Chapter:1 A Little More Friends
It's sometimes weird that my dad still knows karate moves. My dad taught me karate when I was eight and I'm 10 minutes older than my sister.
My sister (Sam) is the kindest person you will ever meet, but her friends are assholes. Ever since we went into high school, I was put into a group of nerds which I'm not complaining about.
But the thing you have to understand is my sister, Sam joined the popular group. Ever since Sam joined the group, Sam ignored me and Aisha at school.
My dad always has a party but my sister doesn't show because she's with her friends.
I had to go because I didn't want to be rude like Sam, my brother is just playing on his stupid phone.
So here I am at a family party, I'm just glad Aisha is here with me. But I feel bad because Sam doesn't even hang out with Aisha anymore.
I see my dad trying to get my brother to do something that's not technology involved.
"Hey, why don't you check out that magician over there? He's doing some pretty amazing tricks.", My dad says to him trying to convince him.
"I'm on level ten.", my brother says to dad.
Ok, I'm going to help my dad because my brother is too into his game and technology. I head over to the table and dad looks at me and smiles, then I stand behind my brother.
I quickly grab his phone and hide it behind my back. "Anthony, go see the magician and try to have fun without technology.". I say to him.
Anthony looks at Elena defeated and goes to the magician to play. Then Dad looks at me surprised, "Thanks. Do you know where Sam is?", Dad asks me.
Then I sit on the chair where Anthony was sitting. "Dad, I think she went to the mall with her friends", I say to him and he looks at me confused.
"Why aren't you with her and her friends?", Dad asks me confused.
I hate when people ask me this question and my answer is always the same.
"Dad, Sam's friends are jerks", I say to him being honest.
My dad was about to say something but gets interrupted by Aisha and her dad, and my mom coming towards us.
"LaRussos!", Aisha's dad says to all of us.
"Hey, you still kicking that competition?", he says shaking his hand.
"You know it, Isaiah.", My dad says smiling.
"Hey Aisha how are you", I ask smiling and actually happy she's here with me.
"Great, I took an AP physics prep course for school", Aisha says to me smiling.
I nod, "Hey, where's Samantha? I feel like I haven't seen her all summer.", Aisha asks me and I don't want to tell her anything.
Sam is basically not hanging out with Aisha because of her friends. Samantha's friends try and bring Aisha and me down which is basically bullying.
I always stand up for myself, friends, and family but they still kind of bring me down. I don't tell my parents because it would make it worse.
My friends even Eli, Demetri, and even Aisha get bullied by Sam's friends so I always stand up for them. It doesn't help.
I look at my parents to see what they answer for an excuse for Samantha at the mall.
"She's uh-", My dad gets interrupted by my mom.
"She's with her grandma. But I'll tell her that you said hi.", My mom smiles with a lie.
"Great.", Aisha says with a smile and I have an idea.
"Come on Aisha, I need to talk to you.", I say to her putting my arm under her arm walking to a table.
We both sit in a seat, "Do you know where Sam actually is?", Aisha asks me and I nod.
"Sam is at the mall with her friends but you know what Sam's friends are the jerks maybe even Sam.", I say to her and she looks sad.
"Hey, it's okay. Who needs her anyway? Her friends are jerks", I say to her with a smile and she laughs.
"Thanks, Elena. How do you even stand up for yourself?", Aisha asks me.
It's really hard to stand up for yourself because inside it hurts. I would feel the pain in my heart but stand up for myself without showing it.
"For me, it hurts inside but I still try and not show my emotion.", I say to her sadly and she nods.
There was this one time I was walking to the store and this guy looking my age was a con artist stealing a laptop.
I confronted him and turns out his dad is Johnny Lawrence which is insane to me.
Robby and I turned out to be good friends but I know he still steals and I try to convince him to not steal.
He never listens to me but his mom is dad don't even take care of him which is horrible. But I know Robby's friends are bad guys, never good ones just bad people.
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ELENA'S POV
We are all in the car going home which is kinda a relief.
Don't get me wrong, I loved hanging out with Aisha but I don't like family parties. They are just awkward but I don't want to be mean to my family so I just go.
Then we approach our house and I see all these cars parked in our parking lot. What the hell is going on?
"What's all this?", My dad asks all of us and I don't even know the answer.
"I have no idea.", My mom answers my dad's question.
I get out of the car and I hear music and people at our pool, oh she's having a pool party.
She didn't even think to invite Aisha or even me, how nice is my sister?
Then I look at my dad and he looks angry that a party is at his house.
"Hey! Hey! Hey! What the hell is going on here?", my dad asks everyone.
I see Yasmín and Sam with their group surprised and Moon has her phone pointing at my dad.
"Oh shit.", Moon says to my dad and I can't believe this is happening.
Honestly, my sister deserves this because she has been ignoring family parties and Aisha. I don't even care.
My dad turns off the music and I see Yasmín giving me a glare and I roll my eyes.
"All right, everyone gets out of here right now.", My dad says pointing to get out of here.
Sam comes toward our way looking at us, "So sorry, Dad. I had no idea you'd be home so early", Sam says to my dad.
Then Dad looks at her mad, "It doesn't make a difference what time I get home, Sam. You think we want strangers in the backyard making a mess?", Dad says to her and everybody and is looking at our way.
