[Picture of Hailey Cambridge on the media box!]

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Nikki's POV

I felt my whole body slid from a soft surface and slapped into something hard yet fluffy.

"Are we home already?" I mumbled through a yawn.

Earlier, I had felt my energy drained faster than the car's fuel. Then we reached the house with my grandparents carrying an extra bag which surprisingly turned out to be me. I perked my eyes open, meeting the warm pink carpet I had since I was fifteen years old. And as I scanned the area with a royal maroon coating the walls, and ceiling looking like fresh snow made me sluggishly let out a smile. The curtains fanned with the night wind as it seeped its way inside my room through the open window.

I missed this place. I thought, squeezing the fluffy carpet with my bare hands, feeling its warmth and...

dust.

I flinched away, quickly standing up and groaning at the thought. "Need a vacuum."

"I wanna rock you up! Wanna eat your lipsss, I, I wanna make you feel wanted!!" My best friend Hailey, sang on top of her lungs.

"Hailey!" I grimaced, grabbing a hair comb on my vanity drawer.

A girl who prefers wearing an unnaturally curly hair, lovely eyes like almond, ear-piercing voice, and a crazy attitude? Yhup, that was Hailey Cambridge. She's been my best friend since the day I lived here with my grandparents.

"What? You know how much I love this song of Hunter Hayes." She shrugged as the song played on and on by itself.

"Your tongue needs to be bathe with holy water." I muttered while I ambled back on bed.

Hailey opened her mouth about to assert something but I stopped her, "You knew the right lyrics Hailey, and remember we're only PG-13."

"Correction! We're seventeen, Nikki. At thirteen, our science teacher even taught us what would happen if an egg cell and spe.."

"--Spectacular!! And please do shut up before I stuff this hair brush in your mouth."

"Right, sorry." Was all she said in a sorry not sorry manner.

As the song went back to the chorus she sang with it, correctly I might add. I invited Hailey over since it would be the last day of our summer vacation which without being said, school starts tomorrow. My grandparents left early as seven in the morning to go visit our relatives near the state but I didn't go with them because I told them I would be seeing Hailey.

"So, anything happened? You know like, boys?"

"Boys? Oh, no. Apparently I find this summer, boring." I answered as I sunk on the bed.

Actually, 'boring' is an understatement. The whole summer we got nothing to do but to 'go there, attend that, drop by, visit them, go there again, then attend the same gathering.'. But UGH, I want to do something other than that. I want something different!

I heard a loud heavy sigh from her as she picked the chalk pastels she intended to bring. She said she saw something on tumblr that they can colour your hair temporarily, and that's what she wants to try.

"Well, maybe you may have it this time at school." She half questioned with a smirk before motioning me to sit up.

"Hailey, I'd rather eat pizza. Riverside High is packed with stupid boys." I snorted as I rolled my eyes.

"Stupid-- but hot." Hailey intoned while she gathered my hair with her palm.

"I bet you only meant Nathan." I mumbled, so faint she didn't hear me said it. "Is Davis hot?"

"Nikki, if I asked you the same question. What would you answer?"

"Well, I'm not trying to be mean but... No, he's not." I intoned while Hailey hummed in agreement as she brushed the knots on my hair. "Although, I like that he's neat."

If you aren't asking, Davis was a boy from our school. Long legged, slim body with no muscles to prove that he goes to the gym even though he brags it to every instructors at school that he does workout. But just to put things up a little lighter, if you wanted to know how he looks, just stare at the three year old kid's drawing.

"Neat?" Hailey bore her eyes into mine screaming 'okay' but impassively done.

I slowly nodded, "Neat."

"Does he like you back then?" Hailey asked.

"Wait, what? Hailey I said, I like that he's neat but not like a 'like', like"

"Wow, that's a lot of likes."

I face palmed myself and muttered, "Sure, but anyway, have you talked to Nathan this summer?"

Nathan Andrews was Hailey's crush. She started falling for him on the first day she sets her eyes on him. He was that type of guy you see in your dreams, althought it might depend on what your dream was, actually. But not to mess things up, he was a gentleman, kind and all but not even your glowing angel in white. A football player, and mostly known for throwing the wildest parties in the history of best parties.

"Well, not really. I haven't heard of him since summer dropped." I aww-ed before letting out a chuckle, seeing her face slowly dipping in a ruby textile paint.

We both sighed with defeat, "Now, that's our summer."

On our last few days before summer vacation we always envisioned a whole hundred days with fun and excitement. However, most of the times dreams don't come out as expected.

"I know. Well, I can't wait to see his green eyes and dark brown hair." She sighed lovingly, deep-staring while gripping the hairbrush with both of her arms close to her chest.

"Of course, and stop fantisizing. We all know Nathan has hazel eyes and not green eyes like that of what you said."

"Well..."

"Who exactly do you mean with that green eyes?" I cut her off with a question, facing her with perplexity.

"Uhm..." She began as I raised my eyebrows. "It was just some guy I saw last two days at the mall." She let out a huge grin, tampering her usual petty mistakes.

So, Hailey actually falls in love to every other guys she finds attractive even if she just passed by him or in the counter.

"You seriously have to control that emotion, it's not good for you." I simply adviced.

She let her eyes roll before changing her mood for pizza. "Well, how about we order pizza? Since you mentioned it I started to crave."

"Well, what about my hair?" I took a section of my hair with a fainted pink colour temporarily dyed at the bottom.

"Well, it actually worked. So, all we have to do is to rinse it afterwards."

"Pepperoni?" I mean who would say no to pizza?

"Two boxes! Hurry up and go get a call! I'm starving." She ordered.

A/N: Not the best chapter, though it's mainly to introduce some our characters 😊

Question!! WOULD YOU RATHER... EAT PIZZA? OR DATE SOMEONE IN YOUR SCHOOL? X)

-I would rather eat pizza, cuz' that's my mood for today and... basically forever. Lmao 😂😂

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