Sorry for the late update, guys. But this chapter is extra-long, so hopefully it's worth the wait. The places that are bolded are because they're of my creation; they don't actually exist. And, I'm taking ideas for some new characters, so if you want private message me with your ideas! :)
"Well if it isn't my two favourite girls" said Landon with a smirk. I noticeably cringed away from his outstretched hands that were trying to grab me and Massie, pushing her back.
"Well if it isn't a complete fuck head" I said, glaring at him. Massie grabbed my hand and squeezed, reassuring me she was still there.
"Aw, isn't that cute. You think that makes me sad? Aw, you're such a sweetie" He said, moving towards me again. I tried to back up until I realized that I couldn't back up anymore. My back was against the stairs. Shit. Shit. Shit.
"You really shouldn't be such a fucking tease, Cbear, it's not nice. It might make some lad's frusturated" he said, locking my hands so I couldn't move.
"WHAT THE FUCK, CREEP. GET AWAY FROM ME" I screamed, trying to wriggle my way out of his grasp, and failing. Massie was pulling at his back, desperately trying to get him away from me. I looked around, hoping to catch a glimpse of Derrick or Cam but couldn't; the area was empty, and no one was downstairs in the lobby of our dorm.
"I'm just having a little fun, C, what are you freaking out over?" He said, tightening his grip on my arms and bending down to kiss me. I took my cig and pressed the tip against his neck.
"What the fuck WAS that, you dumb bitch?" He screamed in my face. With all the strength I could I kicked him hard in the balls, and when he let go I grabbed Massie's wrist and ran. I ran as fast as I could, refusing to look back. I somehow dropped my cigarette as I ran, not that I really minded; I just wanted to get the hell out of there, and get the hell out of that situation. We ran to the parking lot and Derrick and Cam shut up and looked at me as though they knew something was wrong.
"What's wrong, guys?" They said as I jumped in the backseat and hid, dragging Massie in after me. Once everyone was piled into the car she began explaining what had happened and watch the irritation on Cam and Derrick's face grow more and more.
"What a fucking wanker. He's going to pay for that" Cam said, clenching his face in the passenger's seat as Derrick pulled out of the school parking lot and headed towards town.
"Let's see what he has to say when we get a hold of him" Derrick said, growling, and keeping his eyes on the road but visibly clenching his fists on the steering wheel.
"At least C sacked him hard enough" Massie said, snickering. I giggled and high fived her as the rest of the car cracked up and congratulated me. Cam was fiddling with the radio, and noticing there was nothing on, slipped in one of Derrick's Anberlin CD's in. Audrey, Start the Revolution blasted through the cars speakers as the four of sung and laughed at the top of our lungs and laughing as people stared at us from other cars, and from the street. We passed several small shops until we found a parking spot on the street.
"DERR. SPOT" Cam yelled over the pounding of the music. Derrick whipped his head around and pulled into the spot as fast as he could, knowing very well that if he didn't it'd be taken at the blink of an eye. In town was always busy; it's what all the boarding school teenagers did whenever they had a free moment, along with several adults and young children from neighbouring communities. Tonight was no different; the shop lights sparkled against the black of the sky and the street lamps reflected against the damp ground. As of right now it wasn't raining, but it looked like it was about to at any given moment. Water was dripping of terraces, street lamps, chairs, table, and about any other higher than the ground surface water was possible to get on. Everyone unbuckled their seatbelts and slid out of the car, Derrick walking around to put money in the metre for 3 and a half hours; the curfew for weekdays was 11 o'clock, but for weekends students didn't even have to come back if they didn't want to.
"Okay, so where shall we go first?" Mass said, wiggling around, trying to keep herself warm. Everyone stood around the metre, pondering the thought.
"Well, are you guys going to come shopping for our room with us?" I said, raising my eyebrows at the boys. They looked at each other with wide eyes, and shook their heads rapidly; they knew how we got when we talked about decorating.
"NO NO NO NO!" Derrick said, practically pleading at us not to make them come. Massie and I looked at each other and giggled; they were desperate, it was obvious, and hilarious.
"Finnnne, you don't have to come with us" Massie said, pouting at both boys, trying to make them feel guilty, which we knew they weren't going to.
"How about this: Mass and I got shopping for our room, we meet at ten, go for coffee, and then go back to campus?" I said, looking between my best friends faces. They all looked at each other and nodded, knowing it's what was best for the group. That way, we got to shop for our room (and four ourselves!) and the boys got to do… whatever it was that they wanted to do. Which was probably find a spliff dealer and then smoke up, or go clothes shopping or something. Something that didn't involve being with two girls swooning over fabrics, candles, and about any other "girly" thing the boys could think of.
