Kayla and Nicci were sitting in their room playing cards when Kat burst in a ball of Southern excitement.
"Pack your bags guys." She instructed flopping onto Nicci's bed, landing directly on the pile of cards.
Kayla shook her head confused.
"Uh, why?"
"Kat have you been sniffing the paint in the art room again? We've had this discussion, it's not healthy." Nicci joked.
Kat rolled her eyes, an annoying habit she had, though it was warranted on that occasion.
"Mari Anne and I our having a slumber party, in our room tonight."
"So what's planned?" Kayla asked.
"We're going to eat tons of junk food, listen to music and watch a bunch of 'Brat Pack' movies." Kat replied.
"And who's coming to this sleep over?" Nicci looked at her skeptically.
"You guys and Connie and Julie, Mari Anne went to get them. So come on get packing."
"What about lovely Linda?" Nicci asked sarcastically.
Kayla nodded.
"Charlie'll be mad if you don't invite her."
Kat sighed, she knew they were right.
"Okay, we'll go get her after we leave here, so hurry up."
Kat pushed the door open to her room and found Connie, Julie and Mari Anne sitting on the floor amongst a chaos of blankets and pillows. There was a bowl of popcorn, bags of chips and a cooler filled with soda, ice cream and cookies, between them. A CD mountain was piled high next to the stereo and stack of movies sat near the VCR.
"It took you so long to get back, I figured I'd get everything set up." Mari Anne smiled reaching past Julie to pull a Sprite out of the cooler.
"I had to make and extra stopped." Kat rolled her eyes again.
"Sorry it took me so long to get up the stairs, I had to call Charlie and tell him where I was going to be." Linda walked in and set her sleeping bag down beside the closet door.
Connie wrinkled her nose and Julie stifled herself by biting into on Oreo.
Nicci tried to lighten the mood by declaring
"The more the merrier right?"
"Right." Mari Anne nodded. "Well everyone come in and make yourselves comfortable. We have like a million moves to watch, which ones first?"
"Do you have 'The Breakfast Club'?" Connie inquired bouncing.
"Yeah." Both of the hostesses responded.
"Put that in, I love Emilio Estevez." She giggled.
"Me too." Julie agreed "Have you ever noticed that he looks a bit like Coach Bombay?"
"That was the first thing I was thinking when I met him!"
"Personally, I'm more into his brother." Linda added.
"That's just because his name is Charlie." Kat retorted, the rest of the friends laughing. Linda, didn't find it amusing.
Halfway through the movie marathon, the girls were starting to get restless. There was only so much Rob Lowe and Judd Nelson they could handle for one night. That's when Kayla came up with a great idea for a party game. They'd each come up with a question that they'd never come right out and ask one of their friends, but they'd really like to have answered, then the questions would be written down, put in a bowl and drawn out by one of the other girls. It seemed like a fun idea to the rest of the group, so they went along with it.
"If you could date any taken guy at this school who would it be?" Kat read aloud. "Well, honestly, I've had a crush on Guy since I watched the Good Will Games."
Connie snorted and sipped her cola.
"You can have him."
"You don't mean that and you know it Con." Julie declared.
Connie sighed.
"Sometimes I think I've been with him so long that I don't know how to be anything but his girlfriend. You people say our names now like it's one word, GuyConnie or ConnieGuy, but I love the blonde dope so I guess I'll deal."
"Okay, it's my turn." Kayla changed the subject stuffing her hand in the bowl. "If you had to choose between someone that loves you, or someone you love, who would you pick?"
The room fell silent and people wondered if it had been rigged that Kayla would pull that one. However they were all unbelievably interested.
Kayla flushed and she started to feel hot. The blood was rushing in her ears.
"Um, that's unfair, but if I had to decide I'd go with…"
Just then there was a loud knock on the girl's door and all their heads went straight up. It was the perfect time for an interruption in Kayla's mind, the fright they all were feeling was distracting them from hearing her answer, an answer she really wasn't prepared to make.
