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Angelica, Susie: 17 (Seniors)
Chuckie: 16 (Junior)
Tommy, Phil, Lil, Kimi: 15 (Sophomores)
Dil: 14 (Freshman)
Angelica's P.O.V.
I won't let these little things
Slip out of my mouth
But if I do
It's you
Oh it's you
They add up to
I'm in love with you
And all these little things
I wake up to the harmoneous blend of One Direction's voices and smile. I sit up in my bed, stretch out my arms and crack my neck. I slip into my pink bootie slippers and make my way to my bathroom.
I take a shower and then go over to my closet to choose an outfit for the day. I decide on a beige pointelle sleeve cowlneck dress that reaches the middle of my thighs and nude tights underneath. I sport a pair of sparkly tan lace up platform bootie wedges. I put on a gold fringed bead necklace, a pair of silver teardrop earrings and chunky gold bracelets.
I put on dark brown eyeshadow at the end of my eyes and a golden brown colour towards the inside of my eyelids. I make little wings at the end of my eyes with dark brown liquid eyeliner and put on some long false lashes. I line my lips with a brown-red coloured lipliner and then put on a dark red shade of lipstick. I blend the lipliner, causing a dramatic effect on my lips.I straighten my hair and curl the bottom. I check myself in the mirror when I'm finally finished. I look amazing. As usual.
I grab my Louis Vuitton tote and go over to the kitchen down the hallway.
"Morning, Angie." Mom greets, her back facing me as she cooks breakfast.
"Morning." I respond.
"How was your day yesterday?"
I freeze. Oh fuck. I think, remembering what happened with Chuckie.
"Um, it was alright."
"I was surprised when you said that you were going to Chuckie and Kimi's house. You're all friends again?"
I silently laugh. Friends? We've never been friends. We were all acquaintances at best.
"Yeah, sure."
I hear my phone blast As Long As You Love Me by Justin Bieber in my bag. I dig through my tote unti I reach my new iPhone. I answer it.
"Hello?"
"Hey, bitch. I'm outside." Savannah says and hangs up.
"Savannah's here, mom. I'm leaving." I say as I leave.
"Bye." She says and waves from where she's cooking.
I walk outside to find Savannah, Susie and Paris all packed into Savannah's baby blue Volkswagen Beetle convertible.
Susie is wearing a light blue embroidered lace shirtdess and black booties. Her hair is straightened and her makeup is light. Savannah's hair has beachy waves in them and she's wearing a long sleeved orange cowl neck dolman top tucked into a dark blue skater skirt that reaches the middle of her thighs and a pair of brown scrunched platform boots. Paris' hair is pulled back into a tight ponytail and she's wearing a short sleeved black button shirtdress that goes down to her knees.
I hop into the passenger's seat and Savannah starts driving.
"How was your time with that loser, Ang?" Savannah asks, not taking her eyes off of the road.
I try to laugh. "Lame."
"Did he try anything this time?" Paris asks from the back seat.
"Uh, yeah." I mutter.
"WHAT?!" Savannah laughs whilst turning towards me. "What did he do?!"
I make a disgusted face. "That loser kissed me!"
Everyone says, "EW."
"That's DISGUSTING." Paris says.
"I know!" I agree, but something inside of me is making me feel guilty.
"Guys, stop being mean!" Susie says from the seat behind Savannah's. "He's a nice guy." Now I really feel guilty. I'm such a bitch.
Savannah rolls her eyes. "Whatever. He's such a loser."
"Yeah, either way you knew we were gonna be bitchy to him, Susie. This was an experiment." Paris explains.
She's right. We made this 'experiment' because we knew that Chuckie had a crush on me. I was supposed to be really nice and make him fall even harder for me, and make him believe that he had a shot with me. But instead of me feeling proud of myself and laughing my ass off, I feel bad for him. Spending time with him made me see how fun he is. He's actually pretty cool, not that I would admit that.
"Still, Chuckie is a person. No one deserves this." Susie says.
"You agreed to it, Suz." Savannah says whilst she's still laughing.
We get to school and park in our usual spot. I look around the parking lot to find my old group of 'acquaintances.' I see Tommy and Lil talking with Dil and Phil and Kimi kissing. But I don't see Chuckie.
"I'll be right back." I say to my girls as I exit the car and walk to the gang. "Hey." I greet them.
Everyone looks pretty shocked to see me. "Uh, hey." Tommy says.
"What's up?" Phil asks.
I ignore them and look at Kimi. "Where's Chuckie?"
"He's at home right now." She answers.
"Is he sick?"
She shrugs. "I have no idea. Probably. He hasn't spoken to me since last night when we watched that movie."
I gulp, feeling guilt in my stomach. "Oh." I say, and start to chew on my perfect French-tip manicured nails.
"What's wrong?" She asks. "Did something happen with you two when he drove you home last night?"
I shake my head. "Uh, no. Look, I gotta go, bye." I say and walk away back to my friends.
"Why were you talking to those losers?" Savannah asks as I get closer to them.
I make an annoyed face at her. "Excuse me? Two of them are my cousins, they're not losers."
She laughs. "Ang, are you okay? You always call them losers."
"They're my cousins. I can call them whatever I want." I defend them.
"Fair enough, but you can't defend their lame friends."
