Chapters 23-25
During the annual 11th and 12th grade family picnic Meredith was planning on talking to Jeff. But right when she was about to, her Mom stopped her.
"Meredith I know how you've been feeling kinda down lately, so I got you this." She said handing her an envelop. Meredith opened it up and screamed. It was three plane tickets to New York City.
"Mom thank you so much! This makes me so happy." Meredith said hugging her Mom. Meredith asked Carmen and Alex to go and they of course said yes.
***The Big Apple***
"This is so cool of your Mom!" Alex said hugging Meredith for the hundredth time.
"Is your Mom like rich?" Carmen gasped walking into the Plaza hotel. "How can she afford this, I mean we are staying here until the end of July!"
"Well, my aunt works here as a manger and she said no one was staying in our room until December. So we get this room for free." Meredith said happily. "Plus what a way to spend birthday huh?"
They were escorted to their room and gave the bell man a tip. After unpacking they all ordered room service. Since it was their first night there, they decided to go clubbing. Alex and Carmen had never been to a New York club so Meredith had to show them what to wear. Alex ended up wearing a pink sparkle hulter top with white flares. Her hair was in one French braid. Carmen was wearing a tan colored tube top and light denim jeans. Her brown shoulder length hair was in two little pigtails. Meredith was wearing a black tank top and it said in loopy shiny letters Foxy. With the shirt she wore purple leopard pants. She had her hair in a low ponytail. They looked in the mirror and nodded, they were ready.
Chapter 24
Since they were only 17 they had to find a club that would let them in. They finally found a 16 plus club called Jade. The club was packed. They figured they would go towards the middle of the dance floor and dance with themselves. While they were dancing two guys came up to Alex and Carmen and started dancing with them. So Meredith was dancing with herself. Meredith got tired so she told Alex and Carmen that she'd be by the bar. She ordered a Sprite and watched everyone dance.
"Nice pants." A guy sitting next to her said.
"Thanks." She said turning to look at him, "Hi I'm Mer......."
"Meredith?!? Is that you?"
"Eddie!?! Oh my gosh! It's so good to see you." She said hugging him.
"What on earth are you doing back here?" he asked.
"Summer vacation." Meredith said "Man it's so good to see you."
"And imagine me trying to hit on you, of all people." Eddie laughed.
"Yeah cause you know better than to hit on me." Meredith said right when Alex and Carmen came.
"Who's the guy?" Alex asked with interest.
"Eddie this is Carmen and that's Alex." She said pointing to them.
"Meredith it's your birthday today isn't it?" Eddie asked.
"Yeah you actually remember." Meredith asked.
"Duh you're like one of my closest friends. How about a dance?" he asked, Meredith excepted. They danced for a couple of songs and then decided to rest for a while. Carmen and Alex joined them a couple minutes later.
"Man this is great, I already got a guys number."Alex said.
"So what are you two up to?" Carmen asked raising an eyebrow.
"Just talking, is that against the law?"
"Hey I have to go to the bathroom, why don't you guys join me?" Alex suggested.
"Okay....."
"I suppose." They left Eddie there and said they'd be back. They went to the bathroom and sat Meredith down.
"So........" they asked.
"So........ what?" Meredith asked back.
"So what's up with you and um.....Eddie"
"Yeah what's up with you two?"
"Nothing. All we did was dance and talk." Meredith said.
"Oh please, you were all over each other. Did you guys ever have a thing?" Carmen asked.
"Maybe but so what!" Meredith asked. "What's wrong about it?"
"Well, isn't it a bit soon?" Carmen asked. Meredith looked dumbfounded.
"Really I mean you and Jeff just broke up and you guys were like really serious." Alex added.
"Well, Jeff is a stupid asshole that can kiss my butt!" Meredith yelled.
"Don't call him that, you know that's not true." Alex said.
"Well, you know what, he broke up with me! It's his loss! And I'll do what I want!" Meredith yelled, storming out.
"She sooooo still loves him." Alex said looking at Carmen.