Kat walked over to the door, Mari Anne following close behind with her softball bat poised to swing.
"Who's there?" Kat drawled, tucking a curly behind her ear nervously.
"It's us." Charlie called back from the hallway.
The girls all let out their breath as Kat reached out and unlocked the door and a line of male hockey players began to walk in. Luis, Charlie, Scooter, Guy, Ken passed Mari Anne on the way in and as Portman walked by her she slugged him hard in the ribs.
"Gee love you too." He snorted, holding his side.
"You scared the shit out of us you big jerks." His girlfriend told him sternly.
"Well, I think you just broke my rib, so we're even. And what are you doing with this?" He took bat out of her other hand.
"Debating which one of you guys I should beat with it."
"Right." Portman wrapped his strong arms around her and walked her over the area of the rook that the rest of the group was now inhabiting.
"What are you all doing here?" Nicci inquired from Luis's lap.
"Charlie was randomly calling us and telling us there was a party that only the prettiest girls at school were invited to." Luis began smoothly.
"But we figured we'd skip it and come here." Scooter finished for him, avoiding the dirty look Julie shot him.
Kayla looked around at all the happy and cozy couples and was starting to feel a little out of place. She bit the inside of her cheek and looked aimlessly around the room, before standing up and walking toward the exit.
Linda looked up from Charlie's lips long enough to ask.
"Where are you going?"
"It seems that the night went from a sleep over to a make out party, I figured I'd just go back to my room." Kay replied quietly.
"Sorry Kayla, we would've brought a guy for you, we just didn't know which one you wanted." Portman laughed.
"Shut up Dean." Mari Anne hit him again.
"No it's alright, I mean, how could anyone else know, if I don't know myself?" The red headed girl kicked at the carpet with her bunny slippers. "I'm just gonna go guys. I'll talk to you all tomorrow."
She toddled over to her room and shoved her bag in. She was going to sit on her bed and wallow in her own self pity, but after some thought she decided she needed some fresh air. After pulling on her sneakers, Kayla wandered out of the dorms.
The moon was hiding behind clouds that were screaming rain and the stars looked like they too were scared to challenge to the authority of those clouds. Campus was empty with the threat of a storm spooking the students to stay in doors. Eden Hall very rarely looked like such a ghost town, that night however Kayla wouldn't have noticed if a black hole swallowed the entire school and left her alone.
The wind was blowing harshly and she shivered slightly in spite of herself and denied her body the ability to retreat into the dormitory.
"You look cold." A familiar voice avowed from the rear of her.
Kayla looked up and smiled, as the moon pushed free from the barriers of the clouds and illuminated the face of the person next to her.
"Adam, what are you doing out here?"
"I was doing a lot of thinking in my room, I figured I'd come for a walk and clear my head."
"Me too."
"So, is this seat taken?" Banks looked down at the spot of grass beside her.
"Nope, please sit." Kayla tapped the ground next to her.
"Thanks. Portman told me, Mari Anne was having a slumber party tonight, why aren't you there?"
"Their significant others showed up, so I left. I didn't wanna be around all those happy couples."
"I know what you mean." Banksie conceded.
The girl nodded.
"So what were you thinking about?"
"Honestly, you." His reply weakened her entire body.
Kayla swayed roughly in the unforgiving breeze and toppled over onto to Adam. They were face to face and she couldn't find the strength to lift herself off of him. Banks, didn't seem to be in much of a hurry to roll out from under her either. In fact, his left hand came up and touched her cheek gently. Then he raised his head, brought his lips to hers, in one silky smooth movement gave her a kiss that numbed her brain the whole time it lasted.
Then, when her mind started walking again, Kayla jumped her feet and sprinted away, not knowing how to feel. She knew she should've been happy, but there was a ball of guilt forming in the pit of her stomach that had already started eating away at her. Dwayne… What about Dwayne?
