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Maddy's P.O.V
“I’m going to be at your house in, like, five minutes. Please don’t make me wait.” My friend Savvy said.
“I’m walking out right now; I’ll be waiting for you, not the other way around.”
“Okay, bye!” With that we hung up.
I walked out of my house and I inhaled deeply. To me the air always smelled different in the morning and I loved it. I liked the sound of the birds and the way the grass was wet. I wished it was like this all day. Unlike the hot and humid weather that would soon consume the whole city in a matter of hours…
I heard what sounded like a closing of a door. I looked across the street to see Troy walking out of his house. I immediately tried to hide so he wouldn’t see me, but in my frantic state to find a good place to hide, he noticed me. I froze when I saw he was staring at me. I gave him a fake smile.
“Weirdo.” He called to me as Savvy pulled up to my driveway.
I got pissed and balled up my fist. I went to the end of my lawn. “For the past 10 years of my life, you’ve non-stop called me names, weirdo, pig, fat, slow, mentally dumb, klutz, stupid, and so on. How about you get a freaking life and leave me alone!”
“I would if I didn’t have to see your face almost every time I leave my house.” He stated in a bored tone.
“Then I recommend you either move or endure it, because some people have a life.”
“You call going to school every day, doing all your work, being on the teacher’s good side, never sneaking out of the house, always doing what your mommy and daddy tell you to do a life? That’s not a life.”
“Oh and you think what do you is a life?”
“I have such a life you don’t even know what I do because you have your nose in books all the time.” He said.
“Maddy, if you don’t get in this car, we’ll be late for school and I won’t hesitate to leave you! And as for you Troy, you're an ass!”
I laughed and walked over to the car.
When I got in, Savvy looked at me with a smile.
“What?”
“You like him,” she said.
I glared at her as we pulled out of my driveway. Laughing, I spoke, "Come on, Savvy you know me. I am not in love with Troy. I hate his guts.”
“Hey, yeah right, you have liked him for years. I think you need to tell him.”
“I will tell him I hate him, as soon as you tell Allen you like him.”
Savvy looked at me wide eyed. “I don’t like Allen, he’s my best friend and has been for the past 10 years.”
“But, you are madly in love with him.” I stated as Savvy pulled into my friend Kay’s driveway.
Yeah, Savvy is the only friend so far with a car, so she drives me and our two other best friends to school.
I watched as Kay came running out of her house, as her mom yelled from the front door, “love you Kay bear, have a great day!”
Kay got in the car, “drive! Drive!” Kay chanted.
Savvy ans I laughed, because Kay’s mom was blowing kisses from the front door.
“All this morning she wouldn’t stop smiling, which as you know is rare for her. I asked her why she was smiling, and she said…” Kay stopped talking and looked like she was about to be sick.
“If you’re gonna be sick, please let me know so I can roll down the window. But, if you puke in my car, we’ll have problems, you and me, little missy,” stated Savvy in a serious tone.
“What did your mom say when you asked hwy she was in a good mood?” I questioned.
“She told me her and dad ‘got down with it’ last night.”
I never laughed so hard in my life, but it was funny.
“Don’t laugh, it’s not funny!” Kay whined.
“I can’t believe your mom flat out told you that she and your dad had se-“ I was stopped by Kay putting her hand over my mouth.
“Don’t you dare say it, I mean it.” Kay told me with daring eyes. “Now, if I take my hand off of your mouth, will you not say it?” Kay asked.
I nodded.
She slowly removed her hand from my mouth.
I smiled as Savvy pulled up to Hope’s house.
We waited for like five minutes and then Hope came tumbling out of her house, with her bag slipping off her shoulder and her hands full of papers that looked like they were about to fall out of her hands. Hope's hair was a mess and her outfit looked like she had just thrown it together. She got in the car and let out a heavy sigh.
We all looked at her.
“What?” She inquired.
“You look like you just woke up and rushed out of the door,” Savvy said.
“You can thank my brother Scot for that. He’s such a little punk, he took my iPod last night and never gave it back, and you know I use that thing for an alarm clock. You would think my dad would have woken me up, but no. He got up late and decide he was in too much of a rush to wake me up. Scot of course never gave it a second thought to wake me up. So, when I did wake up I realized I had 3 minutes before y’all would be here.” She said.
