PUBERTY 4
Riley woke up with a groan before stretching and climbing out of bed. She stopped to look in the mirror. She turned to the side and examined herself. Nope, no breast like her new friend Jamie. Sigh. She stood up against the wall and measured herself. Nope, same old 4'5 Riley. No growth spurt like her friend Lana. Sigh.
She trudged to the bathroom to shower and get ready for school. Not that she was eager to start puberty, but she didn't like how her friend Jamie would practically shove her small growing breast in her face or how her friend Lana went on about how she had grown 5 inches over the summer. Most of all she hated when people would tell her 'be patient. It'll happen when you're ready' or 'You can't rush thinks like this, Ry'. She most of all hated when some of the 'popular' girls would look at others and say 'poor thing' or 'some are unlucky'
So she showered, brushed her teeth and Disgust picked an outfit for her. She ate breakfast and went to school, yadda yadda yadda.
"Hi, Riley!" Her friend, Jamie, bounced over to her.
"Um, hi," Riley said biting her lip. It was hard to talk to her friends without them talking about... Awkward stuff. She was waiting for Jamie to start taking about her cup size or something.
"So, darling. what are you doing after school today?" Jamie adjusted the straps of her bright pink backpack. She was the only 11 year old who called anything 'darling'
Riley shrugged "Probably nothing. Lana's coming over after school. We'll do boring stuff like Watch T.V, catch up on homework, nothing exciting,"
"That sound like so much fun!" Jamie bubbled, like she didn't even hear what Riley just said "You know what I'm doing after school?" She paused dramatically, waiting for Riley to answer
"Ohmigawd, let me guess!" Riley mocked in a high pitched tone before turning around to glare at her friend "On second thought, I don't really care."
"Oh, come on Ri! Guess!" Jamie tugged at Riley's arm
"Oh, golly. It's just so hard to guess and actually care," Riley tapped her chin and rolled her eyes.
"You're going bra shopping, aren't you?" Riley's other friend, Lana said walking over from her locker.
"How did you guess?" Jamie skipped over to Lana.
"It was really hard considering that's all you've been talking about," Lana's brown eyes met Riley's blue ones and they shared a disdainful look.
"I mean I literally just bought some a few months after school started, and now they don't even fit!" Jamie said, giddily.
"And that's a good thing?" Lana questioned, raising an eyebrow
"Duh!" Jamie said. "So on a completely different note,I heard that Nick likes me,"
"Nick's cute," Riley chimed in absent-mindedly.
"I guess he is, but I kinda like Elijah. So I heard them talking about Lisa and how She was so developed," Jamie said, her smile fading slowly
"We're in fifth grade for heaven sakes! Do we really need to be 'developed'?" Lana said looking down at Jamie. Lana did get annoyed when Jamie went into her crazy pre-teen mode even though she often bragged about her ginormous growth spurt. She was five foot one for heaven sakes! Riley got fed up with both of them, ( but more so Jamie. Who wants to talk about bras and a period) and made a mental note to make some new friends when she started 6th grade...
"Well I mean not in fifth grade, but when I'm 16, I want a hot boyfriend and a big arse. Is that to much to ask for?" Jamie shrugged
"C'mon Riley, or we'll be late for class." Lana tugged at Riley's sleeve. Once they were safe inside their history class, Lana leaned in toward Riley and whispered something in her ear.
"I'm so happy she's not in this class," Lana said "I mean I love her, but i really don't want to hear about her developing butt,"
Riley rolled her eyes. Inside her head angers red fingers hovered over the curse word button.
"Anger! Nononono, find some words to say, those aren't what we need to express ourselves," Fear rushed over to anger and slapped his hands away from the button.
"Shut up!" Anger glared at fear punching him square in the stomach.
"Ow!" Fear crawled up to his room in utter pain.
"Ugh, this girl is really annoying me. What is she trying to do, make us feel better? What an Idiot.." Anger fumed, banging his fist into the button.
"Oh my gosh, I know right? I mean, I wish she would just shut the hell up!" Riley said back to Lana. Then she smirked. She'd never actually cursed before, but she liked the way it rolled off her tongue so easily. Jamie cursed all the time. That girls mouth was filthiest than the bathroom only her grandpa used. If Jamie were here, she would have said 'that's hardly even a bad word,' in her cocky posh accent. Riley wasn't even sure why she liked Jamie so much. Probably because she's funny and even though she makes her feel inferior, she accepted her and her inferiorness,
After history class, she had English which she would be hearing more about Jamie and her shopping. She did her best to tune her out, it didn't really work. She heard everything that Jamie was saying.
"Okay,you guys don't have to thank me now, but just keep it in the back of your head. I was right and you were wrong. I'm a genius, I know," Disgust said. "Now, if you don't mind, Anger, will you shut her up? I gonna go click some more buttons"
Fear glanced over at Joy as Disgust and Anger made their ways to he console. Joy just shrugged and gave him a small smile. "Eh. What could happen?"
"I'm going to click height, and breast." Disgust announced
"What? Disgust, no! Joy do something!" Fear said "You pushed puberty a few weeks ago, give my body some time to adjust. I'm not even used to seeing those obnoxious buttons yet! You're all moving to fast!"
