The Voyage That Led Me To You

Chapter Seventeen

24th October 2013

"Get up!"

Jumping out from my bed, I let out a loud groaned as I tumbled down, my bare skin touching the cold marble floor. Shivering, I struggled to get onto the bed. Did I mention I was still half awake? I was. With my eyes still shut, my hands roamed around my bed, finding my blankets. There was nothing. Giving in, I opened my eyes, another groan left my lips at the sudden brightness. I glared at the three girls standing right before me as soon as my vision cleared.

"Wakey wakey sleeping beauty" Aria's sly tone made me grumbled, muttering incohorent words as I lifted both my hands up in surrender. "Alright, you win. I'm awake" I said, sitting on my bed, holding back the urge to drift back to dream land. As tempting as that sounded, I knew I had to get on with life. Although I seriously needed some rest from staying up and taking care of Jude at the hospital which, I no longer need to as he was released just yesterday, I decided to not waste any more minute, I pushed my way through the girls and head into shower. What can I say? Time is precious.

"Hurry! I miss my girls time" I heard Alicia's scream from before the door as I shook my head and undress myself, getting on the shower.

Strolling into my walk-in closet, feeling wholly enliven, I grabbed the first thing I saw and put it on without a second wasted. Drying my hair and putting on a pair of black-framed spectacles, I stood in front of the ginormous mirror, feeling rather content despite my lack of effort. A denim collar shirt, pairing it with a cream sweater over it, a simple denim skinny jeans and finishing up the look with a red vans shoe. Oh and not to forget, a red beanies. I can never live without one of this. Stealing another look at my reflection, I grinned. Grabbing all my essentials, I went out and met up with the girls who were sprawled all over the living room, watching How I Met Your Mother.

Damn this show's the bomb.

"You guys ready?" I said, gaining their attention and as soon as I studied their outfits, an automic grin swept across my lips. Aria was wearing a beautiful black fedora on her head, an oversized black sweater, throwing a pine-ish green flannel coat over it and ending the look with a beautiful black thigh high boots while Alicia's wearing white flower headband, a beautiful baby pink sweater that has silver gems around its cuff and collar, pairing it with an alluring white skort which she also added a black stockings and finally a white Jeffrey campbells white platforms. Last but not least, Roni whom was looking breathtaking as ever wore a navy blue cropped sweater revealing a hard-rock abs, wrapping a black and white scarf around her neck, pairing it with a black high-waisted black ripped jeans and finally ending the look with a high-cut blue converse. Awesome!

"Let's go!" Aria voice snapped me out of my short hallucination as I nodded, grabbing the car keys and followed them out. The weather was cold, just the way we like it and thankfully it was safe for us to travel. Locking the house door, I skipped to the car, coming to a slow halt when my gaze fell onto Jude who was staring at me, with a genuine smile across his flawless feature from inside his house. Waving at him, I blew him an air kiss, which he responded by catching it and placing it on his heart, I giggled before heading to the car and entered the driver's seat. "So, where to girls?" I asked, adjusting the rear mirror and turning on the heater as I waited for their decisions. "Let's head to the new cafe!"

And then we were headed.

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Hopping off the driver seat, I released a huge amount of air, throwing my keys towards Alicia. "Your turn to drive next" She smirked, nodding as we entered the cafe. The smell of coffee greeted us and I fell in love with this place almost immediately. Unlike any other cafes we went to, this one's byfar our favourite. Instead of wallpaper walls, it has brick walls. The chairs are colourful and it just felt really homey to me. Thankfully it wasn't that crowded, because if it was I would consider this place. Walking over to the counter, we studied through the menu, genuinely surprise by the numbers of choices.