Two girls who need help- over the same guy
Macey stared at the multitude of posters on the notice board. She saw Cheerleading- she imagined herself dancing in one of the skimpy skirts next to her Camp-BFF and now BFF. She thought but didn't see her. She thought of Football. HA! She thought that's all sliding in mud- ICK! She read the others Volleyball, Cycling, Skateboarding. None of them suited her.
I hope she doesn't do this every day.
"What looks like me?" she asked Benita Laurent. Benita tossed her honey coloured hair over her shoulder busily typing on her Treo.
"Yeah, sure" Benita flagged the question not even registering the question in her head.
"Benita!" Taylor stomped her foot tossing her own blond hair over her shoulders. She knew Benita was probably talking to her uber- rich boyfriend, Collin who was in Tobago doing charity work but did she need to do that now?
Um, yes, boyfriend less freak?
"Hey Venus!" Macey swung around who knew of the Greek names her father called the triplets except Benita? She rubbed her eyes as Derek waved to her from behind the girl he was holding hands with back. Why was Taylor's summer boyfriend here? And if he was, did Taylor see him with the other girl? And if she did, where was she?
"Bye!" Macey raced off leaving Derek. Derek sniffed his arms hoping it wasn't his scent and his girlfriend still hadn't turned around. She burst into the bathroom to check her hair. Taylor sat untop the counter brushing her hair.
"Did you see him Exei?" Taylor nodded. The twins pulled out their lip-gloss at the same time swiping it across their lips simultaneously. Macey winced. Taylor? Wearing lip-gloss?
"Exei? Are you wearing lip-gloss? And eyeliner?" Macey freaked out. Where did her sports love sister gone. Was she having an allergic reaction to seeing Derek? Where was Jeremiah anyway? She grabbed her sister's face soaking it with water. Her sister was in shock and then screamed.
"Exa! Let me go!" Taylor screamed. Derek's girlfriend and Benita burst in.
"Is everything okay?" Benita asked taking in the scene. Macey let go of her face.
"Yes!" Taylor yelled at her sister.
"No it isn't. Taylor didn't want to-"
"Stop! Just Stop!" Taylor stomped running through the door. Macey raced after her forgetting all her books and hand bag in the bathroom. The disadvantage of having a track team sister who wore sneakers won and Taylor burst through the glass doors, hailed a cab and escaped. Macey slouched down on the steps defeated.
Kelsey lost her only best friend for today as she ran off from her sister and it clearly looked like if they were fighting. She'd been a good person and collected the things for Macey but she was back to being the Princess and Ricardo. It sucked. Macey dropped next to her.
"Did you find her?" Kelsey asked thinking of Derek at the minute.
"No she wouldn't answer me but she spoke to Jeremiah. She told him where she was. He just left" Kelsey felt herself imagining her and Derek's first time but saw Jeremiah instead.
Don't worry, you're not the first.
"Why were you fighting?" Macey thought about it. What would she say: Over your boyfriend?
That's what I said.
"Hey Kelsey, can we talk?" Derek looked at Kelsey. She looked at Ricardo. He nodded.
"We're going for coffee, sir, right down the street." Ricardo nodded and they went down the main street in silence. Why was he carrying her for Coffee? She hated it and why was he being respectful to Ricardo? 'Sir'? Even she didn't call him that.
"Two jasmine teas" he told the Three Guys kiosk salesgirl. She raised her nose at them and went around back. He led her to a table and sat tapping his nails as if he didn't know how to start.
"So Um, what's wrong?"
"Kelsey, I'm sorry, but this is the end and I never wanted to feel so bad about something that never lasted and-"
"Never lasted, Derek? We've been together for two years and counting, Tomorrow would've made it three." She lowered her gaze running her fingers through her hair and letting it fall unto her shoulders.
"Kelsey, you're not making it easy."What? Ran through Kelsey's mind as she finally clarified what he had said.
"What!" Kelsey got up with such haste she knocked over the table. Little All Souls school children stared at her frightened.
"Listen, It would hurt me if I had an affa-"
"Oh my god!" she screamed running out of the shop. The six letter word that hurt everyone. Affair. She always thought he was one of the good guys, but three years, one vacation and he's no longer a virgin. The question was who? She was going to have Ricardo shoot off the bitch's face.
"Kelsey, understand me" Derek ran after her. Maybe she'll have Ricardo shoot off his face too!
Ah, the joys of a bodyguard.
"I do, you never loved me and I don't think I will ever do again." She hopped into a waiting car. The old man stared at her grandfatherly like.
"86th and Madison" she babbled Alexei's address as if she lived there and let the tears fall.