Chapter one. play date?
"Hey Callie!" Cora said as her friend opened the door Callie or Calypso had gone from a cute girl who wore converse, jeans, graphic t-shirts, stud earrings and baseball caps so she could tame her natural afro to an entirely different girl and all because her dad left. Now Calypso sports aggressive black eyeliner, a little blush under her eyes, black lipstick, black boot high heels with stud spikes, black leather pants, black leather fingerless gloves, a tight fitted black crop top with gold edges, a black leather choker from her dad that has a small diamond hanging from it and so many piercings. She has 7 piercings on each of her ears all with little black studs or golden hoops. She has a black nose ring on the side of her nose and a belly button piercing!
The chilly wind blew through their hair as they walked down the road in the chilly autumn afternoon headed to nowhere in particular just walking together talking about tik toks they each had watched and kids at school today had been their first day at high school Cora had fit in well but calypso had stuck out like a sore thumb with all her dark glamor but calypso did not get bullied for she was already 5 foot 5 but then with her 3 inch heels she towered over the other ninth graders. But Cora had fit in great. But Coras outfits are more subtle. Today she was wearing a light blue tank top with a jean jacket, black leggings, white sneakers, a little makeup but just nude colors, her fingernails were light pink, several bracelets, her braces were silver and fake diamond earrings.
"Wanna get ice cream?" Calypso asked as they stopped in front of an Icey Palace shop "I didn't bring my wallet" Cora said disappointedly "but you should get some" Calypso rolled her eyes and said "Did I ask if you brought your wallet?" Cora smirked and whispered "thanks"
As they walked out of Icey Palace they filmed a tik tok and then started walking down the street towards their favorite shop; Trendy Girl. "Omg they have everything here!" a girl squealed from behind a rack of earrings. Calypso walked over to the desk where their friend Gayle was leaning against the counter "hey" Calypso said as she put a pair of mushroom earrings on the counter angling her body so Cora couldn't see what she was buying "hiding something?" Gayle asked as they checked out her earrings "thanks again for letting us in" Calypso said dropping her voice as she glanced over at the 18 sign on the window "I think it's only 18 because of our music and that we sell stuff with swear words on it, I know its BS I'm surprised they let me work here" Gayle said rolling their eyes "I thought you faked being 18 for like a year" Calypso said leaning on the counter to "I did" Gayle whispered
"Hey Gayle" Cora said as she walked over to the counter to "i forgot my wallet… again" "well" Gayle said digging around under the counter "do you got two quarters?" "for what?" Gayle held out a wallet to stick to the back of your phone just as Cora pulled out one quarter placed it on the counter but then something caught her gaze and she slunk away picked a quarter of the floor and placed it on the counter then put her finger to her lips and pretended to hide under the counter "here you go weirdo" Gayle laughed handing her the wallet she pulled out her phone that had a bisexual flag phone case and stuck on the black wallet "thanks" she said as she put her phone back in her back pocket "bye Gayle" The girls called as they left the store.
Outside the wind was getting stronger and clouds were rolling in but they had weird swirly purple shapes in the clouds "let's grab scooters!" Cora called over the wind. They ran over to a rack of scooters Calypso put in the money despite Cora's look of disapproval "I'm paying you back for this and for the ice cream!" she said over the sound of the shaking trees "Not on my watch!" Calypso yelled "Race you!" then she sped off towards her house "Hey! No fair" Cora laughed
The wind was screaming at anyone foolish enough to stay outside. They stopped at a scooter rack to return them and ran through the rain to Calypso's house "Oh thank god" her mom yelled over the sound of the rain and the smoke alarm that was beeping "JANE WAVE AROUND A TOWEL UNDER IT, ELLIOT GET THE CAKE OUT OF THE OVEN!!!" her mom yelled over her shoulder to Calypso's sisters who were baking a cake "TALIAH CALM DOWN LILITH" she yelled over her shoulder to the sound of a baby crying while Cora just stood there with Calypso they were both sopping wet.
Calypso leaned over, grabbed two towels threw one to cora took of her sweat shirt, socks, shoes and and plopped them over a drying rack dried her feet and ran into the kitchen, pushed Jane aside, jumped onto the counter and just took out the batteries from the smoke detector "Cake!" she yelled as she jumped over a baby swing to get to the stairs. Within a few minutes the screaming stopped and Calypso walked down the stairs to Cora who was still very wet. "Just dry off your feet and walk to my bathroom." Calypso said
After they dried off keeping their old clothes on, Calypso's mom walked in holding her phone "Cora would you like to spend the night?" "YES!" Cora cried "but why" she stopped "well the storm outside is howling for one and we just thought you guys could have a sleepover for fun" Calypso's mom said smiling "THANK YOU!!!" Cora cried. Calypso glanced at Cora, calypso's mom said upon seeing this look "umbrellas are in the hall closet, be back by 6 pm, ok." "Thanks mom!" Calypso called, already dragging Cora up the stairs.
