+chapter.two+

I rang the doorbell to Felicity’s house. Felicity, Mark, Cleo, and I were going to go around town for a bit. Cleo, Felicity, Mark, and I had been friends since we were little. We were like, THE group around town. Everyone associated me with the three of them and the three of them with me. Felicity and Cleo were definitely very pretty, but I wouldn’t consider dating them. They were practically my sisters. Mark was seventeen, Cleo was sixteen, and Felicity was the baby at fifteen. Tay had a crush on her a year ago and they went out once, but they decided to just be friends. It’s funny cause Felicity is the easiest to talk to, even though she’s the youngest. Don’t get me wrong, I talk to Cleo and Mark about the same things, but Felicity is usually the first to know whatever news I have. Felicity opened the door and smiled. “Yo, Ike. What’s up?”

“Hey, Felicity. Nothing really,” I said.

“Yea, same here. Glad ya called. I was getting bored all by myself!” She gave me a hug and I hugged back.

“Yea. I gotta ditch you guys early today though. Mom made Zac, Tay, and I go down to the new neighbor’s and ask them over for dinner.”

“Oh yea! That’s right! Anyone good move in? Maybe Nick Carter?” Lic, our nickname for her, asked.

I laughed. Lic had this huge crush on Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys. “Nope, sorry, Lic.”

“Damn. Any hot guys?”

“No again.”

“God, what do you have? A bunch of old geezers living three houses down?” Felicity complained.

“No, worse. This really rude bratty girl moved there. She was like, so rude to Zac, Tay, and I. We told her our mom would like her family to come to dinner tonight and she tells us to wait while she gets her mother and she closes the door in our faces! I was pretty annoyed with that. Then Zac and Tay were drooling over her and kept saying how hot she was. I mean, yea, she was pretty, but she was VERY rude,” I explained as we skated to Mark’s.

Felicity nodded. She was always good when it came to listening. “Well, try to talk to her tonight. Try to get to know her a bit. She’s new here and she doesn’t know anyone yet. Does she know about you guys? I mean, is she like, a fan?”

“I don’t know. If she was, I don’t think she would have closed the door in our face.”

“Maybe she wanted to scream,” Lic said thoughtfully.

“Who knows,” I replied. “She seemed to be a real brat though.”

“And you never got her name?”

“Nope.”

“Man, that’s messed up. Would you be willing to stop by? Like so Cleo, Mark, and I can introduce ourselves?”

“Not really, Lic…” I trailed. “Sorry.”

“Don’t be! It’s cool. After she leaves your house tonight, call me. I want to know everything. Including if she’s as bratty as you think,” Lic smiled her bright, happy smile.

“Alright,” I couldn’t help but smiling back.

We reached Mark’s and picked him up and started to Cleo’s. She only lived about a block down so it didn’t take us to long to get there. “So, how’re the new neighbors?” Cleo asked.

“No one good,” I replied before Lic butted in.

“The parents are cool, but the daughter’s a bitch.”

I laughed. “What she said.”

“Man, that sucks,” Mark spoke, patting, or rather pounding, my back.

“Tell me about it. If she were nicer, she would be date material. Zac and Tay love her. They talked about her the whole way home.”

“Do you know how old she was? What’s her name?” Mark asked, interested.

“I don’t know either. She slammed the door in our faces practically and said jack to us. She looked to be about Tay’s age, if not older. I’m just guessing on that.”

“Man, what a rip.”

Cleo and Felicity laughed. “You guys have to get a new favorite subject when you're around us,” Felicity said.

“Really!” Cleo agreed.

Mark and I smiled and looked down at the ground, blushing.

“Aw! You’re both so cute when you blush!” Cleo cooed and pinched our cheeks.

Lic laughed a bit harder as Mark and I turned deeper shades of pink. “Adorable,” she said. “Simply adorable.”

“Okay, come on, guys. We better get going if we want to do anything worthwhile while I can hang around,” I said.

“Ike, we never do anything worthwhile,” Cleo pointed out.

I laughed. “Yea, that’s true. We’re just a buncha trouble-making kids out to get a good laugh off of someone.”

We all laughed a bit and started skating to the park. I only had an hour to go. I might as well spend it having a laugh with my friends.