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Chapter One
I sat silently in the passenger seat, the rain splattered all over the windshield. My friend, Angelica, sat at the wheel. She kept her eyes on the road as only a few cars were also dotting the lonely streets. "So how's Drake?", I asked, bored. She looked at me and smiled, "He's fine.", Drake was her boyfriend, he lived in Tahoe while we lived over here in Sacramento. We were what you would call California girls. "What about Tyler?", she glanced at me, he was this boy I liked a few months back and she still suspected I had feelings for him, "I told you it was a definite no!", the truth was I liked this other guy. Everybody else did. The other girls went up to him and chased him and acted all gushy while he ran away, I'm the girl he goes to talk to while hiding from the others.
Angelica looked confused, she sighed, "So, who is it?", she thought you always had to like somebody, "No one.", I lied easily.
"There has to be someone."
"Nobody.", I assured her, she sighed aloud and turned back to the road that stretched out ahead of us. Just a few minutes we were at our destination, my crush's house. Everybody was gathering as a celebration for finishing our first semester of college. "Here we are, Nich's parents place.", Angelica looked at me as we opened our doors and rushed to the door to escape the rain.
We knocked on the door and he answered, his jet black hair made my blond locks look white. "Hi Elli.", he energetically waved and I smiled and replied;
"Hey Nich.", I stepped inside the room and I could see a bunch of my friends getting ready to go inside the indoor hot tub he had. "Hey Elli! Come join us!", a few people called from the room in which the hot tub was located. "I didn't bring a bathing suit, I guess I'll just-"
"Oh I knew you would forget, here.", Angelica pulled a red two-piece from her bag along with a black tankini for her. "Thanks.", I mumbled with spite in my tone.
"There's a bathroom down that hallway then to the left.", Nich smiled and pointed me to a place to change, I thanked him and walked to the bathroom and sighed, "What am I doing?", I mumbled then emerged a few minuted later hiding my outfit with a black towel. "Come on Elli, get in here!", my very good friend Grace gestured for me to follow here from the living room to the hot tub room, as I called it. "It's a party in there, super fun!"
"Easy for you to say, you're wearing shorts and a rash guard, look what Angelica made me wear!", I showed her the suit. She gasped and laughed.
"Ha ha, I'm gonna stay underwater for hours.", I grumbled, I walked nervously into the room which held the party. Nich's parents were rich, and his father was a recovering alcoholic so there were no drinks of that sort, and the party guests were mostly responsible honor students. I walked inside with my towel still wrapped tightly around me. I spotted Angelica sitting down in a long chair with an empty one to her left and rushed over to claim it.
"Why don't you go in?", she looked at me and smiled. I pulled off my glasses and set them on a table next to me. "I don't feel like it."
"You're taking off your glasses."
"Just in case -", I was about to explain why when my guy friends Cameron, Esteban, and Ryan grabbed my arms and legs and started to walk towards the hot tub, "Let go!", I struggled as they tossed me in the pool, I was in semi luck since my only towel fell off when they lifted me up, it would've gotten soaked like me otherwise.
"Come on guys!", Nich went across the tub to me as the others laughed their hollow heads off, I gasped for air after resurfacing their surprisingly deep and wide tub. "Give her a break! Are you okay?", he took my hand and led me to the steps.
"Oh I'm fine, I just was taken by surprise."
"Well I need to show you something.", he kept onto my hand, and I thank that pizza guy all day every day because he came right at that moment and everyone knew it had been thirty minutes and that pizza was free, so of course they raced to the door to answer. That way Nich led me out the door and down a familiar hallway while the others were distracted, "I got to show you my pets.", he opened a black door and we entered a dimly lit room that had a massive tank holding five huge black lizards. "Marine iguanas."
"Those....are....so cool!", I was overjoyed, I love lizards, and I had a special place in my heart for iguanas. Nich chuckled and smiled his bright grin that made my knees buckle, "I knew that so I wanted to show you this, that's Oscar, that's Jade, and that's Lola, oh and this is...", his charming voice faded away as I stared at his shining eyes that danced around, searching for the right large cold-blooded reptile. "....and that's the youngest, Lovell.", I snapped out of my day dream, then I realized I missed the fourth lizard's name, "What are the names again?"
"Oscar, Jade, Lola, Captain Spaz, and Lovell. My dad's is Oscar and my mom's is Lola."
"I'm guessing Captain Spaz is yours.", I giggled and looked at the slimmest out of the five swim rapidly to the corners of the tank, "Do you feed him sugar cubes with red bull?"
We both shared a nice laugh and he nodded with red cheeks and a sore jaw from laughing. "Come, I have to show you something better.", he began to walk to another door, he opened it to reveal stairs that led to a small room that had a hole in the far corner. "You can enter the tank through that hole, we're above the tank right now. We can dive in there.", he gestured towards a series of shelves that held diving gear and suits. "Here's this one, it should fit you.", he put on one above his bathing suit and so did I, we grabbed oxygen tanks and goggles, "Here, these will help you swim better.", he handed me huge flippers, I slipped the duck-like feet on my own.
He showed me the hatch, it was small but of course I could fit and dived down after him. I was amazed, I saw large rocks with algae sticking to the surface. I was basking in the scenery when a pudgy obsidian Oscar swam in front of me and swatted my gut with his tail, I was winded and flipped over and freaked. I swung my arms and ended up upside down, facing the sandy floor. Nich saw me quickly and darted for me, he purposely swam upside down and grabbed my waist, I turned a bright crimson.
