I updated fairly quickly this time, but it might not happen this quickly all the time. I have a lot of uni work I have to finish haha.
We'll here it is! The 2nd chapter! Enjoy!
"Oh darn it!" I exclaimed loudly as I, once again, had managed to kick my paint tin off the ladder I was on. Luckily, the paint tin was almost empty, so not much paint was spilt.
I let out an exasperated sigh as I climbed down the tall ladder to retrieve the paint tin. I picked it up and examined its contents. 'looks like I will have to buy more for the second coat after all…' I thought to myself.
"Seems like your having trouble painting!" Came a voice from behind me, causing me to drop the paint tin again, before it hit the ground however, it hit my toe.
"FUDGE!!" I yelled hopping a bit In pain…what is WITH these townspeople just appearing out of nowhere!?
"Oh! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to scare you!" Came the voice again, whoever it was picked up the pain tin.
I turned around to accept it, when I met the eyes of a young man I had met on my introduction adventure on the first day.
I tilted my head to one side trying to recall the name…
"…L-Lucas?" I questioned, hoping I got it right.
"Close enough." He grinned. "Names Luke remember?" he added
I blushed a deep red.
"I'm so sorry…I've never been good with names…" I said
"Don't sweat it…your name is…is Angel right?" He grinned.
…Angel? Did he actually forget my name, or was that just some cheesy pick-up line?
"Uh, no, Angela…" I said, scratching the back of my head.
"That's right! Sorry!" He said, a little tinge of red arose on his cheeks.
"Can I help you Luke?" I asked.
"Um, actually, I was wondering if you wanted me to help you! I noticed that you were painting, and it's never a good job to do by yourself. Want me to lend a hand?" Luke smiled.
"Luke…That would be spectacular!" I beamed.
"Awesome, lets get to work then!"
Luke and I painted the house all day, working on a wall each, by the end of the day I just had the second coat of one wall left to do. Luke and I had chatted ALL day as well, I'd made my first real friend here. He was a little simple, but he was the nicest boy I'd ever met. He was also one of the easiest persons to talk to, conversation hadn't stopped all day.
I yawned, and looked at my watch, it was already four-thirty.
Luke yawned and stretched, "Well I'm beat!" he smiled in my direction.
"Luke, thank you so much for helping me out today. I'm really glad you did! Not only because I'll actually finish the house tomorrow but I'm glad that we got to know each other a bit. Congratulations, you're my first Waffle Island friend!" I laughed.
He beamed, "You're a great girl Angela, we're gonna be great friends! Say, me and some of the other Island kids are meeting up at Armonica at about five thirty, did you wanna come? Its gonna be fun, I'm sure they everyone would love to get to know you more!" He smiled hopefully.
I wasn't nearly as tired as I was yesterday, so there was no chance of me passing out before I actually got to the bar, and I certainly wasn't as messy as yesterday so it wasn't going to take as long to clean myself up…
"Sure! That sounds splendid !" I replied.
Luke smiled with excitement, "Great! I'll see you there then!" and then he ran off.
I decided to take a shower to wash the paint out of my hair.
Today had turned out much better then I actually expected it to. Luke; we'll quite simply he was just amazing, you would never be able to hold a conversation about politics or global issues with the boy, but god, how he could make you smile. Weather he was just being cute, or being silly, Luke's smile was infectious. I found myself smiling probably ninety precent of the day today. He seemed to be always happy about something, and that happiness just radiated off him. I felt, if Luke was just standing in a crowded room everyone could probably feel the warmth radiating from that boy. Even thinking about Luke made me smile! I'm glad we were friends.
I put on one of my more presentable dresses, did my hair and made my way to the Armonica bar. I opened the door and I instantly spotted Luke, his smile was hard to miss.
"ANGELA!" He called, waving happily.
I smiled and waved nervously, it seemed I was the last one to arrive.
