AN/ Hi guys :) Wow it's been a while since I've posted on here. It feels good! Even if I was constantly harassed to write *cough* kissedbynight , itsmeexxx *cough* ;D Only kidding I love those guys really.
This is just a humour fic I decided to write whilst bored. It features me and some of my friends, and I hope they like it.
The entire story is dedicated to NWA - you guys know who you are ;)
Also-please forgive any mistakes. I don't have a BETA and I wrote this whilst listening to Say Anything and Family Guy songs. Apparently it was so loud my brother, sister and her boyfriend were having a disco with my music downstairs xD
Disclaimer: I don't own the Night World or anybody in it. I'd say I own the characters but my friends may have something to say about that :P
"Omg we're going WHERE?"
I laughed at the words on my computer screen.
Vegas Dani :D I typed. I couldn't keep the grin off my face as I hit the SEND button and I knew that, once the shock wore off, my friend wouldn't be able to either. We had been jokingly planning this trip for over a year and, as I waited for Dani's reply, my thoughts drifted to all the amazing things we would do when we arrived in the city of our dreams. I could just picture us all…. Alex, Sydney and I losing (or winning ;D) a fortune in the casinos. Dani and Sophia shopping to their hearts content, Jija and Mel going crazy for every fit guy they saw…
Smiling, my thoughts returned to earth as I saw the [1 notification] icon on my screen.
Expecting it to be a reply from Dani, I clicked the red and blue button. It was Sophia. You got the tickets? (: (: (:
YUP C: THE CONFIRMATION LETTER ARRIVED AN HOUR AGO I commented.
I leaned back in my computer chair and glanced at my phone. I'd texted Cesca fifteen minutes ago, telling her the good news, but she had yet to reply. I felt a frown growing on my face. This wasn't like her… she normally replied to texts straight away, or if she was busy she at least sent a quick TEXT YA LATER (: .
I glanced at the clock in the top right corner of my iMac. 11:07
She should be awake…. I sat up and grabbed my little white keyboard, hastily typing HEY GUYS, I'M JUST GOING ROUND TO CESCA'S. SHE HASN'T REPLIED TO MY TEXT SO I'LL LET HER KNOW ABOUT VEGAS. TEXT ME IF YOU NEED ME (: .
I wheeled back my chair and stood to my full height of 5'7. Spinning on my heel, I walked briskly out of my bedroom, grabbing my Death Kitty jacket from the door as I passed.
Cesca only lived a street away so, after quickly explaining to my mother where I was going, I soon found myself rounding the corner of Adelaide Street onto Green Road. As I drew nearer to Cesca's house I wondered why she still hadn't replied. I was holding my phone in my pocket and it still hadn't vibrated. She always had credit. Her mum was too overprotective to let her out and about without a way of getting hold of her. I reached the familiar blue gate and pushed it open to allow me into Cesca's gorgeous garden, full of colourful flowers of every kind. I could remember sitting in this garden as a kid, inhaling the various scents. My favourite flower by far was the Iris. Something about it just drew me in and it was the only flower I had in my own back garden. Cesca's mum had gotten my first Iris for me for my 11th birthday, when she deemed me old enough to be able to take care of it myself. I'd been so thrilled.
I pulled myself put of the past and concentrated on the here and now. I reached up and grabbed the brass knocker, hanging underneath the bronze number 28. I rapped it three times against the door and stepped back to wait.
"Tina! How nice to see you. You haven't been round in a while." Cesca's mum greeted me with a smile.
"I know. I'm sorry Gulvin. Things have been pretty hectic lately, what with our exams and all." I grinned apologetically.
"Oh don't worry about it. I know you girls have been working hard these last few weeks." She stepped back into the hallway, "You going to stand out there all day or what?"
I stepped over the threshold and kicked my converse off.
"Actually Gulvin, that's partly the reason I'm here. Because of how hard we've been revising lately. We thought we'd do a little something now it's the holidays." I had to be careful now. I didn't want to say to much to Cesca's mum before I told her, but we still needed her approval.
"Oh?" she didn't look suspicious, merely curious.
"Um yeah." I was suddenly uncomfortable. "We're actually planning a little holiday…"
Gulvin raised on eyebrow.
