Midnight Falls

Chapter Thirty Two

"I was watching that," I mumble.

"There's no television today. We're going out." Sophie grins. "Go get dressed and hurry up; the guys are waiting."

"The guys?" I sputter out.

"Yup," Riley answers, throwing herself on the couch.

"Zach, Alex and Luke are coming with us," Colette explains, adjusting herself on the arm of the leather couch.

"Um...why?"

"Why not?" Riley points out with a grin on her face.

"Because I asked why...?" I furrow my eyebrows in confusion.

"We decided to invite them along, so we could all hang out with each other. Also, Alex was the one who came up with that idea because he noticed how you've been feeling down lately and we agreed on taking you out," Sophie tells me.

He's such a nice guy. I wonder why did I ever stop having a crush on him.

Right. I might have a crush on his idiot of a friend.

"Okay then," I reply.

"Go get dressed. Zach will be here in ten minutes," Colette says, looking down at her phone.

"You took his phone number?" I ask.

"No, I took his social security number. What do you think, bright spark?"

"That you took his phone number?" I say in a 'duh' tone.

"Just go," Lottie sighs.

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"So, um...where are we going again?" I ask, clearing my throat in the middle and cringing about how awkward I sounded.

Zach turns to face me from the middle seat of Alex's Jeep and grins. "We are going to the mall."

"You're meaning to tell me that you got me out of my house for a mall trip?"

Sophie turns her head from the passenger's seat. "It's going to be fun, Lyn. We can go shopping and we can...do other stuff that I can't remember right now."

"Yeah and besides, it's better than staying at home and doing nothing," Riley says from the right side of the middle seat.

"I was watching How I Met Your Mother, that is not nothing. Tracy and Ted's relationship is important," I respond, feeling offended for the show characters.

"Tracy and Ted are going to get married in the end, Anna," Colette rolls her eyes.

"Don't spoil it!" I quickly cover my ears.

"It's called 'how I met your mother', clodpole, it's already spoiled," she retorts.

"Still, don't spoil it."

"We're just going to hang out at the mall for awhile then we can go somewhere else if you want," Alex suggests, looking at me through the rear view mirror.

"I guess that is alright," I mumble and turn my head to the side, staring out of the window.

I turn my head to the left and notice Luke holding his phone while tapping at it. I scoot closer to him and poke his side. "Hi, idiot."

He looks up from his phone and grins at me. "Hey, Cherries."

"Who are you texting?" I ask.

"Jennie. She was just wondering if we could hang out later," he replies.

"You guys are hanging out now too?"

"Not really. It's the first time actually," he says.

"Oh," I smile.