Chapter 17 The Beginning (16)

EMILY'S POV

I see Trey, Nick, Dan, and Cedrik in it. They are like the four most popular guys in my grade and are total athletic jerks with snobby attitudes and an 8 word vocabulary; Hot Girls, Football, Popularity, Unmature, Dumb, Themselves, and Themselves. They are also friends with someone I would really like to avoid.

"Hey Emily, we heard you sing today, you sounded really good." Said Nick. "Yeah," chimed in Cedrik, "and you look really nice right now."

I look down at what I am wearing, and start to feel awkward and uneasy. I am wearing leggings and a short, tight athletic shirt. I realized this really hugged my skinny figure and I don't like to think that they are looking at me in this. "Thanks" I say. "Hey, I've got to go, I will see you guys in school Monday." I said then tried to walk away.

"Hey, there is no rush," Trey said, "We can give you a ride to wherever you are going." The other guys in the car agreed.

I, however, didn't feel very comfortable with that. "No thanks you guys. I really appreciate your offer but I am just going around the corner of this street and can walk the rest of the way. I don't want to trouble you and have already walked this far." I lied.

They begin protesting, "No we insist." said Cedrik, "It's not a big deal, let us take you."

I feel like something is off, especially when it looks like Dan, who is in the back of the car, leans back to talk to someone. I can see Cedrik, Trey, Dan, and Nick and it doesn't look like he was talking to any of them. "No I'm good, really. Im going to go now." I say, eager to get out of this situation.

I had slowly been walking and now saw that I was near my Aunt's house. So I said good bye to the guys and quickly ran up the steps and after knocking I went in her house. When she saw me she got worried because she didn't know I was coming.

"Hey Emily, what's wrong Honey?" she said.

"These guys from my school where bugging me." I answered. "They wouldn't leave me alone and insisted on giving me a ride, I felt something was really off so when I saw your house I acted like I was at my destination."

My Aunt Selena looked worried at first but then she let out a little laugh. "Well I'm glad that you did that, who knows what they wanted. Unfortunately for them you are to smart and capable for them to have tricked you. I always knew you would have boys chasing after you." She said.

"Aunt Selena!" I said. "It's not like that. Plus they were idiots and the only reason I didn't run or tell them off is because I didn't want to cause a scene and I will see them in school."

"That's my strong willed niece!" She laughed, "I haven't seen you in a while. Give me a hug.", and with that being said she wrapped me up in her famous, Aunt, bear hugs. I laughed and hugged her back, then my phone buzzed. So, I pulled back and checked the message.

"Hey Aunt Selena, I really would like to catch up sometime, but my friend is getting worried about me. I should go." I said. "Ok" She said. "I get that you and your friends will probably be partying tonight, you are only a teenager once! You can go out the back door in case those kids are still there. Call me sometime!"

"Ok, I will Aunt. Thank you for your help." I then gave her a hug goodbye and went out the back door.

Once I was out the door I started jogging towards Lizzie's house, I was now almost half an hour late. When I arrived there I knocked on the door and, as expected, Lizzie opened up immediately. "Where were you?!" Liz asks as she let's me in, "Monica and I were starting to really worry, normally you always show up five minutes early, not half an hour late! We need to get ready, what happened?"

"Woah, woah," I said. "I know, I know. Look I'm sorry, but I'll explain as we get re..... wait did you say get ready?" Monica and Lizzie laughed, then they dragged me into Monica's room. (Did I mention that Monica and Lizzie are twin sisters?)

"Of course we are getting ready, what else would we be doing right now?" Said Monica. Then without any other explanation, they dragged me to a chair Lizzie started going through both of their closets and my bag and Monica started digging through all of our makeup.

It was a bit of a long process, and I won't lie I made it a little bit difficult, but we were goofing off and acting crazy the entire time so I can't complain. After about forty-five minutes or so all of us were ready and we started our walk towards the beach.

I looked at my outfit and couldn't believe how in just a short forty-five minutes Lizzie and Monica had transformed me, normal me, into a beautiful, sexy teenager. I never knew I could look like this, I don't like looking girly so I rarely use much makeup, don't wear crop tops or skirts, and you wouldn't catch me dead in a dress on some random occasion. So this was a whole new side of me, and I didn't mind it. I kind of liked this side of me, mainly because it was only for one evening. Lizzie had dressed me in one of her old shirts, it was a short red cropped shirt that hugged me tightly and the neckline wasn't too low. She also had me wear a light pair of high-rise jean's and a pair of red and gold sandals. Then Monica had done my makeup and I did everyone's hair. So when we arrived at the beach I was ready to have fun.