Just the way you are...
Authors Note:
I'm so sorry, a whole load of junk happened that I'll explain at the end so that you can read on!
Chelsea's POV
I gazed at my calendar, winter 3rd in my first year on the Sunshine Islands. Time sure does fly. I'm so excited for the snow festival, even though I'm sure I'll muck up the dance that Alisa has organised... I hope one of the boys will ask me to go with them, but I'm probably the only one who hasn't got a boyfriend... Elliot and Julia, Luke and Nat, Sabrina and Vaughn, Lily and Will, the list goes on... All paired up happily... There's always Denny, but I don't know... Somehow I've gone from being happy to feeling pretty depressed. I carried on with my cleaning, until I was interrupted by the noise of feet padding towards my door. In my mind I was shouting 'frig off!' but I obviously couldn't say that.
"Hey, is Luke there?" Nat shouted as she opened the door.
My smile faded away she was more bothered about Luke than me.
"Yeah..." I said quietly.
"Chels? Whats up?" Natalie sat down and dragged me down.
"Nothing," I replied, tears pricking my eyes.
Unfortunately Nat saw my sapphire orbs glistening with the transparent water. "Spill..."
I told her my feelings and all that sort of stuff. She wrapped her slender arms around me, giving me reassuring squeezes to calm me down. Julia came in halfway through and listened. We all had a good cry about our troubles and after I felt much better.
"Come on Chels, let's wash that pretty face of yours then get you ready," Julia stood up and offered her hand to me.
"Get me ready for what?" I sniffled.
Julia looked to Nat, "We're gonna get you a man!"
"Okay!" I cheered.
Julia should seriously consider being a beautician, she is amazing at it. Nat and I not so much but we know what works because Julia decided to play beauty teacher one day. Eliza adores Julia and frequently begs to play with her.
I actually looked quite nice, not to blow my own horn but, yeah. I was clad in an emerald, skinny, tiny dress which barely reached my knees and long white boots which almost reached the dress but left a small gap. I had a bit of matching makeup, Julia's words 'You've got natural beauty so let's have just a little bit.' My natural curly hair was left down, some over my shoulders, the rest down my back.
"Gorgeous!" Julia and Nat cried out in sync! They then did their own makeup and clothes quickly then we rushed towards the beach and caught the last ferry going out to the city.
We headed to the nightclub and began our night of man hunting.
"Chelsea!?" I turned around to the familiar cry of my baby sister, Jamie. She wasn't really a baby anymore though.
"Jamie!?" I shouted back over the pounding music.
"What are you doing here?"
"Getting drunk, and getting a man!" She smiled. "Anyway, what are you doing here?"
"Partying, how is the farm?"
"You wanna know about the farm?" I gave her the look.
"No not really," She giggled.
"How are mum and dad? Have you got a boyfriend yet?" I bombarded her with more questions.
"Mum and dad are fine and no I haven't got a boyfriend yet..."
"Hey Chels, whose this?" Nat and Julia came up to me.
"Oh, meet Jamie my baby sister," I pinched her cheek.
"I'm not a baby anymore Chelsea-boo!" She screamed back using my childhood nickname.
My face turned crimson, "I know, I know... Jamie this is Julia and Natalie, my friends!"
Julia hugged Jamie, "Nice to meet you, we've heard so much about you." I rolled my eyes at Julia's kindness.
We chatted for ages, got drunk then partied. It was late so we headed back to my first home with my mum and dad. My mum fussed over me and my friends, my dad shook his head at our outfits though Jamie was wearing a similar fashion. We headed up the stairs to my room; luckily Jamie had her own room. She stayed with us though and listened in while we chatted about fit lads.
My brother Tommy came into my room an hour or so after we arrived after we had heaps of giggles, "Jamie what are-, Chelsea!" He hugged me then asked me how the farm was going and stuff like that. Just small talk really because I can't go round telling him about fit lads, he would go mad because he's so protective of me and Jamie just like my dad.
I was woken up by the harsh ringing of an iphone. I picked it up, not realising it wasn't mine. I didn't look at the caller either, "Hello," I mumbled.
"Where's Julia?" The person angrily said, his voice sounded familiar but my mind was in a haze.
"What?"
"Chelsea, where's Julia?!" The person said more cruelly, I suddenly recognized the caller it was Vaughn and I was holding Julia's iphone.
"Oh, uh she's at my house."
"But you're not in your house!" Vaughn growled louder. I had it on speaker so he could be heard loudly.
"I know, I-"
"Chelsea just tell me where Julia is!" Vaughn loudly ordered. Luckily Nat, Jules and all of my family were heavy sleepers apart from Tommy.