Kay dug into her pocket and handed Hope a pack of gum.
“Thanks,” Hope said.
I opened my shoulder bag and got a hair brush out of my bag.
“Thank you,” she mutter once more as I gave her the brush.
This is not Hope’s first time rushing to get ready and not brushing her hair and teeth, after the third time Kay and I came prepared.
“So what is going on with y’all this morning?” Hope asked.
“Well, Kay’s mom and dad-“ Once again I got a hand over my mouth by Kay.
She grinned, happy that she caught me before I said it.
“Kay’s mom and dad had sex!” Savvy yelled at the top of her lungs.
Kay dropped her hand and shot Savvy daggers.
“Sorry Kay, I had to, plus you can’t touch me, I’m driving,” Savvy said.
“Do I even wanna know how you found out your parents were doing it last?” Hope asked Kay.
Kay glared at Hope and then looked out of the window.
I knew then that Kay was mad.
“Why are you upset Kay? You do know that it’s a part of nature, and that’s how you came about? ... But hey, now you know not question why your mom is in a good mood," I commented.
“Her mom was in a good mood? No, I can’t believe I missed that! Not fair, next time pick me up first,” Hope said.
“I would, but you won’t be ready,” Savvy stated.
“True, never mind then, but at least record it … Kay’s mom in a good mood happens like once in a blue moon,” Hope stated.
“Hey! You’re talking about my mom here!” Kay said.
“So girls, are you ready for school?!” Savvy said before taking a big gulp of … COFFEE?!
I snatched the cup from her. I realized that she had already drunk most of it. I looked at her wide eyed.
“What the hell? Why did you do that?” Savvy asked when she knew very well why I did that.
“Coffee! Savvy, you know what that does to you,” I exclaimed.
“You drank coffee?!” Kay said in a shocked tone as Savvy parked the car. “I’m getting out of here.” Kay opened the door and ran off.
I got out too with Savvy and Hope.
“I’m not that bad!” Savvy yelled at Kay as she ran for the school.
“Yeah right, last time you had coffee…” Hope started to say but then stopped, she looked at me and then took off.
Savvy stared at me.
“Why when I drink coffee every one runs away?!” Savvy questioned.
“Because you are … hyper as it is and with coffee … You are bouncing of the walls, literally. Remember last week when you had coffee you starting jumping up and down, you almost got suspended because the principle thought you were on speed. Then of course he thought since we were with you, we were doing drugs too. It was a mess.”
Savvy looked at me and then she smiled. “Allen!” She took off across the parking lot towards Allen.
I think he knew she was on coffee because he took off towards the school.
I smiled … My friends are too crazy, especially Savvy.
Walking into school, I caught Savvy pushing people to get to Allen who made a mad dash for the men’s restroom.
I laughed and went to my locker.
“Do you know where she is?” Kay whispered to me.
“No, last I saw she was chasing Allen down the hall.”
“I think she likes him.” Kay said while taking out her camera.
“I know, right.” Kay took a picture of me and then of the lockers. “Hey, did you ever sign up for photography?” I asked her.
She took the camera away from her face and looked at me. “Yeah, and I got accepted. I start the class next week. What about you? Did you ever get accepted into creative writing?” She asked, sliding her camera back in her bag.
“Not sure. I was about to head to the creative writing teacher and ask right now.”
“Well, good luck!”
“Are we having the sleepover tomorrow night?” Hope asked coming over to us.
“Yeah,” I said. “It will be at my house. My sister will be there too. My parents are going out of town this weekend, so it will just be us and my sister.”
“Okay, cool!” Kay said.
“Do you have anything planned for the sleepover?” Hope asked.
“No,” I said grabbing my books and closing my locker.
“I‘ve been wanting to play truth or dare, can we play that?” Kay asked.
“I guess,” I replied.
“Okay then, oh and I will buy the food, I get paid tomorrow so maybe Savvy can take us to the store after school.” Hope said, we all nodded.
“Food paid by Hope, and truth or dare, sounds like a plan," Kay added.
“There you guys are! I’ve been looking everywhere for y’all!” Yelled Savvy as she skipped, yes skipped over to us.
Giving each other nervous glances, we all took off running in separate directions.