"Okay, let's meet at Maur's for coffee at 10" Derrick said, looking at Mass and me. Maur's was the best coffee shop in this town. Everything was cozy and homey, and it made you feel like you were with family whenever you were there. Not a lot of people went to Maur's because they were "too cool" to be there, though most of them didn't take the time to actually go in to see how amazing it was, not that we minded, because it was never too crowded, which was just the way we liked it.
"Sounds like a plan!" Mass said, as we took turns kissing everyone on the cheeks and parted ways. Massie and I walked first towards Dawne. Dawne was a locally owned furniture shop it the city, and one of our favourites to go to. Their furniture was from all over the world, that got shipped in for whatever reason, but was totally vintage, and super cute; when students from BP came to buy furniture, this was usually the place. It was just a little local shop, but once Mass, Der, Cam, and I started shopping here, it went from small to big, we just had that much of an influence over what people bought, even if we didn't actually mean to.
"What do you think we should look for?" said Mass, looking at me with raised eyebrows. I pursed my lips, pulling out a pen and stray piece of paper from my purse.
"Hmmm" I said, tapping the pen to my lip. We weren't allowed having any "big" furniture in our rooms, but we were allowed having smallish things, like extra appliances, end tables, trunks, coffee tables, etc. Anything small and that didn't necessarily have to be delivered to the school was okay, which made our decorating work that much harder; but at BP, individuality was encouraged, which was why they let us do so much to our rooms. Except paint, we weren't allowed painting.
"Well we need new end tables, ours are atrocious" I said, with a laugh, scribbling "end tables" as we walked. Massie nodded her head and laughed along with me.
"And we need shoe racks or something; I'm not sure if you've noticed but shoes will be littering our floor all year if we don't get one" Massie said.
"That is way too true; we love our shoes" I smirked as I scribbled down "shoe rack."
"I want a trunk for all my purses and clutches; it's so much easier than throwing them around the banisters of my bed and in my armoir" I said, scribbling it down.
"Ouuuu! Cute idea! Put me down for one too!" Massie said, clapping her hands. I scrawed "x2" next to it. We were about to walk by a bench when I stopped and raised my eyebrow, motioning to sit for a second so we could finish our list.
"Good idea" Mass said, lowering herself on the bench next to me. I tapped the pen against my lip again and pursed my lips, thinking.
"We should buy rugs. The wood flooring gets bloody freezing during the colder months" Massie said, nodding.
"That's a brilliant idea!" I said, writing it down and clapping my hands. Massie smiled at me as we stared off in the distance, watching teenagers milling around and smoking spliff and ciggs.
"How about some more mirrors? We can make designs on the walls with them" I said, waiting for her reply.
"That's a brill idea, C!" Massie said, smiling at me. I smiled at her, and scrawled Mirrors on our list, already picturing what we could do.
"So here's the starting list: shoe racks, trunks, rugs, mirrors" I said, doodling on the edge of the piece of paper which I soon realized was, in fact, a receipt for alcohol that we had bought a couple weeks ago.
"That sounds good for right now, let's just go in and see what else we find" Massie said, staring, blowing out her breath and watching it swirl up into the evening sky.
"Alright, sounds good" I stood up and shoved the list in my bag and linked arms with Massie, as we walked side by side down the busy street into the heart of town, where people were staring at us enviously. We saw a couple people from school, who smiled our way that we didn't really know. That was always the worst; people we didn't know looking or waving or talking to us. We couldn't even pretend to like them because we had absolutely no idea who they were. Sure, it made us look like bitches sometimes when we were liken "uh, who are you?" but they really couldn't expect us to pick a face out from a crowd and know who it is, it just wasn't us. We saw the neon store lights of Dawne's looming in front of us, with the intention of getting us to come in. We opened the glass door and were instantly welcomed by a warm blast of air and a vanilla-like smell. We looked around the store; some students that I vaguely recognized from BP were shopping for school furniture, as were an old couple in jumpers of bright colours. They were cute, the old couple; they were holding hands and gazing lovingly into each other's eyes when they weren't looking at furniture. The old man kept giving his wife kisses on the cheek and murmuring softly in her ear which caused her to giggle. I hope I'm going to be happy like that I said to myself. Massie speaking brought me out of my trance.
"C, what's on the list, again?" I rooted in my bag for the crumpled up list and pulled it out, I read the list out loud again as Massie nodded when each word was said, looking around to see if she could spot it.
"Why don't we look for the shoe racks first? They're the smallest, I'm sure" I said to Massie, already pulling her towards the back corner of the store and grabbing a shopping cart. We glanced around at everything, taking it all in.
"We should buy a clock as well; we can't always glance at our cell phones when we want to know what time it is" I said, grabbing my pen out of my purse and scribbling it down, even though It seemed so unnecessary because we were already here.
