weirdo-98

CHAP. 1
Welcome to my wonderful world
‘Janie! Get your but over hear we’ve got to get to the salon in 5 minutes!’
My friend Frankie and I were off to get our hair cut, I usually go with one of my mates to the hairdressers, its soooooooo totally boring on your own.
We turned up kind of late but my hairdresser didn’t mind, her names Cat and she always does my hair. Ever since the shop first opened 2 years ago.
She neatened up my hair and put in a few layers and in half an hour we were out.
We roamed the streets for a while and then went back home to watch ‘F.R.I.E.N.D.S’.I absolutely love, F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
Me and my best mate Anna, have all the ‘F.R.I.E.N.D.S’ books and D-V-D’s known to mankind. Anna is the most gothic girl alive (as far as I know). Her thick black her flops casually over her face and she has cloths to die for, if you’re a Goth that is, like the boots she wore last week, huge spiky platforms, black of course.
Anna and I have been mates for ages but I always feel weird around Anna these days, ever since I met her boyfriend, Alfie and realised I had a huge crush on him.

Chap. 2
The woods
‘Do you want to know what my first impression of you was?’ asked Gwen, as we grudgingly trudged into school the next morning.
‘What?’ I asked.
‘An organised teachers pet!’
Everyone fell about laughing.
‘Sounds reasonable to me,’ I complained sarcastically before laughing with them.
*****
That evening, I went down to the den with Verity, we build it years back when we were both 11 but now we Hardly use it as somehow it became more of a good time to go to Brighton than it is to hang about in a river or a wood.
We met Frankie, Louise and Sophie on our way down there so we all went down to the woods together.
As we sat in our den I came up with a cool idea.
Why don’t we arrange a sleepover here?
‘What here!’ exclaimed Sophie
‘No chance,’ announced Verity
‘Our Mums would never let us anyway,’ Frankie moaned
‘We could invite our mates and bring torches besides we’ve been on our own in the streets of London in the middle of the night for fucks sake, being in our own town at night on our own can’t be that bad now, can it?’ I said
‘Sounds cool,’ said Louise ‘Lets give it a go! Besides having a sleepover with Frankie's brother, Tony has got to be good, he is F-I-T!

CHAPt4...
OW MY HEAD
Two weeks after our evening in the woods we were finally ready for a sleepover we’d remember forever. We all trouped down the field carrying all the necessary stuff surprisingly tons of people had, managed to turn up here is the list of our group:
• Anna
• Frankie
• Verity
• Gwen
• Sophie
• Louise
• Jess
• Nicky
• Fay
• Plus tons of boys, including Tony and, more importantly…
• Alfie !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The place looked gorges me and Anna had gone down to the field earlier and set the place up with different coloured torches shining on our base and there was a shimmering reflection of the moon dancing in the cool lake, We all stood there and listened to the quiet gossiping of the trees. Then we got down to buiseness, we all laid out our sleeping bags, mine In the middle section of tree house with Frankie’s, Louise’s, Anna’s, Gwen’s and Sophie’s. Then we got ready to P-A-R-T-Y!
Some of the boys had brought along vodka shots to spicen up the party soon as the party set of Sophie and Nicky were both in full throttle snogging fests with Tony apparently none the wiser about each other!
James was eyeing Anna up but she was to busy with Alfie to notice but were any of the boys giving me any attention, NO! Why do they always look at my friends and not me I wondered miserably as I gulped down an extremely large glass of vodka.
About a thousand drinks later, I woke up with a record-breaking headache. I could vaguely remember getting of with some-one and mixing cocktails with Jess who by the way is no longer talking to me, not quite sure why, It’s been a day since the sleepover and I have to go back to school tomorrow which will be dull, dull, dull. And on top of that I’m still feeling the after-effects of the hangover, and unless you have had a head ace that could split apart Antarctica you don’t know the meaning of owe my head!
Chapt.5.The dance disaster!
At lunch we all left school, me, Anna, Louise, Sophie, Nicky, Frankie, and grudgingly Jess.
All afternoon was spent listening, to music, doing hair and makeup and reading magazines. It was funny to see Gwen and Louise barely touching there faces with there makeup brushes whereas Anna was practically painting her entire face with eyeliner.
I confronted Jess. There was an awkward silence before she finally mumbled,
‘Janie...Don’t you know?’
‘Know what,’ I quizzed
‘Don’t you remember,’ she asked I raised an eyebrow as if to say what you are talking about.
