*Destiny's room*

☆ DESTINY ☆

"Come on, girl, you've got to go shopping for tonight," Valentina urged. "It's going to be the nightclub party of the century. Everyone's going to be there. You can't miss it."

July 15th, 2018.

Destiny was locked up in her bedroom with her four best friends from school: Valentina, Esmeralda, Calista and Janette.

Whilst she was studying for a test that was going to come up in November, her friends in the meantime were all lying down on her bed discussing their plans for this evening: going to that nightclub.

They weren't really allowed in Destiny's house without permission, especially Valentina as she was the worst influence on Destiny, but they had come unexpectedly to surprise Destiny.

This was because she hadn't really communicated with any of them throughout the summer holiday, which had obviously concerned them.

Apparently, there was a nightclub party going on tonight, for people aged 18+, and honestly, if someone had missed that, then they had missed out, man.

It was the talk of the town.

Literally everyone was going to be there.

Except Destiny.

"Girl, you know what my mum's like," Destiny reminded her. "If I leave this house, especially to go to some nightclub, she will literally kill me."

Destiny's mother Denise wasn't the nicest. In fact, she was extremely over protective, and it had been that way ever since she had divorced her husband.. or now ex husband.

Denise had trusted her husband a lot, but he had let her down a lot. So obviously, when he had divorced her, Denise was absolutely shattered.

That was when she started telling Destiny to trust no one, hence her overprotectiveness. Destiny didn't mind it to be honest, it wasn't like she had left the house anyway, because she didn't.

"Your mum's a killjoy, babe, no offence," Esmeralda told her, literally opening Destiny's wardrobe without her permission to see the types of clothes that she had inside there. "She never lets you have any fun anymore."

Her wardrobe was quite large to be honest. It was wooden embroidered with black laces on it, from top to the bottom.

Goodness knew what Denise was thinking trying to buy that wardrobe because it looked crazy expensive. Inside the wardrobe was immense as well, on the left side of it, there were two compartments, one large one and one smaller one underneath.

On the right hand side of the wardrobe was the same as the left, but the compartments were larger, way larger. Destiny had a lot of clothes in there...

...but pfft. No one said that they were nice clothes, because they weren't.

In Esmeralda's opinion anyway.

Destiny couldn't study properly when her friends were around, and she never usually did. It wasn't that they were distracting (although they kind of were), it was just that she had preferred studying by herself instead of in a group setting.

She had put her hands on her face in frustration, because she had been staring at the same Maths page for about twenty minutes now, but nothing was sinking in.

It never did.

She had been studying perfectly well before her friends had arrived, so in a way, Destiny blamed them. But they were already here now, and it would have been rude sending them away, so Destiny couldn't really do anything about it.

Plus she had kind of liked their company.

"I don't blame her, she's been more distrustful of people since my parents divorced last year." They had been married for 10 years, so inevitably the divorce did not end well.

Destiny closed her textbook eventually, turning to face Esmeralda who was rummaging through her wardrobe. Janette came eventually, doing the same thing as Esmeralda, and none of them looked pleased, at all.

"What are both of you guys doing?"

"What are you wearing, sis?" Janette asked. "These turtlenecks are so last season!"

She had brought out a yellow turtleneck with silver stars all over it from Destiny's wardrobe, putting it near her to see what it had looked like.

She pretended to gag, before bringing out something else, that was probably even worse than what she had brought out before.

"A kilt?" Esmeralda demanded, screaming at the top of her lungs. "Y'all see this?" She showed the red kilt with black stripes all over it to Calista & Valentina on the bed, then to everyone else.

"Girl, what do you think you're doing wearing a kilt?"

"I had to go to Scotland for work experience last year!" Destiny explained, laughing a little. "What? You think I asked for it? They just gave it to me."

Shaking her head in disgust, Janette and Esmeralda returned the kilt and turtleneck back to the wardrobe... before realising that it wasn't worthy of going back inside, so therefore they had thrown it outside.

And they kept doing that. Anything that Janette and Esmeralda didn't like that was in Destiny's wardrobe, well, they would have chucked it outside.

First was a blue T-Shirt with turtles on it...

"Eww."

...then a white skirt with hearts on it...

