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Chapter 3:
The perfect Rosewood sun shot its way through my window pulling me out of my sleep. I tried to cover the light that had climbed its way through my room by burying my face into my pillow, but unfortunately I could not seem to fall back to sleep. I slowly, but surely, clambered my way out of bed and into my bathroom. Taking a look in the mirror I was disgusted by what I saw. When we had gotten home last night I had dumped myself onto my bed and fell asleep almost as soon as my head had hit the pillow and this was evident. My hair looked like a dead squirrel, I had panda eyes from smudged mascara, my lipstick was smeared over my mouth and my dress sat awkwardly on me, my arms not quite in their designated holes. I sighed at my reflection once more before making my way into the shower, not only to feel clean, but to get my face sorted out.
"Rise and shine! I would say good morning but it's nearly three." Jesse's laugh echoed through the kitchen only strengthening a headache that had developed in the shower.
"Please, would you keep it down." I muttered rubbing my temples.
"Someone's got a bit of a hang over!" Blake laughed sliding me a glass of water and two aspirins. I downed them quickly and soon started to feel my headache subsiding.
"Wanna go somewhere?" I asked my brothers. I was already bored with my house.
"Oh my god! Maybe we could go shopping, there is this ultra cute skirt I was thinking about buying!" Jesse said in the best fake girl voice he could manage. The creepy thing was it was convincing.
"Wow! Jesse you are hilarious, let me stop laughing!" I sarcastically replied.
"I've gotta pick my car up from Noel's, maybe you could give me a lift?" Blake asked already making his way over to the door. I chucked my keys over to Blake, I was in no state to drive.
"Shot gun!" Jesse called running into the passenger seat of my car. I leaned on the door as he unrolled the window.
"This is my car? Don't you think I should get precedence of the seat I sit in?"
"Hmmm, nope." Jesse laughed. Whatever, I got to stretch out on the back seat which was a plus right? After we had pulled out of the driveway Blake plugged his iPod into my radio, playing some weird, alternative music.
"Hunny we are so not playing this," I shook my head and replaced Blake's iPod with my iPhone, "Now this is more like it!" Smells Like Teen Spirit was blaring its way through my car and I was belting out the lyrics. My phone began to vibrate temporarily mucking up the flow of the music.
"Who is it?" I asked Jesse.
"Woah four messages from Aria. Someone's popular." Jesse laughed, causing us all to crack up. We got four messages in a minute usually. I grabbed my phone to read the messages, there was a reminder that Blake's car was at Noel's, Noel's number ~ he wanted me to have it ~ and two messages asking if my ankle was okay after last night. My ankle, I had been trying to hide my limp all day and thankfully it had worked, I was dreading wearing heels. That would make it harder to hide, considering I was in bare feet. I quickly text Aria back, apologizing for the late reply and lay back down on the long back seat. Soon enough we had pulled up into Noel's driveway and Blake turned the engine off.
"Meet me at that mall we went to on the way here?" Blake opened his door and walked towards his car where he was greeted by Noel and Mike. Seeing the boys, Jesse jumped out of the car and made his way over to them engaging in some conversation. I lay back down on my car and flicked through some old photos on my iPhone.
*BEEP BEEP BEEP*
ARIA:
Oh gud (: do u wanna come ova 2 Hanna's? Were treating ourselves 2 da BEST smoothies!
Shooting back a quick text saying sure, how could I resist smoothies? I jumped out of my car to get my shoes from the boot.
"Where are you going?" Blake called as I opened the drivers seat.
"To a friends, you wouldn't know much about that though." I cheekily replied. I began to back out of the driveway and laughed when I heard Noel tell Blake he had got burned, and by his sister. Apparently some sort of double burn? When I arrived at Hanna's I quickly checked myself in the reflection of the car. My long hair was done in a top knot, I was wearing a pair of skinny jeans from Armani, a petal crop top from Federation, a leather jacket and a pair of tall Chanel black heels topped off with statement jewelry. I looked stunning as always. I walked up to the door, reapplied my red lipstick and rang the doorbell.