‘THE PARTY’ she moaned. Then she sat there awkwardly, waiting for me to figure it out, then suddenly it clicked, I had snogged some-one at the party, I’d never thought for a second it could have been a girl.
‘Oh shit’ I exclaimed.
‘I know’ she mumbled then we both burst out laughing, so that was the end of it, we were friends again and every thing was O-K
About an hour later, the bus turned up and we all scrambled in before getting whisked away and that was it, we were on our way to the dance.

Alfie was there, at the dance and when he saw me he gave me his sexy slanty grin and rolled his eyes as a couple of kids streaked passed outside the window, I laughed trying to sound flirty yet casual, though even as I did I felt all my blood run into my face, then Anna turned up and took Alfie by the hand and kissed him on the cheek. There was something about the awkward way she kissed him that made me feel something was up.
I retreated to the toilets wear I found Nicky and Louise immersed in conversation.
‘…so then he was like hi and I was like hello!! And so later on he kissed me… and now we’re like an item but shh we’re laying low for a while.’ Nicky showed- off.
‘Hey guys’, I said, walking over to them and as I did I tripped over in my mega stilettos. I felt a blister beginning to burn on my foot. Oh crap, I thought.
We chatted for a while before going back to the dance floor. Sam soon went off with her new boyfriend and Nicky and Louise had soon been asked to dance which left me standing on my own looking like a right old dork. Schantelle, the chavette of the year who surprisingly is one of Anna’s friends, sauntered passed in a, get this, fake Burberry dress. There was no sign of Anna or Jess or any of the others but finally I caught Alfies eye and he beckoned me over, I blushed heavily as I hobbled over to him doing my best to look casual and cool
Suddenly I felt my self lose my balance my dress flying up in the air behind me and I landed flat on my face my underwear getting shown to all the world, I could hear people crowding round me now, the boys were jeering and sniggering but I found myself un-able to move pain, shock and embracement were closing in on me.
Chap 6. Alfie!
My nose was bleeding heavily. I heard a voice I recognised
‘Come on clear of there’s nothing to see, jokes over leave me alone.’ A hand gripped my shoulder firmly but gently, I was pulled to my feet and I gazed into the eyes of Alfie. He steered me out of the main hall and into the empty entrance hall and through to the old loos, were there was a grubby cracked mirror and a grimy wash basin. Alfie grabbed some loo paper and held it under the tap.
‘You poor thing,’ he said as he started gently trying to remove the blood that had dried onto my face. I snatched a glance of myself in the mirror; My face was a scarlety smeary mess.
‘Why are you being so nice?’ I asked. He just shrugged and put on a big, fake grin and then he sighed.
‘What’s up’ I quizzed.
‘Nothing,’ he said. I raised an eyebrow.
‘Well lets put it this way,’ he began, then he trailed off I gave him what I hoped was a reassuring grin then with another sigh he told me that him and Anna weren’t getting on.
‘Oh,’ I said but I couldn’t help but hope that Alfie might get with me instead.
‘Is there anything I can do,’ I babbled he just looked at me, by now my face was clean but he but he kept on stroking my cheek, he tilted my upwards and I felt my cheeks burn red his face was drawing nearer and nearer to mine I could now feel his warm breath on my face… but then he pulled back.
‘I can’t’ he said and then he left.

I stood there alone feeling shocked and confused. Did Alfie almost kiss me back there was there some kind of connection?
Chapt.8. the next day
The next day when I saw Anna and she was being so nice and friendly it made me feel sick with guilt she came up to me at break and asked if she could have a word. I nodded and lead her over to the corner. ‘It’s about Alfie,’ she said oh no did she know about our little thing last night, I thought.
‘I think I might break up with him’ she said.
‘Oh’ I said, doing my best to sound comforting. ‘Why?’
‘I don’t know’ she said, ‘I guess I just want a change’ few, I thought
It wasn’t my fault then.
‘Are you sure,’ I said trying not too sound to hopeful.
‘I think so, yeah’ she sighed.
Chapt 8.and so it goes on
Two weeks later, Anna came into school crying, when I asked her what was wrong she just groaned. Then in the end she mumbled that she had ended it with Alfie and she felt awful. And he took it so well and he was such a nice guy.
When Anna had calmed down a bit, she announced that she wanted a new guy and that she thought I should get one too and she new just the guy for me.
‘Who,’ I asked. Maybe she had Alfie in mind.
‘Sam,’ she announced with a smile.
