omg I'm so sorry about taking ages to update, it's just I'm settling into university and haven't been having much me time recently, and I've had a bit of writters block. But hopefully you'll be seeing quicker updates with less filler. hope you enjoy ^.^
*Fang's POV*
"Fang!" Max says running to me across the room and hugs me, she smells nice. I decide I just need to come out with it.
"I got your message from last night" I say, she stops hugging me and looks to me
"oh yeah, I thought I rang you. Listen I was- well I was given a bit of alcohol and was a real mess. Did I embarrass myself?" she was drunk? At 14? I quickly straighten my face without detection so she doesn't see me being concerned.
"oh no. you just rambled a bit" I lie
"oh cool" she says, but looks a bit unsure "is that really all I said?" I nod and look into her dark brown eyes, I've really missed her. I give her a hug, she stays still- we don't hug, and on the rare occasion we do I never initiate it.
She sits back from me and looks at me weirdly, but then smiles. "My dad is moving away for a bit for work" she says and looks at her hands in her lap.
"How long is a bit?" I ask her, she shakes her head
"A year" she bites on her lip and looks to me "I don't want him to go" I nod to show I understand and put my arm around her.
"you'll still see him" I say, she sighs and leans her head on my shoulder. I hold my breath as I feel her hair on my neck.
"but I'll miss him" she sighs again, then pops her head up and looks at me "are we cool?" she asks
"Since when do you care about being cool?" I ask raising an eyebrow
"no, not like that. Like is everything cool between us. Are we still friends?"
"of course we are" I say and she smiles at me. And that's it, I see it know she just wants to be my friend- that's it. I feel my phone buzz and quickly check my texts- it's from Lissa.
Hey, just wondering how you are?
Fine thanks, bz rn, ttyl I text back and pay attention to Max
"Who was that?" she asks
"Oh, just Lissa" I say and stand up off the bed, "want to play some video-games" she looks up at me and nods slowly. Things seem to be going back to normal.
*Rochelles POV* (TWIGGER WARNING: eating disorders)
Max, Iggy and Tess go for the bus and I'm left home alone. Dad works crazy hours, so I won't see him for a while. Mum doesn't live here any more, my parents split up not so long ago and she's living with her boyfriend a couple of towns over, so I get to see her plenty. Tess left five dollars on the table, probably to try to pay me back for the taxi ride- even though I insisted on paying it. Tess is too kind for her own good.
How much bacon did everyone leave for me? Lets see. About 5 pieces- cool. I butter 4 slices of bread and make 2 bacon sandwiches, and make myself 2 cups of coffee- I line then up neatly at my place at the table. I look in the frying pan and see a fried egg left in the pan I tip it onto a plate and line it up with the rest of the food. It smells good. It smells really good. I sit down and eye up all the food. I sip at a cup of coffee keeping my eyes fixed on the food. Okay I can do this I cut one of the sandwiches in half and take a big bite, this feels so wrong. I drop it down onto the plate. Maybe I made myself too much to eat and intimidated myself. I gingerly pick up the half sandwich again and force myself to finish it then quickly drink down my coffee. Eurgh I feel sick. I look down at the egg and cut it up into pieces. Then quickly eat that, okay going well. The phone rings- caler Id says it's Dr Jenna.
"Hello?" I say
"Hello Rochelle, how are you today?" Dr Jenna asks
"good thank you, how are you?" I reply
"Rochelle, you didn't come to seen me yesterday afternoon" he replies, ignoring my question "are you okay"
"yes, I was out with friends. I had a big breakfast today" I say, trying to redeem myself.
"uh huh" he doesn't believe it "you really need to see me today" I sigh
"uh yeah, okay. I can be there in an hour" I say
"okay, take care" he hangs up and I go drop the pans I used in the sink. I'm about to walk away, but then something catches my eye: the grease on the pans. I peer in closer and touch it. ew. There's so much grease, that stuff is also inside me. I pull up my shirt and look at my stomach, I pinch the fat on it. There's just so much, gross. I keep it out my mind and get changed, careful not to look at myself in the mirror.
