Summer Love

Chapter 3:

Gwen looked up at the boy she bumped into and felt a warm blush spread across her cheeks.

"Oh, ummm… I'm sorry. I'm Gwen. Yes. Gwen. Is. My. Name. Yes." Gwen stammered, awkwardly.

Thomas snorted. "I think he knows your name is Gwen, genius."

Gwen shot her brother an "I will kill you with my eyes" glare and turned back to Trent who simply smiled at her.

"It's cool to meet you, Gwen." He said, "So you're going to be spending the whole summer here?"

Gwen sighed and tried to remind herself that she was mad about being stuck in this place for two months. But somehow, this random guy smiling at her made it practically impossible for her to be angry.

"Yeah." She said, trying her best not to sound like she cared.

His smile widened. "Awesome. Like I said, I'm Trent and that's my little sister Veronica." He said, pointing to a girl with long black hair that covered her aqua eyes, and an iPod playing as loud as possible.

After hearing her name, Veronica looked around and saw Trent motioning for her to introduce herself. She smiled evilly knowing that it was time for her to do what she did best. Embarrass Trent, especially around girls. Veronica felt it was her job to make him look bad, to remind the world that Trent was not perfect. And to remind the world that she existed and did not want to be known as "Wonderful Trent's Freaky Sister."

"Sup." She said unenthusiastically, "Has Trent told you about his obsession yet?"

Gwen raised an eyebrow at the girl. "Umm… No…"

Trent blushed and scowled at Veronica. "It's not an obsession!"

"Trent, admit it! You have OCND! Obsessive Compulsive Nine Disorder! 999999999!" Veronica said, hysterically laughing.

Gwen almost laughed too but stopped herself. She had to keep up her "angry goth" look.

"Wow. That's… interesting." She mumbled, raising an eyebrow at the pair.

Seeing that no one would introduce him, Thomas walked over to do it himself. "I'm Thomas, Gwen's brother." He said and winked at Veronica.

She snorted. "Drop dead."

Gwen smirked. "If I have anything to say about it, he will."

"Well you'd know about being dead wouldn't you, Miss Death-Rolled-Over." He shot back.

Gwen rolled her eyes at her brother and turned her attention back on to Trent. "Just ignore him. If he bothers either of you I'll just fill his bed with tarantulas again."

Thomas saw that as his cue to shut up and stuck his tongue out at Gwen like a 5 year old. Gwen simply rolled her eyes again. He was so immature. Sometimes Gwen felt like her brother was a bratty little kid trapped in the body of a 13 year old.

Trent chuckled at the looks they were giving each other but then remembered why he had come over to their house in the first place. "I'm having a pool party at my house. Seeing as you two will be here for the whole summer and need to meet everybody, I was wondering if you guys would like to come."

Gwen's eyes widened a little. She didn't love parties back home, but a party full of people she didn't know? Gwen wasn't exactly good with new people.

"Umm… I don't know-" Gwen started but Thomas cut her off.

"We'd love to come! We wouldn't miss that for the world, would we Gwen?" Thomas shot Gwen an evil smile. "When is it?"

"The party is tomorrow and it starts at 4 o clock. See you guys then." Trent said grinning and started for the door followed by Veronica.

Thomas returned the grin. "We can't wait."

Once Trent and Veronica were out the door Gwen practically exploded.

"You idiot! Why the hell did you say we'd go!?!" Gwen screeched and punched Thomas in the arm as hard as possible.

Thomas yelped and clutched his arm. "What? I like parties, and we need to meet the people here."

"I HATE PEOPLE!!!!" Gwen yelled. She then grabbed Thomas's injured arm, twisted it behind his back, and pulled.

"Gwen, you're going to pull my freaking arm off!" Thomas squeaked in pain.

"Gwen, stop trying to tear your brother's arm off." Their mother, who had walked into the room when she heard screaming, snapped. "I think this party will be good for you. This summer will be a great chance for you to make new friends."

Gwen let go of her brother's arm and turned towards her mom. "I don't want new friends, I want to go home!" Gwen yelled and stormed back to her room before her mom had a chance to reply.

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After about an hour of writing angrily in her diary and sketching "emo pictures", as her friend Courtney would call them, Gwen was feeling a little bad about yelling at her mom. She knew her mom only does the things she does because she cares, but Gwen felt like her mom just didn't understand her. Suddenly, she heard a knock on the door.

"Come in." Gwen called with a sigh.

Aunt Marilyn walked in and sat down on the bed next to Gwen. "Hi Gwen." She said softly.

Gwen gave her a small smile. "Hi Aunt Marilyn."

Aunt Marilyn took a deep breath. "Look Gwen, I know that you're bummed out that you can't spend this summer back home with your friends but you have to give this a chance."

"Ugh, Aunt Marilyn I'm not a people person. If I go to the party I'll just end up humiliating myself. I can't give something a chance if it's impossible for it to turn out ok!" Gwen said, trying to keep herself from raising her voice.

Aunt Marilyn put a reassuring hand on Gwen's shoulder. "Gwen, you're a great girl and I know that this party will be good for you. How about we make a deal? If you don't make one friend at the party, I'll convince your mom to take you home. If you do make friends at the party you stay all summer and wash the dishes every night. Deal?" She held her hand out for Gwen to shake.

Gwen thought about it for a minute. Finally she decided that since she definitely wouldn't make a friend and would get to go home, she clasped her Aunt's hand and shook it.

"Deal." She said simply, and her Aunt got up.

"Wonderful!" Aunt Marilyn said smiling. "You won't regret this, honey. Besides, someone already likes you here."

Gwen raised an eyebrow incredulously. "Who?"

"Trent." Her aunt said and giggled like she knew a secret.

"How do you know?" Gwen asked.

"I read people's auras!" Aunt Marilyn called as she walked out the door. "And Trent's aura says he likes you! A lot!"

Once her aunt left the room, Gwen stared at the door for a minute of two. Finally, Gwen said to no one in particular "My aunt is insane."

AN:

Me: Even though this chapter sucked, I'm glad to have updated.

DJ: We're glad too. For a while, we thought that you were going to put this story on *shudders* hiatus.

Me: Hey, you know me better than that! BTW The "emo pictures" thing is a reference to my life. My friend is emo and when she's angry she draws emo pictures or writes emo songs. So, I have to tease her about it. Why? Because I'm a bitch and that's how I roll ;)

Courtney: *rolls eyes* More like a weirdo. Anyways, Laura owns nothing.

Gwen: R&R if you want to spread the TxG love.