‘Sam who… not Sam Littlewood’
‘Well, yes,’ Anna admitted, ‘but I’m pretty sure he’s got the hots for you.’
‘Anna, he’s gross, you said it your self’
‘Oh well, a boys a boy , you could give him a try,’ she moaned
‘No chance’ I said.
‘Hey you aren’t going lezzy are you?’
‘No!’ I exclaimed. She so did not understand me. I thought.
Chapt.9. It all comes together
Later that afternoon in a particularly noisy English lesson. Anna lent back on her chair and told me that Alfie had sneaked into our school at lunch and told her that he fancied me and not to tell me but she couldn’t resist ‘so, what do you think,’ she finished.
The next day after school Alfie accidentally on purpose bumped into me after school just as Anna told me he would.
It was amazing. When he saw me his face lit up in this huge ecstatic grin. (He quickly put his fag out on the floor).He gave me a hug and said that he guessed Anna had told me he’d be there. I nodded and laughed.
Then we went of down to the woods were we sat down in a clearing right in the middle of the woods at the top of this beautiful romantic old oak. And then he lent in toward me and we kissed, except this time he didn’t pull away, and then we just sat there and stayed there till at least half ten talking comfortably with a few silences were we just sat happily.
At last when I absolutely had to go home Alfie walked to the door and I told him he better leave and when he was just about to light up another cigarette and leave he turned around, dropped it and kissed me good bye and gave me his number, then he arranged to meet up the very next day. He gave me one last kiss and left again. Oh my god. ‘I’m sooooooo lucky’ I thought as I unlocked my front door. I wish he hadn’t stunk of chavy cigarettes, but you never know I could get him to change for me. I decided to go through the stuff in my room that evening, have a big chuck out. I was looking through my draws and I found the dreaded thong that I had worn for the dance. I grabbed some scissors from out of my desk draw and snipped it into tiny pieces of scarlet material. Time for a new beginning. louise, me, anna alfie jess sophie louise and dance partner FIGHTS, GRUDGES AND A DEATH!
(The sequel to thongs, proms and fit, fit guys)

CHAPT.1: CAT FIGHT
There was another fight at school today; we seemed to be getting more and more these days, now that summer has gone and winter is coming and they are not allowed to play football on the icy ground. It’s the new thing. This time it was a cat fight (usually less horrific although one of the girls, Sophie Smith had killer nails and was well known for a painful slap I had luckily managed to survive the killer slap but Anna managed to get smacked. I swear her cheek had swollen up. What had she done wrong, you may ask?
After she and Alfie split she got together with Sam, the heart throb of the year above Sophie’s year. And it turns out Sophie was crazy about Sam herself.
Any way, back to the fight. I was just lying down on my elbows with Gwen, Beth, and Jess. The sun was slowly warming up our ice bitten fingers and melting what was left of the fluffy white (or in some cases mushy brown) snow, when we noticed a crowd forming in the distance. ‘Must be another fight’, I said. We were really bored of the silly fights that went on, so we weren’t that interested. We then heard distant chanting of the crowd, ‘CAT FIGHT, CAT FIGHT, and CAT FIGHT.’
Samantha Jones, a girl we barely knew but we knew was Sophie Smiths best mate, came sauntering over.
'Them new girl’s kez and Stephie are in your form, aren't they?' she quizzed
'Yeah, they’re on my street too. Why?' I asked.
'My best mate's whipping their bony little asses', she announced, like a proud mother announcing their dear little diddums had learnt to do a roly-poly.
'Why?’ I asked half-interestedly (no idea if that’s a real word).
'She got bored', Samantha laughed gleefully and with that she walked off.
The crowd was getting bigger and bigger and the chanting was getting louder and louder yet no teachers came to sort it out. By the end of break the crowd had reached such a huge size I started to wonder how the teachers could possibly not notice it.
I then heard Beth say loudly in my left ear, 'Move you’re butt, Janie we're ten minuets late for drama.’
‘Come on take of your shoes and sit down in the middle of the stage’, our drama teacher spat at us as we came in.
‘Come to my room tomorrow lunch.’
Oh great, detention with the strictest teacher in the school, known by certain people as ‘blob’. Just what I’d always wanted.
Our detention was BOOOORING, a right snooze fest. We were given work to do on the most boring play writers of the seventeenth century and by the time we got out my brain was acing like mad.
Suddenly Frankie rushed up to me yelling, ‘Anna and Sophie smith, you know the one who got in a fight with her about a year ago and scratched the face of them girls yesterday, they got in like a massive fight and no-ones scene Anna since.’
