Memories

“I can’t believe this” Nick rolled his eyes once again while wielding a blunt in between his fingers. “It’s fucking snowing”

“No shit Sherlock” I muttered under my breath. I flipped a page of my history book.

“Language!” Nick’s mom shouted from upstairs. I rolled my eyes. Why is Nick’s mom on me about language, but Nick is clearly doing drugs down here?

“How do you get away with smoking in the house?” I asked.

“Easy, I tell her Cliff smokes” Cliff shook his head.

“Your mom hates me and thinks I’m a negative influence”

“Well you are” I told him. “You just gave a blunt to Nick” Nick and I laughed while Cliff rolled his eyes at us.

Jay came into the basement. “Hey guys…Anya” things were pretty awkward between us. He didn’t try to get back with me anymore, but he still talked to Nick about how much he wanted to.

Instead of facing me and just becoming friends he’s been ignoring me. He’s worst then a girl.

“Jason” Nick started. Jay threw himself on the couch across from me. “What’s wrong?”

“It’s Eric” we all groaned. “I can’t talk about it right now”

“Why not” Jay turned to me.

“What did I do?” I asked.

“You’re a girl, and girl’s gossip to girl’s named Lacey, and Lacey can’t keep her big mouth shut…if you know what I mean” Cliff said. I threw a pen at his head, thank god for so many years of playing darts with my sister, or I would have missed.

“Fine, I’m leaving” I closed my history book and headed up stairs.

“Anya!” Nick’s mom beamed. “Leaving so soon?” I smiled and nodded.

“I feel unwelcomed down there…they think I gossip to other girls, which is so untrue…I only talk to Lacey, she’s the one gossiping” Nick’s mom chuckled.

There was a knock at the door, since I was literally right in front of it I opened it. Eric was standing there with his flat back hat tilted 45 degree’s to the west, an oversized hoodie and baggy jeans.

“Hey Anya”

“Hey Eric” I stepped out of the house with my things.

“Leaving so soon?”

“There having a discussion about you downstairs”

“Why?”

“I don’t know, Jay’s probably on his period again” Eric laughed.

“Good one” I smiled. I tried to leave, but he called me back over. “You look pretty today” he told me. I looked down at what I was wearing. I guess I looked ‘good’, I wasn’t wearing the typical black skinny jeans and tee shirt today. I was wearing a white blouse with a black tie, and black jean shorts…of course with my converse high tops and neon shoe laces.

“Thanks” he smiled. “I’ll see you in school” I told him, and after that I walked back to my house. It wasn’t a long walk, just 10 minutes. It was a beautiful day, so I didn’t care.

The sun was shining brightly above me, unlike earlier when it was raining.

“Anya smiles like Anya doesn’t care, she lives in a world so unaware, does she know that my destiny lies with her? Anya” someone sung. I quickly spun around to see a random stereo playing that song.

I decided to ask someone what song it was.

“Sarah Smiles by Panic at the disco” they replied. “Someone parodied it and asked me to play it”

“Who?”

“Eric Collins, paid me 20 bucks, whoever this Anya girl is, she’s pretty lucky” the boy said. “Eric adores her”

“I’m Anya” I told him.

“Well then…he might kill me for saying that” I smiled.

…

At school the next morning I slowly came up behind Eric. “Eric smiles like Eric doesn’t care, he lives in a world so unaware, does he know that my destiny lies with him, Eric” I sung. I’m not a singer, but it sounded decent enough.

He turned around and blushed, it was kinda cute.

“Thanks for the song, I’ve been listening to Sarah Smiles on repeat for the last day” I told him.

“Your welcome…I got bored in Computer Applications the other day and decided to record it, your name was the only one that had enough syllables to work”

“Well if you used Jason it would of worked”

“Well that would make me a homosexual then wouldn’t it?” I giggled, he smiled again, and I lost it.

I was sold.

…

“Anya smiles like Anya doesn’t care, she lives in a world so unaware, does she know that this song is addicting” I sung to myself. I walked through the cemetery to get into the woods. I couldn’t get Eric out of my head.

All through the school day he said hi to me whenever he saw me in the halls, and he constantly called me pretty and perfect. It got annoying at some points, but now he was growing on me, I kinda liked the attention.

I never got that kind of attention from Jay.

Eric put me on an imaginary pedestal, he treated me like a princess, and even though I hate stuff like that, it felt good.

“Stop singing that song!” Nick exclaimed at me, like usual he was sitting on his tree stump, with a blunt in one hand and a play boy magazine in the other. “Eric keeps singing it”

I giggled. Eric blushed.

“It’s a very addicting song”

“I like your smile though” I told him. “You light up the sky” he blushed even more. Nick couldn’t help but smile at us.

“Anya and Eric sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, first comes love, then comes marriage then comes baby…baby…baby Enya in a baby carriage!!” Nick sung. “Enya, where do I come up with this shit, I’m a genius”

I rolled my eyes. I sat next to Eric today instead of Jay.

“Eric and Anya together is Enya” Cliff said. “That is cleaver”

“see, even the loser agrees” Cliff through a pen at Nick, Nick had fast reflex’s and was able to swat the pen away from his face. Luckily Cliff had a second pen and hit Nick right on the forehead.

“Enya” Eric mumbled under his breath, he smiled to himself. It did sound great.

I couldn’t help but fall to his sleazy tricks.