Biology||Josh Richards

1.9

Friday

The rest of the week was filled with pre-exam assessments for the exams we have after the break, my parents fighting when I got home from school, and earning nearly eight dollars from selling my old clothes. I even got one hundred and twenty-five dollars from an old pair of Nike airs.

I learned that a few days before I became friends with everyone, it was Anthonys birthday and that Avani's birthday was in three days. Avani, Charli, Dixie, and I were definitely best friends. We get lunch together all the time.

It was currently Friday and I was standing at my locker waiting for Avani and Anthony. I had dropped my sleepover stuff, toiletries, clothes, my non-fitting bathing suit, and my penny board and wallet in Avani's car this morning before school because I knew not everything would fit in my locker.

"Hey!" He separates from Anthony's arms and into mine. "Are you ready to go?" She asks and I nod in return. "Okay let's go, Josh is waiting for us at the car."

We make our way out the school doors, and once we are outside, I see Josh leaning against the car in basketball shorts and a black hoodie with a magenta and blue striped basketball jersey on his phone.

We walk over and startle him by having Avani double click the lock button on her keys, causing the car to honk, he is taken aback as soon as she does it making me cackle.

We open the doors and get in as Avani turns the, what seems brand new car. Josh and I are in the back while Avani and Anthony are in the front. We blast Billie Eilish music throughout the car knowing that Josh and Anthony Don't know the words while Avani and I proudly do.

As the song 'I love you' plays. I sing along to the lyrics with Avani but when the chorus comes, everyone aside from me is silent. I get so caught up in the song that I didn't even realize that the volume of the song is slowly lowering while Anthony and Josh look at me with a noticeably shocked expression.

I stop after the second chorus, "what?"

"You can sing!" Anthony screams, making Avani wince at the loudness.

"Oh, um, thanks." I push a strand of hair behind my ear, Smiling at my lap.

When we get to her house I'm in absolute awe. It looks suburban, deserty almost, it's ginormous might I add. You can visibly see that the house visibly has three large stories with an in-built pool in the backyard. "You're house is beautiful!" I gleam in excitement.

"Why thank you!" She pulls my arm into the house, leaving Josh and Anthony to walk in on their own. Once they're inside she starts talking again. "What do you guys wanna do? We could play games, eat an early dinner, or really anything," she explains and we continue our card game from Tuesday.

I hadn't even noticed that we were playing for so long until Anthony got a phone call from Chase, telling him that he was five minutes away from the mall complex.

"Oh shit," he says then listens to chase one last time "okay, okay, we're leaving now." He hangs up the phone and tells us the news as we grab our wallets and phones before going out of the glass front door.

When we arrive at the mall, we park and walk in through Nordstrom. I see Charli and Dixie at the makeup section and I run up to Charli and put pressure on her shoulders with my hands, making her fall a little back.

I was wearing non-ripped light blue high waisted jeans with a black crop top that outlined my boobs with a low-cut circular neck and a ruffle in the crease. I had my usual necklace and earrings in too.

Chase, Dixie, and Anthony and Avani went together while Josh, Charli, and I went together.

We went into American Eagle and arie first and I was currently carrying 3 different pairs of jeans, a gray halter bralette, a tank top, and a black bandeau v-neck bikini top. Charli follows me to the fitting rooms and I go in. I hear Charli and Josh bicker back and forth and hear footsteps walk out of the fitting rooms.

I put on gray washed jeans that have rips on the knees with the rose-colored straight edge strappy tank top and the gray bralette underneath. I adore the outfit as I open the door and walk out looking from left to right before speaking.

"Hey, Charli, what do you think about this outfi-" I stop mid-sentence when I look in front of me, thinking I would see Charli, but no. The person who was sitting on the cushion was a bewildered Josh

a/n

Okay... let's be honest.

I want to try clothes on for Josh:(

-E