Laying in bed I listened to the sound of rain drops falling on
the ground outside my window. I tried to drown out the sound of my sisters
radio playing loudly in the next room but it was too distracting.
Getting up I walked into the next room. Without knocking I
opened the door only to find her in there with her boyfriend making out on the
bed. I sighed not wanting to deal with her. But I knew I had to cause my
parents were out of town again.
They didn’t notice me come in until I went over and shut off the
radio.
“Brianna?” my little sister Christina said sitting up. “what do
you want?”
“you know what I want. Get him out of here, you have school
tomorrow” I said
“yeah so its not like we’re going to do anything since it’s the
last day”
“who cares! I said get him out of here and I mean it. Don’t
screw around”
“I don’t care what you want. Hes staying over”
“I don’t think so. Your 12 years old your not having any boys
stay over when im the one in charge”
“I’ll do it whether you like it or not”
“fine whatever im getting the fuck outta here” I said walking
out. I went downstairs and grabbed my jacket before walking out.
~*~*~*~*~
“AJ cut it out” Amanda laughed looking up at him.
“what im bored” he whined
“I know you are but I have to study for my tests tomorrow” she
said
“you’ve been studdying for hours”
“I know” she sighed and closed her book. “what do you want to
do?”
“umm…lets go see a movie” he suggested
“sure” she said standing up.
They went to the movie theater and stood outside trying to
figure out what movie to see.
“how about hollow man? It looks good” Amanda said pointing to
the poster hanging on the wall.
“are you sure? Your not going to get scared are you?” he asked
smiling.
“me get scared? Yeah right” she said he looked at her for a
minute. “ok fine I do get scared but your going to have to protect me ok?”
“alright” he said taking her hand and buying two tickets.
~*~*~*~*~
“Nick do me a favor?” Eliese asked walking into her room where
he was helping her pack her stuff into boxes.
“yeah what is it?” he asked
“will you go down the street and pick up the pizza. My dads gone
getting more boxes so I cant take his car”
“yep where is it?” he asked
“um you know where Brianna’s house is?” she asked, he nodded.
“just down the street from there. sorry its so far away, you don’t have to go
if you don’t want to”
“no its ok I’ll go I’ll be back” he said taking his keys and
walking out.
~*~*~*~*~
I walked down the road soaking wet with rain. I was so upset
about everything. First there was Nick and AJ and that whole thing, then there
was the thing with Eliese moving away tomorrow. There was my sister and my
whole family, and on top of all that im afraid that I failed my calculus final.
I just wanted to get away from everything. I was sick of being a
good friend, a good sister, and a good daughter. I thought about running away.
But that wouldn’t work.
I hoped that maybe after school ended everything would calm down
and go back to normal. But I didn’t really know if there was a such thing as
normal in my life.
~*~*~*~*~
Amanda covered her eyes not wanting to see another person get
their guts ripped out.
AJ looked over and laughed he put a protective arm around her
and she got as close to him as she could.
“you can look now Amanda, the gross part is over” AJ whispered
to her with hint of sarcasm in his voice.
She looked up and playfully smacked his arm. “don’t make fun of
me”
“im not making fun of you” he said leaning down and giving her a
soft kiss on the cheek. She smiled and blushed at the same time.
He kept looking at her, and she looked back at him, neither of
them moving.
She opened her mouth as if she was going to say something but
stopped when she realized she had nothing to say. He leaned down again and this
time pressed his lips up against hers.
Amanda quickly pulled away hearing a high-pitched female scream.
“what was that?” she asked looking around.
“it was umm…the movie Amanda” AJ said with a smirk.
“ohhhh, alright” she said “can uh we leave I don’t like this
movie”
“sure” he stood up and put his arm around her waist before
walking out.
~*~*~*~*~
Nick was driving back from the pizza place in the pouring rain
when he saw someone walking in the road. He went around the person and glanced
over, not being able to see the pesons face he just drove by.
After about half a mile he started to think about going to
Brianna’s house while he was in town to see if maybe she would talk to him. he
had tried a million times to talk to her but every time he was shugged off and
it was starting to get frusturating.
He turned around and started to drive back to her house. If she
wasn’t going to talk to him now he was going to give up.
As he drove he came apon that same person walking towards him.
this time he saw the number 4 on the jacket and knew who it was. He stopped
infront of her and turned off his headlights.
I stopped seeing the park infront of me. I got a little scared
not knowing who it was or why they were stopping.
“Brianna?” I heard the person say stepping out of the car. At
first I had no idea who it was but when he started to come towards me. It was
Nick, I guess you could say I was happy to see him as much as I hated to admit
it.
“are you ok?” he asked walking up to me. I shrugged and looked
down at the ground.
Nick lifted her head so she was looking at him and saw she was
crying. Even the rain didn’t hide the fact that her face was more soaked with
tears than rain.
He pulled me into his arms and held me. I didn’t fight him at
all, I just wanted someone to be there for me like I was for so many others.
