ng to -

at made me feel certainly restless about when my friends were going to come pick me up so we'd spend the evening in our other rich friend's pool party - if she didn't ha

s smoothed back in a tight pony tail that bounced off her shoulder-rich and silky. Her thin, pale lips were stretched into a smile and I could tell as she rolled down the car window a little further that she had on that purple twin tank top both she and I had gotten few weeks before we turned

oo well in hiding my excitement at seeing my ch

as I stepped off the front porch and out the portico,

'd done my entire life. I gave a little excited giggle. "Thanks mom," bec

ol. I then had a lot of dreams, hopes and expectations of what I wanted to do that school year and running for / becoming the

r, I wanted to have fun. Make new friends. Have part - ey after part - eys. Have a boyfriend. Becomes as cool as my best friends. More daring and to top it all get it down with some boy who was willing to ask me out first

-like nose wrinkled delicately and the sun rays peeking out behind my house roof, made her aquamarine eyes appear more blue. Like blue - blue. It was glittering like diamond and almos

ded for the party that my parents wouldn't naturally allow was cladded tightly to my shoulders and throbbing slightly. One look at Shelly always reminded me that I could

that could have been Shelly's cool friends and not mine were seated back there since she was used to giving

guess what? I missed you girl," Shelly squ

rants, light and sweet, made my toes tingle in my flat shoes. I loved and missed inhaling her scent, and could identify her body smell from anywhere in the world. I and Shelly had been best friends for as long and as far as my kid brain could recollect. Right from that moment I enjoyed watching that cute g

still lingering on her perfect face, but her

feverishly, feeling b

I wasn't very used to getting all that attention. I knew I had blossomed, just as my mom said. Yet, I knew I wasn't as pretty as Shelly. Before I left for the summer holiday, I always had to use my glasses but that was before I got lenses which revealed my huge eyes and long lashes. Unlike Shelly who had thin, slim

ed, including Shelly and that always made me feel good when someone having a bad hair day turns t

definitely going to get you a boyfriend. Perhaps, that new dude

nt. "How are you sure he

ave me a slightly wicked smirk, eyeing me skept

scoffed. "Yo

pouted,

ith my brother, Dane. Though he was hot, playful and was a jock, with that kind of look that makes your head turn at angle 90 to get another view of him, I still didn't feel right about him. There had to be a reaso

see you," Shelly muttered t

see them either

o fall into a conversation. "Ho

y grandparents died. Now that I'm sixteen, we finally were able to read

e you ge

indow, I caught the image of Dane's tall figure now standing on front porch, right hand akimbo and eyes trailing after the car much to my best friend's ignorance. Suddenly I felt bad for my brother, having to stay grounded at home while I'm out

sponsibilities. Including my grandparents house in Ca

laughed hoarse

helly in the car, and the cloud had now darkened as the sun began to set, hiding behind huge puffs of light pink clouds. I dug my nails into the seat's comfy leather and fluttered my eyes shut

erociously. "Let'

, joining in her crazy act and

efalling we happy, giggly girls in the next few minutes. That evening the sky was golden, beautiful and the street was silent just as it always was and it felt like good lucks and fortune was in the air for the two of us based on our emotions at that

d Shelly's profile and asked. "So w

k. "Not much partying in the city this time

O

guess. Smoking up. Going to the gym. I saw a lot of broadway shows and believ

d sixteen less than two months earlier and she was way wilder than most nineteen years old I knew of. She had lots of Instagram followers than I could ever manage and was one of the most pampered teenage girl in our small town with the richest parent - which was her father and her very young step mom that were never around. So she was free to travel anywhere she wanted in

met him could pro

h?" I decided to

aled, seeming hes

e at a point where our side of town was separated from other the side by numerous trees that formed a small forest. And at that time Shelly was nowhere close to maintaining the speed

nly began to feel claustrophobic and my heartbeats choking. I clutched hard at the seatbelt and furrowed my brows tightly, my breaths sudden

sounded desperate enough fo

med, "Like somet

y began. One moment the road was there, wide open and safe, the next there was a loud bang against the bonnet, a probability that we hit and most likely had killed something with a life. A deer? Probably not. S

!" Shelly soun

y through my slightly par

r I saw two gleaming red eyes shining in between the dark woods and glaring at us but wh

en. .

ame against my window again, this time - very violent, with gleaming r