The travel back home by bus was pleasant. We only had five stops before ours and it went quickly. We had decided to stay all together for dinner, to eat pizzas. Virgile had expressed wanting to stay but how he couldn’t today because of his parents, it appeared odd to me, but I didn’t press the matter further, especially in front of everyone. We had a group chat with all our group friends (from the pack) so Wayne, Ergil, Phaenna, Ella and I. Wayne agreed to let us all come to his house, he had one of the biggest houses among us and his parents had agreed.

Ella and Phaenna were both available so we decided to meet at Wayne’s in about 30 minutes. The time to let us all go to our own house to change and to deposit our shopping bags.

“Dad,” I said when I arrived at my house, I kissed his cheek. I had already told him that I was going to eat at Wayne’s with friends.

“Honey, you’re lucky to not be drenched with all this rain, your father came back a few minutes ago all dripping wet. He directly went to shower” he said examining me

“We took the bus so we hadn’t that much to walk, plus the path is forested so we didn’t really feel the rain” I added, in response to my dad’s previous commentary, while putting my bags on the table

“That’s wonderful but don’t put your bags on the table,” he told me

“I will clean them later, I promise” I responded. I quickly wanted to meet the others, it has been so long since we all met.

“No” my dad frowned his brows “I know you, honey, you will come home at all hours forget it and lie-in. it won’t be tidied until at least tomorrow afternoon and I won’t do it for you”

It is probably true, but as my teenage self, I wasn’t going to say it. So I huff then directly took the bags, to put them on the first thing in my room.

“See it wasn’t so hard, was it?” he said smiling when I returned

“No, I know” I responded gently “I am going. See you later” I kissed his cheek

“Have a good evening” he said to me before closing the door behind us.

Wayne lived in the neighbouring building, in his building we had to go through two staircases before arriving to his door.

I knocked on the door twice and when nobody answered me for 30 seconds I yelled “Someone better-“ but Wayne open the door at this moment. “Remini! My parents are here don’t yell! The door wasn’t even locked”

“Sorry,” I said sheepishly “Thought you didn’t hear me or were taking your damn time on purpose. Everyone’s here?”

“Yes, except Ella, she’s on her way”

“Is Phaenna annoying?” I asked knowingly while entering his house.

“She hadn’t been here for even 10 minutes and is already threatening Leandre and Ergil to give them her gifts. So I would say yes”

Phaenna was really impatient, and with her knowing that we were this day in the city to buy her gifts could only urge her curiosity.

Everyone was in Wayne's bedroom being loud, in fact, Phaenna was the one being loud, Leandre seemed undignified and ready to throw at her snarky and teasing comments while Ergil was smiling big his eyes a little sparkly probably from laughing too hard. When I entered the room Phaenna immediately rushed to me, half hugging me. I saluted her too while precising “I won’t tell you your gifts, with or without hugs”

“Busted” Leandre laughed

Phaenna groans loudly “You know what if kindness won’t work I will use violence”

“I think you forgot how you already threaten us twice” Leandre mocked

“I think it was thrice” Ergil added while feigning to think about it “You threaten Leandre of-“. Ergil was about, I think, to start enumerating her threats when she launched a pillow in his face, Ergil’s frail body who was previously sitting on Wayne’s bed fell gently on the floor “Ho!!” He and Wayne exclaimed at the same time. Ergil for this affront and Wayne for his pillow, but we all know they weren’t serious. In anyways Phaenna was already attacking Leandre who avoid successfully all of her launches, so she changed her tactics and went on Leandre to tickle him, when he realised it he hit her with one of the pillows she had previously launched at him, and he rapidly received Ergil’s help in taking down his opponent.

“Remini come help me!” Phaenna demanded laughing

I was coming to help her from Leandre and Ergil but Wayne hosted me up on his shoulder “You should wisely choose your team, Remini”

“Hey put me down!”

“What do you think Ergil, what do we do with this traitor who’s siding with our enemy”

“Launch him to me,” he said from the bed

Wayne did, and we start our own pillow fight.

We were all drained after that, luckily they already ordered pizzas for us and a salad for Ergil before I arrived so we ate and drink sodas rapidly after and got back our forces.

While waiting for the pizzas we received a message from Ella in the group chat “Sorry guys. I won’t be able to come. I worked really hard today for the wedding and I am in dire need to rest a bit with my mate. Sorry again! See you all at Phaenna’s birthday” with a kissing and a blushing emoji.

I thought lots of things while reading the message but didn’t say them out loud, I even shut down my thought about it. I wasn’t going to waste my wonderful evening because of it.

Everything went perfectly well for the rest of the night.