"Well you're doing a lot better" Dr Jenna says looking at my food and exercise diary "But I think you're overwhelming yourself by eating such large meals, see here on Monday you ate pancakes, a large burger with fries and a brownie then a massive plate of pasta. Then you ate nothing on Tuesday or Wednesday"
"But that's all I could manage" I say sitting on my red plastic chair.
"That's fine, you're doing really well, just pace yourself, I've written you up a food planner so if you stick to it you'll have a more steady recovery" He smiles at me showing of his white teeth. Doctor Jenna is quite a youngish man with brown, short hair. He's about 5"11. "Now Rochelle, could you please step on the scales" shoes and my jacket and step on, he looks at the meter "Hm you've put on half a pound"
"That's good though right?"
"Rochelle, do you remember telling me you had a large breakfast?"
"yes...?"
"well that's probably just the weight of the food, you haven't gained any body mass"
"oh" I look to him and bite my lip. He sits down at his desk and writes on some paper.
"so you're still under ninety pounds and for someone of your height that's very dangerous" I look up to him.
"but I'm eating more" He doesn't look up from his desk
"not according to your food diary" he hands me a piece of paper
"Now take this to the front desk. Now I'm really sorry to say this Rochelle, but if you don't reach ninety pounds by the end of the month you're going to have to go back-" I gasp internally. He stops mid sentence obviously noticing my facial expression.
"I don't need to go back there"
"I'm sorry Rochelle, but this is for your own good" I sigh and walk out the office, it's all for my own good. Every stupid little thing. Oh Rochelle take these pills that make you moody it's all for your own good. Oh Rochelle. I whip my ponytail round and leave the room.
*Fang's POV *
Max left about an hour ago, probably got tired of beating me at video-games. I trudge downstairs and Nudge pops up.
"Hey Fang" she gives me a big smile then pulls me towards the kitchen "look what I made" and on the kitchen counter lies a big plate of cupcakes, all iced with pink icing. "I know you don't like pink, put pink is the best colour to put as icing, plus like what colour would you of preferred? Black? Black does not look like a very appetising colour" she giggled and a curl of hair fell from her messy bun onto the centre of her dark face. She looked back at me with a big grin "lets eat"
Nudge hands me a cake and we start to dig in, about 3 cakes in my phone rings. It's Lissa.
"hey Nick, do you want to hang out?" she asks as soon as I pick up
"um sorry Lissa, but I'm hanging out with my sister maybe another time"
"awh, but you get to see her all the time, and I haven't seen you for ages"
"um" I look to Nudge who is digging into the cakes "well-"
"please. You owe me"
"okay then" I'll just have to make it up to Nudge later.
"great, I live near the park so I'll meet you there" and with that she hangs up
"Nudge, I'm really sorry, but I have to go" Nudge looks up with her big doe eyes, her smile falls.
"why, we were having loads of fun"
"I haven't seen Lissa for ages and she really wants to see me. I'm sorry" Nudge nods. Urgh I feel so bad "but we can hang out another time, we can watch some cartoons and do some drawing. I promise"
"do you pinky promise?" huh what's that
"pinky promise?" I ask
"you do this" she picks up her pinky finger and takes mine then crosses them together "now if you break the promise your pinky will break" well that took a dark turn.
I get off the bus and walk up to the park and I feel the breathe escape from me. I look around at everyone in the park; people having picnics and lying down on the grass. My mind whirls back in time to the last time I was here.
"NICK" I turn my head sharply and she the recognisable face of Lissa, she runs and hugs me making me stumble back a bit. I feel all my worries melt away. "Hi how are you?"
"I'm good" she smiles at me, flashing her perfect white teeth. "How are you?"
