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Next Day

I was at John's house while Mimi was off somewhere else.
Since that's the only time I can actually come over.

"I am bored out of my mind." I laid on his bed

"That makes the two of us." John said as he sat in his chair, looking up at his Brigette Bardot poster.

"Y'know you kinda look like her." John said as he looked at me then at his poster.

I squinted my eyes at him
"And you look like James Dean."

John laughed.
"I look nothing like that lad."

"And I look nothing like Bardot, you twat."

"You say it like it's a bad thing." John chuckled.

"She's beautiful and all, but I look like Cherry Baker."

We heard a loud thud downstairs, following that we heard Mimi calling for John.

I jumped up.
"Why don't you ever know what time she's coming home?" I whisper shouted.

Suddenly I hear the stairs creaking.

I got up quickly and John pushed me into his closet.

Soon after I hear the door swing open.

I grew a bit more anxious, I hate tight spaces.

"Awfully strange, I thought I heard multiple voices up here." I heard Mimi say.

"Oh you hear them too?" John replied.

I covered my mouth so I won't make a peep.

"Don't be silly now, I know someone was up here." I heard footsteps become closer.

"Mimi no one's up here, if anyone was, you'd be the first to know." John sounded awfully calm.

I heard the doorknob twist, it swung open and there revealed Mimi.

"Hello Mimi! Just checking out the closet, you have a nice place here." I stepped out and playfully looked around my surroundings.

Mimi turned around and glared at John.

"What is she doing here? I told you she can never be at our house ever again!" She yelled.

"C'mon don't be like that Mimi we've been friends for years! Don't let one mistake make you banish her forever." John pleaded.

Mimi turned to me angrily.
"I don't know who this girl is now. But I remember the sweet Cherry I first met, when you were kind to people, a sweet girl. This 'Cherry' now is never allowed back here. Not in my home." Mimi spat and went down the stairs.

I didn't realize tears we're streaming down my face until John walked up an wiped them.

"Don't let her get to you. Sometimes she can be a witch." John tried to cheer me up.

But, Mimi is right. I used to be a sweet girl, very sweet.
I was 10 & I remembered when me and Mimi use to crochet together all the time.
John would get upset, because he would invite me to play with him, and there I was crocheting with his aunt.

We were very close, I called her my mum at some point. But then she'll say her iconic line "Don't be silly."
But I knew she considered me as family.
She knitted me a sweater for my 12th birthday, since my birthday was during the cold season.
My mum never had enough money for me to buy decent winter clothes, so Mimi would help me out.

But this past year I changed, and Mimi gave me a chance but then I got out of hand and had a big party at her place with John. Most of her things were destroyed by accident. It was my idea, and ever since then she never bothered with me and banned me from her house.

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