“what are you doing out here?” he asked quietly pulling away
from me. I didn’t say anything just shook my head telling him I didn’t want to
talk about it. “well come on I’ll take you home”
he parked in my driveway and helped me inside. When we walked in
my sister and her boyfriend had made their way to the living room and also a
few of her other friends had found their way over.
“sure, I cant have a boy over and then you bring one home?” she
asked laughing as Nick and I walked up the stairs. I ignored her and went into
my room.
“shes such a bitch I could care less if I ever see her again” I
mumbled throwing off my jacket and the rest of my wet clothes.
“soo…” he started “you wanna talk to me?”
“nope” I replied “not until I change” I walked into my bathroom
and came out a second later in dry clothes. “ok I’ll talk to you now”
“alright” he said I sat down on my bed and he sat across from
me. “I just need to explain to you about that whole money thing…”
“no don’t” I said holding up my hand. “I don’t want you to
explain it to me. I honestly don’t care anymore”
“so you are still mad” he said standing up and starting to walk
away.
“no I didn’t say that” I said grabbing his hand and pulling him
back down. “I don’t care, but im not mad. I’ve got a lot more on my mind than
just you”
“you wanna talk about it?”
“whats there to talk about? Eliese is leaving tomorrow, my
parents don’t even know im alive, my sister is driving me absolutely crazy and
I just feel like running away”
“yeah so your having a bad couple weeks…tomorrow you’ll be out
of school, and it’ll be summer so you can do whatever you want. You wont have
to worry about your sister or anything. it’ll get better trust me” he said
“but what if it doesn’t”
“you know it will. Don’t take this the wrong way or anything,
but I think your just acting like this to get attention”
I hid my smile “so what if I am?” I asked hitting him with a
pillow. “I mean it must be working cause you’re here”
“right I guess it did” he said “just take it easy and everything
will fall into place. It be ok”
“thank you” I said smiling at him.
“well I got to go Eliese is waiting for me to get back” he said
standing up.
“oh…” I said knowing I sounded dissapointed.
“…or I could stay here” he added smiling.
“see I always get my way” I laughed “you can sleep in here with me”
I took his hand and pulled him back down onto the bed. I got under the covers
and he got under with me.
“you know once you open up to someone your very forward” he said
as I reached over him to turn off the light.
“I know” I sighed “sorry”
“it doesn’t bother me”
“ok good”
“night”
“night Nick”
the next afternoon I went with Amanda AJ and Nick to Eliese’s
house to say goodbye. We still werent on good terms for reasons that I didn’t
even know. I hoped that maybe we would talk before she left.
“Nick is she really mad at me?” I asked leaning me head down on
his chest.
“no I don’t think shes mad at you at all. I think she just
thinks your mad at her”
“well im not, I don’t think”
“ok so I’ll say im sorry to her before she leaves”
“good” he said smiling.
We arrived at her house and seeing the moving truck there it
finally hit me that my best friend was moving.
Amanda and I had been best friends for a lot longer, I had only
known Eliese for 6 months and we had become such good friends. we got ut of the
car. I looked at Amanda and saw her holding AJ’s hand and smiled. They were
really cute together.
Eliese walked out of her house with a sad look on her face.
“Eliese im gonna miss you soo much” Amanda said going over and
giving her a hug.
“im gonna miss you too Amanda, but you’ll have to come see me
sometime” Eliese replied tears already falling down her cheeks.
“oh I will” Amanda said stepping aside so AJ and Nick could say
bye. When they were out of the way she looked at me.
“so you know im not mad are you right?” I asked going over to
her.
“well are you?”
“no” I said “I’ll be down to see you. Don’t worry” I smiled
giving her a hug.
“you better” she said “well looks like we’re all set and its
time to move along”
“so you promise to call me everyday?” I asked
“yep” she smiled giving us all a hug.
“ok see you then” I said smiling. She got into the car with her
dad in the front and her brother in the back and they drove off. We waved to
them until their car dissapeared.
“so shes really gone” Amanda said as we got back in the car.
“yeah” I sighed wiping away a few tears. “now what?”
“well I think that you and Amanda are coming with us” Nick said
wrapping an arm around my waist.
“where to?” Amanda asked looking over at AJ.
“you’ll find out” he smiled “you’ll find out…”
“come on AJ tell me” she said jumping up and down infront of
him.
“no…you and Bree go home and pack your bags. Nick and I have
some stuff to do. We’ll be over later on”
“Nick tell me” I said looking at him.
“sorry, it’s a surprise” he smirked “we’ll drop you at Amandas
and then meet you at your house later”
“then will you tell us?” Amanda asked
“yep” AJ said opening the door for her.
“ok cool I cant wait to know what it is” she smiled
“I hate surprises” I said getting in the car. “but anything that
would cheer me up right now, im all for it”
“I think it will make you really happy” Nick said
“I hope so” I sighed leaning my head back on the seat. “I really
do…”