Me and Frankie skipped registration and went off to the nurse in search of Anna but there was no sign of her.
We rushed down to the field and could not find her. All that was at the scene of the fight was an empty crisp packet.
We were just on our way to the broken fence so we could go down town and look for her when we came across a red crumpled mess, Anna.

CHAPT.2: VERY, VERY LOUD SIRONS

‘Oh god’, me and Frankie both groaned.
I bent down and spoke to her lifeless body
‘Anna wake up, ANNA GET UP!!’ my voice shook with fear
‘What do we do Franks…do you have your mob on you?’
Frankie was just gaping down at Anna with glazed over eyes, I guess she was just really shocked but it was kind of annoying. Finally she came to her senses and passed me her phone with a shaky hand. I’d never rung 999 before; I was scared what if I couldn’t answer all the questions they asked, what if the phone line was busy or something.
A voice came in on the phone, ‘hello what service do you require’
‘A-a-ambulance please’ I stuttered. ‘At the LCC school - the bottom field my friends been badly hurt she’s unconscious’, I said, finally finding my voice.
‘They’re on their way’, I told a frightened Frankie about 2 minutes later, as I passed her phone back.
It made a little sing-songy noise as she flipped it closed.
By the time the ambulance arrived Frankie was near to tears and I was not much better.
As the paramedics took Anna into the back of the ambulance a young women, called ‘Jo’ according to her badge, asked us if our teachers knew where we were. Frankie gave me a questioning look and I nodded, she nodded too. OK so maybe they didn’t know where we were but I had to get on that ambulance with Anna and see what happened. I mean it’s not like skipping the odd lesson was unlike us.
Frankie and I climbed silently on to the ambulance and then we were off.
‘NEE-NOR NEE-NOR NEE-NOR’, the sirens seemed like 10 times louder from inside the ambulance and within seconds I had a thundering head ache.
An hour and about 20 years worth of worrying later a nurse came up to me and Frankie,
‘Your friend is conscious but she’s badly injured so we will have to keep her in for some time yet and get her x-rayed. I’m afraid you can’t visit her at the moment, she’s resting.’
Just at that moment, Anna’s parents came rushing in. They looked as if they’d both been crying.
‘We came as quickly as we could’, announced Anna’s mother. ‘Where’s Anna? How is she?’ The nurse ushered them out of the room and that was that; me and Frankie sitting alone again.’
Eventually, we went home. It was dark and the moon was out. It must have been about 9ish.
I let my self in. Suddenly I heard my mothers voice, yelling
‘WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN, I WAS ON THE VERGE OF RINGING THE POLICE I’VE HAD THE SCHOOL ON THE PHONE, SAYING YOU HADN’T TURNED UP TO YOUR LAST 2 LESSONS, SKIVING AGAIN I BET, FRANKIE AND ANNA GONE TOO BET YOU THOUGHT YOU’D POP DOWN TO THE SHOPS WITH THEM HUH, GRAB A CUPPA, YOU COULD HAVE AT LEAST PHONED OR HAD THE COURTESY TO NOT TURN UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT’, I glanced at the clock, it was 11:30, even later than I thought.
‘I’VE BEEN WORRIED SICK; SICK, SICK, SICK… YOU ARE A SELFISH LITTLE COW. WHAT DID I DO WRONG?’
‘Anna got beaten up’, I told her. ‘Me and Frankie and Amber called an ambulance and went with her to the hospital’
‘You should have rung,’ Mum complained, but her voice was much softer now.
‘I was kinda preoccupied,’ I exclaimed, starting to get angry.
‘Your right, I’m sorry, how is she?’
‘They’re keeping her in for a while but the last we heard, she was conscious.’
‘Are you ok?’ asked Mum.
‘A bit flustered and worried, but yeah’.
We talked for hours and eventually we went to bed.

CHAPT.3: THREE WEEKS LATER!

‘Janie! The twins are here to visit!’ my mum called up the stairs.
‘Oh great’, I thought. Remember my new neighbours Kerry and Stephie? Lately Mum’s been trying to get me to make friends with them but to be
Honest they don’t seem like the kind of people I’d want to hang out with. I mean, any-one who would manage to get into a fight with Sophie Smith on their first day has got to be crazy, haven’t they?
‘Just coming,’ I lied as I settled myself on my bed with my magazine. I turned on my stereo with a flick of the controller and then relaxed.
