Anxiety Attack

Chapter 18

"Duh," Allie gave me a weird look. "And you didn't? Wow, I'm hurt, Lee, it hurts right here," she pointed to her chest. "Don't make me leave you too."

"I'm sowwy," I said, hugging her. "Let's just ignore our men and have a girl's day, yeah?"

"I like the way you think," Allie grinned. "Let's roll."

I led Allie to my room, where she grabbed a pretty blue nail polish and began to do my nails, telling me that I really needed to paint them more often, and I told her that she needed to braid her hair more often, which she just shook off.

"I don't look good in a braid," she dismissed the idea.

"No you don't, I'm going to do one right now," I said, moving to start braiding her hair.

"Your nails are wet," she pointed out.

I looked down at my hands. "Oh yeah," I said sheepishly.

"Now you can't braid my hair!" Allie cheered.

"My nails will dry," I said threateningly.

Allie chuckled at that. "Come at me, bro."

"You don't think I could take you?!" I said, outraged. "I'd destroy you."

"Aren't you cute," Allie remarked, starting on my left hand. "You think you have a chance."

"Oh, I don't?" I said sarcastically. "I think I have quite a good chance indeed."

Allie snorted. "You have much a chance as Maccas has healthy food."

"Maccas?" I questioned, unsure of what the unfamiliar word meant.

"McDonald's, "Allie's cheeks turned a little pink. "That's what we call it in Australia."

"So you are Australian!" I exclaimed. "I knew it!"

Allie chuckled. "I haven't been there in a long time. My family moved to America when I was eleven."

"Your accent is fading," I pouted.

"Yeah, I've noticed that," Allie grimaced. "I'm kind of glad; people don't look at me like I'm a tourist anymore."

I laughed. "People looked at you like you were a tourist?"

"Yes," Allie said, pouting slightly. "They were like- you're Australian! And I was like- I never knew," she said sarcastically.

I laughed and Allie finished my nails. I blew on them slightly to make them dry faster as Allie started to paint her own.

"I wonder how the boys are doing," she commented.

"Probably sparking their bromance," I said drily.

Allie laughed. "Now that's a ship name we need to come up with."

I giggled as I tried to imagine the two names together. "Luli?"

Allie wrinkled her nose. "No... what about... Eke?"

"Eek?" I said, laughing. "Like a scream?"

"No, Lee, come on, use that brain of yours," Allie teased. "Eke, like the E from Eli and then the KE from Luke."

"That's an option," I agreed. "What about Elike?"

"I like it," Allie giggled. "It's like, I like but an E instead."

"Do we vote for Elike?" I said, raising my hand up in the air. Allie thrust her fist in the air. "All for Elike? Okay, Elike it is," I giggled.

"What are you two giggling about?" Luke asked suspiciously. He was standing in the doorway of my room, Eli standing a little bit behind him.

"Yours and Eli's ship name," Allie said cheerfully.

We took one look at each other and collapsed into giggles again.

Luke shook his head and looked at Eli. "Well, man, looks like we have a bromance."

Eli shrugged. "Alright, but I'm not about to hold your hand."

"Me neither," Luke said, looking repulsed then he shook his head as if to clear his mind. "Anyway, we were looking for you guys."

"Yeah," Eli added. "I turned around and you were gone."

"Well, maybe if you weren't ignoring me, you would have seen where I was going," I said matter-of-factly.

"And if Luke would listen to me, he would have known where I was going," Allie mock-glared at Luke, who raised his hands in surrender.

"Babe," Eli put a hand over his heart, and I tried to ignore the butterflies in my stomach when he said babe. "Are we having our first couple's quarrel?"

"You betcha!" I said cheerfully. "And it's on like Donkey Kong!"

"What's that supposed to mean?" Luke wrinkled his nose.

Allie and I looked at each other, matching evil grins on our faces. I'm pleasantly surprised and happy that we can read each other's minds so easily.

"This is war."

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hey guys i'm baack :) who missed me? I missed you guys :) anyway, my stepsisters' stepmom is doing much, much better, and i'm visiting her sunday, so it's all good :) so here's an update! I started writing this yesterday when I was in a really, really good mood because soccer workouts are starting and i went yesterday and i actually really like it because it's not that hard, and people are nice and then i went to a basketball game, but they lost :( and i was in a good mood so this happened, i hope you like it! Bye!

Love ya!

- T A Y L O R