Chapter 10: Marching on my Brain

I wake up with a very bad headache. It feels like millions of soldiers are marching on my brain. Everywhere is too bright, the birds are too loud the person knocking is being and absolute disturbance.

I groan and get up from the bed, go to the bathroom and brushing my teeth, open the mirror before taking pain relievers and take a shower with warm but mostly hot water.

I make myself some breakfast cereal and take it to the living room where I see Cole sprawled out on the floor, I drop my food on the center table and tap Cole

"Wake up Cole, wake up now and stop wasting time" but he doesn't respond so I shove his sides and he sits up immediately

"I didn't take the car, Leah did" he shouts and looks around before looking at me "hey! What was that for, I'm sure I'm broken now"

"So if you take your car out, you'll say it was me you pest now go take a shower you stink" I say and he goes upstairs

I take the remote and flit through channels before deciding to watch Zoolander 2 while eating and soon after I sleep off.

When I wake up, Zoolander had finished and another movie was showing, I switched off the T.V, went upstairs and changed into a pink hoodie with blue jeans and black ankle boots.

Taking a small backpack, I put my phone, some snacks, water, my keys, the Gabriels' house keys and some money inside before going outside and starting my walk to Stephanie's house.

After some time, I get to their house and I press the doorbell expecting someone to rush and open the door. After some time I use their keys to open the door and the place is oddly very quiet and I'm saying this because their house is almost never quiet unless they're out or asleep.

I walk around and see no signs of life except a note saying:

On a business trip, we expect you not to damage the house or anything, be back in a month

Love, mom and dad.

That explains why their parents didn't open the door but where did Steff and Xavi go. I go upstairs to Steff's room and see her sleeping on the bed. I go to the kitchen and fill a jug with cold water and add some ice cubes to it, I take the handle of the bowl and tie a piece of string to it, I draw the string and put the middle on a hook-like thing on the ceiling and attach the other end to her door handle so when I close her door the jug will tip over and you know the rest. I can safely do this because she has this waterproof-like mattress.

When leaving her room, I'm very careful not to touch the door and go to the kitchen to get another jug and fill it up again, add ice cubes and take it upstairs to the room opposite Steff's room and tie the string the same way I did in Steff's room, I leave Xavi's room and stand in the middle of the hallway and close both doors at the same time

"Aaaaah!!!!" Steff screams

"What the hell. Who did this" I hear shuffling, I practically fly down the stairs and go into the pantry to hide.

Loud thumping footsteps on the stairs, a very angry person coming down the stairs. I hold my breath

"Who's in this house? Come out now or I'm calling the cops" a very angry Xavi shouts

Softer footsteps "are you sure it's not just Leah, I mean she does this when nobody opens the door and you know she has the keys. It doesn't look like breaking and entering to me" Steff says

"The person probably picked the lock, I'm still calling the cops" Xavier says

"Let's call Leah first to make sure she is not the one also lets tell mom or dad first then we tell the cops, Kay" Steff says

"Kay" Xavi huffs and walks off, I guess soon after my phone starts ringing- very loudly I add- I silence the phone but it's too late, I've been caught. Steff yanks the pantry door open.

"Hey Steff, did you like your new alarm its called soaking wet made by me" I say sheepishly

"Do you know Xavier almost called the cops" she shouts

I nod and he comes into the room "Steff it's not-" he stops and looks at me "Leah, were you the one who gave us such a fright? That wasn't nice, I thought you were nice" he adds a disappointed face.

I shrug "nobody opened the door for me, I used my keys and you know the rest now you know that you should always open the door for me now you Stephanie should go and get ready, you're coming with me"

"What about me" Xavi say

"I don't know, unless you're now a girl and you don't really look like one you know" I say and gesture at his body, giving him a pointed look before going to the living room

Steff goes upstairs and comes back in about 20 minutes wearing a white top with 'I ♥ YOU' on it, blue shorts and black sandals

We walk to her car and drive off to the mall.

"I'm so glad I don't have a raging headache, yesterday's party was one weird thing" I comment

"Me too, I already took Tylenol and all. I'm pretty sure I puked it out too" She replies, switching lanes

"The only downside is I can't remember much of yesterday which translates t me having a fun time right?" I say and stare at the side of her face

"Um maybe, you had too much fun if you can't remember much of yesterday. Who were you around a lot? They probably know what you were up to" she says with a laugh

"I'm not sure, like I said I can't remember much of what happened yesterday, but I'm guessing I was around you guys" I reply

"You guys?" she questions "stop staring at me, I can see it and feel it"

"Oop, sorry not sorry, I mean you, Xavier, Amelia and maybe Cole" I shift my focus from her face

"Let's ask Xavier then, he was the sober one out of our bunch" she shrugs

"Suuuuure, you ask him, I'm sure I'd have embarrassed myself in front of him" I facepalm, me and my embarrassing ass

"I second that" she mocks me

"You're so nice to me" I say sarcastically

"I know right?!" she exclaims and I roll my eyes