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(6)
Laying in bed in the guestroom, I stared up at the ceiling thinking about the day and how wonderful I felt in that very moment. I couldn't help but wonder if maybe I could have made more memories with more time had I become Jack's friend sooner, Riley's too. In the end I shook my head and simply smiled. It didn't matter, I didn't feel alone anymore.
I bolted upright, gasping for breath. But why? I hadn't had a nightmare. In fact I hadn't dreamt at all. I just woke up with a terrible shock, a knot of fear and adrenaline in my stomach. Why?
I gazed around the dark room. It was how I had left it, nothing seemed disturbed. But the feeling wouldn't leave me so I decided to go and check on Jack just to be sure.
I slipped out of the bed and tightened the waistband of the nightdress I was borrowing from Jack's mum – he was right she was about my size. I then quietly moved to the door and crept out of the room. Moving along the hallway I counted the doors as I passed remembering the room Jack had pointed out as his earlier on.
Coming face to face with his door I raised my hand to knock and then stopped myself. If it really was nothing, as I was almost certain of, then it would be like disturbing someone for no apparent reason. After this realization I let my hand fall again and sighed as I decided that I would just poke my head in, check on my friend and then go back to my own room as if nothing had happened.
I took a deep breath, only hoping that he was deep in sleep, and turned the door knob with a slight push. It opened a few inches and I popped my head in but only enough to quickly look around.
It was pretty much a regular room, to be honest. A chest of drawers beside a big wardrobe on the left wall, his bed centre against the right wall and a wide window in far wall. It was just a regular room, nothing wrong with it at all. I sighed in relief and slowly slid out again.
I was so focused on shutting the door as quietly as possible I didn't hear someone lurking behind me.
"What are you doing?" I almost screamed as I turned to face Wuya. She was back from her chat with that creepy Chase guy. She was looking at me with a raised eyebrow and her hands on her hips.
"Checking on Jack. Why? It's not illegal!" I shrugged and crossed my arms, staring back at her.
"Just a bit odd if you ask me," she commented, "He's asleep isn't he?"
I shifted uncomfortably, "Yeah. And?"
"Very odd," she nodded to herself and crossed her arms then too, "Most peculiar."
I huffed in frustration, barged passed her and made my way back to the guestroom, grumbling, "I don't have to explain myself to you, witch. I have my reasons and even if I wanted to tell you you probably wouldn't understand," I shut the door behind me and then stood there in the dark with my head hung and my hand flat against the door. I whispered to myself, "Even I'm not sure I understand."
Riley's turn!
Yippee! It was a sunny day and I couldn't wait to see Jack and Deina again! Hopefully they weren't busy so that we could all hang out again. Ooh! Maybe Jack could show us how to use the other Shen Gong Wu.
I decided to text Deina to see if she was busy.
'Rise and shine, sleepy head! :) How r u 2day, Deina? Fancy goin' out 4 a bit? I'm goin' 2 txt Jack in a sec n ask him 2! x x'
As I started typing out the same message to Jack, I got a message myself. It was a reply from Deina.
'Hey, Riley. I'm fine, thanks. Jack was just about to ring you and ask if you wanted to come round today. How are you?'
Oh! I smiled at the screen and quickly tapped out my reply.
'O! R u round his already? That was fast! Haha! Sure! I'll b round soon. Gimme 15 – 20 mins ;) N I'm good tank u :D x x'
Grabbing my shoulder bag off the chair beside me I called out to Uncle Jay, who was currently outside gardening, "I'm going out, Uncle!"
His head popped up in the window, "What? Now? But it's," he looked at the clock and narrowed his eyes confused, "Eleven o'clock in the morn'in? Where you go'in so early, darl'in?"
"Round Jack's house," I answered quietly, Uncle Jay frowned and so I quickly added, "But Deina's there too! So I'm just hanging out with my two new friends."
"Now, I don' know if I trust these new friends o' yours!" he said, lifting a shaky finger at me, "I'd rather you be spend'in your time with the twins! They perdy young ladies are the kind o' sweet gurls you should be hang'in round. Not these new pals o' yours. I don' like 'em!"
"You don't know 'em," I grumbled glaring at the ground.
"S'cuse me?" he raised his voice slightly.
"Uncle! I really like these guys. They're really nice and they're funny too! And the twins aren't as sweet and innocent as you make them out to be! Sure Amy's alright but Alice can be real nasty sometimes!" I complained. I mean really, the old man has no right to judge people the way he does. First glance, first mention and that's all he needs to make a solid judgement. It's just not right!
