So see how I was like dying for a Cool Ranch Doritos Taco? Well I finally had one today and it was the best experience of my life and I suggest you all get one too so you can be as happy as I was. And I'm sorry if I don't update like so often but school sucks and homework sucks but I will update as often as I can, I promise!
"I love how you're telling me what you're going to do."
I sat outside on the steps of school, talking to my brother on the phone as he was talking quickly about how he got invited over his friend's house to play video games and he just had to go and he didn't have any homework and his friend's mom would bring him home. For being in fourth grade, he really knew how to be persuasive, I still hadn't gotten that down packed.
He kept rambling on about it until I finally gave in. That meant a night full of Netflix without him, "Alright, alright!"
"Thanks!" he said, hanging up quickly as he got what he wanted.
I shook my head and laughed at how easily he got a yes out of me. Instead of sitting on the steps, I figured I should start walking home. As I did, I felt a car slowly driving behind me. At first, I just thought it was trying to find a house but after a block it still kept following me. Getting paranoid, I started to walk a little faster as I didn't want to turn around. Finally, I couldn't take it anymore. I turned around to flip out but I should have known that there would be Eli sitting there, smirking with happiness.
"I don't think I told you that you're an asshole today." I said, looking into the window at him.
"Now I know why the day felt off."
I gave him two thumbs up with bright smile and walked off but of course, he didn't let me off that easy and followed me.
"Alright, come on, I can give you a ride." He called to me.
"I don't need one. I have nowhere to get to." I said, still walking.
"Your brother is still a thing, right?"
"Yeah but he's going to a friend's house."
"Well then that means you can spend the evening with me." Eli stopped the car, reaching over and opening the door for me.
"See, the way my life is set up, I was already late to school today and I don't think I need to get into any more trouble." I shrugged, trying to hide the fact that I really was planning to go with Eli even though part of me was scared of the trouble he would bring.
"Come on, I won't get you into any trouble," he said, waving me in, "Tonight anyways."
Figuring it was better than sitting at my house, eating and watching TV alone, I decided it was fine. I got into the car with him and closed the door. After driving around for a bit, Eli and I pulled up to a small house. It looked perfectly cozy and nice. He got out the car and walked around to the side I was on and waited until I got out.
"And this is my house." He said, gesturing to it as if we were on an episode of MTV Cribs as I followed him up the steps to the door.
"I'm surprised, I thought we'd go on some crazy adventure."
"Well, with the amount of time you have it wouldn't be crazy." He shuffled through the keys in his hand, finding the right one and opening the door but before he walked in, he looked at me, "And of course, the first adventure we go on will have to be crazy."
I followed him into his house, which I thought would be similar to him but in fact was pretty, pretty. The walls were a dark, cherry wood-paneled with wood floors to match that were just a normal wood color. The floor had a big forest green rug on it and there was a huge flat screen TV hung up on the wall. His house reminded me of a wood cabin, which I had always wanted to spend a weekend in.
After admiring his house, I did what any friend would do the first time they came to their friend's house, I went straight for the table with the childhood pictures of when Eli Goldsworthy wore denim overalls. I examined each one, hoping to find any embarrassing ones to hold against him for the rest of the year. Surprisingly, he was one of the only kids with no embarrassing pictures because each one looked this something from a 90s JCPenny's catalog. Either that or he was smart enough to have all his embarrassing pictures stored away in case company like me came over with the intent of searching for them specially.
"Aw, Eli you were so cute." I said, grabbing a picture of mini Eli running in a park with grass, smiling like all of us did at one point when we didn't have to worry about anything. I held it up next to his face and shifted focuses between him and picture, "It's a shame what time can do to some people."
"Don't worry, we can both recover with time." He said, patting me on the shoulder as he grabbed the remote to the TV, turning it on.
I sat down on the couch, as Eli walked into the kitchen, checking my phone to see if my brother or dad had called because they were the only two people who remembered that I had a phone and existed to call or text. When I saw no notifications like I did every time I checked my phone, I stuffed it in my back pocket.
"Hey, do you want pizza?" Eli asked, coming back into the living room with a pizza menu in one hand and his house phone in the other.
I almost opened my mouth and said that pizza was my favorite food and I could eat it every day and never get tired of it. But instead of saying of all that, I just settled for a simple, "Sure."
As he went to order the pizza, I grabbed the remote and shuffled through the channels. Of course, the only thing on after school was court TV which was only acceptable when I was absolutely bored out of my mind. As I went to circle over the guide again, hoping something good had come on since the minute that went by since I passed through them before, I noticed that Eli had an Xbox and I smiled to myself as that meant one thing, Netflix.
