ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING
Chapter Thirteen
A few days later, their vacation
was over, and before they knew it, Jack, Rose, Autumn, Tommy, Adrienne, and
Fabrizio were back at school. Now, they were sitting at a lunch table, talking
and eating.
"I don’t want to be at
school. I hate doing homework. It’s total shit," Adrienne complained,
picking at her food.
"I don’t, either. School is
like a bitch fight," said Rose. Everyone started laughing at Rose’s
comment. Fabrizio and Adrienne were just about to kiss when he felt someone
kick him in the leg under the table.
"Hey, Fabri! This is lunch,
not sex ed!" Jack exclaimed. Everyone started laughing harder.
Once they calmed down, Autumn
asked, "So, girls, you wanna go shopping after school?"
"Sure," Adrienne and
Rose said.
"Thanks for inviting
us," Jack muttered.
"Jack, every time you guys
come shopping with us, you end up asking if we can leave every five seconds. If
you wanna come, you can, but don’t be complaining to me when you wanna
leave," Rose told him.
"Fine. You girls go, then.
But don’t complain to me when you get bored because we aren’t there," said
Tommy.
"Oh, trust me. We
won’t," Adrienne said. Rose, Autumn, and Adrienne started laughing, but
Jack, Tommy, and Fabrizio just sat there without saying anything.
"Don’t feel bad because
we’re prettier than you." Autumn laughed.
"We don’t. That is a false
statement," Tommy said.
Jack and Fabrizio laughed, and
Jack said, "Tommy, are you gay or something? Or do you just like being
pretty?"
"What part of ‘I have a
girlfriend’ do you not understand?" Tommy asked, putting his arm around
Autumn.
"Oh, God. There they go
again. What is with you guys and PDA’s?" Adrienne started giggling.
"Huh?" everyone else
questioned.
"Public displays of
affection."
"Oh," said Tommy.
Everyone except he and Autumn started laughing.
They started talking about all
kinds of stuff, and the rest of the day was pretty much a blur, since they
hated being back at school so much.
*****
After school, Autumn, Adrienne,
and Rose were all at Rose’s locker, talking about their shopping trip.
"How about you and Autumn
come to my house at 4:30, because my mom is making me do that stupid book club
thing and it gets over at 4:30," Adrienne suggested.
"Sure. Autumn and I are
gonna go get something to eat at Taco Bell or something, and then we will come
to your house to pick you up so we can go shopping."
"Okay. That works. I wish I
didn’t have that damned book club, though," Adrienne whined. Rose and
Autumn laughed.
"Why is your mom making you
do that? That is totally boring!" Rose said.
"She says my grades need to
improve. She is all about straight A’s, and doesn’t think B’s and C’s are good
enough. So she is making me read educational books as part of her book club. It
totally sucks."
"That does suck,"
Autumn agreed.
Rose and Autumn went to Rose’s
car and drove to Taco Bell to eat. Adrienne drove her own car her house. Rose
and Autumn went into the restaurant, got some tacos and sat in the restaurant
and talked for awhile before deciding to leave at 4:15 to pick up Adrienne to
go to the mall. They got in Rose’s car and felt like being crazy, so they
turned the music up as loud as they could and started singing loudly to the
song Lose My Breath, by Destiny’s Child, while they were riding in the
car.
They were yelling more than
singing, and they had the windows rolled down, so many passers-by gave them
dirty looks when their car passed. They screamed when the chorus came on.
Baby boy
Make me lose my breath!
They were so caught up in the
music that they didn’t notice when a drunk driver in a car came up and swerved
in front of them.
"Rose! Look out!"
Autumn screamed.
"Oh, shit!" Rose
yelled. She tried to turn, but the drunk driver’s car hit Rose’s car, and then
their whole world went black.