‘Hey, I thought, there remaking friends, that’s great,’ I stared down at the glossy picture of Jennifer Anniston. I couldn’t believe my eyes.
Ringing Anna was my immediate thought but just as I was half way through dialling her home number in my keypad I remembered she was still in hospital.
I tried her mobile, but it was switched of. I sent her a text saying I had some big news to tell her and with that I charged down the stairs, magazine still in hand. I swung round the banister and landed with a thump right into Stephie. Oh crap, I’d completely forgotten about them.
‘Guys, you caught me at a bad time, I said, I’m just going out’ I explained
‘Ok then,’ Kerry said
Huh, that was easy, I wonder why. I soon discovered why, It seemed that they took it upon themselves to think that they were invited along to my little trip to the hospital. I soon also found out there was nothing I could do about it as my Mum insisted (so unfair) that I let them come.
I turned up at the hospital feeling pretty fed up. I’d done my best to shake the twins of but they wouldn’t budge, they followed me around like puppy dogs.
At last I went into Anna’s room and they decided to push off.
She was lying there with a bored look on her face as she had done every time I visited.
‘Not much fun hanging out here then?’ I asked sarcastically. She just shrugged and muttered that she’d be out in a couple of days. It took me a while to get to the point but eventually I told her about them remaking friends. She sure did liven up at that it was great we spent ages just chatting about friends and what we thought was going to be the next story line.
It seemed at last life had got back to normal and I was in a great mood when I got home until I got a call from Alfie that ruined everything…
CHAPT.3. THE END OF MY LIFE!
‘I want to break up’, I heard Alfie's voice say seriously down the other end of the phone. I was shocked and confused. Why would he want to break up so suddenly? We’d been together for a year, since just after the prom. Nothing had gone wrong yet. What was wrong now?
I heard a long harsh bleeeeeeeeeeeeeep from the phone and realised Alfie had taken my silence as an excuse to hang up.
I rang his home but there was no answer. That meant that unless Alfie wasn’t answering he wasn’t home. I tried his mobile. No answer. I tried 1471. The number was withheld. What was Alfie playing at?
I felt my eyes begin to water. My cheeks burnt crimson and I let out a huge sniff. Before I knew it I was sobbing into my pillow. I grabbed hold of a chocolate bar from the selection box I’d one and took a huge bite. I then cried some more thinking I was going to get fat, faat, FAAAT!!!!
I lay there for the rest of the afternoon feeling really sick. When Mum finally got home I stayed hidden in my room in the hope she wouldn’t see me and the state of my saw eyes and my blotchy face.
After ages of me lying there feeling sorry for myself I heard Mums voice calling up the stairs.
‘Do you want to help out with dinner?’
‘Sorry Mum. I’ve got loads of homework to do and I’m really busy.’
I don’t know weather she believed me. I’m usually quite keen to help out with dinner, being the wonderful daughter I am, HA. I lay back down on my bed and daydreamed about the massive sleepover we’d had down at the woods last year. Alfie had looked soooooooo gauges. Why did he have to dump me?
‘I’m just dishing up’ Mum yelled.
I heard my brother stampeding down the stairs. I charged into the bathroom, slammed the door and attempted to clean up my face.
After dinner I watched my all-time favourite movie, ‘Love Actually’ It seemed to do the trick as I found myself my old smiley self. Then I went to bed and my brain was yet again filled up with Alfie.

CHAPT.4. RETAIL THEREPY
The next day was really embarrassing, Anna had found out about me breaking up with Alf and she turned up in the morning not in her school cloths, carrying a handbag that was obviously way too small to hold her books.
‘Anna, what are you doing here?’ I asked raising my eyebrows and straightening out my pj top.
Anna through herself at my feet and yelled out dramatically.
‘My poor dear friend’, ‘your heart is breaking, isn’t it?’
Ahh, she must know about Alfie, did Alfie tell her, I wondered.
‘I’m really fine about it’, I lied.
‘Oh come on, you can’t lie to me,’
‘Ok, you caught me’. I said putting my hands up. ‘Can we just not talk about it?’ I moaned.
In the end Anna shut up and we were soon walking down town on our way to Jess’s house.
I tried my best to smile and laugh but I was still feeling like shit. We were sitting outside Blockbusters
when I spotted Alfie walk past with a gang of his mates. My stomach clenched.
‘Pleeeeeeeease don’t look this way, please don’t.’
‘What?’ said Sophie, who had met up with us when she’d left school at lunch.
