Chapter Six

To go

Our trip to the mall was really fun, the mall in Williams was huge just like the rest of the city. Elly and I both bought a dress from Hollister Co. to wear to the party tomorrow night and I also got a dress from some fancy store like mom told me to for the dinner. My dad is letting me drive the truck to the party, which I was pretty excited about because dad's truck is amazing. I could not wait until the party I was going with my best friends and Elly and Travis. I was going to meet Kaylee and the girls there. Elly was staying the night tomorrow night so we can go together and get ready together. On the way to the party we were picking Travis and Tyler up. This party was for many reasons. Elly and Travis were hopefully going to get together. I guess Elly and Travis were hanging out to and Elly now had a crush on him. In my opinion Travis isn't boyfriend material, but love is love and you can't really control how you feel about someone, that's my opinion anyways. When we got back to Hill Side it was about ten-thirty at night.

"Do you just want to stay over tonight to?" I asked Elly. She nodded her head and went outside to call her mom. I ran down to my parent's room to peek my head in. They were both in bed but dad was on his laptop and mom was reading a book. "I'm home." I smiled at them. They looked at me simultaneously.

"Well let's see what you got," my mom said smiling. I grabbed all the bags that were mine out of the dining room. My mom thankfully agreed to the dress I picked out for the dinner we had to go to and liked what I picked out for the party. I said my goodnights to my parents and shut their door. When I got back to the living room Elly was sitting on the couch waiting for me.

"Hot tub?" she said to me smiling.

"Oh yes," I replied to her laughing a bit. We ran up to my room to change into our swimsuits. The hot tub was my favorite thing after a long day of shopping.

Elly and I stayed outside for awhile. We stayed in the hot tub until about midnight. After we were dry we went up to my room to read magazines that I had.

We were surrounded now by Cosmo, Vogue, and Seventeen. I had like 30 issues of each magazine. Hey, I like to keep up on the celebrity gossip.

I shot up in bed and looked at my phone it was 11:30 A.M... I was supposed to meet Tyler at Locha Mocha in fifteen minutes. I sprung out of bed towards my closet.

"Elly, wake up!" I yelled. She shot up off the floor.

"Bethaney, why are you yelling?" she asked still half asleep. I gave her a really-I-don't-have-time-for-this look. She yawned in response.

"Because, I have to meet Tyler in," I paused looking down at my phone, "ten minutes at Locha Mocha." I pulled my tank top off over my head and realized I still had my swimsuit on. I shut the door to my closet and changed into a bra and put a new tank top on. I pulled on a pair of shorts, slipped on my flip flops and opened the door. I ran across the room to reapply a bit of make-up but not too much. I threw my hair up in a messy high bun and grabbed my phone and money off my dresser. "Ok I'm ready, I'll drop you off your house on the way."

She nodded her head and grabbed her bag that was by my door. We ran down the stairs towards the garage. We drove in silence except the radio playing. When I got to her house I looked at her and smiled before she got out.

"Hey," I said. She looked towards me. "I'm sorry; I just didn't want to be late."

"Its fine I understand." She smiled at me. "I'll see you at five. I'm going to drive over here so don't worry about picking me up." I nodded my head and waved goodbye driving away slowly.

Three minutes later I was in front of Locha Mocha. I could see Tyler sitting inside waiting for me. I hurriedly walked into the coffee shop and took a seat across from him at his both

"Hey,"I said. "Sorry I'm late."He nodded and handed me a cup.

"It's ok," he said. "I got you some coffee, your favorite." He smiled at me. I smiled back. It was my favorite smell in the world. The French vanilla scent radiating from my cup was relaxing.

Tyler cleared his throat and said, "So you ready for the party tonight?"

"Yeah, I got everything planned. I think it's going to be a lot of fun."

Tyler and I just sat there for a few moments, not saying anything, just drinking our coffee. We sat at our table for maybe an hour. After two cups of coffee we left to go walk on the boardwalk. I couldn't wait for my birthday next month. I knew for sure that Sophia was going to come up here and we could all go to Ocean Blue. The smell of the food was almost overpowering right outside of the restraunt. The doors were open and people were spilling out, busy day I'm guessing. Tyler's friend Aaron worked in their as a chef along with Ashton another one of Tyler's friends, then one of Tyler and my friends, Athena works as a cashier and a waitress.

"Do you want to eat lunch? I'll pay," Tyler said.

"If you're sure you want to it's a long line and you already bought my coffee." I replied.

"It's no big deal Bethy," he looked down at me and smiled. "Really."

I smiled and nodded at him, "Ok, whatever you say."

Ten minutes later we were actually in Ocean Blue. Songs were playing loud above us. I think the song was from All Time Low which happens to be my favorite. I started singing to the music. Tyler looked at me and I saw it out of the corner of the eye that he was watching. When I looked at him he turned his head away smiling like he was never looking at me. I looked towards the front again, and he looked at me again.

"What," I said not turning my head back towards him. I laughed. "What are you staring at?" This time I looked at him with a huge smile on my face.

"I wasn't staring at you," he said dumbly. I sighed.

"Yeah you were, when I was singing," I replied. He laughed a bit and shook his head making his hair fall over his eyes.

We were approaching the front of the line. I saw Athena and waved, she waved back smiling. I've know Athena since last summer. Tyler dated her for like a month, but it didn't work out for them. But it wasn't one of those we dated and I'm never talking to you again things, in fact I'm pretty sure they are still friends. But anyways as her and Tyler were dating I hung out with them a lot so I ended up being friends with her.

"Hey guys, what do you want today?" Athena asked she had a huge smile on her face. Tyler looked at the menu and thought for a moment.

"Well I just want a cheeseburger and French fries," I said.

"I'll take the same," Tyler stated. Athena punched a few keys on the cash register.

"That's going to be $20.85 do you want it here or to go?" I looked around the restraunt and there were pretty much nothing open, not even my favorite spot that is by the jukebox and the big window.

"To go," I answered for Tyler. She put the paper on the spinny wheel for Ashton and Aaron and looked back at us.

"So you going to Kyle's party tonight?"

"Yeah, I'm going with him and a couple other people," I said. "You going?"

"I think I am. I'm getting out of here like right when it starts then I got to go home and change really fast, so I guess I'll see you there." She said smiling again.

"Yeah, I'll find you it was nice seeing you again, we got to hang out sometime." I said to her. I gave her my number and Tyler and I left going towards the beach. We found a spot on the dunes that looked comfortable so that's where we sat, eating in silence. I couldn't believe it was already 3:30 in the afternoon. In an hour and a half Elly would be at my house then we could get ready for the party.