“that’s it, lets just go to a hotel, we’ve been looking forever
for her” Amanda sighed
“alright…but we have to find her early tomorrow so we can get
back in time for the funeral” I said spinning the car around and finding a not
to trashy hotel to stay in for the night.
Early the next morning Nick walked down to the beach. He felt
bad that all of this had happened.
The girls were never supposed to find out about that. Although
they had been paid to come up here and spend time with them, the money didn’t
matter to them at all. it never really had.
When they talked to them on the phone they werent thinking about
the money, they were thinking about these girls. And how they seemed like they
could really use people to talk to, cause it was obvious they were all going
through a lot.
Nick sat down on the sand and sighed to himself. He wanted to
kill AJ for saying anything, but then again it was good that they knew.
Amanda opened the door and walked into the house. Eliese and AJ
were sitting on the couch talking.
“hey Amanda” Eliese said “come here we need to talk”
Amanda walked over and sat down in the chair across from them.
“Amanda, will you let me explain about the whole thing?” AJ
asked she nodded and waited for him to continue. “well it’s the truth, I wont
lie to you and say they didn’t ask us to come up here cause they did.”
“so yeah I get that part. But my question is, why would you want
to lie to us like that. Making us think you cared” she asked
“we did care, and we still do. If we didn’t care we wouldn’t
have even done it. I guess what im trying to say is im sorry. We shouldn’t have
even agreed to it”
“no don’t say that…then I wouldn’t have met you” Amanda said
quietly
“so do you forgive me?” he asked with a sad look.
“I guess so…” she said her lips curving into a small smile.
“thank you” he said smiling
“hey you two im gonna go call my daddy” Eliese said standing up
and walking into the kitchen.
“so whats goin on with you and her?” Amanda asked AJ when Eliese
was out of earshot.
“oh nothing really anymore. We talked…Eliese doesn’t want to be
with anyone right now so im still looking…” he said
“haha funny AJ” she said throwing a pillow at his head. “you
know you want me”
“maybe…” he smirked going over kissing her cheek and then
running into the kitchen.
I walked down the beach the next morning, just thinking. It had
been a real shitty couple days, and from what I could tell it was only going to
get worse.
I couldn’t belive that the whole thing with Nick and AJ was like
a joke. They really didn’t care at all. don’t get me wrong, I mean they are
really sweet guys and everything, but their reason for coming was all wrong.
Nick looked over and saw Brianna walking along the shore, she
looked at him for a second and then turned the other way.
He got up and walked over to her. She didn’t stop or look at him
at all.
“Brianna? Can we talk for a minute?” he asked walking beside me.
“no, im busy at the moment” I replied not looking at him. “I
have to find Eliese, her mothers funeral is in three hours and we’d like to be
there”
“shes at the house. She came back last night” he said
I turned and looked at him. “she did?”
“yeah, and we explained everything to her”
“so…?”
“and she doesn’t care”
“that doesn’t surprise me. She’ll do anything to get attention.
Even pretend she doesn’t care that you guys are assholes”
“come on…come back with me and let us explain. You have to hear
it sometime”
“no thanks” I said as my cell phone rang. I took it from my
pocked and answered it.
“hello?”
“hey Brianna where are you?” Amanda asked
“im on the beach, Eliese is at the house”
“I know, im there”
“ok so…I’ll be right there and we’ll leave?”
“umm sure…”
“ok bye” I said hanging up.
I walked away without saying anything to Nick. but he walked
back to the house with me.
I opened the door and walked in. Amanda Eliese and AJ were all
sitting in the kitchen.
“hi Bree” Eliese smiled, Amanda also smiled at me AJ just
avoided looking at me.
“hi” I said “ready?”
“I called my dad this morning, they moved the funeral to
tomorrow cause they didn’t have enough time to arrange it” Eliese said “so we
can stay now”
“no way, im leaving. This is such a load of crap how can you
still even look at them after knowing what they did?” I asked
“well first of all, they’re hott so…”
Amanda laughed and I looked over at her.
“what about you did you change your mind too?”
“well yeah…”
“uhh I cant belive you” I said loudly
“come on don’t flip they’re sorry” Eliese said simply
“yeah im sorry” Nick said I turned around and glared at him.
“I don’t think so, you guys do what you want. Stay in my house
as long as you’d like. Just lock up when you leave, and find your own ride
home” I said walking out and getting in my car.
“shes stubborn” Amanda laughed
“I guess so” AJ said smiling “but since we have this whole house
to ourselves what should we do…?”
