I had this chapter up and then I reread it and wasn't very happy with the overall feeling so I deleted it and worked some more on it.
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I loved him. And not just friend love, real love. But there wasn't anything now. Right? Wait, was there? Maybe I need to talk to Shar and Tay, wait should I tell them? They may go off and tell everyone else. I DON'T KNOW ANYMORE!!! My head hurts.
I woke up the next morning and stretched. The fight in my head from last night came back to me, I won't tell them, not yet anyways. Now that that problem is solved and diverted my attention elsewhere. I looked at the little tree in the corner of my room. It looked so helpless without any decorations. I walked over to the phone and called my mom.
"Hello," she said in a sleepy voice.
"Sorry, were you sleeping?" I asked.
"Yeah but it's okay. I needed to get up anyways. What's going on honey?"
"Oh well, the tree is in my room and it looks kind of helpless and pitiful without any decorations so can we decorate it today?"
"Sure, I'm sure the Bolton's will be fine with it. You're probably right, it probably does look pitiful." I laughed at my mother's sense of humor, it was only after a couple seconds did I realize that it wasn't that funny to begin with.
"I'll see you later, where are we meeting?"
"How about we all meet in your room so we can decorate and then we'll go from there. I'll call the Bolton's and ask them. You tell Troy and Cody," she said.
"Okay, bye." I hung up the phone and walked over to the door not bothering knocking. I walked right through and saw Cody and Troy in their own beds. I walked over to Troy first and started poking him.
He wouldn't wake up no matter what I did. "Troy!" I yelled in his ear.
"Mmmmmm." I shook me head.
I took a pillow that was on the bed and hit him with it over and over again, by the tenth time he was coming to. "Troy," I asked.
"Ella?" He asked. I hit him again to get him a little more awake.
"Yeah now get your lazy butt out of bed," I said hitting him again. He finally took the pillow out of my hands.
"I'm up," He mumbled.
"Okay, then go and get your brother up," I said.
"Cody! Get up," He yelled. Cody shot up and looked around. I hit Troy over the head after taking the pillow off his face.
"Not like that you butt head!!!" He sat up and looked at me through squinted eyes. "Just get up and ready, we're meeting in my room to decorate the helpless and pitiful tree that was offered." I walked out and got ready.
Thirty minutes after I walked out of Troy's room all of our parents came to the door. "Where's Troy and Cody," Jack asked.
"I got them up thirty minutes ago but I think they went back to bed," I said. "I'm not sure but I haven't heard anything going on." Lucy rolled her eyes and knocked on the door. "If they're asleep then they won't answer. Just walk in, it's what I did this morning," I said. She walked straight in.
"What happened to this room?" She asked. It was a mess, two boys with no one to make them clean up equals disaster. The housekeepers just threw everything on the floor on the beds and chairs which the boys just pushed to the ground again. "Jack come and get your son up!"
"Which one?" He asked
"It doesn't matter just get in here!"
"I'm coming!" He walked into the room and walked right back out. "Gosh." He was dragged back in by Lucy. I looked at my mom and smiled.
"Aren't you glad you didn't have a boy?" I asked. She nodded.
"Oh yeah." I laughed and walked into Troy and Cody's room.
"They won't get up," Lucy said.
"Let's try this," I said. I took a pillow and instead of hitting him I started jumping on his bed. It didn't work. "Troy," I whispered in his ear.
"Mmmmmmmmmmmm." We all rolled our eyes.
"Oh my gosh, mom did you see those two girls fighting out in the hall. They were really going at it!" I said right by his head. He shot up and ran out to the hall. Typical teenage boy. He walked in a couple seconds later looking at us.
"That was not funny," He said noticing us laughing.
"Yes it was," I said. "I told you to get up thirty minutes ago."
"Yes well we were both tired so we went back to bed. Cody get up!" Cody shot up for the second time in an hour.
"Yes well, now you are going to come and decorate in your PJ's, but get some pants on," His mother said. I laughed; Troy was only in his boxers at the time.
God he has an awesome chest and well everything. Basketball has done that boy good! You could see his six pack perfectly. I looked away not wanting to be caught staring.
