Chapter 2
"Maria's coming today!" shouted Luke at the top of his lungs, when he got up.
Later Clyde and Rani popped round, so that they could greet Maria.
"So what's Maria like?" asked Rani.
"She's amazing!" said Luke, really excited now.
"She was a good friend." said Clyde, giving Luke a sideways glance.
"I can't wait to meet her!" replied Rani, trying to sound enthusiastic. She wasn't though. Maria meant the world to both Clyde and Luke, she wanted to be the same but she never would replace Maria, and now she was coming here.
The door bell rang.
"She's here!" shouted Luke, practically jumping out of the chair he was sitting on. Luke and Clyde rushed to the door while Rani hung back a bit, nervously.
They opened the door. Maria was standing there with her suitcase.
"Luke!" she screeched dropping the case and rushing to give him a big hug.
"Clyde!" she exclaimed, breaking away from Luke and giving him a hug.
"Hey Maria." he replied giving her a big hug too. Maria broke away and looked over Clyde's shoulder, towards Rani.
"So your Rani!" she said, in a normal tone.
"Um...Yeh!" replied Rani, looking at the girl who stood there. She was short with curly hair. Maria rushed over and gave Rani a hug. Rani was not expecting this and nearly fell over with the force that Maria put behind it.
"It's good to meet you finally!" said Maria.
"Uh...yeh...you to." she stammered not expecting it to go like this.
But the happiness did not last long. It was later on and Rani had found something that may have been worth checking out, in some village, people had seen some strange lights in the sky. It may be nothing but it was worth asking about it. She headed over to Sarah-Jane's house and up to her attic where Luke and Clyde were looking at something that Maria was showing them.
"Hey guys!" she said as she walked into the attic. No one replied. "I...er...I found something...Just thought that you may like to check it out!" she said knowing that they were clearly not listening.
"Yeh...later...whatever..." replied Clyde not really hearing what she said. Rani's heart sank, she had hoped that at least Clyde would have listened to her, but he was to busy with Maria. She hated Maria now. She ran out of Sarah-Jane's house, back to her house where she went to her room and laid down on her bed and cried.
She didn't know how long it had been, but a while later there was a knock at her bedroom door.
"Rani, darling," it was Gita, her mum. "You've got someone here to see you."
"What!" she said and went over to the door and opened it. Her mum was standing there and also Maria.
"Oh! Come in." she said annoyed. Maria walked past her and Rani closed the door behind them.
"What do you want?" Rani snapped at her rival.
"I wanted to see if you were all right, actually. Thanks for the hospitality." she said sarcastically.
"Whatever...and I'm fine!" Rani snapped, very confused about why she was there.
"Look I'm sorry that they don't want to talk to you! But it's not my fault." she said, in a serious tone.
"Yeh right! You're not sorry at all, you love the attention." she retorted, Maria was only protecting herself and Rani didn't like that.
"I haven't seen them in ages, Rani, I miss them." she replied sadly.
"Go, and see them then, go on, if you miss them that much, go on...GET OUT!" she screamed at her and pointed at the door. Maria turned and stomped over to the door. Then she stopped and turned around.
"By the way..." called Maria. "I know you love Clyde!" then she stormed out and slammed the door behind her. Rani was left stunned. She knew! How? She went over to the window and gazed out of it. Maria was walking down her path. She turned around and looked up at Rani's window and glared at Rani, then walked over to Sarah-Jane's house. Rani sat down on her bed very slowly and put her head in her hands. As far as she was concerned, her life was over!
Hope you enjoyed that...it gets better!
Next Chapter: Tricks and Lies