"Great" we start walking through the park "oh look that's where I learnt to ride my bike" she says pointing to a flat piece of tarmac near the swings. "Well before they put up the swings and there was just a giant clear space"
"Cool" I replied, unsure what to say. Lissa giggled and I felt a hand take hold of mine, I looked to Lissa who was looking ahead of her, she had her hair up in a bun, she turned her head to face me. I quickly looked away; I can't let her know I was staring at her.
"I was thinking we could just hang out at my house for a bit, like watch a couple of movies. I just feel like chilling today. You know if that's cool with you"
"Yeah cool, what do you want to watch?" I ask her, I don't know what kind of films she'll have, maybe girly ones, I don't care really I watched mean girls with Nudge the other day and I thought it was pretty good.
"Well my dad has some old tapes and he said that kill bill was really good" I turn in her direction
"No way" I say, Iggy and I love those films, Max doesn't really have the patience for films, but even she loves Kill Bill, mainly for the swords.
"oh, uh we can watch something else"
"No I love kill bill, have you never seen it before?"
"uh no, I usually watch comedies"
"oh man you're in for a treat, it's so cool and it's directed by Quentin Tarantino who is one of my favourite directors of all time" I hear a giggle and turn to Lissa "what?" I ask with a half smirk
"You've just never talked this much before"
Lissa pushes in the tape, and we sit back to watch the films, her mum made us some popcorn, like proper popcorn not the microwavable bag. Lissa's mum is about 40 with short red hair and a kind face, she managed to feed Lissas little brother Jack some yoghurt whilst she made up the popcorn.
"Is it okay if I ask questions, like I don't often understand films" Lissa asks, huddling up to me. I nod, thought to be honest I hate it when people talk during films, unless it's a bad one that you can mock all the time.
Lissa actually asks minimal questions during the film, like how long the woman had been in a coma and how she's so good at sword fighting.
"OH MY GOD! That film is so cool" Lissa jumps up and runs to get the next tape, she walks gracefully back to me, her short skirt displaying her slim legs. She sits on the carpet and presses rewind then turns to me. "Thanks so much for hanging out with me"
"It's cool" She ejects the old tape once it's to the beginning again then puts in Kill Bill 2 and sits next to me and shuffles up closely, I lift my arm up and put it around her instinctively. Lissa looks up at me and places a hand on the back of my head, then brings her face closer. She presses her lips to mine and draws herself nearer so she's almost sitting on my lap. I place my hand on her back awkwardly, but it doesn't bother her, she just moves closer. As soon as I start to move my lips with hers she moves away from my face and down to my neck and starts to kiss me there. I feel kind of lost and just sit there with my arms around her, am I supposed to do something right now. I hope she can't tell I have no idea what to do. After a bit she sits back next to me to watch the remainder of the adverts until the movie starts.
After the movie I hang around for a little bit then go home.
"Hi Nudge" I say as I go into the sitting room
"Hey Fang. Hey what's that on your neck?" she asks pointing at me
"Huh?"
"Like a purple bruise" I go round the corner and look in the mirror, oh god that's not bruise, that's a hickey. Lissa gave me a hickey.
"Hey Fang, aren't you going to take your hood down" Max asks me over some cereal. We're all sitting round having breakfast at Iggy's. "What are you hiding?" she narrows her eyes at me
"Nothing, jeez can't I just wear a hood without you getting at me" I say leaning back on my chair
"Dude, I was only joking no need to get testy" she looks back at her cereal. "Oh I might need to go early, my tutor can't meet me this week so he's re-arranged for today"
"awh, but Sunday is cartoon time. Come on Max don't be lame" Max shrugs "Don't worry you'll have Mr Hood to entertain you over here" I quickly point my face in her direction and she looks at me and laughs "awh but come on dud take the hood off you look-" she pulls the hood off me and I see her eyes widen as she looks at my neck. Her gentle brown eyes look back to me and she bursts out in laughter.
"What? What's so funny?" Iggy asks
"Fang has a hickey" tears start to spring from her eyes, I cross my arms as Iggy joins in.
