But life is for living, we all know
And I don't want to live it alone
--Coldplay
(Listening to it, and I wanted to share a random lyric.)
~Sugarplum
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“Sounds good to me,” Max voices. He sounds like he likes the idea of it all. The more people that like the idea improve my mindset just a little. The more we all hang out, the less confusion there will be among us. Not to mention that misconstruing events and intentions will happen less frequently. We most definitely don’t need any more confrontations, like what happened between Alex and Max again.
Just thinking about that, my eyes concentrate on his face, where the prominent injury was. It definitely didn’t look as bad as it did the day before. That much is for sure. I wanted to go over and take a closer look at it, graze the backs of my fingers across the skin and ask him if it still hurt. But not only would that be inappropriate, this wasn’t the right time. And that was something that Tess had the privilege of doing and asking.
“Everyone will be there?” he asks, pulling me out of my thoughts. I don’t know if I had missed any conversation that had occurred, but if I did, I didn’t want to draw attention to that.
I smiled brightly and answered his question with a simple, “That’s the idea.” Even Isabel seemed to rethink her plans in order to make our impromptu beach plans, and possibly even invite her Jake friend.
“Not me,” Maria casually interjected. “I have plans with Isabel. We’re going shopping.”
I pressed my lips together at that. Did I want to be the one to tell her that Isabel was rethinking their prior engagement? That Isabel was planning to come to the beach with us, possibly with Jake? I looked over to Michael to see what he was planning on doing. He just had this smirk on his face. And I knew that if I let him break the news to her, he would be neither gentle nor tactful.
“Umm, about that,” I say a little uneasy. Maria looks pointedly at me, and I can just feel the nervousness spread throughout me. “When Michael and I left Isabel at lunch just a few minutes ago, she was calling Jake to see if he could accompany her to the beach. I am not sure as to whether she planned on canceling her shopping excursion with you, or possibly ending it at a time earlier than you had previously spoken of.
“But I do believe that it was her intention to attend our beach soirée, preferably with Jake.” After speaking, I bit my bottom lip and decided to stare down at the ground. I didn’t want to know what any of them thought of what I said, but I knew it was going to happen.
“What is with you?” Michael asked, confusion lacing his words. “Quite nice? Shopping excursion? Beach soirée?”
I tucked some stray hair behind my ear and Michael just continued speaking.
“You have to stop talking like this and use more colloquialisms.”
I continued to look at the floor but smiled at what he said. Slowly I could feel my nervousness abate, and I assumed that Max, Tess, and Maria looked at Michael with some surprised expression, for he replied, “What? I do know some “big” words.”
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