My eyes flutter open and I look at the surrounding of the room. I check my phone and I get a text.

To Ally from unknown
Hey

I don't know who just texted me.

To unknown from Ally
Who are you?

To Ally from unknown
Christian

To Christian from Ally
I'm sorry I've never heard that name before

To Ally from Christian
I'm only like your best friend

To Christian from Ally
I'm sorry. I don't know who you are. How did you get my number?

To Ally form Christian
I get my ways. How about we meet up. Today. At noon. At Marano High school . At the front steps.

To Christian from Ally
Sure, whatever

I get dressed and shoot Austin a text.

To Austin From Ally
See you later. Going to meet up with someone.

I add in a wink face and a sent him a kissy emoji.

To Ally From Austin
Okay, be careful.

He sends back a kissy emoji and I smile. Austin and I have this relationship where it works because we act like we did when we were friends except we have a romantic side to it. And we tell each other everything. And so, I'm on my way to the high school and I have no idea what I'm getting myself into. This Christian person could be a serial killer and I'm there next victim. Or they want to kidnap me and take me hostage. Okay, I may be thinking way outside the border but I have the right. Someone is texting me and I have no idea who.

I finally get to the school and start walking around to go to the steps. I go on my tippy toes to look on top and I don't see anyone. I have Austin on speed dial if this person is indeed a serial killed. I start counting the steps I take up the stairs. I reach there and there is no one.

"Hey!" I hear a voice call form below. I look down and shield my eyes to get a better view of the person and block the sunlight out if my eyes. She has a girl voice. I walk down the steps and start to get a clearer image of her.

"Who are you?" I ask.

"Seriously? You don't remember the time that you and I sneaked out to get drunk and crash the one random persons party?" She laughs.

"No fricken way! Christian?" I give her a hug. No some girly hug but a strong one. She is wearing a reddish brown plaid shirt with her belly bottom showing. She's got dark eye make up on and black hair. She's got a belly button piercing and eyebrow piercing. She's wearing ripped jeans and gold sneakers.

"Well, dugh. Who else would it be?"

"I don't know." I smile.

"How could you ever forget good ole me?"

"I've just had a lot going on. And maybe it was the car accident. You know? Messing with my head and all."

"Hold up! You were in an car accident? How did Cherry take that?" She says her name in a snarky way. She doesn't really like her, actually that's an understatement. She absolutely despises her.

"She doesn't know. It was only a week ago that I got out of the hospital."

"Dude, that's crazy."

"Yeah, I know." I am stopped by my phone buzzing. I look down and I see that Austin texted me.

"Who's that?" She asks.

"Oh, my boyfriend."

To Ally from Austin
Hey, do you want to come over?

To Austin from Ally
Yeah, sure. But can I bring my friend?

To Ally from Austin
Sure

"What's his name?"

"Austin. He's inviting me over to his place and..."

"And you're going to ditch him for me right?"

"Actually, how about you come meet him. That would so cool."

"You know what, sure."

She's driving and I tell her the direction to get to his place.

"So how did you guys meet?"

"School. He tripped me."

"Cliche but go on."

"He wanted to get to know me and we were friends for a while until I got into my car accident. And we kissed at his place. We have been dating for a week now."

"Awesome."

"We are here." She pulls over to the side of the road and walk up to his house. I knock on the door twice and walk in. "Austin! I'm here."

He comes around the corner with a bowl of chips. He's chewing on some right now. "Hey. Who's your friend?"

"Austin, Christian. Christian, Austin, my boyfriend."

"Hey." I swear she just checked him out. Typical Christian. Wait! Austin's my boyfriend now. That's not cool!

"So um, why'd you text me to come over?" I ask Austin.

"I wanted to know if you wanted to go out for a smoothie."

"Oh, sure. We can all go together."

So we head to Zinga Juice. They made juice and smoothies. Yum. They made the best smoothies ever. One time Christian and I were drinking them and they we so good that we drank like half of it and asked for a new one and said that it was horrible. They gave us new ones and we drank them. It was so funny and the lady who worked there was so gullible. It was too funny to forget. I can't believe that I forgot Christian.

We order out drinks and find a place to sit.

"So how did you guys meet?" Austin asks.

"We were in the same foster home together. But she left and I stayed." I explain to Austin.

"Would that same foster home be Cherry's?"

"Exactly."

"So you boyfriend here knows everything about you hu?"

"Every last inch." I say with confidence.

"Okay, cool. So you guys were best friends."

"We still are. Just with the romance added." I say.

"Whoa. What have you turned into?" Christian jokes. "You dress girly, say romantic things, and smile like twenty four seven."

"I know. It's great."

We finish our drinks and Christian gets a text.

"I've gotta run. My new foster mom needs me urgent which means I have to steal her some alcohol. Bye." She runs out the door while looking down at he phone.

"Well, she seems nice. Id like her if she didn't steal and say mean things."

"That's just a typical Christian. You wouldn't get it." I laugh.

"Okay, if you say so."

Three Days Later

Christian run down the street and jump into a bush laughing.

"I'll find you rotten kids if it's the last thing I do!" The old lady says.

We pop our heads up from the bush and see that she is gone. We laugh some more.

"I can't believe that we just did that." I say sadly.

"Come on. It was so much fun. Stealing that watch straight off her hand was so hilarious."

"Now that I think about it. It was kind of rude. I mean she is so old. What if that watch was an heirloom and it's worth lots to her?"

She pins the watch on her finger, "Well, it's good money for me now." She laughs. I take it off her finger and stand up straight.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm giving it back." I walk over to the lady. "Excuse me."

The lady turns around. "Hey! Give me my watch back you rotten child."

"Here." I hold it up. "Take it. I'm sorry for taking your watch. It probably means a lot to you and I'm sorry for my behavior." I apologize.

She puts it back in her wrist. I turn around and see Christian watching me from the other side of the road. "Thank you young lady. Don't do anything like this again."

"I won't. Bye."

I run back up to Christian. "What the heck was that?"

"What? It's called being polite. You should learn it sometime."

"Excuse me?"