Best Friends...Forever?

I woke up to the phone ringing. After it rang for what seemed like forever, I decided I should answer it. “Hello?” I said rubbing the sleep from my eyes.

“Hey Jessica,” Susie said.

“Hey, what are you doing calling me so early in the morning?” I asked yawning.

“It’s not early. It must be the time change or something,” she said giggling.

“There’s time change in North Carolina,” I said smiling into the phone.

“Oh well. Don’t you want to know how my Christmas was?” she asked.

“Yeah, sure, how was your Christmas?” I didn’t really sound interested but that was only because it was so early in the morning.

“It was great. I got a brand new cell phone. Now I have unlimited text. It is so awesome!” She gushed.

“That’s great. I got an ipod touch,” I said.

“That’s so cool. You have to let me see it when I get back.”

“Okay.”

“So how was your Christmas? Did your family drive you insane like usual?” She asked. She had met most of my family and knew all about them especially my cousins.

“My family was cool and weird as usual. The only bad thing was Marisa. All she did was flirt with Hunter the whole time. She barely even acknowledged my existence,” I explained.

“Aww your jealous of your own cousin hitting on Hunter,” Susie said.

“I am not jealous of Marisa. She and Hunter could go out for all I care. I just wish she didn’t act like I’m nothing and Hunter’s a god or something because he’s not.”

“Sure he’s not and you so are jealous.” She was probably rolling her eyes.

“He’s not and I’m not jealous.”

“Whatever,” she said.

“Did you call Cody yet?” I asked curious.

“Yeah, I can’t wait till I get back to him and you of course.”

“Of course. What is he doing over break? He’s not home is he?” I realized I had no clue where Cody was but he couldn’t have been home or else I would have seen him and hung out with him at Hunter’s.

“He’s with his family in New Jersey. He’s coming back the same day I am.”

“Oh. Well I can’t wait for you to get back. All I have to hang out with is Hunter. I need you and Cody,” I said.

“I’m sure you are loving every minute of it.”

“Whatever,” I said annoyed.

“I have to go we are packing up to head to Pennsylvania,” she said.

“Okay, bye. See you soon.”

“Bye.” Then we hung up.

The next couple of days I spent mostly with Hunter. We played video games and goofed off and even went sledding a few times. I got a whole bunch of song on my new Ipod and got some games on it too. I absolutely loved it. It was the best present ever. New Year’s was coming up so Hunter and I got my mom to take us to the store to buy stuff for our little party we have every year. It wasn’t a party since it was only me and Hunter every year but we still needed to have junk food. What’s New Year’s without snacks?

“I want chips,” Hunter said.

“If we get chips then we need dip,” I said walking over to the dip. Once I got the dip we went over to the chips and got original, sour cream and onion, and barbeque flavored chips. We also got popcorn, pretzels, and cheetos. We headed to the drinks section and couldn’t decide on what to get.

“I want root beer,” Hunter said grabbing a six pack.

“I want orange soda,” I said grabbing a six pack of orange soda.

“Root beers better,” Hunter said as he placed the soda in the cart.

“No orange soda is better,” I said.

“Root beer is so better than orange soda.” he said.

“I like root beer but orange soda is sooo better,” I said.

“See you like root beer so it’s better than orange soda,” he said sticking his tongue out at me.

“Whatever,” I said sticking my tongue back at him.

We finished shopping after getting a few more snacks and things then headed back home. We unloaded all of the snacks into Hunter’s kitchen. The new year was only a couple days away and I couldn’t wait.

December 31st finally came. I woke up and went downstairs finding my parents.

“I’m going over to Hunter’s now I might be over there the whole day.” I told my parents.

“Okay. You’re going to be over there to watch the ball drop right?” they questioned.

“Yeah. Bye.”

“Bye.”

I walked next door to Hunter’s and let myself in and plopped down on the couch. Hunter was probably still sleeping but I figured I would be nice and let him sleep for once. He did have to stay up until midnight. I watched a couple of stupid shows and got bored really quickly. There was never anything good to watch on TV. I sighed loudly and turned the TV off. I got up off the couch and went to Hunter’s room. I opened his door and found him sleeping on his bed. I walked over and sat by Hunter’s feet. I pulled the blanket up so his feet were showing and I started tickling them. His feet twitched and he started moving. I laughed and continued to tickle his feet.

“Stop,” he said trying to get his feet away from me. He was still trying to sleep and hadn’t opened his eyes yet.