"Pack your bags guys." She instructed flopping onto Nicci's bed, landing directly on the pile of cards.
Kayla shook her head confused.
"Uh, why?"
"Kat have you been sniffing the paint in the art room again? We've had this discussion, it's not healthy." Nicci joked.
Kat rolled her eyes, an annoying habit she had, though it was warranted on that occasion.
"Mari Anne and I our having a slumber party, in our room tonight."
"So what's planned?" Kayla asked.
"We're going to eat tons of junk food, listen to music and watch a bunch of 'Brat Pack' movies." Kat replied.
"And who's coming to this sleep over?" Nicci looked at her skeptically.
"You guys and Connie and Julie, Mari Anne went to get them. So come on get packing."
"What about lovely Linda?" Nicci asked sarcastically.
Kayla nodded.
"Charlie'll be mad if you don't invite her."
Kat sighed, she knew they were right.
"Okay, we'll go get her after we leave here, so hurry up."
Kat pushed the door open to her room and found Connie, Julie and Mari Anne sitting on the floor amongst a chaos of blankets and pillows. There was a bowl of popcorn, bags of chips and a cooler filled with soda, ice cream and cookies, between them. A CD mountain was piled high next to the stereo and stack of movies sat near the VCR.
"It took you so long to get back, I figured I'd get everything set up." Mari Anne smiled reaching past Julie to pull a Sprite out of the cooler.
"I had to make and extra stopped." Kat rolled her eyes again.
"Sorry it took me so long to get up the stairs, I had to call Charlie and tell him where I was going to be." Linda walked in and set her sleeping bag down beside the closet door.
Connie wrinkled her nose and Julie stifled herself by biting into on Oreo.
Nicci tried to lighten the mood by declaring
"The more the merrier right?"
"Right." Mari Anne nodded. "Well everyone come in and make yourselves comfortable. We have like a million moves to watch, which ones first?"
"Do you have 'The Breakfast Club'?" Connie inquired bouncing.
"Yeah." Both of the hostesses responded.
"Put that in, I love Emilio Estevez." She giggled.
"Me too." Julie agreed "Have you ever noticed that he looks a bit like Coach Bombay?"
"That was the first thing I was thinking when I met him!"
"Personally, I'm more into his brother." Linda added.
"That's just because his name is Charlie." Kat retorted, the rest of the friends laughing. Linda, didn't find it amusing.
Halfway through the movie marathon, the girls were starting to get restless. There was only so much Rob Lowe and Judd Nelson they could handle for one night. That's when Kayla came up with a great idea for a party game. They'd each come up with a question that they'd never come right out and ask one of their friends, but they'd really like to have answered, then the questions would be written down, put in a bowl and drawn out by one of the other girls. It seemed like a fun idea to the rest of the group, so they went along with it.
"If you could date any taken guy at this school who would it be?" Kat read aloud. "Well, honestly, I've had a crush on Guy since I watched the Good Will Games."
Connie snorted and sipped her cola.
"You can have him."
"You don't mean that and you know it Con." Julie declared.
Connie sighed.
"Sometimes I think I've been with him so long that I don't know how to be anything but his girlfriend. You people say our names now like it's one word, GuyConnie or ConnieGuy, but I love the blonde dope so I guess I'll deal."
"Okay, it's my turn." Kayla changed the subject stuffing her hand in the bowl. "If you had to choose between someone that loves you, or someone you love, who would you pick?"
The room fell silent and people wondered if it had been rigged that Kayla would pull that one. However they were all unbelievably interested.
Kayla flushed and she started to feel hot. The blood was rushing in her ears.
"Um, that's unfair, but if I had to decide I'd go with…"
Just then there was a loud knock on the girl's door and all their heads went straight up. It was the perfect time for an interruption in Kayla's mind, the fright they all were feeling was distracting them from hearing her answer, an answer she really wasn't prepared to make.
