The Party Turned Out Not So Good I walk behind Tracie to her car. My duffel bag bangs against my hip with each step. A another moment closer to the party with every passing minute. Nervous butterflies zoom in my stomach,. And a million different outcomes run marathons through my head. Tracie opens the car door and I slide in.
"Hello!" Says Tracie's Mom cheerfully. "Hi, I'm Lucy." I extend my hand out and she shakes it. "Mrs.Boyer." Mrs.Boyer looks exactly like Tracie, just older. She drives down toward her house. "Excited?" Tracie asks me. "Yeah, I guess. I'm nervous, though." "Don't be, we will have a lot of fun." She smiles. "You are going to look gorgeous. I already did my hair, like it?" She turns her head so I can see it. "It's very pretty." "Thank you." Her mom pulls up in front of the house, it's super modern and mostly made of glass. "Wow." I say, getting out of the car. "I know, come on." She pulls me down the path and into her house. It's huge, bigger then two of my Grandma's houses.
Tracie leads me up a flight of stairs into her bedroom. It's twice the size of my apartment at home. It's bathed in a soft pink tone. "Your bedroom is huge!" I cry, it echos of the walls. She laughs, "Wait till you see my closet." Her closet is the size of my bedroom.
Hours later, we are both dressed up. Her dress is strawberry red, with white accents, and her makeup makes her glow. She spins me around to her mirror. IT takes my breath away, I don't look like me. The girl in front of me is not me. She has blond hair the color of the sun, and her makeup put on with an artist hand makes her face soft and pretty. She startling. Her dress is coal black, and it glistens in the light. Tracie smiles, "Told you." "Thank you!" I cry, pulling her into a hug. We walk towards the door. "What about your parents?" I ask. "Don't worry. They are out for the night, won't be back till tomorrow." She pulls the door shut hand locks it, tossing the key into er clutch. A red car drives down the street, it makes a sharp turn hand skids to a stop in front of the house. "That's our ride." Tracie walks up and pulls the door open to the second row. "Your in the front," She says slyly.
I open the passenger door and slide into the car. "Hello, ladies." Felix says. "Hi." I say, glancing at him. "You look nice." Felix says, turning the key in the engine. My cheeks burn, and I nod. "Thank you." I look out the window as we drive, the butterflies are now birds and the thoughts are running triathlons.
Felix pulls into the parking spot in front of the house, and shuts off the engine. We all get out and he locks the car.
The house glows purple, and music pounds the night air. "Come on, Tracie grabs my hand and we walk up to the house. The closer we got, the more the music seemed to fill the air. Felix opened the door, and the noise of people surrounded me.
The music was even louder inside, the walls seemed to pulse with the music and my beating heart. We followed Felix through the crowed, and I felt nervous. So many people is such a tight place. Felix yelled over the music to be heard. "This is Michael." We greeted each other, "Where's Parker?" "Grounded!" Yells Michael back. "He tried to bribe his sister or something not to tell because she found out. His parents were so mad." "His loss. " We walk back towards the kitchen, and join the people eating and dancing.
I'll admit I was enjoying myself more and more by the minute.
When we finished, the whole party moved outside. Only a few people stayed in. Michael borrowed a DJ booth and was spinning music loudly.
Tracie got me to start dancing, and we joined in on the fun.
The song ended, and I took a look at my phone. 8:59. "I'll be right back, Tracie." I said, I ran back into the house and up the stairs to the bathroom.
L:Hey Grandma
G:Hello, Lucy, thank you for remembering.
L: Your welcome. Well, I'm sleepy. I'm going to go to bed now.
G:Good night, dear.
I hung up, and went to open the door when I heard two people talking. "Did you see the blond with Felix?" ONe asked, the blond is me. "Yeah, I think her name is Lucy." "What does Felix see in her?" "I don't know. Maybe he's trying to make Tracie jealous." I froze, what? "Yea, she broke his heart. They were together all summer and then school starts and poof, no more Trix." "Let her figure it out!" Giggles one go them. I open the door and see they have walked down stairs.
I held back tears, Felix could be playing with my emotions to make Tracie jealous. I stormed down the stairs, not bothering to say excuse me. The coal colored dressed matched my mood. I walked up to Felix, "Are you using me?" I ask. HE looks confused, "What?" "Did you and Tracie ever go out?" "Lucy, there's something I need to tell you." He said, ignoring my question. "I think I love you. And this is something I should have done the minute a meet you." I stare at him, now very confused.
He kissed me, he really did! All of my anger drained out of me, filled with joy. HE took my hand and lead me to the fire pit. I took a seat next to him, and someone handed us marshmallows.
Everyone went back to dancing, but Felix and I. We found a patch of empty space and sat down.
I looked at the sky, trying to find some stars I know when his hand slid over mine. Oh, my gosh. I was floating.
We leaned back, and pretend to point out stars.
I was feeling tired, and ready to leave. "Felix, can you drive me home?" I asked. "Um, Lucy, the party just really got going. Can't we stay another half hour please?" "Felix, look, I want to go home." "But, I don't want to. I'm staying." "Fine, stay with Tracie. MAybe she'll take you back now because you're done with me." "That's not what I meant!" "But it's what you wanted to say. Give me the car keys. I'll drive home, and you can pick up your car tomorrow." "Fine," He digs into his pocket and throws me the keys. "I'm going to go find Tracie. Maybe she'll want to dance with me. I felt tears coming back, he got up and found Tracie and he danced with her.
I brushed away the tears on my cheek, and looked at the party one last time before going into the house,
I pushed through the crowd of people, wiping away tears. I unlocked the car and slid into the drivers seat. I turned the keys in the engine. Nothing happened. I turned and twisted them in every direction possible. I looked up at the house, and saw Felix running out. HE looked around, panicked till he saw me in the car. "Lucy! Stop!" He cried. I thought he was saying stop so he could apologize. I got the car to turn on, and hit the pedal. HE ran after me, yelling, "Stop the car Lucy!" Repetively. I tried to turn on the car's lights, but they stayed dimmed. I tried again, and they still didn't. I hit the button again, nothing. "Lucy!" Felix's cries. I look to see another car barreling down the street. I hit the horn, and try the lights again.
There's a sudden boom, collecting the noise of breaking glass and crunching metal. I shut my eyes, everything too bright to look at.
"Lucy!" A male voice calls. I recognize it, but I can't place it. I squeeze my eyes shut. and try to mumble something, but no words come out. "Tracie!" His voice is so panicked, it makes me worry that I'm so calm. "Call someone! Anyone!" "I called them, there on the way here." I hear a distant siren. "It's going to be okay." The guy says. I want to nod, but I can't.
I should have listened, I should have stopped the car. So many things I should have done.
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