"I guess you might want to ring my mum for all the details and things you know…" I drifted off.
She just looked bemused. She clearly didn't know just what kind of "little holiday" we were planning…
"I'll do that. You go on upstairs to Cesca."
I nodded and hurried up the stairs without a word, as Gulvin approached the phone. At the top of the stairs I turned right and headed to the brightly coloured door that marked entrance to Cesca's room. I didn't bother to knock; I just opened the door and walked straight in. I was greeted by the sight of Cesca, one of my best friends, sat on her bright bedstead with her knees to her chest, painting her nails in bright turquoise blue. She didn't look surprised in the least to see me; it wasn't unusual for us to stop by one another's houses randomly.
"Tina!" She squealed, rising from the bed to give me a hug and nearly knocking her pot of nail polish over.
"Hey Cesc" I greeted. I put on a mock stern face "Why didn't you answer your phone?"
"My phone?" She looked confused.
"Yes…your PHONE." I said slowly, like she was an idiot.
She moved across her room to grab her BlackBerry.
"Oh my god. I didn't realize it was on silent. Sorry!" She explained. "2 new messages from Tina" she read.
"Well it's not much of a surprise now" I grinned.
"What do you mean?" my friend asked.
"Just read your texts" I laughed, settling down on her bed and grabbing the charging laptop from Cesca's nightstand by her bed. I lifted the lid, typed her password ILOVEVAMPS and opened up a Facebook tab.
I'd just clicked on Cesca's first notification-a wallpost from me telling her to answer her phone-when Cesca let out an inhuman squeal of delight and grabbed my shoulders.
"Are you serious?" she squealed, giving me a gentle shake. "Are we really going to Vegas?"
"Woah Cesc, not if I get shaken child syndrome from your incessant shaking!" I laughed, "But yes, we are going to Vegas" I couldn't keep the smile out of my voice.
"YES!" I watched in amusement as my friend danced around the room gleefully singing "We're all going to Ve-gas, we're all going to Ve-gas! Na na na na. Na na na na"
A bleeping sound drew my attention back to the computer. A chat message popped up from Rachael.
HEY CESC, HOWS IT GOING? X
IT'S TINA. I typed in reply. AND RIGHT NOW SHE'S DANCING ROUND HER BEDROOM LIKE A LUNATIC. I'M TEMPTED TO FILM IT ACTUALLY ;) X
A moment later her reply came: NAH YOU'RE NOT THAT CRUEL LOL. WHAT'S SHE SO HAPPY ABOUT? NOT THAT SHE NEEDS A REASON-THAT GIRL IS HYPER 24/7 X
I laughed. YOU'RE TELLING ME? I HAVE TO PUT UP WITH HER MOST OF THE TIME! LOL AND AT LEAST SHE'S NOT AS BAD AS SOPHIA :L X
YOU'RE NOT WRONG THERE. HAHA SO DOES SHE HAVE A REASON? OR IS SHE JUST BEING A LOONEY? X
I glanced up at my friend. She certainly looked like a lunatic. She was now rummaging through her wardrobe, as if she was already packing, still humming that annoying song.
YOU KNOW SHE'S ALWAYS A LOONY ;) BUT THIS TIME SHE DOES HAVE A REASON: WE'RE GOING TO VEGAS! :D X
"You do know we need to run this by your mum first though right?" I asked Cesca, who had now moved on to finding a suitcase big enough to hold her belongings. Her face fell, but only briefly.
"Oh don't worry about it. I'll just buy her something Maddona-ish and she'll let me go."
We both knew it would be a little more difficult than that but I wasn't too worried. Cesca's mum was pretty open-minded to most things and I was hoping my mum would smooth things over with her anyway. I could hear her on the phone downstairs but I couldn't hear what was being said.
"Doesn't she have most Madonna CD's anyway?" I laughed.
Cesca frowned. "Well yeah, but I'll put them on her computer or something. You know she's hopeless at technology. Now, instead of worrying about silly issues like whether or not we're allowed to go, and instead focus on what we're going to BRING. Everybody knows Vegas is fabulous. We need clothes to match. I looked her up and down. In denim shorts and a white top with puffy sleeves Cesca looked good, but I couldn't picture her in a "fabulous" ballgown type thing like those you saw rich women wear in Vegas movies.
