Jessica's POV
Jessica raced out her front door and down the sidewalk. 'Idiot' she repeated in her head. Of course on the day of the get together she would stop to read her favorite book, even if she still had half an hour until she had to leave to get to Ethan's house. And this was a special one, too, cause it was June, Liam's birthday month. So now she was late.
She sprinted around the corner and down Ethan's driveway, knowing that they would be in the backyard. She opened the back gate. They all looked up as she entered.
"Happy Birthday Liam!" She managed to gasp.
Lindsay was the first to laugh. They all joined in fairly quicky, including Jess when Lin handed her a mirror. Her short hair was a mess, her face was the color of a cherry, and she was still breathing hard.
"Anyone got a hair brush?" She asked.
Danike handed her one and proceeded to ask "So where have you been?"
"In a book" Jessica replied with a silly grin.
"Not warriors again!" Moaned Riley.
"Yepper doodle"
"Dude you got to stop reading those! They're gonna ruin your life!" Riley exclaimed. Ah Riley, the reason they started these things. He moved to a new school in grade 7, and so they decided to hang out every month.
"So what do u guys want to do?"asked Ethan.
"Go inside" Jessica, Lindsay, Riley, Danike and Liam all replied in unision. So they went inside and chated for a while. Suddenly Jessica smelt something strange. Apparently Riley did too.
He turned to Ethan and said "Dude, what's your mom burning?"
I replied slowly "His mom left 30 minutes ago..." suddenly there was a big bang and a burning sensation. A dim realization hit me 'I'm burning...'
And everything went black.