Melanie smiled at Hadley as she danced around my room.

"So Hadley, do you have a boyfriend?"

"Melanie!"

"I have boyfriend,his name is John and I love him."

"Hadley!"

Melanie giggled.

"Don't encourage it." I warned.

Meg and Jenny sat on the floor laughing at Hadley.

The Krests generous thinking had saved our house and my family.

"So, Ashley. Im going to hang out with the gang tonight. Want to come?"

"The gang?"

"Yeah Nick,Marcus,Ryan,Andrew,Carrie and Alison."

"Oh that gang."

"Yep. We are going to just chill at my house."

"Will there be food?"

"Always."

"Oh I'm coming."

Melanie laughed,"It starts at seven."

"And it's six-twenty-two."

"Yeah, so I have to go. Talk to you all later."

Melanie left and I quickly ran to my closet.

Digging through all my clothes I found three outfits I liked. One- a teal shirt with skinny jeans and a bead headband.
Two-a short Jean skirt with a ruffled blouse.

Three- A yellow Sun dress that had roses on it.

"Opinions?" I asked.

Hadley smiled and quickly grabbed the teal shirt. "This one reflects your eyes."

"How?"

"I don't know,it just does."

I ruffled her hair and quickly got dressed and did my hair and make up.

Why are you getting all fancied up?

I quickly ran to the car and grabbed out my backpack. More then likely we were going to be doing homework all night.

When I arrived at Melanie's her mom greeted me with a smile and lead me into the living room where everyone else was gathered.

Mrs.Vallejo whispered in my ear." Take a seat dear. And also take a few cookies."

I smiled at her and sat down on the floor next to the other girls.

"Hey Ashley." Carrie greeted me.

"Hi."

"How have you been?"

"I've been good. How have you been?"

She looked at Nick and then back at me. "I've been absolutely amazing."

No one would've missed that look, that split second, the locked eye contact between Nick and Carrie.

The look on Marcus' face revealed that he too had seen what just happened, and he wasn't happy.

Melanie pulled out monopoly,"Who's in to get beat by the champ?"

"Oh please. We all know that you just WANT to be the champ." Andrew said grabbing the dice.

"Oh it's on!" I said as I grabbed my typical figure- the silver dog.

Everyone else grabbed their figure and set them up on the board.

Something was off tonight. Definitely off. Nick and Carrie kept sharing these looks of terror as Marcus looked like he was about to kill us all. That wasn't even surprising, but what was. Was the fact that Carrie and Nick escaped to the Art room for a "private" discussion.

So there's a chapter. Let me know what you think in the comments