"Fox!" Lauren yelled as her friend came rushing down the stairs.
"Yes, Lauren?" Fox was wearing light blue cutoff jean shorts, an orange tank top, and grey sneakers. This made her look 17, but she was really 20.
"You have a guest on the front porch. Some guy and he says he went to school with you." Lauren, despite the summer heat, was wearing a black and silver spaghetti strap tank top and dark blue boot cut jeans tucked into combat boots. She was 21, but because of her looks and her wardrobe, she often looked like a teen fresh out of high school. Scowling at Fox, she said, "He wouldnt happen to be the same guy youve been crushing on for years, would he?"
Maybe." Fox's face, already slightly red from the summer heat, turned redder as she headed for the porch. "And you know its too hot for those clothes. Go change!" She called back.
"Like hell," Lauren mumbled to herself as she headed downstairs. The basement, except for the room that the stairs descended into, was Laurens. Plucking her cordless wall phone from its charger as she went into her office, she dialed a number and waited patiently while it rang. When a male voice said, "What?" she replied, with honeyed venom dripping from her voice, "Time to party, demon. Catch me at 8:00 and hung up." Now how to get Fox out of the house for a few hours, she thought to herself.
"Lauren!" Fox's voice came floating into the office a moment before her head popped in. "Adon asked me to dinner and the movies. I'll be back around midnight or 1:00. You going to be ok here alone?"
"Yeah, I'll be ok. Now, scoot. Go play video games or something." Lauren said as she heard the Pink Panther theme go off. It was her cell phone, a sleek, black Razr, and she knew who texted her."Foxy, just go. You know how busy I am."
"Geez, thats practically all you do. Work work work. Work and me. Take a night off and go party or clubbing or something." Taylor went back upstairs, and Lauren heard the soud of the fridge door opening and shutting and the sound of ice on glass. She pulled her phone from her messenger bag pocket and opened it up to the message