Luke was sitting at a table with about seven other people. Some, I had never met before, and some I recalled the names of… There was Luna, and her blue haired sister, a very exotic looking girl I hadn't seen before, Gill, the major's son, I recalled Julias immediately, he made quite an impression, it was hard to forget someone who dressed as elaborately as him. A perky girl with blond hair who I recalled worked at the inn, and a guy who reminded me of Indiana Jones.
"Everyone! This is Angela!" Luke said, grabbing my hand a pulling my down into the seat next to him. Suddenly I felt a heated gaze to my right, I turned to look, and I swear the exotic girl was death-staring me. I quickly looked over my shoulder to see if Chase was working, he was, so I gave him a little smile and a wave and turned back to met the table.
"Angela, this is, Luna, Candace, Selena, Gill, Julias, Maya and Calvin!"
I grinned, stood up and bowed deeply, "It's a pleasure to met you all!"
A procession of hello's followed.
I sat back down, it seemed Luke was giving the group the introduction for me, he excitedly recited the brief personal information I had giving him today, where I lived, who my parents where and what not.
I was rather nervous to start off with, I had average people skills, I was fine talking to new people one on one but in a big group I could become a bit reclusive. However as the evening progressed I found myself talking and talking more.
"It's a shame Toby and Renee couldn't make it, their both really nice people. They'd really like you Angela!" Luna said smiling.
"I don't think I've met Toby yet, but Renee…she the girl who works at brownie ranch?" I questioned.
"Yes, oh, if you take up fishing you'll see Toby a lot, that's all he ever does." Luna said.
"Why couldn't Toby make it?" Julias questioned Luna.
"I'm not sure, Toby didn't go into details when I invited him." She replied.
Maya giggled, "I know the reason why they both couldn't make it!"
"Oh really?" Grinned Luke, "And why are they both not here?"
"We'll Renee told me yesterday that Toby had asked her on a date! He probably took her to some secret fishing spot or something." Maya said giggling.
Julius set his cup on the table, he was the last one to finish his drink, and so that meant the next round had to be ordered, this time it was my turn.
"I'll go get the next round guys!" I said smiling getting up and memorising the drinks they asked for.
I walked up to Chase,
"Hey Chase!" I grinned.
"Hi." He said un-enthusiastically.
I recited the drinks to Chase, and then added "Oh! And a lemonade for me!"
He got to work preparing them. There was no conversation and I was feeling a little awkward.
"So, Luke was saying that apparently this bar hanging out session happens pretty much every week…If you have a day off you should join us!" I said trying to be friendly.
"My only day off is Sunday." He replied.
"We'll Luke organises it for whatever day suits the majority of people. So if it's on a Sunday one week, will you come?" I asked.
"Probably not." He replied.
"Why?" I asked.
"Well for one thing, Maya bugs me, I want as little to do with her as possible." He shrugged.
I frowned at him a little. "Maya is a nice girl, why don't you like her?"
"Her peppy attitude pisses me off." He sighed.
"You really ARE awfully frank you know." I sighed leaning on the bar waiting as Chase poured the last drink.
"No point in lying to anyone." He said, passing me the round of drinks.
I smiled a little and shook my head and walked back to the table.
Btw, they were all actually drinking alcoholic drinks, but Angela was ordering soft drink all night instead, she didn't want to have a hang over the next day when there was so much work to do on the farm!...i probably should have added that in somewhere xD
Please let me know what you think of this story, Constructive criticism is GREATLY appreciated.
It shouldn't take me that long to write chapter three, but I have quite a bit of uni work plying up so maybe it will =S. sorry if there's a delay between the chapters.
I found while writing this chapter I encountered a little writers block, I think it was only because I figured out how I was going to set things out and became eager to write later chapters. Haha, but now that this chapter is down, I'll be fine.
Chapter three coming soon!
P.S. if you've encountered spelling mistakes grammar mistakes etc that I haven't picked up on, please let me know!!