"Hm good idea" She said, nodding. We looked around the corner of the store we were in and picked out two cherry wood shoe racks that were three stories, knowing very well that we would probably need to buy some more, but two was a good starting point, stuffing the shoe racks into the shopping cart. I crossed it off my list and we moved onto the next thing
"Okay, next is… trunks." I said, stuffing the list back in my pocket. We glanced around the store, trying to point out where the trunks were and not being successful. I glanced around, trying to find someone who worked in the store when I saw a teenage boy with a "Dawne" apron on. I put a finger up to Massie and walked up to him.
"Hey, how can I help you?" He said, smiling. He had the brightest, whitest teeth I've ever seen.
"Well, Andrew" I said, reading his name tag.
"My friend and I were looking for trunks for our rooms, do you have any?" I said, batting my eyes at him. Andrew was cute, really cute. He had long blonde hair that was tied in a small pony tail at the back of his neck, and had the brightest blue eyes. He towered over me, looking like he was 6'2" or something equally as high.
"Yeah, we have some in the back. Would you like to come see them?" He said, grinning at me, I flipped my hair and nodded, smiling.
"Mass, come on! They have some trunks in the back that we can go see, thanks to Andrew" I said, smiling at her. She pushed the cart with a skip in her step that I didn't even think was possible. We trailed Andrew who was humming an unknown tune under his breath, pushing away the curtain that was separating the two areas. We followed Andrew and glanced around, there was furniture everywhere. There were furniture everywhere and anywhere which made the room like smaller than it actually was; it was gigantic and we had to move around in a single file to be able to all fit. He brought us to the back of the room behind a cluster of couches where another room was.
"Here are our trunks" he said, smiling at Massie and I. We glanced around the small room we were standing in and were able to fan out. There were trunks of every shape, colour, and size. I opened my eyes and viciously glanced around the room trying to take it all in. I ran my hand over some trunks and spun around a little to see them all.
"Take your time, and come find me once you've decided what you wanted. And don't worry, no one will take your shoe racks" He said and laughed, exiting the room.
"well he couldn't take your eyes off of you" Massie said and grinned. I rolled my eyes at her.
"Pfft, yeah okay. He was practically salivating when you came into view" I said, nudging her. She blushed and shook her head.
"You're so silly, Claire" she said and laughed. I laughed alongside her and continued looking through the trunks. I crouched down to inspect one on the ground, and immediately fell in love with it. It was A dark wood with elephants carved into it in royal reds with brass buckles.
"It's beautiful" I breathed, rubbing my fingers over the elephants. Massie stopped looking and crouched next to me.
"Wow, it really is beautiful" Massie said, running her fingers a long it as well.
"Oh, I chose my trunk as well" She said, standing up and pointing at a trunk high up on the wall. I stood up next to her to get a better look at it; it was simple, and looked stained old. It was gold brass buckles and a rope like design on the edges.
"Aw, it's absolutely perfect for you" I said, smiling at her.
"I love it! Okay, I'm going to get Andrew. I'll be right back" She said winking at me and skipping away. I shook my head and laughed, my phone vibrating in my pocket. It was Cam.
C,
D and I realized we didn't give you the keys to the car
so you're going to have a wee bit of trouble getting
your stuff in… where are you so we can drop them
off? – C xoxo
I stared stupidly at the screen. We completely spaced about getting Derr's car keys so we'd actually have somewhere to put all of our stuff… oops. Just then Massie came back with Andrew, who had an empty cart with him and another guy who's name tag read "Kyle" he too, looked our age. He had short brown hair that was messily spiked, but so sexy. He had green eyes and the perfect sized hands, with a scar at the corner of his mouth.
"So Massie here tells me you two have chosen your trunks?" Andrew said, grinning at us.
"Yes, after much dilebration we've decided on the trunks we wanted" I said, smiling. I remembered I had to text Cam so I pulled out my phone and composed a quick text message.
C,
We're at Dawne's, in the back room looking at trunks.
You can meet M & I at the front of the store. Text us
when you get here.
-C xoxo
And sent the text message. I shoved my phone in the back pocket of my jeans and turned back to the boys and Massie.
"Who was that, your boyfriend?" said Kyle smiling. I laughed out loud.
"Boyfriend? No. That was my brother" I said, smiling at him, Massie gave me a subtle nudge in the side.
"What did Cam say, C?" Massie said, looking at me. I turned to face her before speaking.
"He said that we forgot to take the keys to Derrick's car, so they're bringing them to us so we don't have to walk around with all this stuff" I said, as she nodded.
"Wait… your brother is Cam Lyons? And Derrick as in Derrick Harrington?" Andrew said with raised eyebrows. Massie and I looked at each other with "huh?" expressions on our faces and nodded.
