Chapter Eighteen
Year Twelve came along quickly for Fang, Iggy, Nudge and I. We all turned eighteen over the year and got our licences, well except Iggy, which he was most upset about. Fang was the first to get his. He and I had this little competition between us, for who could get their licence first. I had a four month head start, but didn't get my 120 hours in time. Lana let Fang drive everywhere.
It was harder for me; I ended up having to pay for lessons with an instructor. Dad was never willing to take me out, we only went driving together once, and it was a disaster. I got a bit of practice in with Lana and Melanie though, when I would go in the car with them. Melanie was always scared when Nudge or I would drive. She always said I drove to fast, and that Nudge got to close to other cars.
Angel and Gazzy started Year Eleven and Ella Year Ten, that same year. The twins had after school jobs at the little Chinese restaurant in Main Street and Iggy and I started working at the golf course, Iggy's neighbour owns. We would drive the golf buggy around collecting the balls. It was at those times Iggy and I would play a game where we would say a random word and the other person would have to say a memory they had with that word in it. We would sometimes tell silly ones, and other times we would say something know one else knew. These words would quite often trigger memories we had forgotten about. I loved working at the golf course. Iggy and I were allowed to use the golf course after hours. So sometimes the others would meet us their after our shift, and the seven of us would hang out, and have races in the buggies. We had played golf for the first couple of months after Iggy and I started working there, but we all got sick of it quickly, Iggy was the most enthusiastic about golf, and surprisingly the best at it, his blindness never seemed to hold him back, that always amazed me.
Age Eighteen
"I'm melting!" Iggy says dramatically bringing his hand up to his forehead.
"It's your own fault, I told you to wear shorts, its summer!" I tell him, looking down at his thick cargo pants and rolling my eyes.
"What ever. Here let me steer." Iggy says leaning over me and grabbing the steering wheel of the golf buggy I'm driving. I move my hands to my lap, keeping my foot on the accelerator.
"Slightly left. Okay straight." I say leaning back, but keeping a sharp eyes on the grassy field in front of us. Last time Iggy drove he ran us into the lake.
"How are you and Fang going?" He asks after a minute of comfortable silence. I turn my head to look at him. His pale blue eyes are staring forward. He turns his head in my direction, probably feeling my eyes on him.
"Good...thanks." I say slowly. He turns his head to the front again. I take the hair elastic from around my wrist and pull my hair, that's sticking to the back of my neck, back in a pony tale.
"Good. You guys have been dating for what four years?"
"Yeah. Why are you asking?"
"I'm just making conversation." He says shrugging.
"Okay... RIGHT!" I yell turning the wheel.
"Did you think Shara and Gazzy would last this long?" He asks, not even blinking an eye lid. We almost ran into one of the only tree's on the course.
"No." I say with a laugh. "Not at the start."
"Do you think it'll ever feel natural with Shara in our group?"
"I don't know. Maybe if she always hang out with us, but Gazzy and Shara aren't the kind of couple who spend all there time together."
"Not like you and Fang." He says grinning.
I smile. "I guess. Are you going to school tomorrow? It's going to be almost fifty Degree's Celsius." I say pulling a face, knowing Iggy can't see it.
"No way! Are you?" On the really hot days most kids stay at home. It's also a high risk for fires tomorrow.
"Nope. Fang and I are going to hunker down in my air conditioned house." I take a sip from my drink bottle. "You wonna join?" I ask.
"In on the hunkering? No thanks." He says with a chuckle. I put the drink bottle against him arm and he takes it drinking almost half of it then passes it back to me.
"Your loss." I say, twisting the lid back on.
"I'm sure."
"Slight Right, then left...LEFT!" I yell the last part, holding onto the door. "You can park here. I'll drive it into the shed." Iggy slows down and gets out of the buggy.
"I'll meet you in the club house." Iggy says over his shoulder as he walks off. I reverse into the shed, where the nine other buggies are.
I lock the shed after me, and then double check it just in case. One time Iggy and I forgot to lock up, and some kids took a joy ride on one of the buggies, luckily they left it on the course once they were done. We were so close to being fired.
Iggy and I hear yelling as we walked up to the twin's house. We had decided to drop in on the way home. I usually drop Iggy off after work.
"Ahh!" We hear Angel scream, we walk into the house to see her jumping onto Gazzy's back.
"Wow, what just happened?" Iggy asks turning his head this way and that.
"Stop, stop this madness!" Nudge is yelling, pulling Angel's feet. Fang walks casually into the room and sits down on the couch. Iggy and I walk around Gazzy, Nudge and Angel and sit down on either side of Fang. Fang turns to look at me and smiles.
"They've been at this for an hour." He says rolling his eyes.
"Why are they fighting?" I ask. I look back at them. Gazzy's now on the floor with Angel and Nudge on him. The three of them are yelling.
"What I've gathered is that Nudge has stolen something from Angel... and I don't know how Gazzy's involved, but Angels angry at him." Fang says. We turn back to watch them.
"Have you tried breaking them up?" I ask him, flinching when Nudge elbows Gazzy in the head, I think by accident...
"No." He says while laughing.
"You knew I liked him." Angel yells at Nudge. Gazzy manages to get free and runs away from the girls, and dives behind the couch we're sitting on. I roll my eyes at what I think Nudge and Angel may be fighting over, boys… I restrain from shaking my head.
"No I didn't!" Nudge yells back.
"You were going over to talk to him for me!" Angel says back.
"You only told me to tell him you thought he was cute."
"Exactly!"
"What?" Nudges says frowning.
"I liked him and you went over to him and asked him out." Angel pointed a finger at Nudge, who pushed it away.
"He asked me out." Nudge says defensively.
"You should have said NO!"
"Why were they attacking you?" Iggy asks Gazzy.
"I tried to stop them." He answers looking frightened. He sits on the arm rest of the chair next to me.
"He was a terrible date if that's any consolation." Nudge says after a moment. Angel narrows her eyes at Nudge.
"And he said he has a friend that thinks you're cute." Nudge adds.
"Really?" Angels asks suddenly grinning.
"We could double; he's got vouchers to some fancy restaurant in the city." Nudge suggests.
"Cool, I could wear that new dress I just got." Angel says looking excited.
"Oh yeah, that would be perfect." Nudge enthusiastically says. They walk off chatting as if nothing had happened leaving Fang, Iggy, Gazzy and I staring after them.
"I do not understand girls!" Gazzy says with a confused expression on his face.
"Either do I." I say seriously. Fang laughs at us and stands up taking my hand and pulling me up as well.
"We should get going, or you're going to be late picking up Ella." Fang announces. I nod.
"Where's Ella?" Iggy asks.
"She is at soccer practice." Fang answers for me.
"See you guys later." I say following Fang out of the house to my car.
"You didn't bring your car?" I ask him, as he opens the passenger side door to my car and climbs in.
"No, I caught a lift with Nudge, my cars still in the servo."
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