"Yeah she does. It's like totally obvious. Come on, let's go." Carmen said. They went to the bar and seen Eddie.
"Where's Meredith?" Carmen asked.
"She left back to the hotel." Eddie said
"Not uh! So not cool! How are we supposed to get home." Alex yelled. "I'm not walking alone..... in New York City!"
"I can take you home, if you want." Eddie offered, they both agreed. Eddie drove them back and they thanked him.
"Have Meredith call me." Eddie said driving away.
"He sooo want's Meredith." Carmen stated.
"Duh! Why do all the hotties want Meredith?" Alex asked. "Damn it we're hot too!"
"Yeah we are!"
Chapter 25
The next day Meredith woke up with bangs at the door. She answered the door and there was a young bell boy with room service. She took the food and held out his hand.
"You expect a tip? Pshh you woke me up." Meredith said closing the door in his face.
"Excellent! Room service is here." Alex said coming out of her room. Meredith glared at her. "Don't worry we ordered you something!"
"So what are we doing today?" Carmen asked coming out fully dressed.
"I don't care, it's up to you guys<"Girls" Alex corrected her>"
Meredith said taking a bite of her bagel. Carmen and Alex looked at each other.
"Shopping!" they said together. So after they all got ready, and they headed out to the mall. For the rest of the day they shopped and shopped and shopped. Around eight o'clock they left for the hotel.
"So are we going clubbing?" Alex asked.
"Well, I kind of wanted to stay in." Meredith said. "But you guys can take the rental car. I don't mind."
"Are you sure?" Carmen asked, Meredith nodded. After about an hour Alex and Carmen left. Meredith picked up the phone and dialed a number. She let the phone ring and ring until the answering machine came on.
"Hey this is Jeff, I'm not home but you know what to do after the beep." BEEP. Meredith hung up the phone.
"Hello?" Jeff answered a second late.
"Who was that, babe?" a girl's voice asked.
"I dunno they hung up." Jeff shrugged.
"Oh well come back to bed." She said, Jeff did so. Five minutes later the phone rang.
"Hello?" Jeff answered immediately. "Hello? Is anyone there? Hellllooooo?" Meredith couldn't stand it, she hung up. She was being stupid. She picked up the phone and redialed. Jeff reached for the phone but his bed buddy grabbed it from him.
"Hello?" she asked.
"Hello? Who is this?" Meredith asked.
"This is Kassi, who's this?" She asked but she never got an answer. Meredith had hung up. Gosh how could Jeff do this to her. They had only been apart less than a month. She picked up the phone and dialed again.
"Hello?" Jeff answered. Meredith didn't say anything.
"Okay quit calling here if you're not going to talk........" Jeff started.
"Jeff you're a stupid bastard and I hope you die! I thought I would call to work things out but I think you've already worked things out with Kassi!" Meredith yelled into the phone.
"Meredith wait let me explain...." Jeff started again.
"No good bye Jeffery!" Meredith yelled and hung up.
"Whoa who was that?" Kassi asked. "Oh yeah Meredith......" she started to kiss Jeff again.
"Get off Kassi." he said calmly. "This was a big mistake, I think you better leave." Kassi looked at him with shock in her eyes and then slapped him. Ten minutes after she left and Jeff called Meredith.
"Hello?" her Mom said.
"Is Meredith there, it's Jeff." He asked.
"No, Meredith is not here."
"That's impossible, she just called." Jeff explained.
"She must have called you from the hotel."
"What? I don't understand." Jeff asked confused.
"Didn't she tell you? She's in New York for the summer." Her Mom said.
"Okay thank you, Mrs. Jones." Jeff said hanging up. Jeff swore to him self then headed down stairs.
"What's up bro?" Matt asked.
"I just made the biggest mistake of my life." Jeff said sitting down at the kitchen table. Jeff told him everything and waited for Matt's reply.
"You dumped a fine lookin' chic like Meredith because she was addicted to weed? Do you know how hard it is to quit without professional help?" Matt asked.
"You're right, I was dumb. But now I think I've lost her for good." Jeff said pounding his head on the table.
Chapter 26
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