He turned me right side up and I was fine, he saw me with my wide eyes and made the 'okay' sign with his hand. Then he gestured for me to follow, we swam over to the side and spotted a small coral reef with a few sea anemones. He pointed to a crevice and I peered through, instantly I saw Lovell. She looked back at me with her beady eyes, I smiled and reached out my hand. Slowly, Lovell swam up a bit and touched my bare hand with the tip of her nose. She then swam out of her hiding spot and up to a small rock that was above the surface, she basked in the light a row of light bulbs sent down.
Nich touched my arm and I looked to see it was his flipper, he was turning for the hatch to reach that little room, we had to climb onto the rock to reach the door/hatch. We climbed up and he gave me a towel and we changed, it was so silent. No talking, just handing this and that and then his voice scared me. "Wow, were you daydreaming or something? I was almost in a whisper!", he chuckled and I couldn't help myself. "Nich! Erin! The pizza's almost gone!", I had almost forgot.
"How long were we in the tank?", I think tank is an understatement, more like personal aquarium that could fit a great white.
"About twenty or more minutes.", we both rushed down the stairs and to the exit that read, DON'T LET BIG LIZARDS OUT. I smiled as we left. The light hit my eyes and I forgot how little light got into that room, I squinted and stopped in my tracks, "There you guys are!", another friend, Daniela, walked over. She saw me and we linked arms, "Where were you?", I'm guessing she didn't know I was with Nich since if she did she would probably be all bubbly and asking me questions.
"I was just hanging around.", I technically didn't lie, I was hanging around. I just didn't include the part about Nich, I was hanging around with Nich. "Oh Nicholas!", a bunch of the girls ran up to him and he dashed through some door and they followed giggling. I rolled my eyes, "What's up?", Daniela looked up at me as we walked down the corridor going to the dining room and kitchen. "It's just those girls think he enjoys that."
"What's that?"
"The whole chasing thing, you know. Where they run after him and he run and hides.", I was beginning to get agitated. Daniela looked at me weirdly.
"And how do you know he doesn't like it? What if likes having girls fall for him?"
"I know because he told me, he just wants a girl who's down to earth and not like...her.", I grimaced and pointed a finger at Emily. She sauntered through the door, just arriving. She had bleach blond hair that she died every month at some beauty salon full of people with way too much bronzer. I looked away and Emily came up to me, "Hey Elli, how's life?", don't get me wrong, Emily was a nice girl, but she was blind when it came to Nich. I wanted to quiz her on him so badly! "Hi Emily, I'm good. You?", I just smiled and she took off her gucci sunglasses.
"Oh nothin' important."
Nich came from the door that led to the garage, and it was ironically located behind Emily. He saw me with Emily and I saw him, "Oh it's been so long, you deserve a hug!", I hugged Emily and she was taken by surprise, "Best friends forever, huh?", I kept her busy by letting go then start complimenting her on her dress, her glasses, and even her flip flops! Nich slowly escaped by sneaking into the kitchen where the party was. "Well, I have to go. Bye!", I waved quickly and rushed into the kitchen myself. I still had damp hair and so did half the people at the party.
"Hey Elli!", I realized for the first that I didn't have my glasses, I was practically blind. I'm not lying, I'm legally blind without my glasses, my prescription being 20.225 with perfect being 20.20, I had the same eyes as my 71 year old grandma. I squinted to see the person calling for me, "Oh hey Destinie.", she walked up next to me. "Wasn't Abigail coming with you?", I looked at the short girl with her narrow eyes. "Maria came with me, Abigail came with Alyssa a few minutes ago.", I nodded my head, there were so many names! If they didn't know my middle name I din't care. "Here comes Maria now.", Destinie pointed at the girl, she came up to us with a freckled face, she had rosy cheeks and a big ear to ear grin.
"What's up with the smile?", Destinie crossed her arms, smiling.
"I think Nicholas is on to me, he just said sorry when he bumped to me while walking bye, it was magic!"
"Oh yeah, what's his middle name?", I snapped. I had a stern look as Maria stared at me quizzically.
"Elli!", Destinie was the only one who's ever noticed me, well the only one who's seen the way I look at him, they way I talk about him, the way I talk to him, and the way I sing about him. I forgot to mention I'm a singer/songwriter. My favorite song is Crazier by Taylor Swift, it's so catchy! Anyway, so it's only Destinie who has a clue.
She grabbed my arm and flashed an apologetic smile at Maria, "What's gotten into you?", she whispered harshly.
"It's just, girls like her think saying sorry is asking you out and laughing at your joke is magic from Aphrodite herself.", I sighed heavily and Destinie looked at me strangely.
"Do you.....well,", she was about to ask me aloud. What was she thinking?
"Don't say it aloud! And it's a yes.", I started feeling dizzy, and it looked like she was too.
"I.....was.....RIGHT!", she jumped up and pointed a big finger at me, she giggled her weird giggle that made me smile and even blush a little. I couldn't help it, he made me crazy, I felt like taking him into some sort of secret tree house and keeping him safe, but he had a life and that's a little psycho. "I guess you are, you were all along.", I kept on smiling, when Nich came up to me. I looked down at my feet and the blushing proceeded. "You're blushing.", Nich's smooth voice scared me, I jumped and he patted my back, "Didn't mean to scare you.", he smiled back and laughed. I just looked up meekly and controlled my blushing and sheepishly replied; "I guessed that, you're too nice."
Destinie saw me share a small moment with him and grabbed Maria and started walking her to the pizza, girls like her were oblivious when Nich looked at other people with love.
Chapter Two.
 Wurlee · Thu May 27, 2010 @ 09:13pm · 0 Comments |
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