“It’s yours, Lily!” one of my classmates screams. I turn towards him and a second after the ball hit my head.
“Ouch!” I scream massaging my forehead.
“What the fuck is wrong with you, Caleb? Didn’t you see that she was turned her back?” Katie, my best friend, reaches Caleb and pushes him and he falls on the ground.
“Relax, Barbie. I didn’t do it on purpose”. Everyone calls my best friend Barbie. In some ways, they’re right. She’s tall, her hair is long and natural blonde, and she has a perfect body. She kind of likes it, it’s a compliment to her.
“Yeah, right”.
“What’s going on here?” Ms. White asks reaching us.
“The ball hit my head” I say getting up. Katie is coming to help me.
“If it’s ok with you, Ms. White, I would like to accompany Lily to take some ice”.
“Yes, go ahead” she answers. Then, while Katie and I are leaving, she whistles to start the game.
I am Lily Smith, I’m sixteen. I’m not very tall, I’m thin. My hair and eyes are brown. Katie Hemmings is my best friend since our first day in high school. I’m an only child. My parents are divorced and I live with my dad, Jonah, by my choice because my mom likes to bring home a lot of men, or at least that’s what my father says. Me and my dad have a beautiful relation, we always tell each other everything and he never gets mad at me, for anything. I don’t remember him grounding me, ever. We both think that grounding is useless. My grades at school are perfect and I often help Katie with some subjects. We always spend the whole day together, sometimes at my place, sometimes at hers. I live in the country side, out of town. My house is huge. My dad is an architect, so he designed and made it before the divorce. Katie’s family is rich. Her dad is a very good lawyer and her mom writes songs and sells them. Katie has a twin brother, Luke. He’s tall, blond hair and blue eyes, like Katie. We attend the same classes. I see him every day, but we just talked a couple of times. Katie and Luke don’t really get along. They always make mischief to each other and they never help each other. He is always surrounded by girls. Katie told me he lost his virginity when he was fourteen. I’m still a virgin. Katie lost it this summer with some random guy he met on holiday.
“There you go” Katie says putting some ice covered with a towel on my forehead.
“It’s cold” I say, pushing it away.
“Yes, or it wouldn’t be called ice”.
We laugh and then she sits beside me, on the locker room’s bench. The year just started and this was the first class of gym, the subject I hate the most.
“Again, Lily” says Katie “I think Caleb acts this way because he likes you!”
“What? Are you crazy? He could never like me”.
Caleb is one of the most handsome guys in the school. Tall, dark hair and green eyes. Every night a different girl, at least that’s what they all say. I asked him why he couldn’t be with one girl for more than one day and he answered me that he was waiting for the one. I started laughing at him. I’m one of those girls that don’t believe in love, at all.
“Believe what you want” Katie says shrugging. “You’re coming at my place later?”
“Sure”. I like her house. Her bedroom is so dreamy and we always have a lot of fun. We should study but who cares? I remember last summer when Luke was swimming in the lake right in front of their house. He was naked, so Katie and I took his clothes and his towel and we enjoyed the show from behind a bush. He was trying to cover himself with his hands and then he started running to his house. Katie and I started laughing and then we went back to her bedroom. Later Luke came in the room, furious.
“It was you, wasn’t it?” he asked.
“What was us?” Katie asked, chuckling.
“You are going to pay for it!” He looked at us with rage, then went out. He didn’t keep his word. He never made any mischief to us since that moment.
“Smith, Scott!” Ms. White’s voice brings me to reality. “The bell rang. Change your clothes then go”.
Katie and I look at each other than we start getting dressed up. We take our bag pack and we go out. This was the last class for the day. It’s two o’clock and I’m starving.
“Lily, my mom just asked me what we want for lunch”.
Thank God! I love when her mom makes lunch, she’s such a good cook.
“Whatever you want” I answer.
“Okay”.
We get in the car, Katie’s car. 10 minutes after we get home. Luke arrives a few minutes later.
“Hi, Lily” Karen says, Katie and Luke’s mom. Then she hugs her daughter.
“Hi” I get closer to hug her. Since I know her she became a sort of a mom to me. I love her. She’s sweet and kind. Sometimes I talk to her about my problems, when Katie’s not home.
“Lunch is going to be ready in five minutes. Go wash your hands”.
Katie and I go upstairs in her bedroom. We leave our bag packs on the floor and we go wash our hands. Luke probably used the kitchen’s bathroom because I didn’t hear him climbing the stairs. His room is right in front of Katie’s. We never entered in his room, not that I really care.
“Come!” Karen screams. We go in the kitchen. I sit next to Luke, who is already eating his spaghetti, and Katie sits next to me.
“Gross, Luke! You could at least chew!” she exclaims.
“Shut up, Barbie!” he answers, in a rude way. He had started to call her that way, too.
“Stop it and eat” Karen says, tired of their behaviour.
We leave nothing in our dishes.
“So good, Karen” I say.
“Thanks, honey. Do you want some ice cream?”
We all say yes, so she gives us chocolate ice cream in a cup. When we finish, Katie and I go back in her room and we do our homework, then we lay on the bed.
“I’ll go take a shower. I’m sweat, thanks to the gym class!” Katie says.
“Okay, I’m just going to rest a bit”.
She goes in the bathroom and closes the door. I hear the water running. I get thirsty so I go down in the kitchen. I take a glass and I fill it with fresh water. I drink it and then I put the empty glass in the sink.
“Hey!” I turn around and I see Luke in front of me. He’s only wearing a towel around his waist. I nod my head.
“I have to take some water” he says.
I move, because I am in front of the fridge. I start walking to go back upstairs when Luke grabs my arm. I turn around and look at him. He holds in his hand a glass full of freezing water.
“What are you doing?” I ask him looking at his hand on my wrist.
Suddenly he throws at me the water. My T-shirt is white and I’m not wearing a bra, so he can see everything.
“What the fuck, Luke?”
“I told you you were going to pay for that joke!”
“Yes, but why just me?”
“Because you’re here now”.
“Asshole!”
“Whoa, I never realized that your boobs were so big.” He says staring at my chest. I cover it with my arms.
“Go fuck yourself, Luke” I say and then I grab his towel and take it down. Shit, he’s wearing boxers.
“Lily, I knew you would have done that.”
“You’re just an arrogant bastard”.
“What did you call me?”
“Arrogant bastard” I pronounce the words very clearly.
“Bitch” he says getting closer to me. I start running. I go out of the front door, I circle the whole house and I go in the garden. He follows me, very fast. He reaches me in no time. From behind he wraps me with his arms and he lifts me from the ground.
“Where do you think you’re going?”
I start laughing, because his fingers are tickling me.
“Why are you laughing?” he asks, putting me down. I lay on it and I keep laughing. He sits next to me, annoyed.
“Lily, why are you laughing?”
I don’t stop and I don’t listen to him. Then he starts laughing too. After a while we finally stop and we wait our breathing to be regular. I look at him.
“We never talk and suddenly we laugh together?” I ask in a sarcastic way.
“Yep”. He smiles.
“I’m sorry, anyway”. I say.
“I’m sorry too”.
“We’re even now?” I ask him.
“Sure”.
“Okay”. I stand up and I go back in the house. He follows me. When we get on top of the stairs I go into Katie's room and he goes in his.