"You know it's not actually like that Cesc", I laughed. Mostly it's filled with touristy people like us in jeans and hoodies."
Before I could go on Cesca had her fingers over my lips. "SShhhh…" She grinned. "Stop spoiling my illusions. I can barely get over the fact we're going. Let me keep dreaming about what we're going to do. And speaking of jeans and hoodies-are you going to take that thing off?" She demanded.
I sighed and pulled my hood down. I loved this jacket. It had cat ears on the hood.
"Thank you." She smiled. Whilst Cesca liked fairly bright colours and summery clothes, I was more like our friend Jen Redfern in fashion. Considering we all had different tastes in music and clothes, our group of friends was ridiculously close.
We had a sort of group. And the only thing we all had in common with each other was our love of reading and writing. It was a pretty big group: Me, Cesca, Rachael, Dani, Sydney, Mel, Jija, Jade, Julia, Laura, Eve, Jen and, the only guy in our group, Alex. He and Sophia have a "Thing" going but refuse to accept it. (AN. SHE'S GOING TO KILL ME FOR WRITING THAT.)
Out of us all me, Cesca, Mel, Sophia, Alex, Dani, Syd, Julia, Jen and Eve are going to Vegas. Laura, Rachael and Jade are all going to Lanzarote instead. I had hoped we could all go to Vegas together but their parents had planned their joint holiday whilst we were still at school. Maybe we could all go together another year though….
My phone buzzed in my jacket pocket, making me jump a mile in the air. I pulled my thoughts back to reality-you may have noticed that I have to do that a lot xD
I glanced at the screen. 1 NEW MESSAGE FROM RACH.
YOU DIED OR SOMETHING? REPLY! LOL X
I'd forgotten about my chat conversation. Giving myself a mental slap I quickly opened my chat with Rachael.
OMG ARE YOU SERIOUS? WHEN YOU GOING? X
TINA? YOU STILL THERE? X
GET OUT OF DAYDREAM LAND AND REPLY!
SORRY ,I quickly typed. GOT A BIT DISTRACTED X
WHY DOES THAT NOT SURPRISE ME? LOL X
I laughed. WE'RE GOING NEXT WEEK. THE DAY BEFORE YOU GUYS LEAVE FOR LANZAROTE. X
COOL (: I'LL COME SEE YOU GUYS OFF. HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT TIME X
YEAH WE WILL THANKS (: I WISH WE ALL COULD HAVE GONE BUT MY MUM
COULD ONLY GET TICKETS FOR TUESDAY. SORRY ):
Her reply came quickly.
OH DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT. I'LL TEXT YOU LIKE EVERY DAY ANYWAY ;) THERE'LL BE NO GETTING RID OF ME, I'LL PRACTICALLY BE WITH YOU ANYWAY. HAHA X
YEAH PROBABLY. I typed. WELL I GTG-BETTER MAKE SURE IT'S OK WITH CESCA'S MUM FIRST. LOL I'LL TEXT YOU LATER X
OK BYEE X
I closed the window and shut Cesca's laptop.
"Come on" I said, grabbing my friends arm. " Let's go and see if your mum is going to approve the best holiday of our lives."
We walked out her bedroom, shutting the door behind us and bounded down the stairs.
"Hi mummy." Cesca said sweetly, a huge grin on her face.
"You're awfully good when you want something." Her mum replied sternly.
I frowned. This wasn't part of the plan…
There was an awkward moment of silence in which I swear I stopped breathing. Everything rested on our parents approval of the holiday…
Suddenly Cesca's mum broke out in a grin.
"Your faces!" She laughed. "They were truly priceless."
"Mum!", Cesca cried. "This is serious! You could have ruined our lives!"
"Oh stop being over dramatic honey. You can go to Vegas." She looked at me. "I've spoken to your mum Tina, and we've sorted all the details out."
I smiled.
"Yes! Oh mum you're the best!" I laughed at Cesca's reaction.
One parent down, only eight more to go…
"Come on." Cesca grabbed my arm. It looked like I'd missed the next part of the conversation. My friend rolled her eyes. "Shopping. Me. You. Now."
And with that she dragged me out the door saying "This is going to be the best two weeks of our lives"
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Tina xx