Play With Your Heart Strings (Re writting from Chapter 7)

Chapter 1

"Well, I'm going to go unpack my clothes." I announce, walking up the stairs.

"Okay then." Mum sighs.

Poor mum, when Gavin died, her whole world almost collapsed.

I walk back into my room and look out my window again and see Rick hanging half way out the window. I frown. What the hell is he doing? I frown and he looks up and over to me.

"What are you doing?" I mouth to him. He just shrugs and continues to hang out the window. I shake my head. What a weird boy!

I wander down stairs after taking a long and brutal session of unpacking my clothes and putting them in that huge walk-in wardrobe of mine which had heaps of clothes already piled into it. It's like the last owners of this house just left half their stuff here.

"Come on sweet heart, let's go!" Mum says, grabbing her mobile phone off the counter.

"Where are we going?" I ask, confusion written all over my face in permanent marker. (Not literally, that would be embarrassing.)

"We're going over to the Richardson's house for dinner." Mum says. "Crap, I forgot to tell you, um, go throw on a dress or something and let's go." She says, smacking herself in the head. I race upstairs and throw on one of my  dresses, because for all I know, someone could of died in one of the other dresses, and pull on a pair of thongs (flip flops.) and run down stairs with my phone in my hand, dodging the ball of wool. I race out the door after my mum and we knock on the door of the Richardson's household. Damon answers the door.

"Hey guys, come in." He says, a beaming (fake) smile on his face. Mum walks in first and I trail behind her.

"You don't have to fake that smile." I say, tapping him on the side of the face. As I walk away he decides to smack me on the ass.

"Oi!" I yell at him. He shrugs and gives me a cheeky smile. I roll my eyes and keep walking.

"Lara! Daisy! you're here!" Carmen sings as we enter the kitchen.

'No, they're still at their house Mum." Ben says, entering the room. I giggle and he shoots me a look.

"Sit down! I'm just about to serve dinner!" Carmen says ignoring Ben's comment. All of the boys race in, a little boy that has probably just learnt how to walk stumbling in holding a worn teddy and a dummy shoved in his mouth.

"Can someone get Darcey?!" Ray calls after the cute toddler in a jumpsuit. I scoop him up and pass him to Carmen.

"Thanks love." She says, just as Ray stumbles into the room.

"Here you go Ray!" Daisy chants, still stirring a pot of something.

"Thanks love." Ray says, taking the baby and giving Carmen a kiss.

"Oh my god guys! Keep it P.G!" Ash says, walking into the room.

"Oh shush you!" Daisy says, turning her back to him. Ash taking advantage of the situation, sticks his tongue out at her but is smacked in the back of the head by a passing ray. I let out a small giggle.

Before I know it dinner is over and Mum and I are exiting the beautiful Richardson house and am being groped from all directions before Carmen tells all the boys off. I turn around and poke my tongue out at them and close the door behind me.

"Was it nice to see them again?" Mum asks as we enter our house. "See who?" I ask in confusion. "The boys, you guys used to have heaps of fun when we visited!"

"But I thought you said that you only spoke to Carmen on facebook." She pauses.

"I must have forgot." She shrugs. "I'm going to go visit one of my other friends on the other side of town, do you wanna come?" Mum asks grabbing her keys.