Usually, being at a friend's house for the first time, I didn't really feel that I had the right to do anything like walk around or change the channel on the TV or go in their fridge but I had no problem reaching for the game console remote as I crossed my legs on the couch and got comfortable and going onto Netflix and searching through the movies that I alright watched.
"I see that you wasted no time getting acquainted with my house." Eli said, as he walked back in and sat down on the couch next to me.
"Well, Netflix is like my best friend so I had to." I said, but then I realized I watched so many movies so many times that I didn't even know what to choose and I handed him the remote, "You choose."
"Okay, well you don't look like the type to like scary movies," he paused, looking at me for verification. I nodded my head quickly as just the thought of a scary movie made me scared, "Alright, how about Billy Madison? And if you say you don't like that movie, I would have to impolitely kick you out of my house."
"There's no one in the world who doesn't like Billy Madison." I said, and sat back as the movie started.
Once we got about half way through the beginning of the movie, the doorbell rang as the pizza had arrived and Eli went to the door to get it. When he came back, the put the box on the table and I went to open it as slowly as I could. Of course, if I was at home, I would have already had the pizza in my mouth as I sat back on the couch but I didn't want to seem like that, not yet anyways.
As I took a slice, I looked over at Eli, "I can pay you back."
He shook his head, "Not necessary, my mom and dad usually give me money to order food when they aren't here and I usually don't eat most of it so it's fine."
I nodded as I went back to watching the movie and eating the pizza. As I ate my third one, I got full and closed the box as Eli was finished too. While we continued to watch the movie, I kept looking over at Eli briefly, not wanting to seem creepy. I don't know why I paid more attention to him than the movie. I could tell he knew that I kept looking at him because I saw him look at me out the corners of his eyes and smirk. I tried not to seem embarrassed but even in the dark, I was sure if he looked at me, he could see my face screaming, "Hey look I'm embarrassed!"
Nearing the ending of the middle of the movie, I felt my myself drifting asleep. Of course, I tried to knock myself out of it a few times but it still kept coming back and eventually, I gave up. My eyes were shut when I felt something vibrate in my pocket. When I opened my eyes, I was laying, sleeping on Eli's shoulder, who was fully awake.
Knowing it was already my brother, I answered the phone without looking at the caller ID.
"Hello?" I said, trying not to sound like I was asleep.
"I'm on my way home." My brother said through the line loudly.
"Alright, well then I guess I'm on my way too." I said, as I got up off the couch.
"You're not at home? A social life? Friends?" he gasped, "Am I hearing this correcting or are my ears betraying me already?"
"Oh shut up. I'll be there hopefully the same time as you." I hung up the phone not ready to hear any more of the insults on my nonexistent until 4 hours ago social life.
"So, I have to go." I said, as I stood next to the door waiting for Eli to get the hint.
"Already?" he pouted, "I was so enjoying you drooling on my shoulder."
"I was not drooling!" I exclaimed.
"You were!" he shout back, "You wanna see?"
"There's no use in seeing something that isn't there." I said, as I turned away from him and walked out the front door to his car.
When he both got in, he started up the car and we sat there for a minute. I looked at him without saying anything but of course my expression had given my annoyance at his time taking skill.
"What?" he said, shrugging, "I had to warm it up."
"I'm this close to warming up your face." I said, not realized what multiple meanings it could have implied until after the words had already came out my mouth.
Eli laughed, "Oh please warm up my face. This is a request!"
I wanted to punch him but he was driving and that wouldn't lead to anything except a higher risk of a car accident so instead I decided to save it for later. We drove around about 15 minutes before we had pulled up into my driveway. I looked around for my brother and didn't see him yet.
"Thank you." I said, as I got out of the car.
"For?" he said, pushing it to be funny.
"For not being an asshole tonight up until just now." I said as I closed the door.
"Oh come on," he said, rolling down the window, "You know you love it."
I opened the door, "I forgot something," I said as I kneeled into the passenger seat. As I searched for what I forgot, I remembered and punched Eli as hard as I could in the arm, closing the door behind me and running quickly.
"Don't worry, you'll pay for this Smitchell!" he yelled as he pulled off, "You'll pay!"
So basically, I kinda love this chapter and I'm hoping you will too! And if you do, you should write stuff down there in that pretty box, and if you don't, you should still write stuff in that box because it's still pretty!