out the window while I'm drinking my coffee so much is already going on even thought it's so early.

I finish my coffee and find a cab. I finally get home and god I'm exhausted. I take the elevator up to my apartment. I come in quietly hoping not to wake my mom up. My dad probably would've gone to work by now anyways.

Even though I feel like I'm about to pass out I save my last energy to take a shower. After a couple of minutes I dress into a pair of pajamas and finally fall into my bed.

COUPLE HOURS LATER- Now, I didn't want to get up but my phone just kept ringing. I groaned and grabbed my phone picking up. "Hello?!" "Oh uh hey, you ok?" Oh, it's just Justin. I soften my voice. "Hey babe, sorry. Just tired that's all."

"Oh haha, that's fine. So good to hear your voice though. How are you?" "Same here, I'm pretty good. How's Anna and the rest?" "They're good, miss you a lot though you know, I do too."

"Oh trust me, I miss you, so much." "Anyways, I called because I have good news." I was still half asleep at the moment. "Oh yeah, go ahead."

"I'm coming to New York." Wait. Did he just say that? "Wait seriously?!" "Yeah!" "Oh my god! When?!" I was beyond excited, I thought I wouldn't have seen him for a few months at least.

"Next week, I'll be there for 2 days only though. Because after that I'm going to Australia for the summer. Just to work and stay with my dad. Sorry I didn't tell you earlier but I knew you were pretty stressed about the move." Wait... Australia. I don't even know why I'm kinda pissed I mean I'm the one who moved.

"Oh, but at least we'll see each other." I say smiling. We talk for a bit. Say our byes and love yous, whatever.

I walk down into my kitchen to see if anyone's home, nope. My parents were usually not home so it's whatever. I can take care of myself. I make myself some eggs and go back into my room to get dressed. I get a call. Ugh, I guess I'm still hungover but just don't wanna talk to anyone but still, I answer.

"Hello?" "Hey girl! Where are you?" "Home? You kinda left me to hook up with Michael." I half laugh. "Oh... sorry Soph, hope you're not too mad." "No, it's whatever." "I'll make it up to you, let's hang. Go to square park, shopping of course and you know, have fun."

"How are you not hangover?" I ask chuckling. She laughs back. "Dunno. Guess I wasn't that drunk. Anyways, I got my car keys back so I'll pick you up today." "Uh yeah no problem, what happened to your car keys before?" "My parents took them away for just... irrelevant things. You know how they are."

"Right. Ok I'll get ready come to mine."
"Kk, be there at 3, is that ok?" "Yep. Cya." I hang up. I made sure my hair was straight and silky, wore some jeans, a top and wore a flannel on top. I wore a bit of makeup aswell. I topped it with jewelry. There, simple but I like it.

Plus if we're just going to the park or something what's the point of dressing up. I brush my teeth. Justin's coming to New York... I still can't get our relationship of my mind. Whatever, don't think about it right now.

I throw on some shoes and grab my purse. Eventually she's here and we head to the mall. God damn, I spent way too much money. My dad doesn't mind though. He's usually working like most of the time so he can't really give out to me anyways.

My mom does the same with his money so she can't really say much to me about it. I'm pretty happy with myself though, bought like a bunch of cute things. "Michael said to meet him at square park. Wanna head there?" "Sure, I don't mind."

After finally getting we get out and look for Michael, damn, lots of people here for sure.

We look for him and there he is, with his friends. The ones from the party. We say hey and they're just hanging out and drinking. "Hey baby." She starts kissing him. Anyways, I say hi to some people I met yesterday at the party. Vanessa sees me and stands up to give me a hug.

This girl is so sweet to be honest. "Heyyyyy. So did you get home alright?" We both chuckle a little. "Yes, just fine." Eh. "You?" "Yup, my parents did kill me though. Accidentally broke a vase tryna sneak back home." She laughs and I do too.

I notice some guy putting his arm around her waist, i don't know him. "Hey." He says and smiles. "Hi." I say back. "Jim." We talk for a few minutes and we're having fun to be honest.

A glass bottle is thrown right at Michael's head hitting him hard. Wait, what the fuck. The bottle breaks and his head is bleeding. Bella gasps and gets out of his lap. Me and a few others turn around to see who the hell threw that. We see a huge group of kids all sitting at the fountain, laughing... clearly they threw it on purpose.

What the actual fuck. Michael gets up after a few seconds and so do his friends. "What the hell?!" I ask Vanessa. "He has some scrap thing going on with those boys. They're fucking crazy." She looks at them disgusted. Some are skating and some are smoking. They look fucking greasy If I'm honest.

Michael gets up and is about to square up but Bella harshly grabs him. "Are you Crazy?! Don't you know what happened last time. And there's like 30 of them over there and 5 of you. Let it go, Mike." "My head is fucking bleeding, am I meant to just sit here and let them fucking throw glass at me?!"

You can clearly tell he's pissed. "Who threw it?!" One of Michael's friends get up now as well. Michael isn't having it so he starts marching over to the group of boys. His friends follow of course. Bella quickly rushes after him. Me and Vanessa are left behind.

We don't follow at first. "This won't end well. Wait shit!" She knows runs after them. "Jack!" Now I'm left alone and I run after her because I wanna know what the hell is going on.

Michael comes up to them with his friends and all of them turn their heads to him. "Who the hell threw that?!" Bella holds into Michael's hand but he really doesn't care.

Some guy gets off his skateboard. "Me and so fucking what?!" This kid looks like a troublemaker to be honest. Dresses like a douche too. Guess all teenage boys are like that nowadays.

"You again?!" "Yes me. What you fucking gonna do about?! Michael pushes him. The guy pushes him back harder. Eventually they're fighting. Some guy grabs the other guys shoulder. "Casper not now ok,  you know fighting at square park right now is a risk. Plus yesterday."
"Ugh whatever. But if I fucking catch your faggot ass anywhere else you're dead!" What a jerk. Yet I couldn't stop looking at him. His friends pulled him back.

Bella was just concerned about Michael at this point, that bottle did some damage I won't lie. She pulled him back. Everyone started walking back and I finally make eye contact with him, I look away first. I can tell this boy is an asshole. I catch up with the rest, disgusted to be honest.