This chapter is dedicated to Musafan1 and Musahotshot; I sincerely apologize for the late chapter for all of my readers. I know this isn't fair and quite a few of you enjoy this story. I will try to udate faster, it's just right now I am cut down to a limit of time with school, cross country, scholarships, homework, and decisions about college and friends... it's a tough process to maintain. I am working on it though, so please bare with me.. Thank you(:
Chapter Four;
"Scavenger hunt was bank." Sky flipped his strawberry blonde hair out of his eyes and propped his feet upon the leather stool, in Riven's garage. 'Bank' was a word they often used for owned, awesome, and sweet; let's do it again.
"We so won." Musa giggled, pounding her fist against Brandon's, then Sky's, and lastly Bloom's. Everyone else muttered their 'whatevers and what nots' while the winning team gloated in glory.
"Well we will have to do another one this summer before we all have to leave." Riven joined in on the conversation. He appeared from the refrigerator with an armful of liquirs and beers. He drank a lot of alcohol on the weekends with his friends. It wasn't exactly a healthy decision, but it was fun. A nice time to kick back and have some fun for himself.
"I totally agree, it was great when Brandon got the gum stuck in his mouth and we had to pry it out. That would happen to you." Musa giggled, pulling out her phone to show the pictures to everyone.
"Well if you ask me the whole climbing up the tree at the park was completely bogus, because guess who had to do it? Yeah this girl right here. You would think one of the guys would offer to do it, but nope, I had to. Let me tell you, climbing a tree with an angry mommy raccoon waiting for your arrival isn't fun shit. I freaking had to like jump down the tree before it got to me." Layla growled, her eyes narrowing in on Nabu.
He shrugged his shoulders with a grin plastered across his tan face, "hey what can I say? I was never much the tree climber back in my day."
"Yeah whatever, nothing has changed," Layla fllipped her bangs out of her face and preceded with her story, "the best part was while all of this was going on, Flora and Helia over here are admiring the nature and flowers and crap across the street."
Flora blushed but pressed a smile on her face as she remembered the connection she felt she had with Helia. It may seem absurd, but it felt like she had a strong connection with him from the start. It was so crazy how they had so much in common. He liked observing nature and relaxing, while drawing.
Musa stiffeled a yawn and propped her face up with her smaller sized hands.
"Well you all have just experienced a crazy scavenger hunt." Riven gave off a toothy grin and began to poor the alcohol into twelve shot glasses. Each shot glass being different and encripted with different styles of writing.
"To the best summer of our lives." Musa cheered along with everyone else. The sound of clanking glass echoed throughout the spacious garage room.
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Bloom awoke that next morning to find everyone pretty much laying on top of each other. She rubbed her icy blue eyes and slowly sat up, trying to stiffle the yawn that was coming out of her mouth. Riven's garage looked like a tornado had came through it and back. Blankets, pillows, eleven other sleeping bodies were all piled upon each other. The stank of alcohol wrenched throughout the place. Not to mention, piles of plastic cups, beer bottles, pizza boxes, pop cans, and ping pong balls made up the other half of garage.
She searched for her phone, tapping the blankets all around her. On accident, she hit Sky, the guy who had fallen asleep next to her. He let out a soft grunt and opened his eyes open.
"What the?" He mumbled, the light blinding his eyes.
"Sorry." Bloom lifted up her pillow, discovering her missing phone along with her car keys. The clock upon her phone screen read 9:30 am.
Sky sat up, his eyes shifted around the room. Everyone was piled upon each other, but the one thing that he caught attention was how Riven held onto Musa tightly as they both were fast asleep. For just being friends, they had a crappy way of showing it.
"It's alright, now why are you up? You should be asleep like everyone else." Sky threw his arms into the air, stretching them over his head and resting them into a cradling pose on the back of his neck.
Bloom thought to herself, why exactly in the world was she up? Oh yeah she had to get home to help her mom at the floral shop so she could go on a date with Andy later.
"I have to go help my mom at our floral shop. And I am late, partially hung over, so I'm pretty sure she is going to kill me." If she wasn't so tired, she might have made more of an effort to panic or care what her mom was going to think. She left the part of her date out, she really didn't want Sky knowing her personal life, or her realtionship life.
Sky let out a small chuckle, "well just take some quick Advil for that headache you have and head over there. Oh and stop and get a box of donuts, those cure the worst of headaches and it cures hunger if you didn't know that."
"You know that has to be the stupidest thing I have ever heard in my life." Bloom giggled, letting an eye roll go lose.
Sky shrugged his muscular shoulders. "Who doesn't love donuts?"
"You don't if you're a vegan."
"What is a vegan?"
"A person who doesn't anything from animals or meat." Bloom couldn't help but wonder if this guy was partially stupid. Even Riven knew what a vegan was. Sky was a sophomore in college and he still didn't know what a vegan is.
Sky wrinkled his nose and gave Bloom an anomaly type of look. "You aren't one of those are you?"
Bloom let out a short giggle, "heck no, Musa would kill me. But I should get going, I'll see you around okay?"
Sky nodded his head and flopped back into the pile of blankets, letting his head fall into the white pillow. Yes, she would definitely be seeing around.
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"So how is your summer going so far?" Andy snaked his arm around his girlfriend, Bloom's shoulders. He hugged her body towards his and walked along the sidewalk, heading towards the Dairy Shack to get some ice cream.
Bloom thought to herself for a few seconds before answering. She could say that her bestfriend's, bestfriend has quite the looking friend but that wouldn't be appropriate nor nice to Andy.
"It's going great. And what about yours?"
Andy frowned to himself, "It would be great if I didn't have to work every single day, for eight hours a day. I mean I know I'm leaving for college this year, but work, is all I ever do. I wish I could have sometime for myself and more time for you."
Bloom smiled softly, before swinging the double glass door open to the Dairy Shack. "Hey it's cool, no big deal. I understand that you have to work all the time, I'm sure I will be doing the same thing next year."
Andy half laughed right along with Bloom, "hey dear, I think you work full time everyday almost just like I do. Except you work with your family, I work in a factory dealing with animal feed. And my band, in which someday we will make it big."
"You just got to do, what you got to do." Bloom stuck out her tongue and proceeded towards the front of the line, with her boyfriend trailing shortly behind her. She had been dating for Andy, all of her higschool years and everything felt perfect. She couldn't have asked for a better boyfriend. He was always there for her, even when she found out she was adopted; the biggest change of her life. This summer felt different for her though, she couldn't place the feeling, but it was there.
I'm really sorry this chapter is so short, crappy, like seven different types of awfulness.. not to mention nothing big really happened. I guess this is a filler chapter though, but things will pick up soon. It won't be this boring everytime, I promise. And I am hoping to get this updated every few days now that I have hopefully gotten past my writers block. Thank you all for being so incredibly awesome, by reviewing and reading. So lets do it all over again(: hit that button, you know you wanna!