another chapter in less than two hours. getting really into it and i just can't stop! hope you like it!
♥tory
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 I woke up the next morning to the sound of four and five year olds riding their bikes around the cul-de-sac and screaming at each other after sleeping with my windows open.
I rolled over and threw my pillow over my head but the noise didn't go away. The heat was also preventing me from going back to sleep so I got up and walked over to my computer to turn it on.

I sat there for a couple minutes while I waited for AIM to log me on and thought about what happened yesterday.
“God, I'm so dumb,” I said to myself, slapping my forehead. “Why did you have to go and overreact Macy. Listen to others for once, they're right sometimes.”

Finally my desktop appeared on the monitor and AIM was up. Seeing Abby was online, I double clicked her name on my buddy list, thinking I should probably apologize.
But as soon as the box opened and I read her away message for today, I felt like another hundred pounds were dropped on my shoulders as they dropped.
“Mall with Nicole. Text us.”
“Wow, low again,” I said to myself quietly. I laughed with disbelief, shaking my head. “here I am to apologize and they blow me off again.” After talking about going to the mall together forever. And now being me, not thinking before I acted and being ridiculous, I picked up my phone to dial Nick's number.

“Hey Macy! Sorry I didn't get the chance to call you back yesterday. The family went out and my phone died and then...”
“Nick, whoa. Calm down it's okay. What are you up to today?” I asked, feeling evil.
“Um, nothing. Why? You want to hang out?” he asked sounding somewhat eager.
“Well, I was wondering if you were up to a mall visit,” I said, posting an away message up and picking out a cute outfit from my closet.
“like, all of us?” he asked.
“Yeah,” I replied, going through piles of clothes.
“oh, okay, let me go check with them,” he said. I could hear him yelling to his brothers and bringing the phone back up to his ear. “Okay, we're all up for it. Pick you up in thirty?” he asked.
“Sounds like a plan! See you then!” I said, hanging up the phone, and evil smile plastered on my face.

I rushed to the shower and rushed right back as fast as I could.
I threw on my white and blue checkered Bermuda shorts and a white cap sleeve t-shirt from American Eagle. I tied on my green converse I had gotten a couple weeks ago and put on my puca shell necklace.
I quickly put on some mascara and brushed my hair, grabbed my purse, sticking some gift cards and a twenty in my wallet and putting it in there, though today my goal wasn't shopping.

I ran downstairs just as I saw a kid with curly hair walking up to the front door and ringing the doorbell.

“Hey!” I said, walking out the door and getting in the backseat of Kevin's car.
“Hey guys!” I said, buckling my seat.
“Hey Macy,” they replied back, pulling out of the driveway. Scream by Tokio Hotel was blasting on the stereo and Joe tapped his fingers on the window to the beat.



Frankie was in the way back, telling us a crazy story about how milk came out of his nose at lunch the other day when we finally arrived at the mall.
“So, what's the plan?” Kevin asked while we stood by his car in the parking lot before heading inside.
“I'm gonna go look at sneakers,” Joe informed us.
“Like you don't have enough already,” Nick said, rolling his eyes and laughing.
“You know you still want another pair converse,” Joe said, crossing his arms.
Nick hesitated. “yeah, you're right,” he finally admitted.
“okay then. Me and Frankie are gonna go to Best Buy,” Kevin said. “And you guys just go do your thing,” he said referring to me and Nick. I noticed Kevin was holding a styrofoam cup with orange and pink letters that said 'Dunkin Donuts' on it in his hand.
“Hey, Kev. There's a Starbucks in the mall you know,” I said, nodding my head and looking at the cup. His eyes widened.
“I knew I could smell Starbucks!” he said excitedly, walking over to the trash can to throw away his half full iced coffee. “Thanks for letting me know, Macy. Come on Frankie, we're going to Starbucks!” Kevin said. Frankie sighed and took off side by side with Kevin.

“And I'll be going this way.” Joe said, starting to leave in the other direction. “Text me in a bit so we can meet up somewhere later,” he said, heading off in the direction of a footlocker.
“Will do,” Nick said. “Alright, where are we off to first?” he asked, shoving his hands in his black skinny jeans pockets.
“Wherever you want,” I said as we walked over. But what I was really thinking, was wherever I would find my two 'best' friends.
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“Oh, there's Kevin, Joe, and Frankie in American Eagle,” Nick said, pointing through the window from outside. It had already been three hours and Nick and I were getting pretty hungry.
“Should we go meet up with them?” I asked, looking up in big beautiful brown eyes and smiling.
“We should!” he said, smiling back and laughing as we walked in.

One of the girls working there greeted us as we walked in and informed us about everything that was on sale. We simply said thank you and continued walking to meet up with the other three Jonases.

We met up with them and stopped to hear Joe's opinion on the shirts that were hanging up when I heard a quiet, yet familiar voice from a few feet behind me.
“oh my god! What is she doing here with them?!” I heard a girl say.
“Is she still mad at you?” I heard the other girl ask.
“I think. She needs to get over herself though. She's overreacting too much and is probably just trying to make me jealous by spending time with them,”

I sighed angrily, shaking my head slightly and biting my lip. I knew it was Abby and Nicole who had found me.
“what was that all ab-...Hey! Abby and Nicole!” Kevin said, starting to ask me what was with the sigh, but before finishing he found Abby and Nicole behind me and waved.
“Hey guys!” Nicole said, like nothing was wrong. I turned around.
“oh, look who's here. This is a surprise,” I said sarcastically, crossing my arms.
“Mace-” Abby started, squinting her eyes and giving me the death glare until Nicole punched her arm.

“we were just gonna go get something to eat, you guys should come with us!” Joe said, inviting them to spend the next hour and a half with us. I closed my eyes while Nicole accepted. Abby turned her head and glared in Nicole's direction. Nicole gave her a look.
“Cool, let's go,” Frankie said, grabbing Nicole and Abby's hand and leading them out of the store.
“What a little flirt,” Kevin laughed as we headed off to eat at Ruby Tuesday's. This was sure to be interesting...
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“Right this way,” the hostes said, leading us to the table where we would be eating dinner at.
“I'm gonna go to the bathroom, I'll be right back,” Abby said, walking straight towards the bathroom. I sat in the chair next to Nick and the edge of the table with Nicole directly across from me. She got up and walked over to me, whispering something in my ear.
“will you please come with me? We need to talk,” she said, thinking she was doing the right thing. I shook my head and staring down at the menu in front of my.
“Mace, come on,” she said, putting her hands on the table and leaning over in front of me. “please?” she asked again.

I shook my head again. “I don't want to talk right now. Why should I talk to someone who's ditched me two days in a row?” I said quietly and turning back to my menu.
Nick looked over at the two of us as she sat down in her seat.
“is everything okay?” he asked. I didn't respond but through the corner of my eye I saw Nicole shrug. I rolled my eyes.
“talk after?” she mouthed to Nick as he nodded his head. Abby was sitting back at the table shortly after the mini argument I had with Nicole.
The three of us sat there in silence for the rest of dinner.