"Excuse me!" I yelled at Tony. He frowned then looked down at his feet. "We worked so hard! I don't believe it, let me see!" I said then grabbed the paper out of Tony's hand. There was a number in big bold red pen at the top of the page. 68 it read. I was furious. Then I felt my hand get extremely hot and a small flame appearing on my thumb-nail. I quickly controlled that then went back to being in a controlled fury. (A/N: Ill explain this ability more later on) "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have yelled. I should have been supportive. I'm the worst sorry." I said to him, hugging him lightly. He hugged me gently back then walked out to his car (he had driven over to my house the day before we were supposed to leave tell me the bad news).
"Wait!" I yelled after him. He paused then turned around. "Have a good week and remember I'm just a phone call away." I said then kissed him on the lips for a few seconds.
"Bye." He said sadly as he pulled away, got in his car, and left.
"Bye." I said in the same monotone. I was now debating on whether or not I should go, but figured I had to go because the reservations were made and paid for. I moseyed back into my house then into my room where my mom was starting to pack my cloths.
My vacation was still on, but it didn't feel like it. I felt like it wasn't worth it anymore. My parents didn't even know he was going in the first place and if they did they probably wouldn't let me go. So now I would be the only one without a boyfriend or girlfriend to be with. Its just like eighth grade again, that was a bad year.
As I made my way up to my room I sat down on the bed for a moment then got up and began packing.
"I can't believe you're going away! My baby is growing up so fast" She said as I entered the room and dropped the shirt she was folding to hug me. I patted her on the back as if saying 'ok please get off me'. She took the hint then picked up the shirt, folded it and placed it on the suitcase on my bed.
"Well mom this is more like a practice for when I go to college, so don't miss me too much." I told her hiding my depression. She smiled then her cell phone rang. She spoke into the phone quietly. When she was finished she frowned.
"I'm so sorry sweetie; I have to go back to the hospital. A client of mine is there and the nurse thinks she is in labor so I have to go. I love you so. If I don't see you before you leave I love you and be careful. Be safe. No drugs/illegal substances, oh and honey?" She asked me.
"Yes?" I replied.
"Don't do anything you might regret later on." She said to me sternly. I nodded then grimaced. "Not like I could do that anyway." I thought to myself. She kissed me on the cheek then left. I finished packing then moved the suitcase to the top of my desk and packed my bag for the car ride. I packed my ipod, a few books, nail polish, head phones, my over the summer homework, a notebook and a pen. Then I waited. When seven 'o'clock came I grabbed my things and went downstairs. I was to drive us down to Ocean city so I had to make sure the car had gas and that everything was ok. I walked out the door, locking it once outside then went into the garage. My car was small so fitting six girls was a squeeze. I placed my bag into the trunk, got into the drivers seat, put my sunglasses on and drove to Layla's house.
"Hey come on lets go I want to hit the road before eight and we still have to pick up everyone else!" I yelled to Layla who was struggling to put her bags in the trunk.
"I'm comin' I'm comin'" She yelled as she shut the trunk and got into the passengers seat.
"Bad morning to you." I said to her.
"Bad morning to you as well my friend, did you have a bad sleep?" She asked me, I laughed as my answer.
"You?" I asked. She smiled lightly then hit the button for the radio. She fooled around for a few stations until she found a decent one (AKA the only one that wasn't playing rap). At seven thirty we pulled up to Emily's house to find her outside on her porch and saying goodbye to her mom. She put her bags in the trunk then the second she got in I jetted off down the street and picked up Hilary, Emilie and Angela. After everyone was packed into the car I got onto the highway and drove at my normal pace, which was extremely fast for a human. Once we were on the highway I heard a voice.
"Just because you can't die in a car crash doesn't mean that they can't. Slow down!" The voice said. I looked around and checked every ones thoughts to make sure it wasn't one of them who thought or said it.
"She needs to slow down!" They all thought. I then was satisfied and looked at the road. We had been driving for only an hour and I was about to miss the first exit. I swerved into the right lane then cut off a few cars.
"Jeez what's with her is like normally the best driver in the world?" Someone thought. I smiled.
"It must be that Tony isn't coming. Oh well she needs to suck it up before she kills one of us" someone thought. I knew it was Hilary, she was such a bitch.
The car ride was quiet for the most part, other than the blasting pop 'music' that Hilary and Angela insisted on having on. When we finally pulled into the parking lot of the hotel I shut off the radio as fast as I could then get out of the car. The sun was really bright (at least for me) so I held my hand above my sunglasses. I pretended to stretch for a moment then pulled everyone's luggage and set it down on the pavement.
"Hey careful there is priceless stuff in there, not that you know what it is like to have something valuable." Hilary said in her stuck up voice. I was about to retort to her ridiculous remark but a restraining hand was laid on my shoulder. It was Daemon.
"No need to fight already ladies. Now go get settled and stuff then tomorrow we'll all meet at mall in the food court at 11." Daemon said. Daemon and I were like brother and sister. We fought, we laughed, we cried (figuratively for me that is), everything.
We headed up to the desk where the stupid desk clerk hit on me until Layla stepped in and got us our room. Layla, Emily and I were sharing the room that I had insisted on paying for. It was a presidential suite so we had a long elevator ride up. When we finally reached the eleventh floor we walked out the elevator and down the hallway where the bellhop opened our door for us and placed the luggage in the center of the room. Layla pulled out her wallet and tipped him nicely. He smiled then left us to unpack.
The night went fast. We unpacked, me taking all night just to have something to do and I let the girls sleep in until ten. At ten fifteen Emily and I were showered, dressed, made up and ready to go where Layla was still in bed. After her third warning I picked up the ice bucket from the desk and walked over to her bed.
"Layla open your eyes." I said in an overly sweet voice that scared Layla because I never talked that way. She opened her eyes slightly then they went wide as I dumped the bucket of ice onto her bed. She yelled and cursed in several different languages (I could only make out a few) then got ready for the day. When she was finally finished we left the room and drove to the mall. Once we got there we looked at the directory for the food court then walked up there.
"How did Angela, Emilie and Hilary get here when we had the car?" Layla asked. I shrugged then continued on,
"They rented a car for the week so it's just the three of us in your car." Emily told us we nodded then spotted our group by the Starbucks.
"Can we go to Hot Topic? I want some sneakers." I asked them. Hilary, her boyfriend Andrew, Angela and her boyfriend Charlie and Emilie and her boyfriend Ricardo groaned where Layla, Daemon, Emily, and Craig smiled and agreed. We won the argument and started on out way. I walked slightly behind the group observing my surroundings. It was a nice mall but all the people were wearing Hollister and Abercrombie and Fitch so we stood out a bit, at least Flames for Fury did. We entered the hot topic and it was deserted other than the three employees. I went and found a pair of black and red checkered vans I liked and an Underoath T-shirt and a hoodie that was a ribcage and a heart on the front and back. I bought it then went outside to join the others who had finished shopping way before me. We went to a few more stores where I bought nothing then we stopped to eat lunch.
On our way to getting a table in the food court I sensed something behind me and turned around, but nothing was there. I turned back around then was about to sit down at a table but felt the same feeling again then turned around again, still nothing. I faced forward again then decided it was going insane. Before I sat down I was pulled backwards by the waist and twirled around. I was confused and was about to ask what the hell was going on when I saw him.
"Hello." Tony's warm minty breath breathed on my face. I smiled a toothy grin, letting my canines be visible. He smiled the same only it didn't look as scary as mine. He then placed his other arm around my waist and leaned down. I reached up and kissed him on his sweet lips long enough to mean it but not enough to draw attention. We broke apart then sat down, me on his lap. Everyone said there hellos and ate.
"I'm tired of shopping." Craig said. All the girls looked at him like he was crazy where as the guys were happy that someone said it.
"Look five hours of shopping is enough for me so us guys are going to go and do guyish things so we will meet you all at Southcitys at sevenish so be there. Bye." Andrew said then kissed Hilary then left with the other guys. The girls were dumbfounded.
"Where are they going?" Angela asked.
"I don't know." Emilie answered,
"Whatever." I said. "I'm tied of shopping too. I have to make an errand. Someone want to come with me?" I asked. Angela volunteered so I lead us out to the car then got in and drove to the boardwalk.