High School Teenagers

Chapter Fourteen. *Raleigh's Diary*

Not Everyone's A Happy Bunny

Letting Mom and Dad put that into my head was a real knock on the head by a car. But Chloe agreeing to come to the Cooper and Blur party really surprised me, it surprised all of us. We all had no idea that Chloe had it in her, I guess Cooper and Blur really spooked her. Last time something like this happened and we tried to pull Chloe down to the game, our CP or Crashing Parties game, she came and ditched us right after we arrived. And that was in junior high school.

She was all too excited when the food got here Chloe ate with her head down and listened to the music playing in the background and the overlapping voices of my brothers, and best friends. I knew for myself that Chloe couldn't get herself out of this mess until she finished what she do and what she said. Me, and Gabe were all too happy over the little fibber that Chloendyl just pulled off. But I'm pretty sure that no one's gonna expect a little alibi from Chloe to do something like that, right? Dylan chewed his pizza and plucked a mushroom at Justin who blew the leftover soda in his straw at Dylan which landed on Logan and Zooey.

"How many Dolphins were killed to make that pizza?" Aaron asked looking at our pizza.

"Like ten?" Dylan said, grabbing a slice. "Forget how many dolphins, the pizza is what draws people."

"I should wear the green dress with the grey pumps," Zooey said. Me and Beverly looked up at her. "Or maybe the yellow with the wing-shaped teeth."

"You look like a walking bogey," I said, catching Aaron and Ivan choking on their soda and pizza, barely losing their appetite and Justin laughing at her.

"You look more like a walking snot ball," he added with sarcasm. Zooey looked at him and he looked at me and so did Chloe and Zooey.

"Why look at me and you know that it was true?" I said. "The red and white dress, you looked like a walking used tampon, you're lucky you're not fat or you'd look like a walking pad." Gabe, Oliver, Aaron, Justin, Aiden and the rest of the guys choked and gagged on their food and sodas.

"And the yellow and green dress, you look like a walking mucus ball," I added, "Zooey you need to update in your wardrobe." Zooey looked down at herself and then to me. "Chloe would be perfect for that. She's the fashionista." Zooey turned to Chloe the same time Chloe looked up at me with a "why me?" look.

"We'll go shopping Thursday and Friday after school," Chloe said only to just go with the flow. She took. Sip of her smoothie king and then a bite of her pizza.

"Why Thursday? What happened to Tuesdays?" Zooey asked her. Beverly and Justin looked at Chloe and Oliver and Logan and Dylan looked up from their plates. Gabe and the twins looked up at Zooey and then Chloe.

"Because I don't like doing it anymore," Chloe said. "Too many dudes from school and Norgate. So I don't do Tuesday's anymore. From now on, it's Thursday and Friday." Zooey nodded and turned back to her pizza.

"Who pissed on your pizza?" Justin asked her, my brothers and Beverly gagged in their food making Zooey gag again on her food. This was not a good conversation to bring up.

"I should kill myself," Chloe said, "sometimes I hate, being your sister, Raleigh." She looked over at me. I shrugged my shoulders at her and grew a smile.

"I hate being your sister too, so it looks like we're both going to be disappointed," I said with deadpan and Justin rubbed the center of my back to soothe me, which works sometimes but just not this time.

"So, what's new and trending?" Zooey asked Chloe, changing the subject and she gave her a look that made Zooey look back down to her plate. I thanked Zooey mentally took a sip of my soda.

"Well, there's a crazy ten minute sale going on today, we can go there," Beverly said pulling out her cellphone, "but I don't think Chloe's going to agree on that and I definitely don't want to go alone," she added putting her phone away slowly.

"I'll go with you," Zooey's arm shot up in the air, her elbow hitting the glass in Logan's mouth making him spill half of it, not even saying "sorry" but that's what happens when you squeeze Logan and Zooey together, an ugly but interesting party between the both of them.

"Alright sure, I'd say that "I just remembered that I have an appointment later" but that'd be Gabe and Raleigh-ish." Zooey put her hand down and then looked to me, I quickly put my head down onto Justin's shoulder and closed my eyes.

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Afterwards, Leo sat out front of the restaurant and we piled up again and drove the three miles to the house, and thank heavens I'm not claustrophobic or this would've been an ugly sight. I practically sat on Justin's lap and Beverly sat squashed on Aiden's which was an awkward Moment for the both of them. This van is made for ten people, not 13, I don't even think that they have vehicles built for thirteen people or more, the only vehicle that I know that holds that many people is a school bus and we're not going to school and back home in a damn cheese bus. It's probably be the same way we're sitting now.

"Somebody better get their hand outta my pocket!" Logan called out from the back of the van. Ivan snickered at himself and buries his hands in his face. Ivan chewed on what seemed to be cherry twizzlers. I'm not gonna call out Ivan because he's never called me out, so I'm not gonna do the same to him.

"No one's in your pocket?" I said. Logan looked at me and frowned at me.

"I don't believe you," Logan said, "Ivan are you in my pockets?"

"No, but I'm chewing these cherry twizzlers like it's my job," Ivan said his mouth full of the sweet red liquorice.

"Ivan!?" Logan called out to him and tried to look over to hit him, but failed miserably, so Zooey smacked Ivan for Logan and he thanked her with a smile.

Leo pulled outside the house and Oliver and Kaden opened the doors and everyone came tumbling outta the car and on the ground. Ivan ran out the car with Logan's twizzlers in hand and Logan behind him chasing him to the house. Justin carried me to the house on his back and Kaden picked at his cellphone and Aiden looked up at the Twizzler stealer and the owner of the Twizzlers and watched them chase one another around the lawn before running in the house, Trisha holding the door open for the rest of us. Justin put men down on the couch with a plop with Ivan and Logan still running from room to room. Aiden and Kaden sat across from each other on the U-shaped couch and watched Ivan and Logan run out of the kitchen and then back towards us. Chloe sat beside me with Gabe on the other end of the couch and Oliver and Dylan took the flight up the stairs. Zooey and Beverly were the last two to come in and follow Dylan and Oliver towards the stairs but they took the elevator instead. Trisha didn't want to jump in and separate them, she's just the maid and she'll tell you. Mr. Oliver walked in with the basket of laundry which is the guy's clothes by the way, Trisha does the female's laundry and her owns.

"Do they always fight over sugar sticks like that?" Justin leaned over and asking me in a whisper, I stared at my brothers before leaning back to him.

"Yup," I said and leaned back on the couch and watched Logan and Ivan chase each other like a bunch of Tom and Jerry's. At this Moment I can tell that not everyone's a happy bunny at this second. Gabe's pissed, Ivan's way beyond the pissed level, and I'm just maybe in between, happy as a baby that I don't have to do Axilla and Gemma's chores, but then again me and Gabe do have to help them with their job, but we do all of the work. Now, I'm starting to have second thoughts about PB.

"Get over here, you piece of horse s**t!" Logan called after Logan, now running out of the patio door to the in-ground pool side.

"Catch me if you can, pencil-necked Nazi," Ivan called back laughing at Logan, and running down the stairs of the patio and back in the house, almost knocking Oliver the maid down and Leo our butler.