Chapter 5: Making Up
The four girls went through school and never once saw Will. Taranee had been thinking of what had happened earlier and it bummed her out to where she wasn't even thinking straight and all but Cornelia are having the same problem. Cornelia however, wasn't working either and like the others, they weren't paying attention. The principle had each girl come to the office to talk. "Ok girls, I know how you five must feel seeing your friend leave without any hint of where she is going and so I have decided to let you five go home now. You can't focus and that's not good so all of you go home." The principle then sent the four home.
The five decided it best to just go to the Silver Dragon. Yan Lin saw the girls come in and got some soup ready for the four. A few minutes after the girls walked in, they were brought some soup. Hay Lin thanked her grandma and went to stirring her soup around to help cool it off. Taranee however, just stirred her soup around for five minutes and then she heard a complaint from Cornelia. "I can't believe we got grounded. Why didn't we just say that we don't know where she went and let Irma's dad take care of it?" Cornelia whined and then stuck some soup in her mouth.
Taranee slammed her spoon on the table and started yelling. "Cornelia, do you really think that this is Will's fault?" Cornelia nodded. "Tell me Cornelia, would lying have helped us or hurt us more. Think about it, we are always around Will, why wouldn't we know where she is?" Cornelia shrugged and continued to eat her soup. "If we lied Cornelia, our parents wouldn't believe us. They know that we are always around Will so telling them that we don't know when they know that we do would just get us into more trouble." Taranee paused and took in a deep breath to calm herself down. "Why didn't we just tell them where she is Cornelia?" Cornelia shrugged again. "We are her friends and so we defended her by not saying anything. The last thing Will needs right now are cops coming to her door and bugging her to go home when she clearly wants away. What kind of friends would we be if we told them where she is?" Taranee sighed and then continued. "Will needs friends right now more then anything and right now we haven't been very good friends to her. She needs us and I'm going to go apologize to her. By the way, it's our fault we're grounded Cornelia, not Will's because we could have told them where she is but we didn't and so it's our fault, not hers." Then Taranee stood up and walked out the doors with Hay Lin and Irma right behind her leaving Cornelia to think.
Will sat on her couch and then heard the doorbell ring. Will got up and answered the door to find three of her four friends at the door. "What are you three doing here, come to yell at me some more?" Will said sadly.
"No Will, we actually came to apologize to you for being jerks. We should have been better friends to you now more then ever. Though Cornelia" Before Taranee could finish her sentence, a voice was heard behind them.
"Came to say sorry." The three girls at the door turned around and saw Cornelia standing behind them. "You didn't deserve what we did to you. I especially should have been nicer to you since I just wanted someone to blame. I've been the worst to you Will and I'm sorry." Cornelia said with tears in her eyes.
Will smiled and invited the four in. "Thank you everyone, I appreciate it but shouldn't you be in school?" Will asked confused.
"We would be Will but we were given some time off more or less." Irma said in a calm tone. Irma wasn't in any mood to be her peppy self. "You forgive us for being the worst friends ever?"
"I wouldn't say the worst friends ever." Will paused for a second and then spread her arms in opposite directions. "Come here." Will said as the five got into a group hug. "I could never not forgive you." Taranee was about to comment on Will's grammar but let it go. They stayed like that for three minutes before Will felt sick and then pushed them away and ran to the bathroom. The four girls smiled and gave off some chuckles. Will came back into the room and apologized. "Hey, would you four like to help me get this place into something livable?" The four nodded and they got to work.
Cornelia took care of all the dust while Irma and Hay Lin got busy cleaning counters and other things in the kitchen. Taranee helped Will clean up the rooms and by the time they decided to quite, the apartment looked better but is still incredibly ugly. After four hours and they had hardly made a dent in the place. "Thanks everyone for the help, I really appreciate it but you four had better get going. Your parents will be expecting you four home pretty soon." Will looked at the clock and turned back to the others. "School has ended so you had better get home so you don't get into more trouble with your parents then you already are." The others got to the door, waved goodbye and then left. Will smiled happy to have her friends back on her side.
Irma got home and walked into the house and went straight to her room. Irma continued to think about the day and then thought of something. 'Hey girls, can you four hear me?' Irma thought to the others hoping that their telepathy would work from that far off. After a few seconds, Will answered and soon the rest answered as well and they held a secret conversation even though they are grounded and not allowed to talk to friends except for Will of course.
A/N: I am having a hard time trying to write these chapters with school in the way. Anyway, there you go and please review and please continue to review. Thanks for all the reviews, I greatly appreciate them and I hope you enjoyed.