Chapter two
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Once we had all gotten to the restaurant, the waitress was only slightly annoyed that 8 people wanted a table without booking. We only had a half an hour wait, so to fill time -while mum and dad stayed at the restaurant- me, Lily, Aaron, Gemma, Lydia and Dayia all went to the arcade, that was upstairs.
“Can we play dance challenge?” Dayia pips up, that was her favourite game. Most likely because no one can beat her. Lydia and Dayia are identical twins, both have the same long super curly ginger hair, along with lovely light green eyes. Dayia is super confident, and loves going out and doing something. Where as Lydia likes to stay in and play with her dolls, but most of all, playing with Dayia and talking to her, she is way more quiet with new people.
“Am game.” Gemma says to Dayia as we are traveling up the escalators. Gemma has shoulder length wavy dyed-blonde hair, but it’s the type of blonde that she suits, it makes her look older. She also has hazel eyes that seem to light up her round face. Her and Aaron got together when they were 15, and since then they do almost everything together.
“Prepare to lose.” Dayia says.
“We will see won't we?” Gemma smirks.
“Wanna play some air hockey?” I ask Lily.
“Yes please.” She says.
When we get to the arcade, Dayia and Gemma run off to their dance game and Aaron takes Lydia over to the grabber machine where he promises that he will get her a bear. Me and Lily make our way to the air hocky bit. It is just beside Aaron and Lydia.
“So, green or purple?” Lily asks.
“Green of course.”
I walk around to the green side and she stays at the purple. Lily has light natural brown hair, she got it cut in a pixie style when we were on our christmas holiday, and it really highlights her bright blue eyes.
She slips a pound coin in the machine, “3, 2, 1 START!!” The machine says. The putt is black and comes out my side, I place it on the surface and it starts to move slightly because of the air. I quickly lean forward and hit the putt as hard as I can, to put it in Lily’s goal. But she is too quick, and hits back to me as it hit it back. We smirk at each other, knowing that this would take awhile. Until she wasn’t paying full attention and I scored.
Once our game time was done I won 7-6, it was tight but I still came out on top. Aaron had managed to get a huge teddy bear for Lydia, and a smaller little guy for Gemma. In the end Dayia won their dance battle, of course. When we go to them Gemma was so out of breath she could barely talk.
“Gooooood gaaammmee,” she says slowly and breathy.
“Who’s next?” Dayia asks excitedly.
“Sorry champ, but mum just texted, they got a table.” Aaron says to everyone.
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At dinner we sat at a roundtable, me and Aaron sat next to one another, on the other side of me was Lily, Lydia, Dayia, dad, mum, Gemma then back to Aaron. We order a jug of water for the table, a coke for me, a beer for Aaron and dad, Lydia and Dayia both got fruit juice.
“So…” My dad starts, “are you excited for camp Lily.”
“Yeah, I guess so.”
Just then the waiter comes over with Aaron and Gemma's pizza they are sharing, it’s BBQ chicken Aaron's favourite. He also has my mother’s fish and potatoes, and my dad’s beef burger.
“You will love it.” Aaron says while he is cutting the pizza. “It’s so freeing, being in the country, with all the horses, the camp fire nights are amazing, we all sing songs around it while Alex plays his guitar.”
“Who's Alex?” But he doesn't hear me as his full attention is to his conversation with Gemma and eating his pizza. This time there is two waiters, one with Lydia’s child spaghetti and Dayia’s chicken dippers and chips. The other waiter had Lily’s spicy chicken pasta and my boneless breast of chicken with peri peri sauce and chips. It’s lovely.
“Mmmm.” Lily moans with pleasure. “I can’t believe I have never been here before, it's so nice.”
“I know. Mmmm.” I reply.
No one really speaks after that, all too focused with their food. Once everyone was done we all wanted to order the ice cream dream. This was a huge huge bowl, that had 4 different flavours of ice cream in it, and of those flavours the whole of the box the ice cream came in is put in the bowl. Along with lots of little marshmallows, cream and caramel (if I could I would live off of caramel.)
We get that with 6 spoons as the twins are lactose intolerant, so they get a little slice of chocolate cake instead. We all dig in, and we are in heaven. The ice cream is mint, toffee, chocolate, and cookies and cream.
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When we get back home mum and dad go out again to get some last stuff for the road tomorrow. Lydia and Dayia run upstairs as one of their dolls was having a baby apparently. Aaron, Gemma, Lily and I all sit down in the living room to watch 21 jump street.
“Have you ever seen it Gemma?” Lily asks as Aaron was setting it up.
“No, what’s it about?”
“These two guys, who went to high school together, and one used to pick on the other. But then years later they meet again at police academy. They become friends, and help each other pass. They then get an undercover assignment at a high school. It’s one of the best laughs ever.” Lily explains.
“Ok, that sounds amazing.” Gemma says.
“It is, one of the best.” I say.
“How hot is Channing?” Lily says to me with a smile on her face.
“Tell me about it.” Gemma and I say back at the same time.
“Girls, and their love for hot guys they have never met.” Aaron says, coming back over to the couch with the remote in hand.
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After the movie Lily and I are sitting on the floor of my room chatting and eating some sweets that Lid and Day didn’t want.
“I can’t believe that you are going to be gone this whole summer.” Lily says sadly.
“I know, but I will be home before you know it.” I smile back.
“Yeah, and you will have fun, I hope, the people there better be nice. Or they will be getting a little visit from me.” She hit her knuckles together, in a threatening way.
“Trust me, if anyone is mean, then you will only have my leftovers to deal with.”
She laughs. We sat there for hours talking about Harry Potter theories, and what Marvel were going to do now that they had the rights back with spider-man, and how excited we were for the next Avengers.
I love having such a good friend that we will never run out of subjects to talk about, even if we saw each other every day. We would still talk until we could not keep our eyes open.
At about 11, Lily’s phone goes. “Oh, my mum just texted, they are wanting me to go home now.” She says sadly. We stand, and walk down the stairs.
“Mum! I am walking Lily home! Ok?!” I yell.
“Ok, be safe!” She calls back from somewhere in the house.
We put our shoes and jumpers on. Lily lives about 10 minutes walk from my home. It’s pitch black and freezing when we step out of the house.
“You don’t need to walk me home.” Lily says, ok where was this coming from? I always walked her home, and she always done the same.
“Are you sure?” I ask her.
“Yeah, I could use a walk to clear my head.”
“Ok then, come here.” I step forward and hug her.
“See you in August.” She says stepping away.
“See you.” With that she walks down the path and disappears into the night.