"Whatever, you're just jealous" I say, Max looks at me
"yeah, yeah of course I am" she replies nudging me. Urgh I knew she'd make a big deal of it
"yeah well I don't see anyone wanting to give you a hickey" I reply. Max's gentle eyes turn into fire.
"And what do you mean by that?" she asks me,
"You know exactly what I mean" Max glares at me and drops her spoon in her cereal.
"Oh I just remembered I have better places to be" she says and quickly leaves. As soon as she leaves the room Igyy turns to me
"Dude that was totally not cool"
"What? I'm sick of her picking on me"
"She's just joking; you don't need to belittle her. What's gotten into you?" I lean back in my seat
"Nothing" Iggy sighs
"Hickey from Lissa?" He asks,
"Yeah…"
"You like her?" I pause for a bit
"Yeah. I really do" I smile to myself
*Max's POV *
That jerk. I kick a rock and it flies in front of me. I have to rush to the library to get to my tutor session anyway. Who cares about Fang anyway, I have my own problems.
"Hey Max" Sam says as I get to the group study section of the library. He looks at my face then seems concerned "is something wrong?"
"It doesn't matter" I grumble
"Hey!" I look up at Sam
"Seriously. What's up?" He shoots me a smile and tilts his head to the side making his browny, blond hair flop to one side.
"Um, just my friend is being a jerk" I say, then look away from him
"Hey if you need something to take your mind of it we could hang out for a bit after the study session" I look up to him. Why would a 16 year old guy want to hang round with grotty me. I don't know why, but it sounds like it could be cool, I've only know him for a couple of weeks but he seems like a really cool person.
"um yeah that would be really cool. Thanks" he seems to brighten up even more after I agree.
The TWO HOUR maths session goes by pretty quickly, Sam is so smart and such a good teacher, I'm not so terrible now.
"Hey do you want to go to the new record store" Sam asks me putting on his duffle coat, he stands next to me and I can see he's waaay taller than me. He's like six foot.
"um okay"
"oh we can go somewhere else"
"oh no that's fine, I just don't know much about records"
"oh that's fine, it's cool there, they also have a little café upstairs and they make the best coffee cake. Come on I'll buy you some; my treat" he winks at me and I feel myself blush. Then mentally hit myself for being such a girl. God he didn't wink at you in that way get over yourself Maximum.
"yeah cool" I say with an awkward laugh, then mentally hit myself again for being such a dork. Smooth. "But no I'm fine, I can buy my own"
"Nah I'm the one taking you there so I can buy for you" he smiles and hands me my backpack "it's just uptown"
Sam leads me to the record shop and we start looking at the vinyls.
"See I don't actually own a record player right now, so I'm borrowing my uncles while he's away on a business trip. I hope to get one for Christmas"
"cool, I just have cd's really, plus a few tapes from ages back"
"ah tapes, who do you have on them"
"oh" I laugh "it's nothing really just random things I recorded from the radio"
"ahhh" Sam continues to flick through the records "I did that too, I would never get it right though, I would always miss a bit off the beginning or record for too long and get the presenter speaking"
"wasn't it the worst when the radio dj spoke during the song"
"oh yes the worst" Sam agrees and pulls out a record "Have you ever heard of The Velvet Underground?" Sam asks me
"um no"
"They're a bit weird, but good. Oh check it out The Small Faces, you heard of them?"
"nah"
"you need to listen to some music with me sometime. Anyway I think I'll buy these, I shouldn't really though, I have too many records for someone without my own record player" he chuckles to himself then takes them to the till and chats with the guy at the checkout for a bit. I look through the records at names I don't really recognise.
"Come on Max, cake time" I turn to Sam who jumps next to me, like literally jumps. He smiles and he walk up a spiral staircase. He orders us two coffee cakes.
"Oh sorry I forget to get something to drink. What do you want?"
