I'll Always Be By Your Side Chapter 1
"I ONLY WENT OUT SHOPPING WITHB ELEKTRA AND TEE! You hadn't arrived cos you were stuck in traffic, so we left." Carmen accused "You don't need to chop my head off!"
"Yeah, well, REAL FRIENDS DON'T LEAVE EACH OTHER BEHIND! THEY WAIT." Lily also accused.
"You've only just got here! It's 7:30. PM!"
"..."
The voices of the screaming girls could be heard all through the halls of Elmtree House. Most people had earned nothing but a really bad headache from that nights shout off. Gus in particular, who hated loud noises was relieved when the two screeching girls became silent. Finally everyone could settle down for some peace and quiet and actually get some well-deserved rest!
Carmen stormed up to her room and barricaded the door, leaving Lily with nowhere to sleep.
"Hey" she heard someone say. She jumped startled. "It's only me! Elektra."
She sighed "What do you want Elektra?!"
"To congratulate you, that was an impressive shout-fest you performed with Carmen, I never liked that dirty-mouthed snitch anyway" she spat. "I'm on your side, I think that friends are more important than going out shopping, and I think she has no right to have any other friends but you."
"That's what I think too" Lily agreed "She doesn't need any other friends when she has me!" She then boasted "S'will you back me up on this one Elektra?"
"Course, we haven't had many fights for a while, this place is starting to get a bit lame." Elektra laughed "You can crash on my floor tonight"
Everyone else thought that Carmen was right, even the nicest people like Tee and Gus who wouldn't usually take sides, they believed that you can have other friends and that Lily was just being a control freak. There's one boy in particular, however, that was backing Carmen up even stronger than the rest.
Johnny Taylor sat in his room, punching the wall, knocking all his stuff off the desk, ripping things off the walls. 'Why would Lily think like that' he thought 'she doesn't own Carmen, nobody does, she can't own people, and Elektra's just out of order agreeing with her'. He had heard her conversation with Lily and it made him even madder. How could anyone be so horrible to Carmen, to him she's smart, funny, cute, everything he's ever dreamed of. Wait! What on earth was he saying? He lay down in bed and started thinking, about things. He wondered whether he did actually have a crush on Carmen Howle. He must have fallen asleep because he woke up to find light pouring from underneath the curtains in front of the window.
"Carmen!" He remembered as he shot out of bed darting across to Carmen's room.
"Carmen?" No answer. "Carmen? Are ya there?" He started to get worried after she didn't answer. He tried to open the door but it wouldn't budge. At least that meant she was in there. Hopefully. He tried to force it open but again, stayed shut. Worried to bits now he charged into his room, shoving his trainers on before sprinting out of the house. He looked up to where Carmen's room was before climbing up the drainpipe. The window was unlocked so he climbed inside. Carmen was lying in bed, sound asleep, oblivious to how much worry and trouble Johnny had experienced. Hearing the noise in the room, she woke up before screaming, falling out of bed.
He chuckled before helping her up "It's only me Carmen"
"Oh, sorry, I was just a bit surprised that's all." She gazed at the barricaded door, exactly as she left it before her gaze wandered over to Johnny. 'You look so cute with your hair like that' she smiled, or at least she thought so until Johnny started blushing and acting awkwardly. Had she just said that out loud?
She coughed "Anyway how did you get in, the stuff's just as I left it, and it's so early" she checked her phone to see it was only 5:30am. She noticed, when she unlocked her phone, that she had loads of texts, mostly from Elektra and Lily saying things like:
U ugly *****!
Die u stupid ***** DIE!
She sniffed as she read all the messages, deleting them as she went along, she deleted Elektra and Lily's contacts but that wouldn't stop them from texting her, she couldn't delete them out of her life when they lived in the same house. Johnny noticed she had tears in her eyes.
"Carmen, what's wrong?" He asked, concerned. "Carmen, let me see your phone." He grabbed her phone just as another few texts popped up from Lily and Elektra. He gasped before storming over to the door, unblocking it and charging out, leaving her phone on the bed. She just sat on her bed as she heard Johnny shouting, Lily screaming and Elektra yelling, she heard and saw all the other kids leg it over to Elektra's room to get in on the juicy stuff.
Johnny smashed open the door before confronting a smirking Elektra and a slightly guilty, but proud looking Lily.
"Ya think you're so clever don't you, ooo I sent a horrid text to Carmen, ooo how cool am I?" He mocked, in a high pitched, squeaky voice. the other kids, who had gathered in the room at this time laughed, as they watched Johnny do them proud.
"I don't sound like that!" Lily whined, loosing this look of coolness she had plastered on her face just a moment ago.
"No one mocks me!" Elektra threatened.
"Alright then, make me stop" Johnny encouraged. Elektra sprang forwards, attempting to shove Johnny over. Unfortunately for her, he had quicker reactions, causing her to land on the floor, he grabbed Lily's phone and lunged for and seized Elektra's phone before running down to the office to Mike. Elektra stayed flat on her face, embarrassed that someone had out smarted her.
Carmen heard all the other kids burst out laughing, cheering for Johnny as she heard Elektra growl and Lily groan. She decided to follow Johnny down to Mike, fortunately, having not deleted the texts she had some proof that these texts weren't fake.
As she walked past Elektra's room, Elektra, herself, burst out.
"Aww didumns" she teased "Need Johnny to hold your hand, fight your battles?!" She laughed as I heard Lily laugh too.
"Cool. Leave it Carms. They're only trying to get at you, so they'll have a reason to tell on you" Tee calmed as Elektra glared at the girls, proving Tee's theory. They walked down to the office together, with 'their heads held high' you could say. They walked in before Carmen showed and told Mike everything, him getting redder by the minute.
"LILY! ELEKTRA! DOWN HERE NOW!" He yelled, none of the three had ever seen him so mad before.
Back in Elektra's room Lily stressed "We're for it now" She had never heard Mike so mad either.
"It's fine" Elektra started "Just play it cool, act as if you don't care, that then gives you the strength to carry on taunting her. You know that symbol: KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON"
"Yeah, you're right"
There we are, first chapter. Second chapter here we come!
Magic Enjoy