Hello everyone! Here is Chapter one! Enjoy!
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"Cio! Are you sure you left it here? It could be at Jordan's house." Amira and Ghiaccio had been best friends since grade school, although Amira was two years older. They'd grown up next door to each other and most everything that Cio tended to lose could be found at Amira's house. And vise versa.
"Not a chance, Ami! Me and Jordan don't talk! He's your cousin, after all. I'm just the BFF." Cio snorted over the phone. "Besides, the guy doesn't like me."
"Uh-huuuuh….. if I remember correctly, he sent you a love letter just this month."
"Which I threw back in his face!" Cio cried indignantly. "No offense to you or anything, Ami, but your cousin is the creepiest boy on the face of this planet!"
"Here. Here!" Amira grinned, adjusting the phone so she could finish painting her big toe a blood red. "I agree one hundred and ten percent. That doesn't mean that your notebook is here! I've been looking all weekend for you! What's so important about it anyways/"
"Uh….. Let's think!" Cio began sarcastically. "It has my entire week's worth of homework in it! I seriously do NOT want to do Mr. Baxter's report of the life of a plant cell again!"
"Oooooooh. You got Baxter this year, huh? Not a fun Freshy class." Ami laughed, finishing her toes.
"So says the all superior Junior! This isn't funny! The guy seriously scares the crud out of me!"
"Okay, okay. But I'm telling you it's not here. I've been looking all weekend for you!"
Ami heard her friend groan. "Oh man! I'm seriously screwed! The report is worth half of our final! It could make or break me in the first quarter!"
"Have you tried under your bed?"
"Yeah, for all the good it did me!"
'Which is obviously NONE!' Ami thought. The underside of Cio's bed was a disaster area filled with old papers, drawing pads with nothing in them, wrappers, and so much more. It was impossible to find anything in Cio's room. Which was why Ami always lost things over there. Unlike her friend, she was organized. Almost scarily so. "Try again."
"What?" Do you know how long it took me to put everything back!" Cio's voice was incredulous. "C'mon, Ami! You gotta help me! Please! I'll buy you that new Super Junior M CD you want!"
Ami thought about it for a second. On the one hand she really didn't want to sort through the chaos that was Ghiaccio's room. But on the other hand… She really, really wanted that CD. She bit her lip in contemplation, her hazel eyes scanning her organized desk with its already completed homework folder sitting in the middle. It wasn't like she had anything to do. And that CD was awfully tempting…
"Give me half an hour and I'll be there."
"Got it!" Cio cried triumphantly holding up a crumpled notebook, her black hair and discolored eyes shining in the fluorescent lights of her room. They'd been searching her room for the better part of three hours and it was only when Cio bothered to open her discarded overnight bag that they had found it. The bag she'd used when they had the overnight study party last weekend.
"Why didn't you check in there in the first place?" Ami cried throwing her hands into the air and flopping back onto Cio's bed. "Could've saved us a whole lotta trouble!"
Ghiaccio grinned apologetically. "Don't be too upset… You're gonna get that CD, right?"
"Right now I'm debating if it was worth the three hours it took for us to just look in your bag!"
Cio waved her hand dissmissively."Don't worry, it'll be worthwhile once you actually get it." She and Ami stood, looking about the mess that was Ghiaccio's room.
"What about your room?" Ami took a long look at her BFF, a slendor eyebrow raised higher than the other.
Cio laughed and said,"Don't worry. It's just like it was before, just messier." Amira sighed and shook her head. She liked Cio, she really did, but the mess was just impossible. Impossible. Ghiaccio pat her friend's shoulder and said in an upbeat tone,
"Hey! At least I found my notebook."
Ami laughed and rolled her eyes, picking her way carefully towards the door. She didn't want to break her neck at this young age just yet. Cio followed her out, but with less caution. She lived there; she should know how to navigate.
Cio stopped a moment and said, "Ami, is there a way to get your cousin off my back?"
Ami gave a small shrug, the ghost of a smirk on her lips. "Why don't you try going to another world for awhile?"
"Oh, suuuure!" Cio said sarcastically, drawing out her words. "That sounds like loads of fun! Just let me get my spacesuit and ship warmed up!"
Ami rolled her eyes. "Just a thought…"
"An impossible one."
Ami shrugged and tossed her shoulder length brown hair behind one shoulder and turned to look at Cio in her blue and green eyes. "Look. I don't control Jordan, kay? The guy's a creep, but he at least respects your boundaries. Besides, I've been meaning to ask… What's that?" The older girl was pointing at two odd looking trinkets sitting in the only empty spot on Cio's desk.
"Oh! I found them at that old pawn shop downtown. Cool huh? I got you this one!" Cio handed a bright yellow gemstone necklace to her friend while she held the dark green one. "It's totally your color!"
"Uh-huh…" Ami just stared at the old looking piece of jewelry. The design surrounding the jewel was pretty, made from polished silver and twirled in delicate swirls around the yellow stone, supporting it in their clutches. It hung from a black leather string that seemed like it had withstood time itself. Cio's was the same only instead of silver there was gold, and her leather strap was brown, not black.
"Don't look at it like that!" Cio cried, snapping her fingers in front of her friend's face.
Ami pulled back, startled, and looked up at her friend, a frown on her face. "Stare at it like what?"
"Like it's going to pull you in or something. It's creepy."
"I was just thinking it was pretty…" Ami defended herself.
"Yeah, well, the guy who sold it to me was looking at them the same way. It was creeping me out." The freshman shivered.
Ami raised her brow again. "The guy? I thought it was a girl who worked behind the counter at the Pawn Shop…"
"I didn't buy it in the store!" Cio rolled her eyes as if it should be obvious. "There was this guy who was selling outside the store. He reminded me of Gollum not wanting to give away his ring…"
Ami rolled her eyes. "You have an overactive imagination."
The other girl grinned. "Somebody's gotta! Or your life would be boring!"
"What was that!" Ami cried, lunging and locking the younger girl in a headlock and grinding her knuckles into the top of her head in a noogie. "Care to repeat that?"
Cio squealed, but refused to give in. She wriggled and struggled, laughing the entire time. The only thing that saved her was when her mom called up the stairs,
"Ami, dear, would you like to stay for dinner!"
Ami released Cio, leaving her friend's hair in a knot on her head. "Yes please!"
Then she was rushing down the stairs, squealing as Cio ran after her with a water gun she'd had on her nightstand.
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