(IMESSAGE)

"YEAH"
(ALLIE😼, HUNTIE😾, ELLIE😽, YASSIE😹)

ALLIE😼
movie night at mine?

ELLIE😽
im down😋😋

HUNTIE😾
same🙄

ALLIE😼
ok who's getting the food

ELLIE😽
not me😐

ALLIE😼
hunter?

HUNTIE😾
i got it :)

YASSIE😹
guys what are we watching

HUNTIE😾
we all know what elaine wants
to watch 🙄🙄🙄

ALLIE😼
hahahaha wouldnt that be funny
literally we saw him today
she's obsessed 😩😩

ELLIE😽

HUNTIE😾
fuck we summoned liam

ELLIE😽
think twice before u speak
bitches 😚

ALLIE😼
WOW ELAINE
LANGUAGE

HUNTIE😾
IVE NEVER SEEN THIS SIDE
OF HER BEFORE

YASSIE😹
UNLESS ITS IN A FIGHT FOR
THE LAST SLICE OF PIZZA
AHAHAAHAHA

ELLIE😽

YASSIE😹

HUNTIE😾
nonono no NO

ALLIE😼
what hunter said

ELLIE😽
so enola holmes??? 😊😊

YASSIE😹
do we have to
it wasn't even that good

HUNTIE😾
elaine might cry if we don't

YASSIE😹
i don't want elaine to cry but
i also don't want to watch that

ELLIE😽
please yas🥺🥺🥺
please🥺🥺🥺
pretty please🥺🥺🥺
i'll be ur best friend

YASSIE😹
fine
but only bc ur my best friend
😒😒
ihy

ALLIE😼
first of all, rude
second of all
get yo asses over here

YASSIE😹
u know i love u allie
also i'm just leaving now

HUNTIE😾
ok what abt me
also me too omw

YASSIE😹
eh fine i guess ilyt

ELLIE😽
i'm leaving in 5 :D

YASSIE😹
oh the art of peer pressure 😍

I place my phone in the back pocket of my jeans and begin to make my way downstairs. It's about seven-fifteen at night and the sun is starting to set. As I leave my house, the warm air wraps itself around me and I know this is going to be a fun walk. Allie's house is only a ten minute walk from my house, so I walk sort of slowly, savoring the time I have outside.

I soon arrive at Allie's house and I take my airpods out before turn the handle and open the door. I stopped knocking a few years ago. Allie's parents are so used to us coming over that when we don't come at least once every week they ask Allie if we're fighting or if one of us died. I wave to her mom and dad who are sitting on the couch in the front.

"Yasmine, you left your shirt up in Allie's room the last time you were over." Brenda, Allie's mom, hands me an oversized t-shirt. I look at it, confused, but then it clicks.

"Thank you so much Brenda! I've been looking for this everywhere." I hug her quickly, "Hey Mike, how's basketball going?" I ask, throwing the t-shirt over my shoulder.

"The Raptors lost to the Celtics. I really thought Toronto had it this year!" He yells at the TV. "How are you Yasmine? How's the film going?"

"It's going okay. I'm just trying to find inspiration. Anyways, it was nice seeing you guys. I'm gonna head down to the basement." I say as I walk away from Brenda and Mike. I love them, they're like second parents to me.

I walk down the stairs and see Elaine lying on the floor on her phone, Hunter doing a headstand on the couch and Allie messing around with her Mii on the Wii.

"Allie what the fuck. Who did you have over?" I throw the shirt at her and she screams. Hunter falls out of his headstand and off the couch, his back slamming into the floor and Elaine runs and hugs me. Did I mention that I love Elaine?

"Ow, you fucking scared me!" Hunter says, struggling to push himself up.

"Me too!" Allie yells, "and I have no idea what you're talking about!" She picks the shirt up and looks at it. "Oh. Never mind. Haha." She looks away and smiles.

"ALLISON LOLA MILTON!" Elaine yells, "IF YOU DON'T TELL US WHO'S SHIRT THAT IS I MIGHT AS WELL LEAVE!"

"Elaine just raised her voice! You have to tell us now." Hunter says, "please before she breaks out the Liam Payne memes."

"Okay! Okay, so. The guy who's shirt that belongs to is..." She gives a little drumroll on her lap, "Zachary!" She shouts, her hands in the air.

"You mean I had to lie to sweet little Brenda and Mike because you hooked up with Zachary Stein and he was stupid enough to leave his shirt and you were stupid enough to not hide it." I exclaim.

"Maybe." She says shyly.

"You go girl!" I say, "Zachary is cute!"

Allie lets out a loud exhale, "I thought you were gonna roast the shit out of me for a second."

"I was going to, but now I'm not." Hunter says, "Zachary is one of my friends! Ew." He shakes his head.

"Guys, this is all great and all but MOVIE TIME?" Elaine shouts.

"Oh yeah! You mean Louis time." Allie winks.

"That works too!" Elaine smiles.

Allie turns the source input to Apple TV and opens Netflix. She searches Enola Holmes and plays the movie from the start.

"Lights!" I call to Hunter, the closest to the light switches. He shuts them off and sits back down. We do this often. These little movie nights are a Friday tradition, unless someone is busy. Last week it was Call Me By Your Name and the week before it was It, the 2017 version. I quite like these nights. They're calming, peaceful and chaotic all at the same time.

After the movie finishes and all of us are getting a bit sleepy, Hunter turns the lights on and a wave of groans fills the room.

"Everyone out unless you want to sleep over." Allie says while rubbing her eyes.

"Louis is so cute." Elaine says, standing up. "My mom is here, if she wasn't I would sleep over."

"I have to go home too, I have soccer tomorrow morning." Hunter says, stretching his arms and back.

"I'm gonna go home as well. My sister texted me and said my parents are fighting again so I'm gonna stay with her tonight." I say to Allie.

"Alright, I hope everything is okay. Now everyone OUT!" She points to the stairs and Hunter, Elaine and I all walk up to the front door.

"Bye guys." I say, hugging everyone. I make my exit and feel that the air has cooled down a bit.

As I walk home I keep thinking about Louis in the movie. His acting is actually pretty good for a person his age. I want to think about something else but I can't. He keeps coming up in my mind. Weird, I don't enjoy this.