What Happens During Summer Break….
Chapter One: Boring Crap You Need to Know
(Kitty's POV)
History Class. Also known as That Class Where You Learn Stuff That Has Already Happened And Is Therefore Not That Important To Our Future Lives.
But that takes too long to say, so we just call it Hell.
The 'we' and 'our' that I keep referring to is me and my group of friends: Maddie Wilson, Allie Rowley and yours truly, Kitty Banks.
Allie's the crazier one out of us three, who tends to shout random movie lines in the middle of class, sings A Pirate's Life For Me in the shower and quote her beloved Jack Sparrow every other second.
As for looks, she has long, dark red hair that every girl in the grade covets, brown-green eyes and an ever-present smile. The Smile of Doom, as we call it, is always there because when Allie daydreams, she smiles, and she's always daydreaming.
Onto Maddie. Maddie is rather booky, but if you call her a nerd she'll just smile sweetly…then make your life miserable. She's the kind of person who will shriek, "Dumbledore did it!" on instinct when the lights go out, and will always correct Allie when she say Jack Sparrow—"It's Captain Jack Sparrow." She's also a marvelous actress, and can imitate pretty much anyone—especially the bad guys in movies, because she likes them most. Specifically Draco Malfoy and Sweeney Todd.
She's got straight brown hair and chocolate brown eyes. You could call her plain, I suppose…if you had a death wish.
As for me…I don't really know what to say about myself. Anything I say will be incredibly biased anyway, considering I'm me.
I guess I'm the one who keeps Allie and Maddie out of trouble…except when it involves a prank of any sort on my butthole ex-boyfriend, Ryan.
But that's beside the point. I have black hair with dark brown streaks and brown eyes that are quite good for a Death Glare, which I usually dish out to anyone who insults Lord of the Rings.
Wait. Where was I? Oh right, I was talking about History class.
So despite the incredible boredom of listening to Mister Johnson monologue about some American war, Maddie, Allie and I were pretty happy. I mean, it was the last day of high school, who wouldn't be happy! (That was rhetorical, by the way. Any sane person would be happy. Except maybe the emo kids.)
Plus, after this we three got to spend all summer together at my house, parent-less. My parents were on a cruise, Maddie's were doing a support project for the children of Africa, and Allie's were god knows where, doing god knows what.
BUT THE POINT IS, that the only adult supervision we'd have for two months was Allie's older brother, Kaz, and he was only stopping by to check on us once a week.
Yes, this summer was going to be heaven.
(Allie's POV)
I watched the clock intently, willing it to move faster.
'Come on," I pleaded mentally, 'Just one more minute and we'll be free of Subchester High forever! Hurry up dumb clock!'
It didn't listen to me, so I started a staring match with it, all the while sending it bribes telepathically.
'I'll give you a cookie. Two cookies! A cupcake? How about a cupcake? WHAT DO YOU MEAN, YOU DON'T TRUST ME? I would SO give you a cupcake! I WOULD. Jerk.'
"Miss Rowley! What did I just say?"
Mister Johnson's snappy voice surprised me and I squeaked, frantically trying to remember whatever useless factoid had just been said. Nothing came to mind. IMPROV TIME, BABY!
"You suddenly were suddenly inspired by thoughts of Jack Sparrow—"
"Captain Jack Sparrow." Maddie muttered compulsively.
"—and decided to let us out a minute early?" I finished hopefully.
No such luck. (Heh heh, if you mix 'such' and 'luck' you get 'suck luch!' No suck luch. No sucking lunch. DON'T SUCK YOUR LUNCH, KIDDIES!) Mister Johnson just glared and mumbled something about getting stupider every year.
Crazy old coot.
Suddenly, the bell rang, to my joy.
"WE'RE FREE!" I shrieked loudly. No one even spared me a glance as the rushed out the door.
"So! What are we gonna do first?" I asked happily, throwing my schoolbag on the floor of Kitty's room unceremoniously. Wouldn't be needing that old thing anymore.
"Well, we should probably go grocery shopping and get the food we need, plus we should empty out our backpacks and decided what to keep…" Maddie suggested.
There was silence for a whole second before we burst into laughter.
"Yeah, right!" Kitty giggled.
"Cause we're just that mature!" I snorted.
"Come on guys!" Maddie said seriously. "Work before pleasure."
She managed to hold the stern expression for two seconds before crumbling into peals of laughter.
After we finished giggling like the schoolgirls we are were, Kitty asked again, "So, seriously, what are we going to do?"
"Pirates of the Caribbean." I replied promptly, at the same time Kitty answered her own question with, "Lord of the Rings.", and Maddie said, "Labyrinth."
"We watched the Two Towers last weekend. I miss my Jack!"
"Psh. Like you didn't rewatch Pirates of the Caribbean just last night. And probably the night before."
"…True dat. True dat."
"So how's about Labyrinth?"
We argued for a good ten minutes—and that's ten minutes I ain't getting back, mate!—before we finally decided to watch Curse of the Black Pearl first, then Return of the King, then Labyrinth, and then Harry Potter(the fifth one, cuz apparently Draco is cutest in that one and Maddie demanded it).
So we spent the next bajillion hours chowing on popcorn in Kitty's room, watching movies and swooning over our respective hotties.
Did I mention that I love Kitty's room, by the way? The walls are a light green, and clash amazingly with her disney-cheshire-striped bed, which sets off the blue and orange polkadotted rug. The ceiling is black with red splatters.
Basically, it looks like Alice from Wonderland went insane then barfed on her room.
I love it.
But after our movies were done and the popcorn was gone, we were so tired that we climbed into Kitty's ginormous bed—seriously, that thing's bigger than France—and fell asleep before we could even say goodnight. All was quiet. All was peaceful.
Somewhere in the sky, Fate looked down on us, smiled…then got smashing drunk and decided to turn our lives into a rollercoaster of adventure, love and craziness. Starting that morning.