"Fear. Did you hear nothing anyone just said? Her friends being a-"
"Ugh, she's such a bitch sometimes!" Disgust heard Riley complain to Lana once Jamie was at her locker.
Anger was at the console a devilish smile, plastered to his red face.
"I wasn't going to say that, but it fits." Disgust shrugged
"Anger, stop." Fear said "What if a teacher hears her? We'll get a detention and, mom and dad will find out, and they'll take our phone away, and one day we'll hang out with friends and we'll get lost, and we won't have a phone and we'll die of starvation and dehydration-"
"Does it look like I give a damn?" Anger said, his smile gone replace by an annoyed glare.
"No! That's the problem!" Fear said, still shaking
"You guys are morons," Disgust sighed, quickly pressing 'breast' and 'growth-spurt'.She turned around, her hips swinging back and forth sassily.
Fears eyes rolled into the back of his head, as he slipped into unconsciousness.
"Alright, Anger," Joy said. She pushed Anger to the side,gripping the console. Riley started laughing about something that Lana had said.
Riley walked home with Lana, joking about random things that nobody else would understand.
"I wonder how shopping is going for Jame," Lana wondered, looking up at the clouds.
"Knowing her, it's all good. She might even come to school with two bras on tomorrow. You know. To impress Elijah or whatever," Riley said, rolling her eyes.
As if on cue, Lana's phone rang. Riley looked up at her curiously. 'Jamie,' she mouthed, putting it on speaker.
"Hey, Jamie. Your on speaker." She warned, putting the phone in between herself and Riley.
"Hey, Lana! Who else is there?" Jamie's muffled accent came through the phone.
"Just me and Ry. What's up?"
"Guess what my mom just bought me?"
"Ummm...a bra?" Riley guessed lamely.
"No! Guess again!" Jamie said "Lana guess!"
"Uh. Multiple bras?" Lana said looking down at Riley with a raised eyebrow.
"Nope! Well yes, but that's not what I'm talking about now!" Jamie said, excitement lacing her voice.
"Okay, I think I'm all out of guesses." Riley said sticking her key in the door and opening it for herself and Lana."
"Aw. You guys are no fun!" Jamie pouted.
"To be fair, you aren't either." Riley shrugged dropping her backpack on the floor and yelling "I'm home!" To her parents.
"We're in Ry's house now,her parent are here, and your still on speaker. Please keep it Pg." Lana joked pulling her notebook from her yellow backpack.
"Alright. I'll make this quick," Jamie said pausing for effect.
"My mom just bought me a box of..." The line was completely silent for a moment. Both girls knew what was coming. "PAAAADDDSSSS!" Jamie squealed.
"Oh, my god Jamie. TMI." Riley said turning red.
Lana choked on her spit and dropped her notebook. "Do you even need those?" She stopped, thinking about what she just asked "Actually don't answer that, please"
"Not yet. But you never know when an accident could happen." Jamie practically sung.
At this point, Riley was almost as red as her converse.
"Well..." Lana sucked in a sharp breath at the uncomfortable silence "Riley and I are going to get a snack. Wanna get pizza or something, Ry?"
"Yeah, sure." Riley said, grateful that Lana had changed the subject.
"Oh, sounds fun darlings, save me a piece!" Jamie said
"You can come over when your done shopping if it's okay with your mom." Riley said into the phone "Lana sleeping over"
"Okey dokey!" Jamie sung again.
"Just don't bring any pads, kay?" Lana said, laughing slightly at how uncomfortable it is.
"What if I need them?" Jamie said, laughing with Lana.
Lana's laughter turned into uncomfortable sporadic laughs that sounded more like coughs. She turned red under her dark skin.
She shoved her phone at Riley. "I'm going to the bathroom, you talk to this... pervert"
Riley laughed. "I AM A LADY!" Jamie said from the other end.
Lana and Riley both burst into laughter.
"Whatever you say, Jame." Lana called, closing the door behind her.
"Alright, see you later!" Rileys said
"Love you guys!" Jamie yelled.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever, you sap." Riley rolled her eyes
"Love you too!" Lana said, turning the water on and washing her hands
"You guys are weird." Riley said, pulling her short hair into a ponytail.
"We know." Lana said "to be honest, your probably weirder than me"
"Yeah, right!" Disgust snorted, making Riley roll her eyes.
"Alright, let's go!" Lana said, grabbing some money from her bag and stuffing it into her jean pocket. "Where do you wanna go?"
"Doesn't matter. so long as it doesn't have anything to do with that place that sells fried broccoli or that place that sells broccoli pizza. Gross." Riley said, grabbing her own money and her house keys.
"Broccoli isn't that bad." Lana said, with a small amused smirk
"It's gross." Riley said, giving Lana the side eye.
"You really are traumatized by that vegetable" Lana laughed.
"Oh, you don't even know the half of it, sweetie." Disgust snorted in Riley's head.
"Broccoli is awful." Anger said, reading a newspaper. It's headline read 'Broccoli sucks'
"See?" Disgust folded her arms smugly "I saved us from broccoli. Again. I saved us from Jamie. I saved us from making a fool out of ourselves at school, and I started puberty. I'm obviously the brains in the operation. I'm just to smart for you all!" She sashayed away, closing her door behind her. All the emotions starred after her
Anger rolled his eyes "She is something else..."