"Hay Nikita! You look amazing." Hanna commented throwing open the door and giving me a long hug.
"Not nearly as amazing as you." I returned the compliment, and it was kind of true which was off putting. Hanna waved off the comment and we made our way into the kitchen with the other girls were gathered.
"This smoothie is delicious, here have one." Spencer said pulling me into a chair and placing a smoothie in front of me. Taking a small sip I realized just how right she was.
"Its like drinking amazingness." I laughed taking another, rather large, gulp. They all laughed along with me and I studied the girls, they all seemed much more relaxed compared to our greeting last night. Hanna was mindlessly flipping through an old issue of Vogue, Aria was brainlessly flipping her phone around in her hand while giggling with a much more relaxed Emily. When they noticed my gaze it caused them to laugh harder.
"What? Is there something on my face?" I worriedly asked checking my reflection in the shiny surface of the toaster.
"No! Your face looks fine." Emily commented causing all the girls to crack up.
"Okay, no seriously! What is it?" I began feeling worried and slightly insecure, a feeling that I had never ever even thought of feeling.
"It's nothing, really." Aria said forcing back a giggle. I held my hands up in mock surrender and looked at Spencer for help as she seemed the most composed.
"Okay, we'll tell you!" Aria said not able to contain her laughter, "Go Spencer."
"It's your story." Spencer retorted obviously none of them wanting to speak. When Aria laughed harder, Spencer helplessly shook her head and began.
"It's not even that funny, just us mature girls can't seem to stop laughing."
"Go on." I said when Spencer had taken to long to continue.
"Mike was having a little fight with Noel over you." Spencer said forcing herself not to laugh.
"What do you mean fight?" I said taken aback.
"Oh my god, got to spell everything out for you New Yorkers," Spencer joked, "They both are so into you, its actually a bit creepy."
"Mike was talking about you in his sleep!" Aria interrupted, her laughter nearly causing her to fall to the floor.
"Oh god! You are all lying right?" I asked hanging my head to the table. I had a lot of guys weirdly obsessed with me back home and it broke a lot of friendships, I didn't want that to happen in Rosewood. We talked about rubbish for the next few hours before I got a call from Dad. I have never had one of these before, at least not for the past five or so years.
"Hi Dad." I spoke into the phone waiting for what ever bad thing was going to say.
"You are at the Montgomery's right?"
"No I'm at Hanna's, Aria's her too."
"Your brothers said you were all at the Montgomery's."
"They probably just got confused, I said I was hanging with Aria."
"You're not with your brothers? Anyway we are going out of town for a few days. Tell your brothers." Dad abruptly finished hanging up the phone. No I love you? Man I'm funny, when was the last time either of my parents had said that.
"That sounded serious." Hanna laughed as I took my seat at the table.
"Not at all, just typical parents." I replied sending a quick text to Jesse and Blake saying that Mom and Dad would be out of town.
"Tell us this typical parent move, impart your wisdom on us!" Aria chortled.
"They're leaving us for a few days." I said in a faux sad voice.
"Lucky bitch!" Hanna murmured.
"Wait, they're not leaving anyone to look after you?" Emily asked shocked.
"Not everyone's parents are as strict as yours Em's." Hanna commented placing a puzzled look on Emily's face.
"Honestly back in New York, we would be lucky if we saw them twice a month." I commented nonchalantly, receiving amazed looks from the girls.
"But school starts tomorrow? Don't your parents like need to go with you?" Emily asked, clearly she didn't know my parents.
"That's probably the reason they left." I replied causing us all to laugh. We spent the next few hours shitting ourselves with laughter, before we decided it was time for a good feed.
"Well my house is empty of food, as you guys can tell." Hanna commented looking around in her pantry.
"Just come to mine, we always seem to have an abundance of food. Honestly we could feed all the starving kids in Africa." I laughed standing up from my seat.
"Are you sure? We don't want to impose." Emily replied, I had noticed she was the most timid, kindest of the girls.
"Impose on who?" I laughed and with that we all made our way into cars driving towards my house.
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