Never Before

Chapter 1 - Boring Night

     There were tears in my eyes and I couldn't breathe. I couldn't stop laughing. The contagious laughter coming from my friend, Anika made it so much harder to stop. She forced me to watch a gaming channel video, a type of video I'm not a huge fan of. There isn't  really anything wrong with them, but a lot of them are just really cringy kids who are only doing it to be famous. It hard to find good quality gaming channels these days. I'm subscribed to a few, but not a lot.

     "See? I told you it was hilarious!" She said in between laughs. The video ended and Anika put her phone down, not yet recovered from the laughing fit we both went through. 

     I wiped a tear from my eye. "Wow, quality content. Not something you see often." I laugh as Anika acts offended and pokes my shoulder. "Excuse me? What about my Minecraft roleplay videos?" I chuckle. "Like I said, not something you see often.." She scoffs as she feigns hurt. "How dare you insult the fine art that is Minecraft roleplay!" She states overdramaticly, placing the back of her hand on her forehead and the other on her heart.

      I grabbed the pillow I was leaning against and threw it to the best of my ability. Leaning up against the wall doesn't give me much room to move. The pillow hits her in her face as she laughs, her red hair all over the place. She giggles. She grabs her phone and, I'm guessing, watches another one of those because after a few moments, she starts laughing again. Or more like trying not to laugh and failing miserably. I roll my eyes and change the channel on the T.V.

     I give up on trying to find something good to watch. Anything that's on is never good at this time of day. I looked at the time, it read 2:51 p.m. Wow, can't believe that in a few hours, we'd be all the way across the country. I sat there thinking about that for a moment. We're gonna be millions of miles away from the home we've always been at. Anika's moved a bit, usually staying in the same town and always went to the same school, but being somewhere new would be weird. Kind of exciting, but weird. 

     I suddenly jumped in surprise as my friend squealed. Confused, I looked over to her. She held her phone with to hands, horizontally. Another video. "What?" I asked. Anika looked over at me and shifted over to me so I could see. "One of my favorite youtubers uploaded. Didn't realize what time it was." She laughed and leaned against my shoulder. 

     "I swear to god, Anika, if it's another roleplay video..."

     "No, no. So much better, so much funnier." Wow, her liking something more than those Minecraft videos? What on earth could make he say that? I curiously inspect the video. A green haired man is yelling and going on about something not being fair while other people, whose faces aren't shown, are laughing. I smile at the laughter. Oh no, its contagious. I find myself chuckling a little at the scene happening before me. Jesus, these guys are crazy. The green guy starts yelling again and going on about something you couldn't follow. "Green dude is really loud.." I say. Anika starts laughing. Other then the scene happening on the phone, i don't see whats funny. 

     "If only you knew.." She smirked at me. I guess she finds it funny that I have no idea what she means or what shes talking about. "Whats the channel name?" She gasps. "What is this? Y/N actually interested in who I watch?" 

     "That's creepy..." I say nonchalantly. She rolls her eyes. "His name is Jacksepticeye." 

     What kind of name is that? "Uh..okay. That's weird." 

     "Hey, don't hate." We laugh and I type the channel name onto my phone for future reference. I show her my phone so she can spell check the name. "Like this?" She only replies with a "yep." I bring my phone back to my side and continue watching T.V. Its horrible. I hang my head back and groan. "Anika, let's do something. I'm sick of just sitting here. We're leaving tomorrow and we'll be doing enough sitting on the plane!" I stand up and place my phone in my pocket. I hold out my hand. "Come on, lets go." This time its her turn to groan. "You'll have enough time to watch your videos later. Youtube isn't going to up and leave while your gone." 

     She stands up and grins. "What are we suppose to do?" I think for a moment. I honestly have no idea. There isn't much to do in a small town but we find ways to entertain ourselves. "I don't know. We'll find something." The phone starts to ring and Anika makes a break for it. 

     "Got it!" She yells as she runs into the other room. I stand there for a moment thinking about what we should actually do. I can hear Anika talking in the other room. I walk over to the living room to find her holding the phone between her head and her shoulder. "Yea. Sure, Y/N and I we're planning on doing something anyway, I'm sure you can come with." She turns around to see me. I give her a confused look, silently asking her who it is. She mouths the word 'Chase'. 

     I rush over to grab the phone from her but she dodges my attempt and I give her a warning look. She only smirks at me and sticks her tongue out at me. She continues into the kitchen, to which I follow. "Yea. Yea, yea, we'll come pick you up. Sure. Okay, talk to you later." She hangs up the phone and puts it on the charger. "Really?" I ask her.

     "What?" She asks. She's smiling so I know she knows. 

     "I can't talk to my own boyfriend? Its bad enough I barely see him now." She only rolls her eyes. "You'll see him plenty tonight." 

     "What exactly are we doing tonight? Go partying? If you haven't noticed, there arent many clubs around here." I put my hand on my hip, exasperated.

     "Whatever. You're the one who said that any time with him is good time spent, right." I blush at her words. She said she wasn't going to hold that against me. "Hey, I was drunk. What did you expect from me? You've seen how I am at night, even without alcohol." She laughs and puts her hand on her mouth. 

     "Oh come on, that was hilarious. You didn't even recognize your own boyfriend and started to hit on him." That's it. I chased after her. She ran up the stairs and hid in the bathroom. "Hey, no fair!" I hit the door, but to no avail. I sighed and jogged downstairs the get ready. She must have realized I left because not long after she can running down the stairs as well.

     "Okay, I'm gonna go get ready." She walked into her bedroom and closed the door. "Rude.." I say jokingly. She laughs from behind the door. Muffled but the door, she yells "You obviously don't know me if you think that's rude!" I only smile at her words as I make my way to my room. I close the door and begin to go through my closet.

     After a few minutes, I realize that finding something to wear is hard when you don't even know what your doing. I decide to go with a sweater striped with multiple shades of grey and black. I put on a simple pair of ripped jeans. the types that weren't intentional, but look they were and your just confused as to why everyone is complementing your jeans. Yeah, those kind. Finally, I put on a loose black beanie and black converse shoes. 

     I open the door and find Anika leaning against the wall, scrolling through social media. She looked up and asked, "You ready?" I put my phone in my back pocket and check the mirror. "Yeah, ready." I say with a smile. I open the door and we both stepped out. I made sure to lock the door and placed the keys in my pocket. By the time I reached the car, Anika was already hoping in the passenger seat. I hopped in and started the car. Anika turned to me and placed her hand on her seat. "Now remember, if the cops get called, Your name is Clementine, you don't speak English, and I'm deaf." 

     "Wait, whats your name?" 

     "Does it matter? I wont know what they're saying and you don't speak English." She made no sense, but whatever. I put the car into reverse and back out of the driveway.