Give Me Therapy
by hisgirlfridayx.
Chapter 1
Come One, Come All by All Time Low
"Do you ever wonder...no no no," I sang on the top of my lungs. My speakers were amped. The music blasting through my house, vibrating all the objects in my room.
"Oh no, you girls never know..." Franz Ferdinand surely gets me high, who needs drugs when you have music?
I kept singing along to my muse but I heard this little mumble coming from somewhere, but it was close...
Since I'm home alone for the weekend, this freaked me out. I froze on the word "beautiful" I grabbed a through pillow off of my bed and started walking towards the hallway.
"ASHLYNN!" I heard someone scream. It came from behind me. I spun around quickly to find out it was just my friend Emily, struggling to get her head above my window pane —Haha, that rhymed. Wait, no it didn't. I'm loosing it.
"Jesus." I groaned, sounded more aggravated then I actually was. "I'm home alone, Emmy, don't sneak up on my like that."
I threw the pillow back on my bed and walked over to my window to talk ot her.
"I've been saying your name for about five minutes." Quite the exaggeration. Her blond hair was pulled loosely into a messy bun. It looked like she just took a nap or something. Doesn't she know she has to walk in public to get to my house? Well there is only one other house on our street. "Meet me out back." She said and her head quickly disappeared.
I turned off my music and started walking through my quiet house. Wow, music sure does make a difference. Somebody get me a pin because I wanna hear it drop.
Emily was blond and blue eyed. She could get any guy she wanted. Well, I mean so could I. But I have high-standards. I don't want to waste high-school on useless boy toys.
Emily turned away herds of boys because she has her sights set on her older brother's best friend. Emily's personality was shy but she could get along with anybody. She's like one of those cliché girls. She shy and loves to read but beautiful under the glasses, even though she wears contacts.
I have dark brown hair and bright blue eyes. Emily and I were both attractive young women. The only problem is that there aren't many blondes here in my small Rhode Island town, so guys tend to like the blondes over the brunettes. It's acceptable, I'm not desperate or anything. I've only had a couple of dud dates, and one boyfriend. I mean I'm only 15.
I saw her waiting on the deck patiently checking her nails. Boy, what, had she run? Last year I begged Emily to try out for track with me because I was nervous and trust me she's not that fast.
"I was thinking about what you said earlier, and two years ago, some pervert was in your yard and was all 'Hello, little girl' and you didn't seem to care." When did she do all this thinking, when she ran around my yard? But Emily did have a point. She ran down the deck stairs and towards the pool shed. I watched her struggle with the door lock.
"True, but Peter sent that guy over...he told me that like a week before he left that he should do that to me just to scare me." I told her as I carefully stepped down on the pool steps to feel the water. Warm, but cold. "So I kinda knew it was gonna happen..."
Emmy gave me the sure-you-did look. "You knew? So that's why you had you brothers come over and stay with you and totally fuck this dude off?" She stepped inside of the pool shed and grabbed a bikini off of one of the shelves. She threw one my way and changed behind the door. The bathing suit she had on was lime green with white sweethearts all over it, there was the occasional pink heart.
"Whatever, gets on your bathing suit, crank the iPod, and let's have a partaaay!" She said and jumped in the pool. The water fuzzed around her and turned white. A million little bubbles popped when she came up for air. The water flowed around her when she swam gracefully to the end up the pool where i stodd still holding the bikini she threw at me.
"Gets?" I ask her, "I thought you had an A in English."
She laughed and sank back uder the water.
Emily and I spent about two hours in the pool fooling around. We did insane jumps off the diving board. We made up two dance routines to LMFAO's Rock the Beat and I'm in Miami Bitch. We had a blast.
Somehow Emmy's brother's ex-girlfriend came up in the conversation we were having as we dried ourselves off up on the deck. Our wet feet made dark brown footprints on the weathered wood on the deck. We were both standing in a puddle of our own water, it made the wood underneath us nice and soft. Not splitery like it usualy is.
"Remember those annoying cheerleading pom-poms." She mimicked her doing cheerleading moves.
"And a five, six, seven, eight!" I laughed, until something popped into my tiny winy brain.
"OHH!" I said, and rain into the house dripping wet leaving Emily standing there confused.I could have gotten whip flash because of it. As i made my way through the house i had to jump over Annie's body, laying there confused also.
I ran into my older brothers room, opened the closed door, and dug around in boxes until I found my old pom-poms from back when I was five and I had a Hilary Duff obsession.
I raced back to Emily and twirled them around in my hands. "OH MY! Where did you find these?" She said as she reaching towards me as I was closing the slider. She had a Cheshire Cat grin on her face.
"Let's go cheer buddy!" I said in a high-pitched voice, I put one hand in the air, the other on my hip. The pom-poms were old and tacky. There were pink and silver, the kind you could find in a dollar store. With them still in my hands, Emily and I ran down the decks stairs and towards the diving board.
