Little Liar - Nicole Steele (most read books .TXT) 📗

side. She mouthed the word “Ow” to me. She waved at Amber with half a smile.
“What brings you here, Amber?” Prue asked
“Well, it is a beautiful day. I thought why not go to the beach. What brings you two here?” she asked
“We’re just here hanging out with my friend Stefan,” I replied.
Amber turned to Stefan, “I thought you didn’t know anybody,”
“I don’t know anybody,” he said, “All I know is Alex,”
“Oh,” she said. Lily and I sat down on our towels and Amber kept talking to Stefan. We were going to join in their conversation, but decided not to.
“I’m going to get me a corndog. Do any of you want one?” Lily asked.
“Sure,” I said. Stefan and Amber didn’t hear Lily, so I turned and ask them, “Do you want a corndog?” Since I interrupted their conversation, Amber gave me a mean look.
“No, I don’t,” Amber said.
“I’ll take one,” Stefan said
Lily smiled and said, “Alright, I’ll be right back,”
Stefan turned back to Amber and I heard him ask her, “Why didn’t you want a corndog?”
“’Cause I’m a vegetarian,” she lied. I’ve seen her eat meat before, since when did she become a vegetarian?
“Really,” I said, “I thought you ate meat,” They both turned to me. Amber had mouthed the word shut up when Stefan wasn’t paying attention. “I remember when we went on that camping trip, you had like three hot dogs,” I said
“I did not,” she said with an edge of anger.
“I’m pretty sure it was you, Amber,” I said. I knew she was getting mad but she didn’t make it obvious.
She acted like she had got a text message. “I gotta go,” she said, “I’ll see you tomorrow Stefan,”
“Bye,” Stefan said. She got up and walked away. When she started walking up the steps to the board walk she spotted Lily. I saw her say something to her and I knew she wasn’t just saying bye.
Lily handed each of us our corndog when she came down. We both said thank you and ate them without saying a word. I was watching some dog dig a whole but only have the sand slip back in every time. I laughed in my head and thought ‘Silly dog’.
It was then that I had realized that I had said those words out loud because Stefan and Prue were looking at me. I pointed at the dog still digging and said, “The dog keeps digging but the sand ends up back in the whole,” They stared at the dog for a while and then laughed.
“Wow,” Prue said.
Stefan was digging in his bag looking for something. I peered over his shoulder to see what he was pulling out. It was a camera and he was going to record what the dog was doing. While he was recording the dog Prue and I were rolling in the sand laughing. After I was done laughing, I lied on my back and looked at the sky. There were a few grey clouds in the sky but I knew that it wasn’t going to rain because the forecaster said it was going to be a sunny day. Those clouds were just passing through to go rain on someone else’s parade.
I was just about to get up when I had felt something fall on the tip of my nose. I sat and touched it; it was wet. I looked up at the sky again and realized that the grey clouds were getting bigger. It looked as if sky would release the drops of water at any moment. “Guys I think we better leave like right now,” I said to Stefan and Prue who were deep in conversation about some topic that I could care less.
Prue turned to me with a sad look on her face and asked, “Why?” I pointed to the sky. She looked up –and so did Stefan - and nodded in understanding. Stefan started packing up some of his things. “We should start out to the car before we get caught in the rain,” he said. Prue and I nodded and started getting up our things.
We hurriedly went back to Stefan’s Rover after we got all of our things. It took us a while to get in the car. While Stefan was putting our things in the trunk, Prue and I were arguing who was going to sit in the front seat.
“It wouldn’t be fair if you got to sit in the front seat two times,” Prue said
“It doesn’t have to be fair. Come on Prue, it’s just a seat. It really doesn’t matter who sits in the front or back,” I was practically pleading with her to just sit in the back.
She looked behind her and said in a hushed tone, “Come on you know why I want to sit in the front. Just let me sit in the front,”
I thought about it, then sighed and said, “Fine,”
Just then Stefan came around the car and asked, “You gals ready,”
“Yea,” we said in unison. Prue hopped into the front seat happily while I sat in the back with a glum look on my face. After a while Stefan started laughing. Prue and I looked at him with a curious look. His full out laughter soon turned into a light chuckle when he noticed that we were staring at him, “

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