Scenes of The Past

Look who's back again today :D  I'm tired and bored and it's raining outside so I decided to write something. Well, I haven't written anything these few days sooo today I decided to write something even if it's short. And I decided to write a one-shot original story.

By the way, I'm sorry for all the wrong spellings and grammar because I'm still learning to write properly in English and fyi, I'm learning all of it by myself since I moved out from Jakarta. So yeah *shrug* Please leave some comments and..... just share your thoughts about this, okay? Constructive comments are always welcomed and appreciated :D

Here we go!:

The wind blew pretty heavily as it started to rain outside. The girl who's sitting in front of her laptop turned her head to look out at the street and sighed heavily. She stood up and walked towards the window, breathing heavily as her head and eyes started to feel heavy. She hasn't had enough sleep these last few days. She had a lot of assignments to do and final exams are chasing her. She turned her heels and walked towards her bed so she could lay on it and enjoy the cool air that came out from the air conditioner. The soft and slow music that blasted through the speaker of her laptop made her to feel calm.

"Run!!!" she shouted and ran with her 2 friends as her other friends started to run towards her, trying to catch her. They were laughing and enjoying the summer sun that shined brightly.

"Okay, Chlo, stop it now. I'm tired," the girl with blond hair said as she stopped running and sitting on the pavement. Chloe stopped running as well and gave her friend an odd look.

"You're tired? Oh, come on, Kris! It's nothing like running marathon. Right, Lou?" Chloe said and turned to look at Louise at the end. Louise, the guy with jet black hair, nodded and sat on the pavement, next to Kris.

"By the way, do you have any foods? I'm starving," Louise said with an innocent smile to Chloe. 

"You're always starving," The other guy with short, messy, brown hair said to Louise and smacked the back of Louise's head, "My Mom made some cupcakes. Come with me if you want," Bobby said and crossed the street, walking to his house.

Chloe opened her eyes and stared aimlessly at the ceiling. The color of brown seemed so dull after all this time. The last time she checked, she remembered that everything seemed so perfect. The color of the ceiling never seemed so dull. The painting of her and friends never seemed so fade. But today, it's different. Every time she looked around, she felt like everything has changed. 

"What could change in a matter of a few months?" she asked to herself and shut her eyes again, drowning herself in her own thoughts.

Chloe waved at her family and smiled at them as she walked towards them with a proud smile on her face, "Can you believe it? I just graduated!" She said happily as she reached her family. She hugged each of her parents and her big brother.

"I'm thinking to go out with you today, but-"

"I can't." She cut her brother's words and gave him an apologetic smile, "I have plans with Kris, Louise, and Bobby tonight." 

"I tell you once again to not go to a party and go home before the curfew. Well, you know the rules, right? Tell Louise to drive very carefully. I don't want bad things happen to you and the others," her father rambled and Chloe smiled warmly at him.

"I got it, Dad. Don't worry," she put her hands on her father's shoulder and pulled him in a quick hug, "I'm going to catch up with them. I'll see you later, 'kay?" 

"Okay, hun. Be home before dinner so we can talk," her mother shouted at her as Chloe walked towards the group of her friends that chatted happily near the gym.

She put on her jacket and walked out of her room and to the balcony of her small apartment. Living alone was hard for her. She used to live with her family and had her friends around her. The wind that blew through her as she sat on the wooden chair made her to shiver. She looked at the gray sky as she took a deep breath. Then she darted away her gaze to look at the crowded street of L.A. She wondered why people like to go out on such rainy days. She shut her eyes and took another deep breath before letting her mind to play another scene of her past.

"I can't believe we actually did this. 4 years seemed too short for me," Louise said as he looked straight at the sky that full of stars. The 4 best friends decided to spend their night at the park, just talking and laughing about anything they've been through all this time. 

"Yeah. And now, in a few weeks, we all will go to separate ways. I hate to do this but I have no choice," Bobby spoke up with a loud sigh.

"We all hate to do it, but we all have to," Chloe corrected, "You're going to NYU, Louise's going to Harvard, missy Kristina here is going to Oxford, and I'm going to UCLA. Well, we're so dysfunctional," she added with a slight laugh.

"I don't want you guys forget about me. Please promise me that we will never forget about each other and this friendship will never end just because lack of communications," Kris butted in as she sat up from the blanketed grass with tears welling up in her blue eyes.

"We promise," her other 3 friends said in unison, sitting up, and pulled her in a comforting hug, "We will never forget about each other. Our beautiful friendship will never end. We will be always together, no matter what happen. I can guarantee that," Chloe said in a small voice as a tear fell down to her cheeks. 

She could feel her eyes starting to watered as she let her mind playing some scenes from her past. She blinked her eyes a few times to hold back the tears that were about to fall down. She smiled bravely to herself and took a few deep breaths to calm herself. When she was about to stand up, the bell rang. She frowned at herself and made her way to the front door. Taking a few deep breaths again, she finally opened the door. 

"Happy birthday!" 3 people stood outside the door with a bright smile on their face. The first guy with black hair had a silly grin on his face and a bag on his hands. The other guy with brown hair had a very wide smile and a small cake with a few candles on its top on his hand. The only girl with blond hair stood there with thick photo album on her hand, weighing her messenger bag. Chloe smiled so widely at the scene of this. She blinked her eyes a few times to make sure that this was real. And she was right. This was real.

"Oh my gosh. What the hell are you guys doing here?!" She asked in disbelief tone and pulled her 3 best friends that she hasn’t seen in 4 months in a group hug.

"We're here to give you a surprise. We all planned to not text, call, e-mail you on your birthday. Well, even all of us didn't say happy birthday to you on your birthday. So... here we are." Bobby explained. He was right. None of them said happy birthday to Chloe on her birthday two days ago. Chloe could have sworn that it was her worst birthday.

"We're sorry for that. We didn't say birthday to you by phone because we all wanted to say it in person." Kris added.

"So... happy late birthday, Chloe," Louise said and smiled to her, "Okay, now make a wish and blow the candles." He instructed to Chloe who was still frozen on the doorway. 

With a smile, Chloe closed her eyes and started to make a wish. When she finished, she opened her eyes and blew the candles. Her friends clapped their hands happily and congratulated her a 'happy late birthday' once again. 

"Come on in. We have to catch up!" Chloe said happily and moved aside so her friends could come in. As she shut the door, she led her friends to the small lounge and started to talk and laugh about some things. They ate the cake together, talked about their live ever since they went to college, laughed at some stupid lame jokes, etc. Chloe couldn't wipe the smile off of her face. The only thing she wanted at the moment was being with her best friends after a pretty long time of not seeing each other and lack of communications because all of them were busy with assignments and such. But in that moment, Chloe didn't have to worry anymore because they're all with her. All she could is just enjoy every single moment with them and forget about the others. Nothing even matters to her whenever she's with her friends.