Young Adult / Ch. 1 Sleepover, Part I
“My life sucks!” Gisela confessed to her best friends in her room at their final sleep over for the summer before their sophomore year of high school began. With no new boys to occupy her mind and her time split between hanging out with her friends or going on family trips since school let out in June, Gisela Arnez came to this conclusion.
Being one of her best friends since kindergarten, Alex Kent did not take her seriously. “With me in your life, I beg to differ.” She flipped to the next page of a Seventeen magazine, her attention drawn to new fashion trends. “I know how your mind thinks G., just because you don’t have a serious boyfriend anymore does not mean your life sucks.”
Kristin Marison laughed at Alex’s narcissism. “Gisela forgot how often they fought and the reason they broke up. She’s just basing this on there’s no one to call or text her, ask her what she is up to or check out her website profiles to see who she may be hooking up with instead of spending time with him.”
Gisela had to disagree with that statement. “Jeremy was so not like that Kris! He was a very loving, concerning boyfriend who thought I was seeing someone else. Who doesn’t get paranoid from not wanting to lose the person they’re dating?”
Leslie Taylor was originally not going to get into their conversation but focus on the one she was having with Gisela’s twin sister, Kimina and Evie Jenkins but had to cut in after hearing Gisela’s question. “People who trust their boyfriend and girlfriend don’t act like that Gisela. I wouldn’t be engaged to Myles if I had any doubt about what he was doing or whom he was doing it with.”
Kim just sat on the edge of the bed in amusement. “Why are we even discussing this? Gisela is just saying all of this because school is about to begin and there are no cute boys on her radar this year. I mean, she already went through half the class in grammar school and the other half last year!”
“Hey!” Gisela interjected. “That is so not true!”
Kim rolled her eyes. “Oh yeah, that’s excluding our boyfriends and family members.”
The girls all laughed at her joke.
Evie got up from her beam bag chair and walked over to Gisela, sitting next to her and wrapping her arm around her shoulder. “That’s not necessarily true Baby Girl. I recall her crush on Jose in grammar school. Since he’s my brother and you guys are like my sisters, that’s incest! I don’t want my niece or nephew coming out deformed!”
“Guys stop! Why can’t I just be a regular teen who wants to express her personal thoughts on her life to her closest friends without being made fun of? Starting Thursday, I’m going to find a new group of friends I’m calling Jawhi Blatinas cuz you guys suck just as much as my life!”
“Good luck with that.” Alex challenged the reason behind the name Jawhi Blatinas. “Where are you going to find a Jamaican, white girl mixed with Spanish, another twin, Spanish-French and black girl that not only go to our school and get along but will also have your back?”
Gisela looked dumbfounded for a moment. She shrugged her shoulders. “There has to be a few on the cheerleading squad.”
Her friends laughed.
When the laughter stopped, Evie spoke up. “Everyone knows the only person on the squad you get along with is me and unless the rumor of the school combining the sophomore and junior squads into the junior varsity team, your cousin and friends do not count. I told you, you were talking too loud when one of them overheard you saying how you couldn’t stand them all being typical cheerleadera. It’s a wonder they all voted you in as captain and Marisa, who they love as the co-captain.”
Kim scuffed at the mentioned of Marisa. “That’s because they’re as mean as she is. She’s there Mean Queen.” She had her personal reasons for disliking Marisa, including the fact that her boyfriend almost dated her before they hooked up in grammar school and she still tried to dig her claws into him even to this day.
“Oh here we go,” Les put up her hands at the reaction Kim had just given. “This is the reason I don’t think Gisela’s life is boring. Between her and Kim, there is so much drama in your lives. It takes up all of our time.”
“Quit rubbing it in that you have the good boyfriend/fiancé,” Kris accused, throwing a few popcorn kernels her way.
Gisela witnessed this happen. “I know Kris is going to clean that up because neither I nor Carla is going to clean up her mess.”
Kris shook her head no. “Uh-unh, Carla loves me,” she insisted. “She knows she won’t be back til next summer so she’ll gladly clean up after me.”
“No she won’t,” Kim let her know. “I mean she would but we won’t let her.”
Being bored with the conversation between her friends, Alex said, “speaking of Carla. I want some more food.” No one was really surprised since she was always hungry.
Eve stood up and went over to the intercom on the wall against Gisela’s bedroom door. “Everyone just say what they want—one at a time!” When the girls all agreed, she pressed the button for the kitchen. Being the last person to say what she wanted, she thanked Carla and told her they would be down shortly.
“Okay Eve,” Carla Santaro replied back.
“Thanks for taking over my hosting job,” Gisela remarked to Eve, not upset. “I am in lazy mode with my life up for grabs.”
“Es nada,” Eve spoke, saying it’s nothing in Spanish while smiling at her friend.
Leslie looked at the time on her cell phone. It was only 7:30 p.m. “It’ll be half an hour before the movie starts. What’re we doing ‘til then?”
“Let’s all do the quiz Alex had mentioned earlier on which celebrity would look good on our arm,” Kris suggested.
Kim didn’t want to do that yet. “Let’s wait until we’re ready to sleep.”
“I know,” Gisela suddenly thought. “We forgot to order pizza.”
“Well, pick up the phone you cow and call Panini’s,” Alex ordered her in a funny voice.
“I’m going to get you for that cow joke,” Gisela promised her best friend after she laughed. She picked up the phone and dialed Panini’s Pizza. “Are we getting the usual or something else?”
Everyone agreed to have the usual.
The intercom buzzed and Gisela hopped up to answer it.
“Girls, the snacks are ready,” Carla announced. “Come down whenever you like.”
“Okay,” Gisela answered before disconnecting. The girls followed her to the kitchen on the lower level to get their snacks and wait for their pizza delivery.
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