‘Err, nothing,’ I mumbled
‘Alfie looked at me for a second and I’m pretty sure we made eye contact for a second but he quickly turned away like nothing had happened.
‘Shouldn’t you be in school’ I heard a voice coming from behind us. Damn it, busted I thought. I turned around to see Anna laughing her head off at the look on my face.
‘Hey, you really scared me’ I moaned. Sophie and Jess where grinning too. Maybe everything would be ok after all.
CHAPT.5. JUST WHEN YOU DON’T EXPECT IT…
‘Oh my god’
‘Yeah I know’ said Sophie. We’d gone back to mine after school with all our shopping and Anna had left her phone in my bag. Someone had just left a text, one that really freaked me and Sophie out.
‘Who’s it from?’ I dialled 1471. A computerised voice came up on the other end of the phone ‘the person has withheld there number, the person has withheld there number, the person has withheld there number.’
I hung up. Sophie looked expectantly at me.
‘Withheld number’ I moaned
Who could it be?
That night Sophie staid over and. We spent the night wondering about what was going on with Anna. That text was really weird. Anna’s the last person you’d expect to get into real trouble like this. To distract our selves we set about watching scary movie and American Pie but we soon got bored, those movies were way less interesting than real life at the moment but then Sophie did the thing that I had been praying would not happen…
‘So, how are you feeling about Alfie’ she said. I groaned and hid my face in my pillow.
Soon after that we got to sleep like good little girls as we had school the next day. We were still pretty whacked though when we finally woke the next morning at 9:45 and realised how late we were for school. We eventually turned up at 10:30 boy was blob not happy. Why oh why did we have to have the strictest teacher ever first period. Turned out Frankie and Jess had already been given detention for talking so at least we weren’t on our own.
We gave Anna her phone back at break. We didn’t mention the text. We went to join Beth Gwen and Louise for our last minuets of freedom before we’d have to go to our detention.
CHAPT.6. CHANGE OF OPINOIN
‘Hey, Janie,’ I turned around feeling my heart sink as I sore a pair of dark round eyes like bottomless pits staring jollily down at me.
‘Hello Kerry,’ I droned miserably, hoping that this rood intruder was planning on going home soon.
I was lying on my bed when I’d heard Dad let someone in, I’d ignored him but I wish I hadn’t now and I’d taken refuge in the bathroom for a while until Kerry had decided to bugger off.
‘No Stephie?’ I asked, ‘I’ve never seen you guys apart before.’
‘Oh no, we fell out, it’s a bit silly really, she’s been really bugging me lately, trying to suck up to that Sophie Smith, I mean it’s obvious she’s bad news. I don’t see why she’s trying to get all matey with her. Anyway I guess I just snapped when she started having a go at friends, you know that American sitcom. I just can’t see how she can not like it, its sooo funny.’
Kerry maybe your not so bad after all, that’s it, from now on I’m going to give you a chance Kerry Jones.
CHAPT.7. ALFIE
‘Janie,’
Hey, I new that voice. I turned around and felt my heart get caught in my throat as I gazed into those dark brown eyes I’d missed so much.
‘Can you please walk with me’ he said in his gouges husky drawl. I’d forgotten how amazing he was.
‘yunginchen’ was all that came out. Alfie smiled warmly. My heart melted.
‘Look I’m so sorry about the way I treated you,’ Alfie began. ‘I feel awful, I hoped we could just be friends and I really regret it now as I’ve realised you’re the only girl I could ever want’
Wow, I thought. Then I smiled.
‘Only GIRL, so you wouldn’t pass up a guy then,’ I studied Alfie’s face for a reaction and I was pleased to see his totally kissable lips twitch into a smile.
He lent in towards me and I tilted my head up we were about to kiss, when I pulled back. Alfie looked worriedly at me,
‘What’s wrong?’ he asked. I don’t know I thought what I am doing. It was as if I had come out of my body and I was just staring down at myself thinking, what the hell is that crazy bitch doing?
‘How do I know you won’t just break up with me again?’ I heard myself say.
‘Because, I have been thinking and I’ve realised, I actually truly love you.’
‘Good enough for me’, I said with a smile and at last we kissed.
CHAPT.8. REALISING YOUR FRIENDS ARE IN BIG TROUBLE!
Me, Sophie, Gwen, Jess, Louise and Frankie had all met up for a movie night. We had watched some trashing blockbuster romance and were now sitting and discussing Anna.
