Roommates

Chapter 31

<<Rancid>>

24 hours before Day 5:

She transformed me, and I changed her.

We worked well together. When we first started dating my sense of style was nerdy as always.

It didn't change much, but it got significantly better. More matching outfits, a few bright color here and there. It had always been a bit hard for me to find clothes that go well with my dark complexion- see what I'm talking about?

I now know words like 'complexion' and 'summer colors'.

It was weird I'll give you that, but it was a pleasant weird. Like having a new room. You feel strange at first but it's nice.

Meanwhile Charlie was not ashamed of having a nerd boyfriend anymore. She has been up to trying new stuff she never would have dreamed of doing. Like trying the 'haunted house ride, or the actual haunted house near the westmount road'.

Charlie and I were in her car, and I was driving.

"SLOW DOWN, SLOW DOWN" Charlie squirmed in her seat.

I gave the speedometer a quick glance. "I'm not even going past 40km/h"

"No look" she pointed at a female that looked eerily suspicious. She was checking around to see if someone had seen her.

"Is that a friend of yours or something?" I asked.

"That's Ivy, Ryder's girlfriend"

"Oh"

"Yes oh"

"But hmmm? What's wrong with Ryder's girlfriend?"

"Well for ones she's walking towards the Devil's Alley"

"Woah woah wait" I stopped her, "how do you know about the Devil's Alley?" It's an alley that forms a cross with the three pens. Penrose street, Penburry street, and Pendrive street which are a connection point between Hilltown, Rivertown, and the highway to other provinces.

The alley has actual alleys in it. It's the worst place in the whole town. All sorts of bad things happen there, from black markets to even worse stuff.

"Because I may have been here before"she said looking all around the car playing innocent.

"Are you going to tell me, that the innocent barbie girl Charlie, has been into the Devil's Alley before?"

"I needed to sneak alcohol to my graduation party and I needed a legit fake ID"

"You know legit and fake are antonyms right?"

"Oh shut up know it all"

"You're wild"

"Just follow Ivy from a distance" that's what we did. We kept following her along Penrose St. we were about to reach the intersection with Penbury and Pendrive.

We parked the car in a hidden spot and followed her on foot.

We didn't go into the Alley but we saw Ivy enter the Wonder Works.

"It's where I got my fake ID. They fake all sort or paperwork and stuff"

"Sh*t babe you know more about this place than I do" I was genuinely surprised.

She flipped her hair in a very feminine twelve year old way "well you know it's the innocent ones who you should be scared of"

We waited till Ivy got out. While waiting, Charlie explained that Ivy told Ryder that she was pregnant and everything is tense between them and Stell. Meanwhile Stell and Ryder were going to be am item until Ivy dropped that bomb and ruined everything. And they all think she's lying and framing Ryder.