As soon as I heard the school bell ringing, I rushed outside to meet Phil and Dan. I saw them waiting at the silvery gates, Phil glanced over at me and began to wave. Avoiding the mass of people leaving to go home, I quickly walked over to them.
"So, are you sure that we can go back to your house? " Dan asked as we sauntered down the dirty pavement.
I tugged on my ponytail, and then untied the hair band from my auburn hair. "Yeah its fine, I texted my mum in English and asked her. She won't be back until later."
"Awesome, I can't wait to see your house!" Phil smiled, as adorable as ever.
I walked ahead of the two tall boys and pulled out my brass key. The lock made a 'click' sound as I turned the key inside it. The house was clean and tidy but I ran up to my bedroom, I didn't want them to see any embarrassing photos or teddy bears that may be lying about my room.
"Are you upstairs Cara?" I heard Dan call out.
"Yeah, just take your shoes off and come up here." I shouted back, stuffing a photo of my younger self with a gap tooth into my sock drawer.
I heard my bedroom door open and turned around to see the pair gazing in awe around my room.
"It's so nice in here; you have such a great view from your window. Can I please steal your bedroom?" Phil chuckled.
"How do you keep your room so tidy?!" Dan exclaimed, "My room looks like a landfill compared to this!"
"It's probably because I moved here two days ago remember? I haven't had a chance to create any mess." I laughed, "Anyway, do you want a hot drink? Follow me down to the kitchen."
We wandered downstairs, Dan managed to fall down half the stairs resulting in us all collapsing in a heap at the bottom of stairs and laughing for a good ten minutes.
"I'm sorry Dan but that was hilarious." I giggled, wiping the tears from my eyes. I'd laughed so much I was crying!
"I'm just so amazingly awesome that I can't help but fall over every so often." He smiled at me, "You promised me tea, and I need tea now!"
I clicked the switch on the kettle and heard it begin to heat up, I grabbed our best mugs and dropped a tea bag into each of them.
"Do any of you have sugar?" I enquired.
"No I don't, you're sweet enough." Dan said whilst winking at me.
"Dan!" I blushed violently, "Do you have any sugar, Phil?"
He looked confused at me, "No I don't, and what was that about?" he tilted his head to one side.
"Cara kissed me earlier!" Dan laughed, "So I'm presuming that we are 'going out' now." A wide grin spread across his face.
"Really!" Phil's face lit up, "That's really cute! You should have told me earlier though."
The kettle came to the boil, steam pouring out of the spout, creating a cloudy curtain between me and Dan for a moment. I was relieved that we wouldn't have to hide anything from Phil. I poured hot water into the mugs and added milk; I chucked the used teabags into the small compost bin that sits on the granite work surface.
"Anyway, let's go upstairs and start planning!" I said cheerily, I picked up a packet of digestive biscuits, unfortunately that was all that was left in the biscuit barrel.
We made our way upstairs and into my room, I pulled the velvet cushions off my bed and threw them on the floor.
"Is it alright if we just sit on the floor? I'm not too keen on getting crumbs in my bed." I laughed as I set the biscuits and my mug on the floor.
"Yeah I like sitting on the floor, as long as I'm next to you." Dan said gently, with no signs of embarrassment, "So, what's the magical plan?"
I'd been thinking about this since I asked Dan back to my house earlier that day. "I think that we should do a huge array of different jokes, but just on the group of people being horrible. I heard them talking about a football practice they have after school tomorrow, so we need to plan things for that time. We could cover their clothes in treacle, itching powder, Clingfilm on toilet seats. Anything you can think of!" I sipped at my hot, sweet tea.
Phil's eyes twinkled as he said "Great idea! We could find a way to make the shower water blue, turn them all into Smurfs." He grinned, nibbling at a biscuit.
Dan and I looked like nodding dogs as we listened to Phil's great idea. This was going to be extremely difficult to pull off, but if we did it would go down in history as possibly one of the greatest pay backs of all time.
"Alright, we know what we're doing. We need to gather supplies and plan everything to the minute! We're only going to get a short time to do all this, because we can't carry rucksacks full of itching powder, blue dye, and treacle around school without looking suspicious. We could leave everything at your house, Dan, because you live the closest." I smiled, completely satisfied with our plan.
I suggested that we should go around the village centre, to buy the many components for tomorrow's plan. I pulled Dan and Phil to their feet and we ran out of the house, the sun was setting so we hurried to the shops that were more likely to sell the things that we needed.
"I think we've got everything." After two hours of shopping we walked through Dan's front door, laden with shopping bags.
"I'm excited for tomorrow now, those jerks won't know what hit them!" Dan punched the air, obviously content with what we were going to do.
Phil laughed, "I better go back home now, but I'll see you tomorrow. Just to check, we are meeting here half an hour before we have to be in school so we can make sure that everything is planned?"
"Yes that's right, see you tomorrow Phil." I waved goodbye at my ebony haired friend as he disappeared out the door.
"Well, I'd better be going as well, can't wait for tomorrow… love." Saying the word made everything seem real, I don't think I'd ever felt happier.
"Goodbye, love." And with that he kissed me tenderly on the lips. After saying our final goodbyes I wandered home, enjoying the rest of the day, still smiling to myself about the reality of my wonderful life.
Thank-you for reading! I hope you're all enjoying the story so far; it may be a couple of days until the next update because the next chapter should be quite long. Thanks for all the lovely reviews. If you have any constructive criticism to give please PM me or just leave a review. :3
~ Elerwyn