"oh it's fine Sam, I can get it"
"uh no way. You had to put up with me going on about records, and you have to suffer through with 2 hours extra of maths a week so you earnt a drink. What can I get you?" I sigh
"A hot chocolate"
"Yes, with all the extras"
"no it's fine-" but he's already put his money down on the counter. Sam sits back next to me and smirks.
"They should be here in a couple of minutes" He leans back on the seat and after half a minute of silence he speaks again "So how are you finding maths now?" he sits up straight
"Well I am finding it a lot easier, I just kind of take a while to process things"
"yeah, you're super smart Max, and I'm not just saying that"
"thank you" I say "you're super smart too. What other subjects do you do?"
"well I can only do 4 subjects in junior year so I do Maths, Biology, Music Performance and Psychology and we have to do this subject called study skills that doesn't count for anything, it's just an hour a week kind of reviewing how we're doing and learning how to improve exam techniques and essay writing" a waitress comes by and puts the two hot chocolates down. They're in tall glasses with cream on top, and marshmallows and a chocolate flake. She comes back with the cake and hands us each a fork.
"I've never had coffee cake before" I say
"What!? How?" Same says having a giant forkful of cake and quickly swallowing "I think I need to take you out more, or you'll miss out" I smile
"Okay"
"What?" he looks surprised at my quick reply
"Yes, I think we should do this again"
"uh, cool" Sam smiles to himself an sips at the hot chocolate.
A FEW WEEKS LATER
*Iggy's POV *
"Hey Igs" I heard Max's voice say, she tapped me on the shoulder and we walked together "oh I'm really sorry but I can't come to watch cartoons this Sunday. I'm hanging out with Sam"
"Woah, no wonder you're zooming ahead in maths with all these extra study sessions"
"Oh we're not studying, just hanging out, we study on Tuesdays" she laughs. Max has been really upbeat for the last couple of weeks, like she doesn't care that Fang spends all his time with Lissa, or that we have tests coming up next month.
"Hey guys" I hear Rochelle she pats me on the shoulder.
"Hey Rochelle" I say
"Ro, are you feeling okay?" Max asks, there's concern in her voice
"of course I am, fit as a fiddle, me"
"It's just you seem a little skinnier and paler. Like no offense. Are you eating okay?"
"None taken, well I haven't really noticed anything, but I haven't got any make-up on today so I guess that's why I'm paler" she says "Don't worry about me, now who is this gorgeous blond I've seen you hanging around with?"
"I don't know who you're talking about" Max replies
"Do you mean Sam her maths tutor?" I ask
"What? Where do I sign up for a tutor?" Rochelle laughs
"Hey dudes" Says Red in his low monotone voice
"Hi Red" Rochelle says "Now we're just waiting for Tess" We've all planned to go see a movie, the theatre does special deals on Thursday nights. I asked Fang if he wanted to come and he said maybe so we'll see. He'll probably bring Lissa. Now don't get me wrong Lissa is nice, but we never get to see Fang anymore and they're always together, like I know it's normal for couples to spend a lot of time together, but ever since they've been going out I'm pretty sure they haven't gone a single day without seeing each other.
"Fang might come as well, but he'll probably bring the Girlfriend" I add
"The girlfriend?" Max asks, her voice takes a more high pitched form "Lissa?"
"yep" I reply
"I didn't know they were going out" she says, her voice still high, clearly upset for some reason "Why wouldn't Fang tell me?"
"Well it's only been for a couple of weeks, I don't think it's like properly official yet"
"What I knew" Red pipped in. Oh please not now Red "yeah he was telling me in maths that he and his girlfriend were going to a gig or something when I asked him what he was doing at the weekend. Didn't go on about it much, he's a quiet kid isn't he?"
"Oh great so he told you, but not me"
"It doesn't matter" Rochelle says "He probably thought that you knew through Iggy or something"
"yeah…" Max said "Oh looks there's Tess, let's go"
When we get to the cinema we pay for the tickets and everyone gets their 3-d glasses while I get a set of audio description headphones.