"Decent... but not decent enough."

...then a black dress with spiderwebs on it. Not actual spiderwebs though, it was just strangely part of the design.

"Are you going to a funeral? Gross."

Then a very very beautiful light pink puffy dress which Destiny had worn to prom once but never again.

"No, I like that dress!"

"Yeah, but the dress don't like you," Esmeralda corrected her, chucking it away, before seeing something which caught her eye. "Ooh, this looks nice!"

It took them a while to look for something that Destiny had in her wardrobe that her friends had actually liked, but they had gotten there eventually.

What Esmeralda had brought out was a sleeveless navy coloured summer dress that was just above the knees, with very pretty pink flowers embroidered all over it.

Basically, the dress had looked like this:

But a slightly larger size.

"Yeah, it looks nice... for a twelve year old," Calista remarked, Valentina high fiving her.

No... they weren't bullying Destiny. They all meant this in a nice way, of course. All five of them were like best friends.

They had all gone to the same school, but Destiny was repeating sixth form again because she wasn't very happy with her grades.

Her grades were nearly flawless, to be honest, she had always gotten at least 70-85% in tests.

Although that wasn't enough for Destiny, apparently. She had wanted 90% or higher in tests, a hundred percent even.

She had never gotten full marks in a test, her highest (this year anyway) was 98%, which had obviously ticked her off, so she knew that she had to work extra hard this year so that she could have finally gotten full marks in her schoolwork like she had deserved.

"My sister gave me that dress."

"Ain't yo' sister younger than you though?" Janette reminded her, staring at her blankly.

Destiny's sister was younger than her, yes, but they were the same size. Size twelve.

She had two sisters, and one brother. Her brother of twenty one years was older than her and he was called Israel. Priscilla was Destiny's other sister, who was 16 and Treyvonetta was her youngest sister, who was 12.

Denise had a strange tendency to dislike odd numbers, which was why she didn't want one or three children. Four children was the perfect amount, two was too quiet and no children was just... quiet.

When hearing this, all of Destiny's friends laughed (not at her, with her), before putting the dress back because it was actually too nice to be thrown away.

"See, this is why we need to go shopping, babe!" Valentina remarked. "You don't have the best fashion sense, no offence. You've got to go to that party, chica! And we're making you go, whether you like it or not."

It wasn't even a party. It was just a nightclub.

Was that even considered a party?

Destiny didn't think so.

Destiny rolled her eyes heavenwards.

This was the thing she didn't like the most about her best friends. They had always forced her to do something she didn't want to do.

Within reasonable boundaries, of course. Not as in forcing her to smoke or do drugs or drink, of course not.

Just to do things that Destiny would have never ever thought of doing. Like going to that nightclub, for example.

"Give me one good reason on why I should go."

Because she had been locked up in her room for like ten hours, and had only managed to read like one sentence from her textbook.

The girl deserved a break.

Plus, she had been studying since the beginning of the summer holidays. Usually people would have taken about a week off at the start of the holiday to do what they liked and then study, but no!

Not Destiny.

Destiny was an avid studier though. She loved reading. Her friends could have learnt something from her on how to be studious...

...And Destiny could have learnt something from her friends on how to have fun.

"We heard Kiandre Riverson was going to be there," Janette informed her, grinning to herself smugly.

"Kiandre?"

No, Andrekian.

Yes, Kiandre.

Flipping heck, Destiny.

Use some common sense for once. Jeez.

"That got her attention quickly," Esmeralda smirked, all of them staring at Destiny who was over the moon about this news.

Kiandre Riverson was a light skinned eighteen year old boy that had gone to Destiny's church and drama club after school.

No, this wasn't some cliché rom-com where the good girl had fallen for the bad boy, because Kiandre was far off from being classified as one.

He was very introverted, and wasn't that popular. He did have friends, yes, but not that much, but hey. Having a few good and genuine friends was always a lot better than having a thousand fake friends, right?

Kiandre was also a Christian, and he loved reading his bible. Same with Destiny, and that was why he had fallen for him so much.

If he was going to the nightclub tonight, then she was definitely going. So Kiandre didn't exactly know that Destiny had liked him yet, and maybe today would have finally been her chance to tell him she liked him before it was too late.