"Yeah, Cam's my brother. Derrick is my best friend. So is Massie, here" I said, slinging my arm through hers.
"You don't say…" Kyle said, loading the trunks that we pointed out on the cart.
"Is there something wrong with that?" Massie said, automatically taking on a bitchy expression that I didn't know if she meant or not.
"No, It's just that we know of them. And of you two, actually. We just didn't know from where. We go to Redwood" Andrew said. Oh. Redwood was our rival school, the school that we beat in everything, since before anyone could even remember. I smirked.
"Is that so?" I said, looking up innocently as Andrew loaded the final trunk on the cart.
"Yeah, we've gone to a couple of your parties, and I assume because ours are so awesome that you've come to ours as well" Kyle said, looking at me with the smuggest grin he could muster. Massie and I turned to each other and snickered, then rolled our eyes.
"Um, our parties will always be better, but nice try, boys" I said, patting each boy on the shoulder and skipping out of the room and into the real store, Massie hot on my heels. I pulled out the list again and crossed trunks off of it, moving to the rug section.
"You know that's not true!" Called Andrew from the other side of the store, parking the cart with the trunks in front of the register as we browsed carpets.
"You wish" Massie said, examining a Persian rug.
"What do you think, Claire? What colour do you think our "main theme" should be?" she said, fingering the fringe of a black carpet.
"Hm, I'm not sure. If we go with white or black it's classic, but with the trunks we've got like, a jingle theme going on. What do you think?"
"I think we should go jungleish theme; reds, gold's, browns, yellows. Stuff like that" she said. I nodded along with her and sorted through carpets of different shapes and sizes. Two hands covered my eyes, the hands I recognized almost immediately.
"Hey, Cammie" I said, smiling. He groaned and let go.
"I hate that you know when it's me" He said, pouting. We turned around to give both him and Derrick hugs, and went back to our search.
"What kind of carpet are you guys looking for?" Derrick said. Though he won't admit it, he actually liked looking at fabric, or at least looking at carpets with us.
"We're looking for reds, gold's, yellows, and brown's. Sort of like an African jungle theme" Massie said, flipping over another carpet. Derrick and Cam stood next to us, helping us look. Until Cam stopped and held up the flap of a carpet.
"How about this?" He said. We all stopped what we were doing and looked at it. It was perfect; it had the same elephants as my trunk, and it was laced in gold around the edges, with browns and reds in the middle. Massie and I looked at each other, the same grin masking our faces.
"It's perfect, Cam!" I said, smiling at him. He grinned back and went over to Andrew and Kyle who were sitting on the front desk talking. They sauntered over with a look I couldn't quite place on their faces.
"Good choice, girls" Andrew said, sliding it out from the others and rolling it up, while Kyle ran around it a couple times with some clear tape to hold it together. I pulled the list out of my pocket and crossed that off the list; all that left was mirrors. I showed Massie and she nodded, then we skipped across the store to the other back corner and looked at all the mirrors. After much deliberation we chose small square mirrors that we were going to make a big square out of on our walls.
"We'll need about ten" Massie said, murmuring and picking them up, and handing me five. We walked over to the check-out counter where Derrick and Cam were talking with Andrew and Kyle about some party that was going down at RW this month, and how we all should come, etc. We placed the mirrors carefully on the desk just as Kyle slid off.
"You two sure bought a lot of stuff" Kyle said, his eyebrows raised.
"At BP creativity is encouraged" I quoted to him, he rolled his eyes and smiled, scanning through all our stuff. Before he could even utter the price (which surprisingly wasn't that expensive) Cam was sliding his gold AMEX card in his direction.
"Nice brother" Andrew said, raising his eyebrows at Cam, who just shrugged.
"What can I say? I'd do anything for my girl" said Cam, putting his arm around me. I laughed and snuggled into his shoulder.
"But you guys are siblings…" Andrew said, a look of disbelief in his eyes.
"Yeah, and she's the most important thing in my life." He said, rolling his eyes and singing the slip of paper.
"We're close, obviously. And that's never going to change" I said, looking Andrew directly in the eyes. He put his hands up in mock surrender as he wrapped up the mirrors. Once everything was wrapped and in a cart (well, two) they thanked us for shopping and told us that we should come to the party. We nodded and left. We walked to the car and stuffed everything in the trunk, it just barely fitting.
"Jesus, you bought a lot of stuff" Derrick said, finally closing the trunk. Massie and I simultaneously shrugged and laughed.
"Okay, now that that's settled, we'll let you girls continue to shop. It's only eight now, so we'll still meat at Maur's at the time from before, okay?" Cam said, looking at us.
"Yup, sounds good" I said, smiling at him. We parted ways again, and Massie and I headed towards Light It Up, which was the place we bought our candles and incense from since we started at BP. This, as always, was going to be a long trip.