Cameo fetched me to school today. He needed the car for something important at work. Therefore, I got to school early in the morning. I met Ely as I got out from my car. She was hot, as always.“Hey sweetie,” I greeted her.
“Hello, hottie!” She seems flattered.
“So, what’s up?” I asked her with a big smile.
“Looks like someone’s happy today,”
“Indeed,” I nodded.
“What happened?” She was so curious.
“Full report, for the gorgeous gossip girl,” She continued.
“Nothing much, just had a delightful night yesterday,” I answered.
“Interesting, but I need more details,”
“Look who’s there,” I changed the topic. I pointed at Dylan’s car.“Another McDreamy to light up my day,”
But, it was so odd. Usually, Dylan will open the door for Christine and walk with her proudly into the school. Today, he was all alone. All eyes were locked on him. I bet each and every of them was wondering why is he not with Christine. They were all whispering to each other but Dylan ignored them. “He broke up with Christine!” A girl from my back giggled. “We can have him now,” Her friend added. “I heard he is stallion on bed,” They both laughed. Ely turned to them and yelled, “Don’t you guys have a life?” Both of the girls turned away but still whispered to one another.
“Dylan!” I shouted his name. He walked toward us with his long face.
“Why didn’t I know about this,” Ely turned to me and spoke to my ears.
“I thought you already knew,” I mouthed.
“Hey guys,” Dylan greeted us and sounded so depressed.
“Dude, cheer up, you want to mourn over that skeleton cheerleader?” Ely tried to comfort him. Dylan ignored what she said.
“Ryan is already awake! He’ll come to school tomorrow,” I made the situation better.
“Izzy told me yesterday. Let’s visit him,” He suggested.
“After school!” Ely set the time.
“Great!” He sounded a little bit happier than he was.
“I’ll tell the others,”
…
I just finished my history class. It was so demoralizing to study about the past. I find this subject most ridiculous among all. We should not mourn the past; we should just focus on the future, the one we are heading. George had one philosophy about this past-future-thing. He always said that ‘Experience is the best teacher’. Despite the past had changed him, we will never bring mom back to life, can we? I ignored myself and walked to my locker. I put my thick and full-of-crap history book inside and locked it back. Aaron was still intimidating Geneva inside the class. Not exactly intimidate, I just liked to think of it that way. They were hugging and kissing the entire hour of the class. It was really annoying.On the other side of the hallway, Roxanne and Izzy were laughing out loud. Roxanne kept clouting Izzy’s chest. Well of course, it is lovely punch type of punch. Why weren’t they holding hands? At this stage, they are supposed to be kissing already. Both of them approached me and invited me to join them in the canteen. I followed their back, and I was like a total stranger to them. They were chatting and laughing the whole way to the canteen and ignored me at the back. I heard some of their L to the A to the M to the E conversation.
“Archie did so great that day!” Izzy praised that… kid. He idolized him so much. He got so many posters of him in his bedroom.
“He always does,” Roxanne agreed to it. She is also another freak fan of that little singer from Utah.
“He is better than that old man with beard,” Roxanne purposely said it aloud.
“Yea, he doesn’t even know why shaver is created,” Izzy added and laughed.
I ignored those two little ‘immature’ kids who were criticizing my idol.
I will fight back with them both normally but now, I don’t feel like talking at all. I kept my mouth shut and my eyes were all around the school. We went to the canteen and it was full. The table at the corner which belonged to my gang were still empty. We walked there and sat. Izzy and Roxanne were still talking about lame stuffs. Dylan walked in with Ely a minute after that. I saw Ely’s mouth was mumbling something and Dylan’s face was still emotionless. As they were walking to us, Joe, Adam, and Natasha greeted us from back. Lily was with them too.
“Hello folks,” Joe hit my back.
“Hey,” I turned to him and raised my eyebrows.
“Where’s Ryan?” Lily asked me.
“Why are you so worried?” Natasha winked at her.
“Lily, why are you here?” I wondered. She is a friend of Christine but now she is hanging out with us.
“Christine has terrible mood swings nowadays, I decided to give her some space,” She answered.
“By hanging out with us?” Dylan annoyed. He pushed me aside and sat next to me.
“Come on, she did nothing to you,” Ely sat next to Lily and smiled at her. Everybody then sat down and stared at both kids who were still talking.
“I wondered, why are you guys not together,” Joe teased them.
“They are ‘blind’,” Natasha, emphasized the words.
“You mean Izzy?” I blurted it out. Roxanne turned to me and glared at me.
“What’s with Izzy?” Ely was so curious.
“Nothing is wrong with me! Silly. How can Roxy and I be together, look at us!” Izzy answered and Roxanne pulled a long face. I can feel how broken the heart is. I could hear the sound of it somehow.
“Yea, we are nothing more than friends,” Roxanne tried to cover it up but I still can see she was crying inside.
“Harold, did you tell them about the visit to Ryan’s?” Dylan changed the scene. Dylan did his job really well.
“Guys, let’s go to Ryan’s today!” I asked all of them.
