Summer: Day Four / Part I

"I can't believe I agreed to this." I grumbled as Ivy and Dani shoved a pink, short, floral dress in my face. They know I hate pink, floral, short, ANYTHING. They rolled their eyes and pushed me back into the choir dressing room. Yes, I'm a choir member; have been for nearly a decade. My mom, Janine, was a former choir member and was very well known; because of that, she has placed a lot of pressure on me to be just like her, which I don't want to do.

Anyway, back to the stupid dress. Today is my friend Melinda's baby sister's, Emily, sixth birthday. Since we're coming from church and just going to Melinda's house just to pick up a few things, Dani and Ivy wanted to wear something dressy and a bit girly; I didn't want to. I find it stupid to be wearing something so girly, frilly, and dressy to a Pizzeria, how weird will that be? I quickly slipped it on and checked myself out in the mirror.

The dress came up to my knees, the hem barely brushing against them. The pink was the same color as Salmon, which I hate. I scowled at myself then quickly took the dress without ripping it. I wasn't allowed to, since this is actually Ivy's. She brought it because she already knew what I would wear to the party; a simple pair of jeans and a shirt, which wouldn't match with her or Dani. When it came to events like this, they always want to be matching clothes "in case we get separated" but honestly, that is just fucking ridiculous! How are we going to lose each other at a part with forty people in total? It's not like we're going to be in a crowd of four hundred.

Before Ivy or Dani could come into the dressing room and reprimand me for not hurrying up, I slipped the shirt and jeans back on, gathered my stuff, neatly folded the dress, then came out. They were not too happy that I chose my clothing over the dress, which really didn't match their flowing chiffon blouses.

"Rose, really," Ivy whined. "I picked that dress out just for you!"

I rolled my eyes. "Dude, you know I hate the color pink. Why would I even consider wearing it?"

Dani had a grim straight face. "Dude… why do you need to be so mean?"

I sighed. Okay, maybe I shouldn't have snapped like that. It wasn't their fault and being upset over a stupid dress isn't worth anything. "I'm sorry," I said softly and gently, "there's just a lot going on right now."

Ivy raised an eyebrow, "Huh? What happened?"

Dani patted her shoulder as she said "I'll fill you in later. We got to go."

With that, we finally left the Function hall(that's what we call the bottom level of the church that is used for Sunday School), to meet Melinda at the church water fountain. She finished drinking as she saw us.

"So, are you guys ready?" She asked and we all nodded. "Ivy, where did you park?" Oh yeah! I almost forgot to mention that Ivy and Melinda both passed their provisional driving tests, so now Dani and I can ride with them, but only one at a time. It's okay, though. At least we know we aren't leaving one person alone.

Ivy nodded and said cheerfully with that trademark grin of hers, "Yeah! I even got my own car now." We started walking to the cars, but we had to walk a little slower, since there were some kids running around and if we weren't paying attention, they would trip or something.

Melinda smiled, "Cool. Where is it?" She said as her eyes scanned across the parking lot.

Ivy blushes, "Uhm… Next to yours." She answered as we reached Melinda's car.

Her car is an orange Sports car. I don't really know what brand or type of car, all I know is that it's one of those Sports cars. This was actually a hand-me-down from her uncle, who gave this to her when he bought a Porsche.

As she narrowed her eyes, Melinda asked, "Ivy, I'm parked next to a beat up old Corolla…" Her voice seemed to trail off as Ivy unlocked the beat up Corolla and opened the door, "Dude! Where the heck did you get the key for that thing?!"

Ivy smiled, "Hey, this is from my Auntie and Uncle. And, it's not…" Her eyes scanned the car as her smile became slightly off, "… too bad."

It seemed like one of those Anime moments where Melinda, Dani, and I would look at Ivy, look at each other, then blink, and lastly, start laughing our butts off; which is exactly what we did. Ivy pouted, I guess she was a bit offended that we had just insulted her first car. Well, can you blame us? The car looked like what was a nice dark green coat, had started melting and was now left as some speckled emerald with big splotched of coal. Also, it seemed like her trunk and hood had a slight beat down.

"Well, Rose, I don't think you should laugh." She smirked, "Because you're riding with me!" Holy shit.

I stopped laughing and I grimaced and sighed. "Okay, okay. I'm sorry."

She smiled smugly then got in the car. "Well, get in!"

I rolled my eyes and did as she ordered. Well, the inside wasn't too bad, if you like the smell of Pomegranates mixed with Vinegar, along with the stain in the back seat that appeared to be some kind of punch, and the weak AC. As we had just buckled our seatbelts, Melinda honked her horn at us. We turned to look at her and Dani, they were laughing and waving as they backed up. Ivy and I turned to look at each other and we rolled our eyes.

"Hey, we can have fun too." Ivy laughed as she smiled.

I nodded. "Yeah, we can. Let's turn on the Radio!" Which is what she did. It was playing "What makes you Beautiful" by One Direction, which I guess was the ideal song since it is Summer and people were checking out Ivy's 'new' car. She reversed out of the stall, slowly, at a steady pace, drove out of the church parking a lot.

Oh yeah. I almost forgot to mention that although the Pizzeria is only a few minutes away from the church, we were actually going to Melinda's house to help them get ready for the party. Her house was about 30 minutes away or so from the house.

When we got to the first traffic light, right behind Melinda and Dani who seemed to be jumping in the car, Ivy frowned. "They do realize they're going too fast and too reckless, right?" She mumbled.

I shrugged. "Well, maybe not. It is their first time driving, right?" She nodded as she changed the Radio station. The station it tuned in was called 104.3 Da Bomb and currently, it had just started playing Nick Minaj's 'Starships.'

As the song played, Ivy and I started singing along with the lyrics and it just seemed to fit in, like the first song, with the summer-party mood that was in effect. While along with that mood, I had some impending feeling like something big was going to happen, and something tells me that it isn't something I'll be expecting.

Hey guys, it's Julie. Anyway, I just want to apologize. I've kind of had my hands tied a bit... Uhm, I kind of think that my boyfriend got me pregnant. -_- Ugh, I'm getting a job and I finished high school, so I don't need to worry about having the baby while needing to graduate, but I am going to college and he and I aren't exactly ready. . . So, yeah. If there are slow updates, it's because of that. Sorry!

Love,

Julie