She hadn’t turned up at school for weeks and whenever she was on the phone she would refuse to say why and burst into floods of tears. Me and Sophie had our suspicions it might be involved with the text but we didn’t let on to anyone. Gwen disappeared into the kitchen and Louise took her chance to come and talk to me in private,
‘You and Sophie know something about Anna, don’t you?’ she asked.
‘No,’ I said loyally,
‘Yes you do, you’ve been giving each other funny looks all evening.’
‘No we haven’t,’ I exclaimed a little too squeakily. Louise raised her eyebrows.
‘What, we haven’t,’ I squealed. By now Louise’s eyebrows had practically disappeared into her strawberry blond fringe.
‘Ok, we might know something, but we can’t tell you’
Louise looked disappointed but in the end she just shrugged and walked off. I sighed with relief.
Gwen turned up again laden with strawberry milkshakes. Everybody grabbed themselves one and for a couple of minutes we all sat and slurped.
Eventually I managed to persuade Anna to let me visit her. I ran down her house. I could feel blisters starting to develop on my ankles as I ran in my awkward shoes. A stitch was coming in my side but I kept telling myself to carry on. I really needed to know what was going on.
Anna looked even paler than usual and she had clearly lost a lot of weight. Her beautiful thick black hair looked as though it had been falling out. She must have been really stressed. Or maybe she really was just ill and Sophie and I had been wrong.
In the end I told Anna that me and Sophie had seen the text. She didn’t seem that bothered. Apparently Sophie Smith and that lot had been giving her grief and having a go at her for being a Goth for months and she was too embarrassed to tell. Could this be it? Just this no tears. The mystery solved just like that.
‘Anna is there anything else wrong?’ I quizzed as we went to put the kettle on.
‘NO!’ Anna snapped defensively, ‘I mean no, of course not.’ She smiled awkwardly. I knew there was something else wrong but I thought it was best not to ask too many questions, not for today at least. I left feeling even more worried as I was before I came. I had a sick feeling in my stomach.
Chapt. 9 Pineapple Proposals!
I met up with Jess Gwen and Louise and we went down to the cinema together. I was dying to ask them what they thought about the night before but I, somehow, managed to resist, I figured it would be best not to blab about Anna’s secrets to everyone.
The film turned out to be really sleazy so we left half way through. We went to our favourite café, ‘Mac and Cheese’ I had macaroni cheese as did Louise. Jess and Gwen shared a giant, extra cheesy pizza.
At seven we all went home (what a short night out that had turned out to be!)
I turned on my ‘Arctic Monkeys’ single and began flicking through my latest magazine. There was another article about the ‘Friends’ remake which gave me an idea of how to spend my evening, watching ‘Friends’.
I rang Alfie at ten the next morning and we arranged our first date as a reunited couple.
We met up at 7:30 at the ‘fruit cocktail’ that evening and Alfie ordered us some drinks. We sipped quietly for a while, grinning like idiots.
‘I’ve missed you’ Alfie said. He leant across the table and kissed me. A bunch of annoying boys then erupted in wolf whistles.
‘Get a room!’ one yelled. The rest sniggered at his ridiculously unfunny joke. Alfie ordered us pineapple and vodka cocktails. Strictly speaking, I’m not old enough to buy drinks yet but the owners of ‘fruit cocktail’ aren’t too picky. I’m a right light weight drinker, I only had a few cocktails last year at my party in the woods before I was slurring my words like a plonker and in the end I ended up making out with one of my best mates! I slugged down the drink and it felt kind of cool but my eyes still stung and I still felt like there was a little man in my thought playing with a flame-thrower.
Alfie came along with a massive glass of wine. ‘Mmm, yummy,’ I thought
‘Now, me lady’ slurred Alfie ‘what cocktail would you like next?’
I racked my brains to try and think of a cocktail I’d heard of. Then suddenly it came to me.
‘A screaming orgasm,’ I announced (a little too loudly. I got some really funny looks). Alfie raised an eyebrow but went to get it anyway.
He soon came back with our drinks and a packet of hula-hoops each. By the time I’d finished a few more drinks and my crisps, I was gagging for some water.
Suddenly Alfie knelt down of his chair and in front of my and slipped a hula-hoop on my wedding finger,
‘Janie…will you marry me?’ he slurred. I felt a smile take over my face.
‘Yes, of course I will!!’ I gushed. Alfie placed a vodkary kiss on my cheek. My body felt limp and I flopped onto the floor, banging my chin in the process.
