chapter 5

Lets just say sierra ended up trying on the entire store while i sat there looking on and feeling hungry but I couldn't say shit  because her aunt Perry kept shoving outfits in her face. 

"Okay i'm done." She finally said and sighed in relief. 

"Finally let's go get food and pick my baby brother ," she laughed at the impatience in my voice. 

"You sure you don't want anything other than the t.shirt you know they're free right?" She asked.

"Nah sierra all I want is food right now, want to make me smile, make the food free," i said and she giggled 

"Your wish is to be my command captain. To the food court." She saluted and I laughed . She's really funny sometimes. 

We said bye to her aunt and moved to the food court where I was treated to a huge chicken burger and fries. And a chocolate smoothie to wash it all down . Huhhh life is sweet. 

I munched on my food in silence until I heard Sierra squeal like the excited puppy she is. I followed her eyes and noticed the boy she was looking at. He was cute, that's the only word I can use to define him, like pretty cute, like a girl. she ran towards him and wrapped herself around him with so much vigour am shocked they didn't fall.

" Sierra, i missed you too girl but lay low on the energy bitch." The boy said and I laughed. 

"O my god, one month and am replaced as your hottest bitch. Who's this?." He asked and I laughed again, I like him already. 

" this  is my bestie lia, she's new, lia this is my other bestie Dylan ," i put my hand out to shake but he simply hugged me. 

"Girl in this friendship we hug, keep your paws to yourself," he said, then scooted into my side of the booth and tried to eat one of my fries but I hit his hand and he cried out making me smirk. 

"The fuck woman, ouch" he said kissing his hand.

"In this friendship we don't steal my food." I said and Sierra laughed.

"She's food sensitive," Sierra exclaimed, stealing one of my fries making me glare at her. 

"Am not food sensitive," I said and Dylan smirked. 

"I love you already, contact  please" he said, handing me his phone. 

"That reminds  me i dont have your number Lia." Sierra complained, shoving her phone in my face. 

"Don't worry babies, no need to cry, I am here for all of you one phone at a time geez." I smirked and Dylan scoffed. 

A minute later I got a text from Dylan.

Unknown: use this as my contact photo am tryna look cute in everybody's phone😏😏

Unknown: and name me something sexy like dylan the sexy gay beast  yah know😊.

I laughed at his messages and slapped the back of his head making him fake glare at me. 

"You are such a violent girl, Lia. It doesn't match with your face. Your face is cute and kiddish." He said. 

"No it's not," I blushed while holding my cheeks and he surprised me by taking a picture. 

"Hey I wasn't ready," I complained 

"You look so cute. Look sierra. Look at this bitch." He said and i scoffed

"Lia your lips are freaking goals," she said and I pulled the phone to see the picture. 

I actually looked cute. Sierra's aunt thought I had looked too plain when we went to her store so she had put mascara on my lashes and lip gloss. 

Dylan snatched his phone back and stuck his tongue out. 

"How mature?" I said, rolling my eyes at his childishness. 

"Whatever Lia, I am cute too, you don't deserve all this cuteness," he said and we all laughed except sierra who was staring at something behind us. 

" don't look now but Marisa is here with Hunter." At the mention of Hunter's name my eyes shot behind and I looked at him. He was standing next to some pretty redhead. He looked like he was hurting  just being next to her but he stayed grounded. She whispered something but somehow his eyes met mine and our eyes locked for some time before I was snapped back into reality by Sierra smacking my hand. 

"Ouch." I hissed

"I said don't look. We don't want trouble from Marisa. Trust me." She said and looked over at them slyly.

"Didn't she cheat on him with Toby? I don't get it,``Sierra asked dylan.

"She's actually dating Toby, she's just a cheating skank. Argg i hate her and to think my dear brother was in love with her." Dylan spoke and my eyes widened. 

"Hunter is your brother?" I asked.

"Step brother to be precise," he exclaimed. 

"How? you're so you and he's  so.."

"Cold and distant, yeah, he isn't really like that once you get to know him, his nice he just prefers to keep his circle small, one of the things that led to their separation. He wanted to be low key, and she wanted lights and popularity." He said. 

"Also the fact that she's a cheating demon, i mean she slept with alec too," sierra said glaring at her smoothie. 

"You're just mad she slept with your crush before you could." Dylan smirked and she threw her purse at him, making me laugh. 

I looked back at Hunter and he was moving towards the exit looking very angry at Marisa. These people have more drama than most tv shows i've watched, if i've even watched any. 

" so we have a good thirty minutes before you can have to pick your brother up, would you like to play arcade games at Bunny's" Sierra asks 

"Say yes, they have a really cool photo booth, we can take really pretty vintage  pictures of us, say yes Lia." Dylan pleaded and I nodded. 

Bunny's  wasn't like any other arcade game shop though, besides being a little larger than most, it had the most intoxicating energy I've ever felt in a place. This was even worse than that one time I sat next to a person who was smoking and I got high from passive inhalation. 

it hard a dark theme with pretty coloured lights on the ceiling that looked like disco lights from the 90's,  my eyes gazed over it in awe, there were huge balls on the walls that sort of glowed under the lights, it was all honestly so captivating and to top it all off, they were playing cherry flavoured by the neighborhood  in the background. 

I don't know why but I found myself squealing. I rushed to where Sierra and Dylan were giggling  and hugged them, "this place is so cool." They laughed at me.

" Is it me or does this place kind of make  you guys feel.."

"High.." they interjected in unison and I giggled. 

"We had an entire conspiracy theory on what could be behind the feeling years ago, let's go to the booth," Dylan added and we all squeezed into the small photo booth, making so many goofy faces and laughing at our own dumbness. I was having a blast.

we played so many games and just had fun, I don't even recall the last time I enjoyed myself with people. This was great, I missed this, I also found myself missing something else but i pushed it away not wanting to cloud this moment with negativity, this was okay, it was okay to live again it was okay to be happy again, 

I convinced myself and smiled at the pair scrambling over pokemon.