"What are you talking about? Lil is the captain of the soccer team, Phil is friends with literally everyone, and Kimi is one of the most popular girls in school!"
Savannah rolls her eyes again. "Please, being the captain of the soccer team is not cool, Phil always hangs out with junkies, and so does his bitchy girlfriend, Kimi, who's only popular because she's a slut!"
I feel my blood start to boil with anger. She's really starting to piss me off. "Fuck off, Savannah." I say coldly and walk away before I lose my cool and punch her.
As I walk to homeroom, I feel strange. Why did I get so mad about that? It's not like Phil, Lil, Kimi, Tommy, Dil or Chuckie are my friends.I keep wondering. I decide to push the thought aside and go on with my day.
School just ended and it was really strange. Chuckie's in almost all of my classes, so it's weird for him not to be there. He has a perfect attendence award, so he's always in school. I must've really hurt him. I feel like shit.
I've been ignoring Savannah and the girls all day. I'm not mad at Susie or Paris, but I've needed time to myself to think.
I get to the bus stop to find the gang again. I wave at them.
"Hey, Angelica." Lil says.
"Hey." I say back.
"You look a little weird. Are you alright?" She asks.
I look down thinking that she's talking about my clothing. I realize what she means and look back at her. "Yeah, I'm fine. What about you?"
"I'm good." She responds with a smile.
The bus arrives before we can further our conversation. We all get into the bus and take our seats. I take my usual seat as well as everyone else.
Throughout the bus ride, I keep my focus out the window. I watch where we're going until after about five minutes of being on the bus, we get to our first stop. Kimi and Phil get off the bus.
Right outside of my window is her and Chuckie's house. I feel something in side of me telling me to do something, so I stand up and walk out of the bus.
"Angelica?" Kimi says in confusion, while holding Phil's hand.
"Uh, hey."
"Where are you going?"
I sigh. "Uhm, can I talk to Chuckie?"
She and Phil exchange a weird look and raise their brows. "Uh, sure. Come on." She leads the way to her house and unlocks the front door. "He should be upstairs in his room."
"Thanks." I say and make my way to his bedroom.
"Hey, Angelica!" Phil calls.
I turn around. "Yeah?"
"Don't try anything 'funny.'" He says whilst putting air quotes around "funny" and wiggling his eyebrows.
Kimi and I roll our eyes and she punchs him. "OW." He screams in a high pitched voice.
I go upstairs and stop when I reach his room. I take a deep breathe and lightly knock on his door.
"Go away, Kimi..." He groans.
I knock a little louder. "It's not Kimi."
He doesn't respond for a couple of seconds. "...Angelica?"
"Yea."
He takes even longer to respond. "Come in."
I slowly open the door to find him laying in his bed. His room is completely spotless. "Hey."
"Hi." He says, looking straight up at his ceiling.
I walk over to his desk chair and move it next to his bed. "Why were you absent today?"
He pretends to cough. "I'm sick."
I roll my eyes. "Yeah right. Why were you actually absent."
He looks at me. "Why do you care?"
I shrug. "I don't know."
He looks back at his ceiling. "I just wasn't in the mood to go today."
I look away from him and nod. "Oh."
"Yup."
A long awkward silence passes. It takes about two minutes before I speak. "I'm sorry."
He looks back at me. "Don't be."
I feel my heart start to hurt. "I am."
"Why?"
"Am I the reason why you were absent?" He ignores me. "I'll take that as a yes." I look away from him again. "I played with your emotions."
He looks genuinely upset. "No you didn't. You were just being nice, and I took it the wrong way. I should be the one to apologize."
I feel a tear fall from my eye. "No, you shouldn't. I did what I did to you on purpose. To humiliate you."
There's another long silence. "Why would you do that?"
I shrug. "I'm a cunt."
He looks at me. "No you're not."
"Yes I am. I wanted you to get hurt. And you did."
"It's okay. I'm used to disappointment."
I start to cry lightly. "It's not okay, Chuckie. I'm horrible! I'm a bitch!"
He looks at me and shakes his head. "You're perfect to me."
I go to the other side of his room. "Stop! Stop making me sound like a saint! What I did was horrible, and I don't deserve your forgiveness."
I realize that I'm full-on crying at this point. "Don't cry."
"Chuckie, why do you even like me?! I'm horrible to you!"
"Because I can see the real you. The real genuine you who you hide under your mean, bitchy disguise."
I sniffle and take another deep breathe. "I don't understand you. You see people in a different light. Why do you do that?"
He shrugs. "I guess I just don't want to think negatively of people who don't deserve it."
"But I do deserve it. I purposely was mean to you."
"I like you too much to hold that against you."
I smile a little bit. "I like you too, Chuckie."
He looks up again. "Just not in the same way as I do."
I walk over to him again and lean down. Our lips connect for a split second before I pull away. "In the same way."
Hello guys. I'm sorry if this chapter was a tad confusing, but I thought that it was cute. The new One Direction song Little Things was released today, and it inspired me. Also, I got today and tomorrow off from school because of Hurricane Sandy! If I don't lose power (fingers crossed), I'll be able to write more and the next chapter will be up much sooner! Anyways, I hope that you guys liked this chapter. Happy Halloween! Please Review. (:
