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Some of the conversations the characters have, I did take from the book, ad or movie but I put my own spin on it. This is a Fan fiction to honor Lauren and the world she created. No copy right intended. Never going to be published.
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Chapter 7:
The rest of the day passes with no further excitement. I am now sitting in a cramped phone booth for my allotted fifteen-minute phone call with the person of my choosing. Today it would be Lexie, my best friend. The yin to my yang, the bread to my butter, ok you get it she's my person. She is the only one I can tell my secrets to.
"It's about time you called me! I was starting to get worried!" She shrieks into the phone.
"Oh hi, Luce how's it going. Oh, you know it's going great, being shipped off to parts unknown. How are you?" I reply sarcastically.
"I'm sorry, but you've been there twenty-four hours and you told me you were going to call me the minute you got a second alone."
"Well this is myfirst second alone, so yah wanna talk or nah, because I only have fifteen-minutes."
"Ok, so how are you really?" I start to tell her about my first day, and about Molly and the disaster that was the cafeteria fiasco. I tell her about detention this morning and how I almost got killed by a statue, but the entire time I'm talking to her I never mention Daniel, not once.
I don't know why but I feel like keeping Daniel to myself for a little longer.
"So, have you met any cute boys?" Of, course she would ask that. This would not be a Lexie "conversation" without the mention of boys.
"Well..." I hesitate, "there is this one guy..." Lexie gets super excited and starts firing questions at me.
"What's his name, is he cute, Of course he's cute, is he a bad boy, I bet he's..."
"Lexie!" I yell into the phone.
"Calm down... His name is Cam..." I want to say Daniel, but I don't. I trail off because just as I say his name, he walks through the door. And is walking towards me? Speak of the devil and he shall appear and all that bull-shit.
"Hey Luce, where'd you go I need details." Lexie says on the other end.
Cam looks down at his watch then up at me as he leans against the phone booth.
"I thought I signed up for the 7 o'clock call slot." I look at him trying to make sense of what he said as Lexie talks in the phone,
"Who's that, is that Cam, is he there?"
"Uh Lexie, I have to go I will uh talk to you later..."
"But wait we have to talk about Cam! Don't you dare hang up on me!" She yells into the phone as I hang up, hoping Cam didn't hear that.
"Sorry about that, I didn't know there was a wait list. It's all yours." I hand the phone to him.
"I don't want to piss anyone off."
"Oh her, she'll be fine, don't worry about it."
"BFF?" I look at him curiously.
"I have three sisters. I can practically smell the best friend vibes from here." He comes closer and leans into whisper into my ear,
"Let me guess, she wanted to know all about the school bad boys?"
"No." I responded looking him square in the eye.
"I told her there's not a single good one here."
"That's what makes it so exciting. Don't yah think?" He has a way of making standing still an art form. It was so quite I could hear the ticking of his watch. Frozen next to him, I look up and shiver. There hovering over us is a shadow, it seems to jump across the ceiling tiles like a game of hopscotch. It pools on one tile then hops to the next slowly moving towards us.
Damn. It was never a good idea to be alone with someone. Especially someone so focused on me. At least it was only hovering. That wasn't so bad. No, what was bad was the sound it was making. It sounded like metal grinding against itself, high pitch and waling.
I wish Cam would just leave, then the shadows would go away, and I cloud go back to pretending they weren't there. I wish Daniel was here. Just as the thought crosses my mind he walks through the set of doors. Saved by the gorgeous boy with blond hair wearing holey jeans and a cream Henley, with a leather necklace around his neck that disappears under his shirt. He doesn't look much like salvation- he has bruises under his eyes from not enough sleep and is slouched over due to a stack of library books in his arms. He looks wrecked.
His eyes are dilated, and when he glances at me and Cam they narrow. Great, what have I done to annoy him now? I was so busy worrying about Daniels reaction that I almost missed the craziest thing I had ever seen; I saw the shadow slip through the half open door; like a vacuum that had sucked up the dirt off the floor.
Daniel just nods in our direction and continues on past us.
I turn back to Cam; he is watching Daniel. He turns back to me and says more loudly than he needs to,
"I almost forgot to tell you, I'm having a party tonight after Social, in my dorm room, I would love for you to come." I notice Daniel is still within earshot. I have no idea what this Social is, but I'm supposed to meet Penn beforehand and walk over with her.
My eyes are fixed on the back of Daniels head. I know I need to answer Cam, about his party. It really wasn't that hard, but when Daniel turns around and looks at me with his piercing blue eyes, eyes that look so mournful, I don't know what to do. The phone starts ringing and Cam reach's around me to answer. He asks me,
"So, you'll be there?" Ever so slightly Daniel nods his head.
"Yes...Yes I'll be there." I shake my head to break the trance that Daniel and I are in and walk off.