"Hey can I sit next to you" I hear Tess say
"Yeah sure thing" I smile at her and I hear her giggle "What? What's so funny?"
"Nothing" she replies and takes my hand to lead me to my seat.
*Fangs POV*
"Sorry I've got to go" I say to Lissa, she frowns. Ah damn I don't want her to be sad "I'll ring you when I get home" she smiles
"Bye Nick" she leans forward and wraps her arms around the back of my neck pulling me to her face and starts to kiss me with an urgency, I would kind of describe Lissa's kissing to be like a washing machine. She kind of wastes no time to stick her tongue in my mouth then just swirls it around and around, now don't get me wrong I do like Lissa, but she's a boring kisser. I kiss her back for a bit then step back.
"okay I've really got to go now" I say and start to walk away
"Bye, I'll miss you" Lissa shouts out of the door.
I walk up my garden path and feel a hand grab my arm I jump back in fright. Then I see her. Her soft dark blonde hair tied up in a bun with strand falling down onto her face, her lips slightly parted, then my eyes meet hers. Hey eyes burn a whole in my forehead.
"Why didn't you tell me You were going out with Lissa?" she says loudly
"I thought Iggy would tell you" I replied, a bit taken back
"oh, oh you just thought that the message would be passed on, but sorry I didn't get the memo" He eyes turn a bit pink
"Max are you crying?"
"No" she says wiping tear away from her face
"Max" I take a step closer to her but she pushes me away
"why don't you ever want to hang out with me anymore?"
"of course I want to hang out with you" I take another step closer, but she pushes me away
"Hey stop pushing me" I push her back "It's not my fault you're jealous"
"I'm not jealous"
"Well why else would you be this angry" I immediately regret my words, but I can't stop now. "Hm it all makes sense now, you kissing me that night in the park, then when you were drunk you rang me and told me you loved me. You're jealous of Lissa" I looked her dead in the eyes and took a step closer, she didn't push me away this time. "You're jealous and sour about it" Max's face turned bright red.
"I'm not jealous" she growled at me "and I never said I loved you" I raise my eyebrows and take my phone out of my pocket and press my voicemail the message plays "uh Fang, Do you hate me? I don't hate you, I love you. Fang? I love you. Bye"
"so I think you are jealous" Max furrows her eye brows and pushes me down with such a force that I fall over. She turns on her heels and stomps down my path.
I chuckle slightly and take one of my hands off the floor. Ow. I inspect my hand and look at my fingers, I think one of them might be broken.
*Max's POV*
OH MY GOD I FUCKING HATE HIM. I rush in through the door and slam it shut.
"please don't slam the door" Mum calls from the kitchen
"Please just SHUT UP" I yell back at her, I wipe tears off my face and run into my bedroom slamming the door shut. How could he? How could he honestly accuse me of being jealous of Lissa, and using my embarrassing moments against me like that. I hate him, I hate him, I hate him. I'm glad I pushed him over, I hope he'a bruised, I wish I hit him.
I punch a pillow then scream into it.
"Max, you need to apologise to your mother, that was completely disrespectful" my dad shouts, walking into the room he pauses for a second "Max?" his voice suddenly filled with concern. He comes and sits next to me on my bed and I hug him. "what's up darling?"
"Nothing" I reply, still hugging him
" doesn't seem like nothing" I bury my face in his chest
"It's Fang, he's being a dick" I realise I just swore for the first time in front of my dad
"Well sometimes teenage boys can be like that. You know I've not always been his number one fan, but after what happened at the park I know he's a good friend and he'll always be there for you. Did you have a fight?"
"yeah…"
"Well I think you both need some time to chill out, these things tend to work themselves out over time"
"I don't want to speak to him ever again"
"Now, now Max don't be silly-"
"No I'm serious. I hate him" I hear my dad sigh, and he brushes my hair with his fingers.
"I'm going to miss you when I got next week, do you thing you'll ever want to come up and visit me?" I know what he's trying to do he's trying to change the subject.
