Like the stars

Chapter 3

Chapter 3

When I leave my school, I walk straight to the middle school to pick up Penny. I usually do that every day If she's not going home with a friend. I love picking her up and walk home with her. We always have the most interesting conversations, there's no limit to Penny's imagination.

When I reach school I see Vic. He's probably picking up his brother who is the same age as Penny. He is waiting on the playground. He sees me and waves me over. I don't have a problem with Vic or any of my old friends, the only one I have a problem with is Evans, so I walk over to Vic.

"Hey Beck", he says and hugs me when I walk up close to him.

"Hey Vic", I say short.

"You're not angry anymore?" He asks.

"I was never angry at you", I say. "You know who I'm angry with".

Vic nods, he does know. Vic was actually my best friend, When we were children it was only Vic, Rain, Nathan, and I. Calvin came along when he started dating Rain, but by then I was already starting to pull away. Vic and I were the closest, and when I left them it hurt me the most to leave Vic behind, I mean Rain is my cousin, we are blood relatives so I can't really shake her off, no matter how much I may want to sometimes.

"Beck", Vic sighs and suddenly looks sad. "I miss you, come on".

"I miss you too", I smile and give him another hug. "I just can't bring myself to be around Evans".

"Oh, so he's 'Evans' now?" Vic laughs.

"As long as he calls me Sims, he's Evans to me", I say. "I would love to hang out with you again, but he is your friend too and I would never make you choose".

"The two of you are the most childish teenagers anyone could find", Vic says. "Give it a rest, just come back to us, to me? Please?"

I don't have time to answer Vic's question because Penny and Colton are now standing beside us. Colton looks surprised to see me. Even though Penny and Vic's brother goes to school together, Vic and I have never actually picked them up at the same time before. 

"Hey, Becca how are you?" Colton asks.

"Hey, Colton, I'm good, how are you?"

"I'm good also", he says. He looks at Vic. "Are you two friends again?"

"We never stopped being friends Colt", Vic says. "Come on, we've got to move, bye Beck, bye Penny".

"Bye Vic", I say and hug him again. I don't think I have realized how much I actually miss him. 

Penny and I start walking home and for a long while Penny is very quiet. It's strange because usually, she can't keep her mouth shut. Something is troubling her, I can see it. But I will not pressure her to tell me, she will tell me when she's ready. If I try to pressure her she will never tell me.

"How was your day?" I ask.

"It was good", she answers. "How was yours?"

"It was good, Rain has been bugging me but otherwise okay", I say.

"Maybe you should take the stick out of your ass, swallow your pride and admit that you miss your friends?" Penny says. 

She's angry, maybe she's not angry at me but when she's angry she speaks anything but what she feels is the truth. I don't say anything else, it's better to just leave her be when she's angry, besides, she's right and I don't care to admit that right now. 

When we come home she walks straight up to her room without a word to me. I hear her slam the door. This makes me angry and I do pretty much the same thing. I dump my bag on the floor and face lands with my face in my pillow when I throw myself onto the bed. I scream out in frustration into the pillow.

What am I going to do? I miss my friends but I can't stand Evans right now. I want to belong to our circle again, but at the same time, I don't because Evans is a part of it. It's so frustrating. And Rain's nagging isn't helping me either, it's only confusing me and making me more irritated and annoyed. My run-in with Vic didn't really help much either.

But I really don't want to breathe the same air as the asshole Nathan Evans. I don't even know what I did to make him hate me. It's true what Rain said earlier. We were friends. Best friends even, even though I was a bit closer to Vic at the time. We liked each other's presents. But suddenly when we were like ten he just started to shut me out and he started to behave rudely towards me and we slowly started to hate each other. I barely even remember the time I smiled at him, or that he looked at me with those blue eyes without hatred.

Oh, why did my life get so messed up? What did I do? Did I do something to deserve this kind of life? My father dying, Evans hating me, the bullying in school, which I haven't told anyone about by the way. The only good thing about my life is Penny. My only joy in life. but now she's angry at me and I feel more depressed than ever. 

My phone rings and I groan as I take it up from the floor where I dropped it as I 

Rain.

"Come on Rian, enough already I told you I don't want to!" I shout on the phone, maybe if I shout I won't hear myself lying.

"This is not Rain so stop shouting Sims", I hear Mellarks voice say.

"What the hell Evans?!" I shout. Now I feel even angrier. Who is he to call me? And from my cousin's own phone. She's probably up to this.

"Tell her!" I hear Rain whisper. Yeah, I knew it, she has no boundaries.

"Ouch Alright! Stop pinching me Rain!" Evans says irritated. "Join our group, Sims, bye!" And he hangs up.

What the actual hell just happened? Rain is behind all of this, I know that but still! What did just happen? Why did he call me to say that, I don't care if Rain was pinching him, something else must have made him call me. Evans just asked me to join the circle again. I don't know about this, he didn't exactly sound sincere. But how could I go back to my friends and still ignore Evans? I would see him every day.

Everyone needs a challenge, right? But is this the right challenge to take on?

Oh crap! 

Rain will do pretty much anything to make me agree on this whole thing. She will not rest until I befriend everyone again. But I will never befriend Evans again, that much I'm sure of, that much I know. 

I call Rain and she answers on the first signal.

"Beck?"

"Madonna", I say sarcastically.

"Very funny", Rain says.

"Yeah and so was my last call", I say irritated. "Look you can stop nagging, I can't take it anymore you hear me? So I will now surrender, but be sure to know that I don't like it one bit and don't try to make me talk to Evans again".

"She's back!" Rain shouts and I can hear some cheers. "But she's still not going to talk to you Nathan, sorry".

"Bummer", I hear Evans say sarcastically in the background. "Should that make me sad?"

I roll my eyes.

"And Beck, come over now", she says. "We are all hanging out!

"Do I have to?" 

"Yes now move your ass over to the girl's place, and take some stuff with you because you're moving in with me and Marlow!" Then she hangs up the phone.

Oh god, what did I get myself into? When the heck did I sign a contract to move in with someone? I know that Rain only thinks of me and misses me and all but she can be a bit too much at times and she knows it too well. I love her, but right now she's too much.

I sigh and drag my ass off the bed and walk out of my room. I bang on Penny's door. She opens it.

"Can I help you?" She asks.

"I toom that stick out of my ass as you suggested, and that resulted in me moving in with Raina and Marlow, so apparently I will be moving out", I say. 

Penny puts her hand over her mouth, trying to keep herself from laughing, but she can't she explodes and I feel irritated.

"Are you serious? I don't believe this", I say and walk back to my room to start packing a few things.