“oh I don’t know, we could have some fun…” Amanda smiled
“you know what you guys, im gonna go home. I should help with
the arrangements and stuff. I feel bad” Eliese said
“I’ll go with you” Nick said “im gonna try and talk to Brianna”
“ok, me and AJ will stay here”
“alright AJ call me I don’t know when we’re going back but
whatever I’ll see you when you get back” Nick said
“ok see ya Nick, good luck”
“thanks im gonna need it” he said walking out with Eliese. They
called for a cab and then went back to concord.
Later that night Amanda walked downstairs and stood infront of
AJ who was watching tv.
“hey what do you wanna do tonight?” she asked sitting down and
clicking off the tv.
“oh I don’t know…what do you want to do?”
“um how about if we just go walk down the boardwalk and see what
there is to do” she suggested
“sure I’ll get ready” he smiled
“me too”
Monday morning Eliese woke up got ready and went into her
kitchen, Nick was there. he had spent the past two days with her because Brianna
had refused to talk to either of them.
“hey Nick” she smiled
“hi Eliese, where you off to?”
“school”
“I thought you dropped out”
“well I thought I might as well go back, if I finish finals I’ll
pass and then be able to atleast say I finished 11th grade”
“oh good for you” he smiled “im glad you decided to go back”
“you wanna come?”
“to school?”
“sure, all I got today is my health II final and then I can
leave. You should come, you can hang out with me while I wait”
“ok sure” he said
“ok lets go” they got up and walked out to Nicks rental they got
in and drove the 20 minutes to the high school.
He parked in the student parking lot and they got out.
“what time does it start?” he asked as they walked towards the
school.
“10:30 till 12. then I can leave”
“oh cool” he said as they walked up the walkway. “your school is
nice”
“I know it is” she smiled opening up the door. They walked in
and upstairs.
“so where are we going…?” he asked
“my locker” she lead him through a door into a big room full of
lockers. “this is where my locker is, over here”
they walked up to a green locker and she started to spin the
lock.
“your locker is green?” he asked “that’s cool”
“yeah, Brianna picked it out” she opened it up and he saw
pictures of Brianna Eliese and Amanda hung up all over the insides.
“do you share a locker with someone?”
“yeah Brianna who else?”
“Amanda maybe”
“nope…” she said putting her book in there and taking out a
different one. “speaking of her here she comes…”
Nick looked over and saw Brianna walking towards them.
‘great’ I thought ‘she brought him to school’
I walked up to them and waited for Eliese to get done with the
locker.
“hey Bree” Eliese said
“morning” I said half sarcasticly.
“how was your weekend?”
“shitty…yours?” I asked
“same” she stepped out of the way and I reached in to get my
calculus book. When I was done I shut it and looked at Eliese and Nick who were
still there.
“you still mad” Nick asked
“you could say that” I said as somone covered my eyes from
behind.
“guess who…” the person disguised their voice so I couldn’t
tell.
“umm…Amanda?” I asked
“nope”
“alright who are you?”
“come on guess you know!”
“no I don’t”
“fine come with me and you’ll find out” the person lead me away.
“who was that?” Nick asked Eliese.
“her friend Matt” Eliese said as they walked back down the
stairs and into the student center. They sat down at a table and just talked.
“so Nick, when are you and AJ leaving?”
“whenever we want” he said “we could stay here forever if we
wanted to”
“but I don’t know why you would do that…seeing how Brianna hates
you and you wont be able to stay with me much longer”
“why kicking me out?” he asked with a smirk.
“no im moving”
“to where?” he asked
“north carolina. My dad wants to move there, and I don’t have a
choice”
“oh that sucks, when are you leaving?”
“Wednesday, after my last final”
“does Brianna know?”
“no, shes mad at me”
“you have to tell her sometime, if you leave and shes still mad
at you you both are going to regret it”
“I know, I guess I’ll tell her now” she stood up and looked
around, she saw Brianna just walking in with the guy she had left with before.
“Brianna, come here” she yelled
I sighed and walked over to her.
“what is it…?” I asked
“hi Eliese” Matt said smiling
“hey Matt”
“oh Matt this is Nick” I said being polite.
“hi” Nick said
Matt smiled “hey Eliese im sorry about your mom”
“thanks, um…Brianna I got to tell you something”
“yeah go ahead”
“well its just that…this Wednesday after school im leaving”
“so am I im going back to the beach house with Matt” I said
“no I mean im leaving for good”
“where are you going?”
“im moving to North Carolina with my dad and brother”
“you are?” I asked quietly
“yeah…”
“oh well…um…have a nice time” I said turning around and quickly
walking off.
Matt turned around and walked off after her.
Eliese put her hands over her eyes. “I knew it, she still hates
me”
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(*Happy now Matt? Theres your so-called cameo apperance!*)