Something Unexpected

Chapter 2

           I wake up and wipe the sand from my eyes, tonight was my party, the one that was suppose to make me a "Legend". I grab my phone off my nightstand and dial Elizabeths number she answers the phone quickly. "Hey, are you still coming over?" I say looking at the alarm clock that now read 11:00 AM "Yeah  I'll be there in 10 minutes."  we say goodbye and I put down my phone. I get up swiftly and head to the shower grabbing a black off shoulder shirt that stops right above my belly button, trust me wasn't my idea but Elizabeth thinks itt'l make me look more like a partyer and less like a goodie-two shoes? because appearently thats how she sees my style. I grab distressed denim shorts that stop halfway down my thighs. I don't think I liked this look but I had to go along with what Eliabeth had planned whatever that was. After I shower I dress quickly and curl my hair letting it hang my hair goes down to the middle of my back. I examine myself in the mirror and feel uncomfortable and decide to put on denim skinny jeans that show off my curves, and put on baby blue vans authentic. I hear knocking on my door and I rush downstairs I open my door to see Liz on the other side. "You ready?"  she asks pointing behind her. "Yea." I walk outside with Liz who is wearing black fox suede women ankle boots a light red knot crop top and bleach flag print hotpants. She certainly changed her look for tonight, which was more daring. " Why aren't you wearing the shorts?"  she saids as soon as I'm buckled in her car, which is a silver convertible. "Felt uncomfortable." I said, she rolls her eyes and drives to Party City. "We don't need  alchol or anything I'm sure the punch will be spiked by someone anyway, however if the police do show up, we should grab a couple cases of soda incase we need to dump the punch bowl. I nod and grab a disco ball, I don't know why but I always found them fun. "A disco ball really?" Liz saids laughing and grabs plastic cups. "Itt'l look  better I think." I say as weir checking out. We head back to the convertible with the supplies and head back to my house. I set up the snacks consisting of sour cream and onion chips, punch, and hot cheetos that we had more bags if they emptied out. I grab a ladder from the supply closet and put up the disco ball which did make the house look more like a party even Liz thought it was a good idea. I head outside to the pool and lay down beach chairs and towels. When everythings finished I sit on the couch with Liz. "So what did happen at the movies?" She asked flipping through channels on the T.V. "Well first of all, I was threatened by Victoria to not talk to Avan, during the movie we texted and settled on secretly hanging out as friends." Liz sits up straight. "What'd I tell ya." She said grinning. "Oh don't you start with that it's not like weir dating you derp!" I say laughing. " Well you have a chance tonight to change that." she saids finally shutting off the T.V. out of boredom. "Ha, I doubt that very much." I say, staring at the disco ball above us, watching it reflect the light. "You say that now but if you guys do end up dating I will never stop saying I told you so."  "When will you stop with this?"  "When you admit that you and Avan have a chance."  "Ha I wish." The doorbell rangs, we first glance at each other then head to the door. Please don't be my mom, please don't be my mom. I grab the knob close my eyes then open it quickly. "Hey Avan." I hear Liz say then open my eyes. "Hey." He saids, staring down at me. "A-Avan what are you doing here?" I say trying to sound as polite as possible. "Well, I was going to see if you wanted to hang out today?"  My heart jumps a little then I say. "Sure, can Liz come?" I ask but Liz steps in  and saids "Oh no, don't worry about me I was just leaving." Then heads out the door looking over her shoulder and winks back at me. I roll my eyes. "Bye!" I say then invite Avan in. "So what's up?"  "Well, I wanted to tell you that Victoria is coming with me tonight." I look down then back up to find him already looking at me. "I see, well why wouldn't she? You are her boyfriend and all." "Yeah, I guess so, anyways I just didn't want you to get introuble with her." He saids looking up at the cieling. "Disco ball?" He saids point up to it.  I laugh "Yeah, I thought it'd complete the room for the party."  He laughs, "that's cute." I stand there and feel the butterfly sensation in my stomach  begin. I cautiously walk over to the kitchen counter and sit on a stool. "Hey Avan."  "Yea?" "How'd you and Victoria decide to be together?" I ask now twisting my hair with my fingers. He sits on the stool next to me then begins talking. "It was freshman year, when I was on the football team she was cheering and one night after a game she asked me out ofcourse I said yes because I knew she was popular and at the time thats what mattered to me. So anyway, after she got me to be her boyfriend she layed down the rules so now weir "together" in public but besides that we don't need to talk." I look at him confused. "So if you knew that then why didn't you break up with her before?" "Well, I didn't want to lose all the attention I got at school." He saids running his fingers through his hair. "So popularity is so important to you, you're  going to spend the rest of highschool with a girl who treats you like dirt?" I say , not realizing how mad I was my fist were clenched and I was nearly screaming. "Woah calm down, why does it matter to you anyway?" He saids sitting calmly on the stool next to me. "Nothing, absolutely nothing, but don't you expect me to care how she treats you anymore!" I say, getting off the stool and walking over by the door. "I think you should go." I say pointing to the door. "What? What did I say?" He saids walking toward the door. "Just go Avan!" He grabs the knob, looks at me then walks out the door. I flop down on the sofa, how stupid was I? I just let Avan leave due to my jealousy of him being with Victoria and my anger as to why. I laugh at myself then flip through the channels. I hear a knock on the door hoping it'd be Avan so I could explain but instead its Liz. "I was waiting at the end of the street and when I saw him leave I came rushing back, that wasn't long what happened?" She saids with all her attention pointing to me. "Lets just say whatever chance Avan and I had is completly over." I see Liz's grin die down. "Oh god Ari what'd you do?" I tell her what happened and she looks back at me. " Well the worst that can happen is, he thinks you're crazy and wont come to the party later or, he knows you like him." "And how would he know I like him?" I ask. "Well, if what you told me was what happened, you were showing that you care all over the place." she grabs a handful of chips then goes on. "If he's at the party later you know you have to tell him right?"  "Or if he's there I could just ignore him, yeah I think I like it that way." She looks at me frustrated. "Ugh, why are you so hard headed?" She saids, rolling her eyes. "I am not!" I say trying to defend myself. "Hey, I'm not the one you should be getting mad at, you brought this on yourself." I sigh "I know, and I'm sorry Liz." I look over at the time. 6:30 Has it really been that long? 30 minutes until the party, if Avan didn't come I'd be miserable and if he did come, I'd have to confess.

-----------------------Sorry I know this chapter was short but itt'l be longer and more detailed next :)-------------