"Now, that's ridic-ulous!" he scoffed, "Those gurls have always been there for you since you were a tiny lil' bud," he laughed probably reminiscing the 'good old days'. I just rolled my eyes and shook my head as he stared off lost in memories. He blinked then and was back on Earth again. He stared at me long and hard and finally heaved a sigh before saying – non too happy, "Fine! You can go. But I wanna meet these new friends o' yours! I need to know just who my lil' gurls going bout with, you hear?"
"Okay, Uncle! I got it! Yes!" I jumped in the air happily, "Thank you. I'll be back before dark, I promise!"
"You better be, darl'in," I heard him grumble as I skipped off down the hall towards the front of the house.
I checked my phone as I turned the door handle and paused. I had 2 messages.
1st message from Deina.
'Cool. And yeah, I've been here all night. I stayed round. See you soon.'
Deina stayed the night? Huh...lucky! My Uncle's so freaking paranoid and over-protective! I mean he loves Amelia and Alice now but he never used to. Not really. I mean he was never cold toward them but he wouldn't let me stay to any of their sleep overs and he would always drop me off and pick me up if we were hanging out in town. I always had to call as well; every half hour otherwise he'd freak out and start to panic. He's gotten better as I've grown up – otherwise he would have freaking murderer me last night – but he's still sort of trying to hang on as if I'm still a little girl.
2nd message from Alice. I opened the message as I pulled the door open.
'You're not busy are you? Come to Amy's gig with me! Milo's got football practise so I'm lonely! x'
"Oh, I see you got my message! And you're ready to go, awesome!" I jumped, stunned to find Alice standing there grinning at me.
"Huh?" was all I could utter.
She took me by the wrist and dragged me door the steps. I heard my front door shut behind me as she almost dragged me down the street before I stopped her. I pulled my wrist out of her grip and stopped walking. I mean Jack's house was in the other direction so...
"What?" she asked, with a slightly annoyed expression on her face, she crossed her arms.
"Sorry, Ally, but I've already made plans today," I explained with a shrug.
"Already made plans?" she repeated like it was ridiculous. She clamped her hands on my shoulders and levelled her eyes with mine and ordered me, completely serious, "Shift your plans for another day. Make some room for your best mate. It's what BFFs do, my sweet Riley."
"Yeah, I know, but I was looking forward to-" she interrupted me with a huff.
"God, Riley! Why do you have to be so selfish! I mean first of all you didn't say a word to me last week in Maths, yesterday you left without me – didn't even tell me you were going – and now you can't hang out with me because you've 'already made plans' and 'Oh! Can't change 'em or nothing cause you're looking forward to 'em'! Well, I'm sorry but I've been looking forward to watching my sister perform on stage with her band for weeks!" She complained crossing her arms again and glaring at me. She then added spitefully, "You want me tell Amelia that you didn't come to support her band because you had more important things to do? You want me to tell her that her best friend couldn't be bothered and found something else to fill her time? Hm?"
"No," I mumbled, looking down at the ground.
"No – exactly," Alice sighed and shook her head, "Now come on. We'll pretend this little hiccup never happened and we'll be enjoying ourselves singing along to all the songs we already know, in no time at all."
She smiled as if all was well and turned on her heel expecting me to trail along as usual. That's what I was expecting too, to be honest, but my feet wouldn't budge. It was like I didn't want to go so my feet refused to take me. I want to go to Jack's but I was still fearful of the 'Wrath of Alice' as I secretly called it. I wasn't sure what to do.
Just then I received a text message and as soon as I saw the name, I took a deep breath and ran the in the opposite direction to Alice. Halfway down the road I heard her screaming after me.
"Hey! Riley! Where the fuck are you going? Don't you run away from me!" I glanced back over my shoulder and – bloody hell – she was chasing after me? "How dare you! You're so fucking selfish! I really hate you sometimes, Riley!" it didn't sting that much cause she often told me that, but it was usually more playful than this, "You freaking arsehole! I know where you live!"
As I rounded the corner I quickly looked back and saw she had stopped and started turning back, giving up on the chase – good! Now I could catch my breath. Jesus! There was something really wrong with that girl.
Before opening the text message from Deina, I decided to quickly text Amelia so that when Alice arrived at the gig she couldn't make a big thing out of nothing. Then I clicked on Deina's message.
'Where are you, Riley? Just a warning, Wuya's taking us to Chase Young's place. And I met him last night too. He stopped by Jack's. I'll explain later.'
Oh god. I thought as I turned the last corner on to Jack's street. From the way Jack and Wuya described Chase he sounds scary. Sure, Deina made him sound quite funny last night but that was only a joke created from a small little detail about him. What the other two had said – the people who had actually met the guy and knew him – made me shiver and shake with nerves.
And we were going to this guys 'lair'?
Did Deina really wake up in the middle of the night for no reason? And how will Riley react when meeting the infamous Chase Young? :o Ooh! :)
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