Chapter 2 - Maybe It's Not So Bad
Fazira sat outside all morning waiting for her car to show up. She was sketching and listening to music. It was a pretty beautiful morning out and the landscape of the buildings beyond the city was a pretty good focal point.
Time moved pretty slowly but she wasn't in a hurry to pull her focus away from her sketch pad. That is until she heard honking above the music blasting into her ears. She looked up to see a truck with a very familiar car hitched to the back.
When she took a better look at the driver she saw someone familiar there too.
"Mikey?" Fazira yelled walking up to the truck.
"Ziri! What's up loca?" The tall boy asked, wrapping his arms around her.
"Oh my gosh! What are you doing here?" She asked in excitement. Mikey and Fazira were childhood friends. Their fathers have been in business together since they were babies.
"Well for one I brought your car here, and two I live right up the street." He smiled while taking the car hitch off Fazira's car.
"What? You live here? I thought you were living with your mom back in Chicago?"
Mikey laughed "Chicago is not my style, besides my mom does just fine on her own." He stood up and threw a set of keys at Fazira.
"So what's there to do around here?" Fazira asked taking a good look at her car.
She hadn't seen Mikey since a few month before her mom died. It was pretty great to know at least one person in town besides her dad and step-mom. Mikey was probably one of her best friends. Probably the only friend shes known the longest and kept in touch with the most
"Well mostly I indulge in some of the parties thrown by kids at school, other than that there's tons of malls and nice shops to hang around at. Don't worry I'll introduce you to some good places." He said with a smile.
Fazira looked out across the street, taking a look at the large black truck. She wanted to ask Mikey about the guy across the street. But knew deep down he would make a big deal out of it. She sucked it up and went for it anyways. "So do you know who lives there?" She asked gesturing towards the guys house.
"Uh there? Yeah, Tom and Bill Kaulitz. They go to my, well our school." He smiled "Their dad owns a music store or something like that and I have no clue what their mom is into. Why?"
"No reason" Fazira tried to shake it off as just curiosity, although she had no idea which one of the boys was the one she caught staring yesterday. "Just wondering who my neighbors are."
She didn't even understand why she was so worked up about it. She didn't have any intention of knowing these guys, so what was the point of asking.
After she hung out with Mikey for a while she decided to retreat back inside to work on some designs for her room. Her dad gave her permission to put whatever she liked on the walls. Which would take a lot of brainstorming. Although she finished one wall just from not being able to sleep the night before.
After fooling around with a few ideas for most of the night she finally realized she might want to go to bed. Didn't want to show up to the first day at a new school looking like a zombie.