She jumped into shallow end of the pool, as i made my way to the end of the diving board, I wondered if the pom-poms would dry quickly.
I was just about to do a perky jump into the air when Emily screamed "Wait!" at me.
I turned around lowering my arms. Well?
Her brother's ex always did this really stupid move whenever someone complimented her. If you said you liked her shoes she would put one hand on her chest and pop one of her legs up. Emily imitated her now explaining that I should indicate that in my jump.
"That's a wicked cute bikini, Ashlynn!" Emily said to me awaiting my big and final jump.
I made my jump perfectly, but as I hit the water it was kind of a belly flop only on my right leg because i had it propped up like she always did. Oww, I thought as I was underneath the water. I came up for air rubbing my leg. The water was white and fuzzy around me. The bubbles were still forming and popping. I heard clapping and figured it was coming from Emily until I heard her brother Jordan's voice.
"Bravo! Whoohooo!" He cheered. I spun around and saw him and his best friend Brian applauding away at me. They were both leaning against the fence around the pool. As Ashlynn cried "What the hell?" I grabbed the water gun floating on top of the water and aimed it at Jordan. Brian was acting completely innocent starring at Emmy. She, however, was giving the death stare to Jordan, who was looking at me and stepping back away from the water gun. It was like a starring fest.
"Hey, now, Ash, I just came over to see if we could borrow your flat iron." He was throwing his hands up in the air like he surrendered, "Em's is somewhere in her bathroom and I wanted to spare my dear friend Brian here, the sight in there." Okay now he's gonna get it. I squirted him from feet up then I went over to Brian and got him soaked. He really didn't need to since he's so shy around us.
I noticed that Emmy had found one too and was soaking both of them also.
"Oh, so that's how you wanna play it!?" Brian said to Emily smiling a mischievous smile. Jordan raised his eyebrows at me. They took their shirts off at the same time. Their flip-flops were next, then their shorts fell to the ground. They already had their bathing suits on. Huh. Did they really want that flat iron?
Whoa. Did I just have really scrawny brothers or have these boys been working out?
Jordon picked up one of the water guns off the grass that I threw over there when Emily and I were pretending that we were getting shot by the people in the movie Taken. Mine ended up over near the swing set. Both boys came charging through the gate. Jordon challenged me to a water gun fight. I got him in the eye a couple of times. As for Brian, He caught Emily off guard and swooped her right off the ground and jumped in the pool with her on his shoulder.
We all dried off outside on the lounge chairs. There were only 3 so I laid on one of the chair cushions on the ground. Some reason my iPod turn into Emily's, and then it turned into Brian's. I don't know why he brought his, but the band 3OH!3 was blaring through the outdoor speakers. I'm actually glad that the next house over is about a good, fair distance away.
"Oh, hey, Emmy, I got that movie Obsessed. We can watch it tomorrow night." I said twisted my waist around so I could see her better. My bangs were the first to dry of my hair and they were becoming to big of a hassle to stay down in my face. I needed some bobby pins, and fast.
Emily made a 'Yay!' face, and sank back into her chair again. I got up of the ground, clumsily if you ask me. I started walking towards the deck stairs and Brian started on the movie Obsessed. I ran into the house and grabbed my small box that had a bunch of hair stuff in it. I closed the sliding door behind me just fast enough to hear Brian say: "But don't you want some very hot and noble strong guys next to you as you watch this R rated film?"
"Ohh, please. We'll get Mr. McClarren and his buddies to come and watch the movie with us, don't worry." I said sarcastically as I plopped by butt down onto the cushion and dug through the box. I gave Jordan and silly face as he starred at me blankly.
"You do have a thing for hot stuff McClarren." Emily stated, grinning smugly. Mr. McClarren was my Eigth grade homeroom teacher until he got tranferred into the highschool. He was in his early 30's and ind of good-looking. My mom always loved him.
"That bastard! He gave me a B- on one of my best papers!" He said annoyed. I finally found some bobby pins in the box. I clipped my bangs up into a small bump.
I patted Jordan's knee and said, "Well, atleast you tried to be the best you could be!"
Brian never knew Hotstuff McClarren so he was bored with this conversation."Come on! We'll invite Seth and his girlfriend, and Cody and his." Brian pleaded shooting Emily and I pretty-please faces. I ignored it, but Emily was about to cave.
"I haven't even met this guy named Seth or his girlfriend, so...No."
Emily said, "Well, he's really hot. I mean really!" What an act. Emily, I know you too well.
"He's taken." Brian said coldly to her. Wow, Emmy, you do know your stuff. And that wasn't even great acting.
"Lighten up, or else we'll never be able to come." Jordan said to Brain. Brian toke a sip of his Coke and seemed to chill.
Great! A night full of guys and their girlfriends. Emily will obviously go with Brian, but who will I sit with? Annie, my golden retriever? Or Jordan? God, ew.
(P.S. anything in BOLD is a song that i was listening to when I wrote this. Please listen. They are there for a reason.)