‘Ouch,’ I murmured stupidly. I shut my eyes tight, curled up into a tiny ball and let sleep devour me.
Chapt.10 Wired Dreams.
I was running down the isle of a church with Alfie, I wasn’t sure why though until I turned around and realised there was a giant hula-hoop chasing after us. It was drinking a martini and laughing mockingly at me as it swilled it’s martini in its salty hand. Oh no, the pineapple monster is coming to turn me into a penguin.
‘AAARGH HELP.’
I woke up with my top clinging to me with cold sweat. I could smell an overpowering stench of vodka. My eyelids appered to be glued together and for some unknown reason there was a sumo wrestler jumping up and down on my head but I still felt great!
Eventually I managed to unstuck my eyelids. This was a strange place. I didn’t recognise it at all. I looked around me. There was a black leather seat and matching pouf and I was lying on a black silk bed. I leant down and my fingertips gently caressed the velvety, white carpet. This place sure had stile. I glanced up at the black, leather clock. Oh shit, it was 1:30pm. What would Mum say? I had to get out of this place.
Just at that moment, Alfie stumbled in looking bleary eyed.
‘Is this your apartment?’ I quizzed. I’d been in Alfie’s lounge apartment before but I’d never been in this room.
‘Yes,’ said Alfie, ‘we were both of our trolleys so my Mum must have tucked you in this room I guess I must have crashed on the couch.’
‘We didn’t do anything stupid last night did we?’
‘No, not that I can remember.’ Alfie said whilst scratching his head ‘Though we are engaged,’ Alfie grinned
I glanced down at my finger. The hula-hoop was gone but there was still a faint salty line were it had been.
I looked up at Alfie and grinned. I was still worried about Alfie eating me alive though!!
‘My Mum took care of everything,’ said Alfie as if he was reading my thoughts. ‘She rang up your Mum and said you’d been very tired and had fallen asleep at my house and that she had put you in the guestroom. I listened to them talking again this morning and they sounded like old friends!’
‘And your Mum’s not angry with us?’ I asked.
‘Oh no,’ said Alfie, ‘my mum’s cool about this sort of thing’ Wow, I knew Alfie’s mum was laidback, but not THAT laidback.
‘Oh yeah, and my mum says she wants you to go down stairs, she’s cooked you pancakes for breakfast, doesn’t want to let you go home hungry.’
The pancakes were delicious. Alfie’s mum was all smiles as she chatted away; It was unbelievable.
Mum came to pick me up at 1:00. She looked concerned as I stepped into the car,
‘Are you alright,’ she asked, ‘ I think you might be co,ming doewm with something. You better go to the doctor’s.’
‘NO, no,’ I exclaimed, ‘I’m fine thanks.’ Mum gave me a ‘what are uyou up to look but said nothing.
I sighed with relief.
There was an awkward silence all tyhge way home and at dinner we barely spoke.
I heard Mum whispering secretively to dad that night. I wondered briefly if they were Talking about me. I was too tired to listen though so I just went to bed.
Anna
In the morning I shuffled down stairs in my big, fluffy, black slippers to find Mum sitting at the table, looking solemn.
‘Oh crap,’ I thought, here comes the ‘What were you doing withn that boy’ talk. But it never came.
I bought some ‘pain o chocolat’s’ and I thought we could have them for breakfast,’ Mum said cheerily, with a big false grin on her face.
She took my hand and attempted to arrange her face into what looked like it was supposed to be a comforting smile.
Oh god, what was wrong?!?
‘Sweetie…’ Mum started ‘You know your friend Anna… she’s ill.’
‘Yeah, I know, she hasn’t been in school.’
‘She has cancer,’ Mum announced.
I could feel a huge lump materalising in my throught, I couldn’t speak. I felt my face drain of all colour.
‘Honey?’
I couldn’t speak. I was too shocked. She was too young.
‘She wants you to go see her, comfort her.’
‘Ok,’ I said, or at least I think I did…I wasn’t sure whether any words had actually come out.
Dad took me down in the car and I sat silently next to him, my hands shaking and clammy.
I slouched into Anna’s house and stared around nervously. This was the first time I had ever been uncomfortable in her house.
‘She’s in the kitchen; I heard Anna’s Mum call down to me. Her voice sounded strained and too happy as if she had been crying.
‘Poor her,’ I thought.
I started picking my way towards the kitchen, I could hear someone frantically opening and slamming draws. I stepped into the kitchen and couldn’t help my eyes popping.

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