"of course I'll come visit you dad"
"Come on and watch TV with your mother and I, its better than sitting here getting angrier and angrier" I nod and follow him downstairs.
*Nudge's POV*
"Hi Fang" I saw as he walks through the door "hey do you want to-"
"Not now Nudge" he says walking away. How come he never wants to spend any time with me anymore?
RIIIING
I rush to the phone and pick it up
"hello, hello, hello. Nudge speaking" I say
"Nudge. Oh em gee major developments" Ella replies from the other line
"what? What happened?"
"oh so you know the guy I like"
"Yeah, Shaw, Shaw Akers"
"well today we were partners in gym class"
"woah that is major developments"
"yeah, he was telling me about how he played the guitar"
"oh my god, he plays the guitar"
"uh, yeah. He is so cute I just want to hug him forever"
"Hey, Ella do you want to come round for some doctor who, like just for a couple of hours, you can maybe stay for tea"
"yeah, I'll be there in lie 10 minutes" and with that she hangs up
Okay ten minutes to kill. I hear someone come down the stairs
"Fang?" No answer I peer round then corner and he's sitting at the kitchen table looking at his hand "What's up with your hand?" I ask and stand next to him
"Nothing"
"Your little finger looks at bit bruised" I say
"I'm fine" it looks broken
"I invited Ella round, do you want me to ring again so Max can come over?" he doesn't respond "Did you break it, because you broke the pinky promise"
"The what?"
"well you said you'd hang out with me and pinky promised, but now you spend all your time with Lissa so you broke your pinky. I warned what would happen if you broke a pinky promise"
"I don't spend all my time with Lissa" he spat at me defensively, I took a step back
"I was joking" I look at the floor "But you did promise that you'd hang out for me"
"Whatever" Fang says standing up from the table and walking out the room. Mum said that he's just a teenager and they can be a bit unsociable to their family.
I get some juice out of the fridge and pour it in a tall glass. Then the doorbell rings.
"I'm coming" I yell I run to the door taking my juice with me "Hey Ella" I say leaning forward
"awh Nudge" Ellla says frowning at me
"what? What happened?"
"you just spilled your drink all down my top" I look at an orange stain on her top
"Oh shoot. I'm so sorry"
"nah it's fine" she laughs "I just need to borrow a top is all"
We go up to my room. "Will this one fit you?" I ask Ella, "I know we're similar sizes because you're only a year older, but since you're so tall I should probably check" I don't know why I said that out loud, damn it no wonder my teachers say I talk too much, they're always shush Monique be quiet.
"yeah that's cool" I don't think Ella cares about the amount I speak, well I'm not hurting anyone and my friends don't have a problem then why stop. "Hey where's Fang?" Ella asks putting replacing her old top with the one I handed her.
"Probably in his room, he's being mega moody"
"Well he was usually moody"
"Nah, Fang was never properly moody. Fang's just quiet and doesn't laugh easily. But now he's proper moody, like he doesn't hang out with me anymore and he gets grumpy and mad at mum easily"
"oh!"
"yeah… Mum says it's because he's a teenager and they get like that"
"Oh no Ella" jumps in the air and puts her hands on her face in a dramatic manner and falls onto my bed "but, but, but" she sits up at looks at me "I'm a teenager" she gives me a creepy smile and I laugh
"Oh no, she's a teenager. RUN!" I say and start to run away, Ella runs quickly after me. WHAM. I run into something and fall down. I look up.
"oh" I say and laugh "Hi Fang" Fang looks down and helps me up, then sighs and walks downstairs. Ella comes up and grabs me
"GOTCHA, now you're on of us"
"nooooo, please don't eat my brains"
"darling we're teenagers not cannibals, we much prefer curly fries" she says in a fancy voice
"oh, we have some in the freezer. Curly fries and doctor who?"
"sounds like a plan" Ella agrees with a smile.
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loads of love -Jess xoxox