Emily

Chapter 9

"Mag-gag get out of the car! My friends are really excited to meet you!" Emily tells me, trying to pry me out of my seat, but I stay glued to it.

"This was a mistake. I want to go home! Please take me home!" I wine like a little four-year-old.

Great, I was starting to sound like Petey.

But I did have a good reason for sounding like my little brother. I don't know anything about God or the Bible. I didn't even know what the Bible was until I was nine when my family and I had to go to my cousin's baptism. Oh! I didn't know what a baptism was until then too.

The point is that I have no idea about any of that stuff. I wouldn't fit in there. I wouldn't even know anyone besides Emily, and I'm not even sure if Noah is going to be there or not. I really didn't feel like meeting new people today, or in fact, ever. I have met enough new people. I met Noah and Emily and Dr. Kelsey and Dr. Camille. I don't need any more people! Besides, I didn't have a choice in meeting them. Emily and Noah just popped out of nowhere and my doctors were mandatory. But this time I do have a choice, and my choice was to stay in this car and wait for my new friend to drive me home or until that stupid service was over.

"Please Maggie! There is no way I am driving you back to your house. My friends and family are waiting for me there, and they really want to meet you. Will you just come inside?"

"No! I'm going to stick out like a sore thumb in there! I'll stay in the car."

Emily huffs in frustration, taking her hands off of my seat-belt and then looking up at me, "What is wrong with you? Over the phone you said that it was fine."

"Well I changed my mind."

Emily looks away, putting on a pouty face, "I knew you could be stubborn, but I didn't think this stubborn."

"Well you barely know me. We're barely even friends."

Emily whips her head to look at me, a hurt expression appearing on her face.

Oh shit. I messed up.

Emily lowers her eyebrows, making herself look angrier, "Look, I know that we're not close, but that's exactly why I'm inviting you to these things! I want to get to know you and hopefully become a good friend of yours. Noah seemed to really like you, so I thought I would try and get close to you, but you are making it extremely difficult!"

I didn't know what I should do at the moment. Should I just say something? Should I get out of the car? Should I apologize? Yeah, I should probably do that. I fucked up. But how do I do that? Should I just wait a bit, because I still don't want to go inside...you know what, fuck it.

"I'm sorry Emily. I'm acting like a child," I tell her.

Emily folds her arms, "Dang right you are!" she agrees.

"But I really don't want to go inside!"

"Oh, not this again!"

"Is something wrong Cuz? Oh! Hey, Maggie. I didn't know you were coming. Seems like someone didn't bother to tell me," I hear Noah says behind Emily.

Noah's here! Wait, No! I can't leave with him here. Then he'll think I don't want to be around him.

"Sorry to break it to you but she won't be-"

"I'm sure she just forgot. Now let's get inside!"

Why am I saying this? I don't want to go inside! It's as if something other than me has taken over my body!

Emily looks at me, shocked, but she soon snaps out of it and smiles happily, "O-oh. Well then, let's go inside, I guess. Do you need any help with your crutches?