Alice and I were standing in line to order and Liam and Casey were sitting at a table about eight feet away, Missy, Brit and Mia next to it.
“So, the usual?” Alice’s voice broke me from my thoughts.
“Uh, yeah, sure.” I could just get out.
“What’s wrong?” She stopped and looked at the table. “Oh, come on! They’re here right now? Can’t someone just kick them out?” Typically Alice, a lot of talk, but she would never act on it.
“Let’s just get our coffee and forget about it. Okay?” I really didn’t feel like making a scene in a Starbucks and I hoped Alice felt the same way.
“No.” She started walking towards the table and even though I tried to stop her, she just kept walking.
“Hey!” Casey’s smile was as much confused as it was happy. I guess it was pretty annoying to have three girls around, not interested in you, but in your friend.
“Hey girls, I was just telling Liam we were having a party this weekend.” That was all Missy said, not: ‘Do you want to come?’ or something. This was purely to get up in our grill.
“Well,” Alice started, “I was just telling Lynn I would never come to a party thrown by you.” The expression on Alice’s face made me shiver and it made Missy take a step back. Pure evil, as Ari (a not too bright friend of ours) would say, only she would make a funny face to go with it.
“Okay, I think you should calm down and just leave the adults alone.” Missy was already eighteen, due to a year she had to do twice, because her grades weren’t good enough.
“So you’re going to leave with your child-sized brain?” Way to go, Alice! I wish I would’ve come up with that one, it sounded really cool.
“At least I don’t shop at the children’s department.” That was just plain mean! There was nothing wrong with Alice’s clothes.
“At least we’re not fake!” This was getting out of hand; everyone in the entire place was staring at us. Missy looked awfully calm, this couldn’t be good.
“Well, I don’t know. This looks like a fake.” She came up to me and grabbed the pendant of my necklace. “What do you think, Brit? 99 cent shop?” Brit started nodding, but stopped as soon as she saw that I grabbed Missy’s wrist. The arrogant look Missy wore just a second ago, had vanished and changed into fear.
“Don’t you EVER touch my necklace again or I will make sure your face will get the same color as your purse. Got it?” Missy’s head turned towards her purse, as if to check the color of it. Her purse was a dark red, the same color as for example blood. Missy’s head shot up again.
“G-got it.” I let go of her wrist and as soon as I did, Missy recovered. “Brit, Mia, let’s go. I’ve got homework to do.” Yeah right, like she’d ever do her homework. Even if it had to be done, she’d just ask some nerd to do it for her.
When the door closed behind the three girls, I realized Alice, Casey and Liam were all staring at me. Alice and Casey with an open mouth, looking totally shocked. Liam, however, was staring very differently. His face showed more anger than shock.
“What were you thinking? That threatening her would keep her away? Or maybe that her touching your necklace would kill us all?” Yes, it was definitely anger in Liam’s expression.
I couldn’t say a word. He was right. I overreacted and this wouldn’t help at all, if anything, it would get me in trouble. Missy could tell the principal and would get suspended. This was a very, very dumb action of mine.
“What are you talking about? That was awesome!” This snapped me right back to reality. Casey’s expression had changed from total shock to a more impressed one.
“What?!” Me, Liam and Alice let out in disbelieve at the exact same time.
“The way you made Missy go from the toughest bitch in town to a puppy running away with its tail between its legs.” My face must have shown total confusion, because Casey added hastily: “Wait, you don’t actually think it was wrong to stand up to her, right?” Well, if you put it like that… No, it was wrong to threaten her. Standing up to her, okay, but threaten? Maybe that was going a bit too far.
“Well yeah, but standing up to someone isn’t the same as threatening.” Like Alice had read my mind, she protested her brother’s words.
“You’re picking Liam’s side now? Anyway, that’s not important. What’s your opinion, Lynn?” For the second time today, all of their faces turned my way. This was not the attention I wanted.
“Alice is right. Standing up to someone is a good thing, but this was going too far. I should’ve known that.” While I said this, I just stared at the ground. I was not the kind of person that could disagree with someone and say it to his (or her) face.
“Just forget about it. We’ll see what happens, nothing we can do about it now.” Liam had apparently calmed down and was even trying to make me feel better. This was why we used to get along so well. We were more than just brother and sister, we used to be great friends.
“Thanks, Liam.” I managed a warm smile and got one in return.
“Hey, do you guys want to join us?” I think Casey was trying to keep the conversation light, but he didn’t quite manage it.
“Sure. Alice, you okay with it?”
“Yeah, but maybe we should get a coffee first.” Right, we didn’t get our coffees yet.
“Lead the way.”
Thankfully the line was a lot shorter by now. That could have something to do with the fact that it was already nine thirty, but I couldn’t be sure.
“So, what happened to that Spanish test, you skipped?” Casey was starting up the conversation once more.
“Meras called in sick this morning. Lucky us.” I said.
“Meras?” I thought Alice told Casey about our Spanish teacher, but I guess she didn’t.
“Our Spanish teacher.” Alice told her brother with a tone in her voice that basically called him an idiot. She had mastered that tone; she used it all the time.
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