Chapter Eight

Howie left soon there after, but before he did he asked Trisha to be his girlfriend. She of course said yes. Trisha was doing much better and trying to figure out what to wear that night. Tiela had left earlier with Nick and none of the other girls had arrived home yet. She finally decided on an outfit. By this time she had to get ready. She put her hair up in a french twist and went and sat on the porch for Howie to come. She became excited when she heard a car door slam. She wasn’t happy when she saw who it was. It was Kris. "Is Emily here?" he asked.

"No, she’s out with AJ." She said, snottily.

"Oh, that freak!!" said Kris.

"You can leave now, I’m getting picked up soon and I don’t want you hanging around here." She spat.

"Well, I want to wait for Emily!!" he said.

"I don’t want you here, and I know for a fact that Emily doesn’t want to come home to you." she said, now getting very annoyed.

"Why are you being so mean to me??" he asked.

"Because I don’t like the way that you treat Emily. Now leave!!!" she screamed.

"Fine!! I’m leaving. But don’t worry I’ll be back."

As soon as he left he tears started steaming down Trisha’s face. Just then Howie pulled up. He walked up to her and gave her a kiss on the cheek, not realizing she was crying until she looked into his eyes. He pulled her in for a hug and asked, "What happened?"

"Kris, was here." She sobbed.

"It’ll be okay. I promise."

The rest of the night was a blast. Trisha was glad that she had Howie, and he cared for her so much. They danced until 1:30a.m. and Howie brought her home. He kissed her long and passionately. "Good night" he said.

"Good night" she replied.

"I’ll call you tomorrow"

Trisha went inside and saw that AJ and Emily were on the couch, sleeping. Kevin and Ashley were on the floor. She slowly crept up the stairs trying not to disturb anybody. She went upstairs and saw that Brian and Sarah were in her room. Tiela was alone in her room, which Trisha thought to be odd. She hoped everything was okay between them. She quietly crept into bed falling asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.

Trisha woke up around nine o’clock. Everyone else was already awake. "Where is the paper??" she asked groggily.

"Nobody got it." Replied Sarah.

"I’ll get it." Said Trisha. She put a sweatshirt over her pajamas and headed down to the mailbox. She opened it up, the paper was in there but so was another envelope. She took it out and it had her name on it. She didn’t even wait to get inside to open it. She read the note and immediately ran inside to call Howie. AJ, Emily, Brian, Sarah, Ashley, and Kevin all looked at her like she was nuts, the way she ran to the phone.

"Hello?" Howie replied.

"Howie?"

"Oh hi Trisha!!" he said.

"I can’t go out with you anymore." she hung up the phone before he could answer and ran upstairs.

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