“Count me in!” Lily replied in a split of second. Everyone nodded
“Hmm.. I don’t think Joe and I can make it this evening, will make a visit next time, we got work to do,” Adam interrupted them.
“We do?” Joe looked at him.
“Yes, we do,” He pressed.
“Can I come along?” Geneva appeared out of sudden in front of us.
“Are you kidding? Sure you can,” Izzy answered.
Why is Geneva here? Oh, I know, Aaron is having lacrosse practice now. Our love is like an affair between the Boss and the employee, the wife and her chauffeur. Whenever the other employee or the husband is busy, she’ll come to her love one. She sat in front of me, next to Roxanne. I glared at her the whole time in the canteen. I remained quiet. My soul wants to be with her like we did last night but I know this forbidden love should be kept secretly within us, or else something bad might happen. We stared at each other for quite a long time while the rest were chatting. I couldn’t get anything from the conversation. All I can hear was their laughter.
…
At five o’clock, all of us, Dylan, Izzy, Roxanne, Ely, Lily, Geneva and I were already in Ryan’s. He was wearing his boxers and black singlet and refused to change when we got into the house. “It’s my house, do I have to dress up?” He declined to change his ‘sexy’ outfit. He was preparing food for us. Well, he’s a good cook cause he loves food very much. While he was cooking in the kitchen, Lily went to help him. The rest decided to wait for the food in the living hall.
“Where is Nat? I thought she wants to come?” I looked outside the window and asked Ely.
“She’s not coming, something happened at her house,”
Both Dylan and Izzy got up and went to Ryan’s storeroom. They left me with the girls. For about five minutes in the room, they yelled each other’s full name. I have no idea what had just happened in the room.
“Izquierdo Ramirez Hernandez!” Dylan shouted from the room. The girls were all looking at each other.
“Who is that weirdo something something?” Roxanne asked. I laughed at her expression.
“Dylan Andrew ‘WIDE’ jaw!” Izzy shouted.
“But that’s not my name!” Dylan fought back.
“What is going on up there?” Roxanne stood up and went to the staircase.
“I’m afraid you will see something you don’t want to see!” Ely advised Roxanne. Dylan and Izzy were still yelling at one another.
“Such as?” She got a very clean mind. She stopped from going up to them.
“Dylan might be horsing around with Izzy,” I tried my best not to corrupt that kid’s mind.
“He’s a stallion!” Ely added.
Dylan got out of the room. He was sweating. A minute after that, Izzy followed. They both got to us and sat on the sofa. Roxanne’s eyes were so big looking at them. Ely and I could not stop laughing, yet Roxanne still could not get what was going on.
“What were you guys doing?” Lily came behind them and giggled.
“He punched my crotch!” Izzy revealed the ‘mysterious incident’ in that room.
“I did not!” Dylan denied.
“Stop acting like a child,” Ryan sounded like my father.
“Come and get your food, my children,” I pulled back my words. He’s more ‘father’ than my father.
Everyone sat at the table and Lily served us. Ryan and Lily now were like good parents serving their starving children. Dylan and Izzy, on the other side of the table, were fooling around and hitting each other’s hand. How silly my friends are? Geneva was trying to control herself from laughing out loud. She can’t stop smiling. Suddenly…
“Honey, they are so funny right?” I blurted out.
Roxanne, Izzy, Dylan, Ryan, Ely and Lily turned to us. Lily dropped the plate she was holding.
“What did you called her?” Ely was being too excited.
“Honey,” I answered her confidently.
“Woo~ something to write in my blog today!” She’s extremely excited. The others were still in shock.
“So, honeys,” I pulled the‘s’ sound longer than ever. “Let’s dig in,”
Lily took the broom and cleaned up the mess. Roxanne helped her to pick the glasses on the floor.
“Ryan, what happened to you?” Dylan brought up a topic to talk.
“Hmm…” Ryan paused.
“We were so worried about you,” I added.
“Why you touched the drugs,” Ely accidentally said the words. Ryan put down his fork and stood up. He looked at us with his glossy eyes.
“I’m sorry guys, I was stupid, I thought… Drugs can help me to get over it but I was wrong, it almost took my life away,”
“But why drugs? Why not…” I asked him.
“Shh… let me talk,” He stopped me. Lily and Roxanne stopped cleaning and turned to him.
“Dad decided to stay in France, with his new girl friend. Mom got upset and went overseas. That’s when my days became so dark and …”
“I understand you,” Lily went to his back and hugged him.
“Who brought you to drugs?” Geneva asked him.
“It’s not his fault,” He answered.
“Who is it?” I raised my voice.
“It’s Adam. He introduced me to the guy in…”
“Let’s go get him,” Dylan knocked the table and walked to the door.
“He’s dead meat,” I stood up and followed Dylan.
“Guys, please don’t do this,” Ryan tried to stop us.
The situation became tense. We ignored Ryan and got into the car. I asked Dylan to go to Adam’s workplace, Berk’s. Adam is working that night. We can ‘talk’ to him there.
I was so damn pissed off with that guy. How could he possibly do this to his friends? He’s a bastard! That’s it – he will no longer see the beautiful sky tomorrow.
