2 Years ago…
I threw a marshmallow at Bella’s head.
“I’m awake, I was just resting my eyes” She replies cheerfully and we all start to laugh.
“Resting your eyes? Really? It looked more like you were falling asleep and we can’t have that when we are pulling an all-nighter” Hattie says.
We had decided to camp out on Taylor’s property which meant we could go swimming in her dam. We had been planning the sleepover for ages. We always had an annual sleepover with all 10 of us. Us being Bella, Caitlin, Eilish, Hannah, Hattie, Lila, Spanner (Hannah), Taylor, Vanie and me Claudia but to my friends I was Colgate. No one knew why that was my nickname or even when I got given it but all I knew was that it felt weird when any of them called me anything different, especially when they called me Claudia even though it was my name.
“Pass the marshmallows” says Hannah.
“You got legs, use them.” Taylor replies arrogantly and we all start laughing again.
“Be nice Taylor” Vanie says sweetly.
“Meow” Taylor replies disinterested.
“Meow, Meow?” Lila says questioning her in their weird language they made up ages ago. It went on like that for a while before someone told them to shut up. God they were weird. To stop them from continuing their little weird rant thing Hattie tried to get other people talking.
“We should go to a concert!” She exclaims.
“That sounds fun who should we see?” Bella asks.
“Coldplay!” Caitlin screams.
“Taylor Swift!” Eilish counters her with while Hattie and Bella decided that they wanted to see Guy Sebastian.
“Well I want to see Nicki Minaj” I say quietly. They all turn and look at me.
“You really want to go and see her? The one who scared you the first time you saw her on TV?” Vanie asks.
“No, of course not I was just joking… she does scare me” I say in an equally quiet voice.
“Oh… That makes more sense” Hannah says.
The only remnants of the fire are the slightly warm embers. It was about 12:30 in the morning and we were still wide awake.
“Let’s tell ghost stories!” Taylor says excitedly.
“Let’s not” Bella, Vanie and Eilish say almost instantly.
“Ok then, how about everyone has to tell a story that they have never told anyone before” Taylor says.
“That sounds fun I guess” I say kind of excited.
“Let’s go around the circle and I’ll start” Eilish says. She starts to tell us the story of how when she was in Sydney once she accidently ripped a shirt she was trying on and then just left straight away so that they couldn’t make her pay for it. Bella then continued telling us about how when she was in America there was this British guy who was staying at the same motel (across the hall) as her. He was apparently really hot and smiled and said hello to her every time he saw her.
It was my turn. “Well you all know how I went on that family holiday to Spain and we were there for two months… On the way over there I sat next to this guy on the plane who started talking to me. He told me he was from Doncaster in England. We talked for basically the whole plane trip and he was really nice. I thought that I would never see him again but when we got to the resort we were staying at he was checking in too. He saw me and waved and I waved back. I saw him almost every day and we talked heaps. One afternoon we even played a game of soccer with some of the local kids. He was really good at it and I asked if he played it in England and he said he did but he called it football. When it was time for us to go we swapped numbers and emails so we could keep in contact. Occasionally we Skype and talk to each other but lately it’s been kind of weird and awkward but I got an email from him the other day.”
“Seriously Colgate? I mean you spent your whole holiday with him and didn’t even tell us?!?!?”Bella says with disbelief.
“One I can’t believe you didn’t tell us and two was he hot?” Taylor questions.
“Yeah he kinda was… I didn’t really think of him that way I just saw him as a friend” I answer “He was really outgoing and loud which is like the complete opposite of me so yea I don’t know…”
“What was his name? Eilish and Vanie whine.
“I don’t want to tell you… you’ll all go stalk him or something”
“No we won’t” Hattie reasons “We just want to know”
“What if you guess it I’ll even give you the first letter?”
“Ok then what’s the first letter?” Taylor insists.
“L”
“Liam?” Bella says straightaway.
“No, but good guess”
“Leo?” Hannah tries.
“No”
“Luke!” Lila says with confidence.
“No, the second letter is O”
“Louis!” Caitlin screams.
“Yea... his name is Louis, Louis Tomlinson”
AN: Thanks to everyone reading this I hope you like it :) x
Colgate