“I said stop. Come on I’m trying to sleep,” he said groggily.

“I’m not stopping. Do you know how many times you have tickled me over break, this is just payback,” I said still tickling his feet. I was enjoying myself until Hunter got up suddenly.

“I said stop it,” he said with playful meanness. He grabbed me and once again pinned me down on his bed with him above me.

“You’re no fun. You can’t take a little tickling. Now get off me.” I tried to push him off but, of course, he was stronger than me.

“So what are we doing today?” He said still holding me down.

“I’ll tell you if you get off of me.” I pushed him and this time he rolled off of me and onto the floor.

“Ow.”

I couldn’t help but laugh. “You’re so stupid sometimes.”

“You’re stupid,” he rebutted.

“No you’re stupid.”

“You’re stupid. Now what are we going to do?” He asked.

“I don’t know, what do you want to do?”

We ended up watching TV and playing some video games. After screaming at the stupid game I was playing with Hunter, I was hungry so we ordered a pizza. The rest of the day went by quickly it seemed and pretty soon it was ten at night.

We started to get the snacks out and turned the TV on to get ready for the ball to drop. We decided to watch the ball drop from Hunter’s room. We kept the volume muted since nothing exciting was happening yet, there were still a couple hours till New Year’s.

“So do you have any new year’s resolutions?” Hunter asked me.

“No, but if Susie were here she would say I should change my style or get a boyfriend for the New Year,” I answered.

“Cause that worked so well the last time,” Hunter mumbled.

“Yeah,” I whispered, then added, “What are your resolutions?”

“I don’t know, to change somehow I guess. But I don’t think I can get much better. Do you?” He asked with a smirk on his face.

I couldn’t help but smile. “You could get a lot better.”

“I’m hot, smart, charming, sweet; In short I’m totally awesome,” he boasted.

“You keep thinking that,” I laughed. We opened every single bag of chips and other snacks, eating a little of everything. I got thirsty and realized we didn’t bring any drinks up. “I’m thirsty, go get me a drink.” I told Hunter.

“Shit,” he said racing out of the room. I sat there for a minute confused. Then I got up and went downstairs to find Hunter grabbing the sodas and placing them in the fridge.

“You forgot to put the soda in the fridge?” I asked as he continued what he was doing.

“Yeah, now we can’t have them until they get cold,” he said.

“Speak for yourself. That’s the great thing about orange soda. It tastes just as good warm as it does cold. It might be better cold but warm doesn’t make that much of a difference. Unlike root beer, that tastes gross when it’s warm.” I grabbed an orange, opened it, and took a sip. Then I stuck my tongue out at Hunter. “Orange soda is better than root beer.”

“Whatever,” Hunter said grabbing a glass and putting ice in it. “I’ll just put my root beer in a glass with ice.” He said sticking his tongue out at me. We went back up to his room with our drinks.

We sat down on his bed and turned the TV up. There was only half hour before midnight. On the TV they were talking about how after the ball dropped some guy was going to jump a volcano on his bike.

“That is going to be so cool,” Hunter said.

I rolled my eyes. “No it’s going to be stupid. All he’s doing is jumping it’s not like it’s going to erupt on him or anything. It’s dormant.”

“It’s still cool,” Hunter said.

We watched the TV and saw all of the people freezing their butts off in time square. I personally thought they were all idiots. It’s much easier to watch the ball drop at home. It’s warm and you have a closer view. “10 seconds,” I said.

“9 seconds,” Hunter said

“8 seconds,” we both said. “7, 6, 5, 4, 3 seconds.” The ball was dropping getting closer and closer
to the bottom where it said 2009.

“2”

“1”

“Happy New Year,” I yelled. Everyone in the crowd was cheering and celebrating. Then I looked over at Hunter and noticed him staring at me. I looked him in his green eyes as his lay on my brown ones. Time seemed to slow down as he slowly started leaning closer to me and I soon found myself leaning closer to him. Then our lips touched. The kiss was soft and sweet unlike Brad’s that were rough and hard. When he pulled away there were butterflies in my stomach.

“Am I a good kisser or what?” Hunter said smiling.

“Or what.” I smiled back. We ended up in a make out session somehow and never saw the guy jump the volcano. After a while I got tired and we stopped kissing. I fell asleep in a few seconds on Hunter’s comfortable bed. Hunter ended up falling asleep next to me for once.