He burst into the room, grabbed the phone and spoke to Vaughn, well shouted more like... "Don't talk to my Chelsea like that! Julia's safe with us, she'll be coming back soon so don't get cocky with Chelsea. I've a good mind to come back with Chels and teach you a lesson!"
"Oh really, and who exactly are-" Vaughn was cut off when Tommy put the phone down on him.
"Thanks Tommy, you know you should come back for a visit. And punch Vaughn, Julia wouldn't mind 'cos he's an idiot. Mirabelle would just say 'boys will be boys'. And none of the townsfolk will have to know. And think of Luke, he's going out with Nat, but yeah you can catch up with your best bud!" I blabbered. He actually looked pretty interested.
"Yeah, maybe I will..."
"Jamie can come as well..." We talked about it until everyone got up then we had breakfast. Then we caught the ferry home, we arranged it that Jamie and Tommy would come next week.
We got dressed in Jamie's clothes; I mean we couldn't go out in the morning in our clubbing clothes. Jamie gave me: her special, black designer top with a squirrel on it, her black jeans and her UGG boots. She gave Julia a blue skirt and a baby blue cami with a dolphin. Natalie was given some khaki, baggy pants and a tank top.
When we arrived it was ten, so we had to rush to the festival. Nat and Jules got changed before that though because we had no choice but to go home in Jamie's tiny clothes. They fitted me perfectly but they were too small for Julia and Nat so they got changed whilst I headed to the festival without them.
Vaughn gave me the cold shoulder as I got off the boat and stared at me. I just thought of when Tommy was going to come and teach him a lesson, and an evil grin spread across my face. First off we were going to build snowmen. I asked everyone but Vaughn and they all agreed apart from Sabrina, who said she wanted to sit this one out for her baby Reina and to cheer up moody. We giggled then she went over to Vaughn. We made a pretty big snowman, and had a pretty big snowball fight. Nat pegged Elliot right on the head and cheered. Elliot didn't have the guts to throw one back so him a Julia made snow angels. See what I mean everyone paired off. Luke threw one at me but surprise, surprise. It was an epic fail! I succeeded in getting him though, we laughed and had a chat about what happened last night. I told him that Tommy and Jamie were coming to stay and he jumped in the air and whooped. Then it was time for the dance.
Alisa did a little announcement to alert everyone it was time, "Ummm, uh hi. Uh it's time for the uh dance. Ummm," She sounded really anxious so I flashed a quick smile, she seemed more confident after that. "I'd just like to say a few words." Then she went into a small speech, thanking the Harvest Goddess. We then took our places, Alisa started the music "Go," she whispered almost inaudibly.
I followed the steps, twirling in the right places. When we had finished, it was time for the couples dance. I wasn't in a couple... Sabrina and Vaughn elegantly twisted onto the dance floor, Elliot and Julia span off, Luke and Natalie stumbled off... Lanna's mouth dropped open as Denny declined her offer of dancing, Will and Lily began... Wait what? Denny was approaching me, my heart started pounding apprehensively. Please don't ask me, please don't...
"Chelsea, would you like to dance with me?"
"Ummm I don't know Denny..."
"Go on Chels..." When I still looked reluctant his voice got sterner, weird. "Dance with me Chelsea." He practically ordered. I didn't want to accept but I was worried about what would happen if I didn't.
"Ok..." I said as he took my hand and led me onto the dance floor.
I tried to urge the music to go faster in my mind but it just seemed to go slower to spite me. When it finally came to a closing we bowed to our partners. Then I ran off before he had the chance to say anything or question why I hadn't gotten close to him like putting my head on his shoulder like the other couples around us. I practically had to drag Natalie and Julia away from Luke and Elliot. I decided to tell them about my suspicions.
"Denny was really weird when he asked me to dance, he practically ordered me to dance and stepped on my toe hard when we were dancing."
"He probably just didn't want to dance with Lanna because she is a bit obsessive. He's probably just bad at dancing." Julia dismissed my concerns, she couldn't seem to find fault with Denny.
"I believe you Chelsea, Denny's a bit weird. But why would he do that if he likes you? I mean he kissed you didn't he?" Natalie was a bit more supportive towards me.
"Yeah, exactly my point. I just get a funny feeling about him."
We headed back home at six, full up from the amazing feast that Felicia, Mirabelle, Nick and Haila had prepared. I slept a little uneasy though, worrying about my problem with Denny. I'm gonna get to the bottom of this!
Authors Note:
I'm really sorry, but a load of crap happened. My laptop broke down it had to be sent off, then they forgot about it for a week so I had to phone them, then it took two weeks until it was sent back. Then it was the summer holidays and you get where this is going. I made this chapter longer to make up for it. I'll try to write much longer chapters now, double the words that they were. I hope I haven't lost readers because I haven't updated in ages, I'll try much harder I promise. Rate and review!