Kat walked over to the door, Mari Anne following close behind with her softball bat poised to swing.
"Who's there?" Kat drawled, tucking a curly behind her ear nervously.
"It's us." Charlie called back from the hallway.
The girls all let out their breath as Kat reached out and unlocked the door and a line of male hockey players began to walk in. Luis, Charlie, Scooter, Guy, Ken passed Mari Anne on the way in and as Portman walked by her she slugged him hard in the ribs.
"Gee love you too." He snorted, holding his side.
"You scared the shit out of us you big jerks." His girlfriend told him sternly.
"Well, I think you just broke my rib, so we're even. And what are you doing with this?" He took bat out of her other hand.
"Debating which one of you guys I should beat with it."
"Right." Portman wrapped his strong arms around her and walked her over the area of the rook that the rest of the group was now inhabiting.
"What are you all doing here?" Nicci inquired from Luis's lap.
"Charlie was randomly calling us and telling us there was a party that only the prettiest girls at school were invited to." Luis began smoothly.
"But we figured we'd skip it and come here." Scooter finished for him, avoiding the dirty look Julie shot him.
Kayla looked around at all the happy and cozy couples and was starting to feel a little out of place. She bit the inside of her cheek and looked aimlessly around the room, before standing up and walking toward the exit.
Linda looked up from Charlie's lips long enough to ask.
"Where are you going?"
"It seems that the night went from a sleep over to a make out party, I figured I'd just go back to my room." Kay replied quietly.
"Sorry Kayla, we would've brought a guy for you, we just didn't know which one you wanted." Portman laughed.
"Shut up Dean." Mari Anne hit him again.
"No it's alright, I mean, how could anyone else know, if I don't know myself?" The red headed girl kicked at the carpet with her bunny slippers. "I'm just gonna go guys. I'll talk to you all tomorrow."
She toddled over to her room and shoved her bag in. She was going to sit on her bed and wallow in her own self pity, but after some thought she decided she needed some fresh air. After pulling on her sneakers, Kayla wandered out of the dorms.
The moon was hiding behind clouds that were screaming rain and the stars looked like they too were scared to challenge to the authority of those clouds. Campus was empty with the threat of a storm spooking the students to stay in doors. Eden Hall very rarely looked like such a ghost town, that night however Kayla wouldn't have noticed if a black hole swallowed the entire school and left her alone.
The wind was blowing harshly and she shivered slightly in spite of herself and denied her body the ability to retreat into the dormitory.
"You look cold." A familiar voice avowed from the rear of her.
Kayla looked up and smiled, as the moon pushed free from the barriers of the clouds and illuminated the face of the person next to her.
"Adam, what are you doing out here?"
"I was doing a lot of thinking in my room, I figured I'd come for a walk and clear my head."
"Me too."
"So, is this seat taken?" Banks looked down at the spot of grass beside her.
"Nope, please sit." Kayla tapped the ground next to her.
"Thanks. Portman told me, Mari Anne was having a slumber party tonight, why aren't you there?"
"Their significant others showed up, so I left. I didn't wanna be around all those happy couples."
"I know what you mean." Banksie conceded.
The girl nodded.
"So what were you thinking about?"
"Honestly, you." His reply weakened her entire body.
Kayla swayed roughly in the unforgiving breeze and toppled over onto to Adam. They were face to face and she couldn't find the strength to lift herself off of him. Banks, didn't seem to be in much of a hurry to roll out from under her either. In fact, his left hand came up and touched her cheek gently. Then he raised his head, brought his lips to hers, in one silky smooth movement gave her a kiss that numbed her brain the whole time it lasted.
Then, when her mind started walking again, Kayla jumped her feet and sprinted away, not knowing how to feel. She knew she should've been happy, but there was a ball of guilt forming in the pit of her stomach that had already started eating away at her. Dwayne… What about Dwayne?