Chapter 3
Leah
I woke up to the sun bursting through my window, my TV was still on, I must of fell asleep last night. I heard lots of voices downstairs, I only recognised three familiar voices, the rest was a blur. I Heard my brothers loud annoying laugh, and my mother chatting along to another woman. I walked down the stairs, my long dark hair still matted with sea water and sand, but I didn't care what I looked like I was too tired to care. Five faces turned to look at me. Faces I hadn't seen since I was a child. My cousin Sarah, she hadn't changed a bit. Sarah had copper skin, and cropped black hair, she was in her late 40s as was her husband David. David and Sarah had one daughter. Emily was beautiful, her long dark hair, much prettier than mine, hung straight and shiny down her back. Emily came straight to me and hugged me.
"I've missed you so much Leah, how have you been?" Surprisingly I missed her too. We used to be like sisters, always together. Some people would think we actually were sisters. We sat down on my sofa and talked for hours, I talked about Sam and she talked about how she had just broke up with her boyfriend Adam.
"I just wasn't in love with him, I wanted too be but you cant force yourself to be in love with someone right?" I loved having these kinda talks with another girl my age, it was very rare I could have them with anyone, I couldn't even talk to my Mom about these kinda things.
"So anyway enough about me.. lets talk about your boyfriend Sam" My heart jumped at the sound of his name.
"Well I do love him.. more than anything, its hard to describe, but he's beautiful and so perfect.. you'll have too meet him" I didn't have to lie. There was so many things more that I loved about Sam, but she wouldn't want to hear about those.
"Sounds like the perfect man" She smiled a perfect smile and gripped onto my hand. She hugged me tightly again.
Last time I had saw Emily was at my 18th birthday party. She looked so beautiful it hurt to even think about it. She had her long black hair straight down her back and wore the most beautiful long flowery dress. Emily was always the one the guys wanted. I love her a lot. We were extremely close, but even when we were children I was jealous of her. She had everything.
"We need to go shopping again soon.. like old times" Her lips were curved up into a smile, she had dimples which made her look cute and child like. She was still holding onto my hand with her left hand, her other hand was gripped around a can of Pepsi which she was slurping through a straw.
"Of course we'll go shopping soon" I didn't sound as convincing, I realised the lame enthusiasm in my voice after I had said it, but I don't think she noticed as she started talking about all our old shopping memories.
"Come on lets get you into the shower, you look like you have been dragged through a hedge backwards.. what the hell is all that in your hair?" She laughed at me and started trying to get all the sand out of my hair. I grimaced at her and then followed her up to the bathroom.