"Let's go," Troy said after he put a wife beater and flannel pants on. We all walked back into my room and looked at the tree.
"It is pitiful," Lucy said looking at it. I nodded.
"It looks so weak," Troy said. I nodded again.
"It's taller than me and I could take it down!!!" Cody said walking up to it. Sure enough it was about five inches taller, but that was probably a good thing.
"Take it down?" I asked.
"He's been hanging out with Sam a little too much I think." Troy said. I just nodded wondering who Sam was, and assuming that he was stupid.
"Honey, what did they give us to decorate it?" I looked in the box.
"A couple of ornaments, a couple strings of lights and some Candy Canes, which look incredibly old. There's also a couple needles and a full spool of thread." I said.
"It should be enough for this tree," Jack said.
"We can make popcorn stings," I suggested.
"Good idea, let's go and buy some popcorn so we can pop it," my mom said. We walked out of the room.
Troy POV
I watched as Ella and Maria left. "Sooo," I said rocking back and forth.
"Why don't you untangle these lights," My mom said handing me a ball of lights.
"These are lights," I asked. My dad nodded. "What are you going to be doing?"
"We'll be going through the other ornaments and decide which ones we are going to use," my mom said. I groaned and sat on Ella's bed trying to find the beginning, or the end, I guess of the ball of lights.
"This is going to take forever," I mumbled. Five minutes later Ella and her mom walked back in with popcorn ready to be popped.
"We're back!" Ella said.
"I'll help you pop the popcorn!" I said standing up. I hadn't even found the start yet.
"No you won't, you are going to be un-tangling those lights," my mom said.
"It's fine. Besides, I don't think he's getting the hang of it anyways," Maria said picking up the still tangled ball of lights from the bed. She looked at it and found the start easily, I stared at her in shock.
"My mom's always been good at that," Ella said. "Come on, you can help me." She pulled me into the small kitchen and grabbed one out of seven popcorn bags.
"Why is there so much popcorn?" I asked. "Seven bags?"
"Well, we considered that some of them we wouldn't be able to string and then we considered you." She said. I stopped and looked at her.
"Why'd you consider me?" I asked.
"Because we knew you would eat some of it because you haven't had breakfast." I nodded, it was logical. But did she have top bring up breakfast. I totally forgot and I wasn't hungry until she said that. My stomach rumbled at the thought. "See?"
"Good idea, but what about you? You haven't had breakfast either, right?" She looked down. "Ella," I asked. She kept her head down.
"Well, my mom said that we wouldn't be eating before hand so I called room service and got some pancakes. I think everyone but you and Cody have eaten." She said.
"Troy! We're going to take Cody down for breakfast because he hasn't had anything to eat. We'll be back in about twenty minutes," my mom called.
"Never mind, you're the only one who hasn't eaten." She said smiling.
"Now I'm hungry. Do you have any food in this place?" I asked.
"Yeah there are some leftovers from the pancakes in the fridge," She said pointing to the medium sized fridge. I ran over and looked for the food.
There it was, just above a water and below ice cream. I grabbed it and then grabbed a plastic fork she had. I started eating it cold.
"Slow down, you're going to get sick." I didn't listen to her. "Remember the mall?" She asked. I looked at her and slowed down my eating by just a little bit. The microwave beeped and she grabbed the first bag of popcorn. She poured it into a bowl and started getting the string ready.
"How do you do that?" I asked her. She had been at it for thirty minutes and my parents had come back. We had already used about three bags. She grabbed piece by piece occasionally throwing one at me that I would eat.
"It's easy you just put the needle through the popcorn and if it can't be strung then you eat it," She said. "Here you try." She handed me the needle.
"This is easy," I said stringing popcorn eating some too.
"Yeah it is. So we haven't really talked since we've been here," She said. I looked at her, we talked everyday. "I know we talk everyday but I don't really know you. I used to but not now."
"Okay, then what do you want to know? How about we play twenty questions but instead of only getting twenty questions we ask until we run out or we get done?" She nodded and smiled. This should be interesting.
So twenty questions or more will be next chapter but sadly I'm going out of town for my break so I may not be able to update, but hopefully I'll be able too. REVIEW!!!
Amanda!