Every once in a while, everything comes112Please respect copyright.PENANATNhqL25KXr
together everyone gathers up and for that one night your life is amazing. “Summer112Please respect copyright.PENANA9hvSDzHvwx
End” party has always been a tradition here at Beverly Hills, LA, it’s a party that’s112Please respect copyright.PENANAqVzsLyWdat
thrown on the night before school, every single high schooler who lives here is112Please respect copyright.PENANAzLGDPEqc3I
invited and tonight is the night for the 15th Summer End party.
“Hey Elli, are you going to this year’s summer-end?”112Please respect copyright.PENANAXopjyR1bOl
Neely spoke on the phone.
“Yeah definitely, it’s the biggest party of112Please respect copyright.PENANAVtgdoo7NAX
the year,” I replied while adjusting my summer-end dress that I’d pre-booked a112Please respect copyright.PENANAkugrfWrCsG
month ago,
“Right then, I’ll see you tonight and don’t112Please respect copyright.PENANASmVgZhYHV4
forget to snap me a pic of you in that gorges dress you booked”
“All right, I’ll snap a pic before I leave112Please respect copyright.PENANAEZtAtv6fjO
the house,” I said then hung the call as I walked towards my wardrobe again112Please respect copyright.PENANARwfp2Szg1i
trying to find the perfect matching heels to go with my dress and the theme of112Please respect copyright.PENANAP1jCnUGCSy
this year’s summer-end.
It took three112Please respect copyright.PENANAmmheHQvYsL
rounds in the wardrobe for me to finally decided on the heels and it will take112Please respect copyright.PENANAumU2u4IJA3
another two to three rounds before I find a delicate purse as summer-end isn’t112Please respect copyright.PENANACPRALOfwCd
just a party before school but it also allows you to meet new people who’d just112Please respect copyright.PENANA1HowWARRhP
moved in and become friends with them, so if you want to be the new ‘popular112Please respect copyright.PENANAr1U7YiSzni
girl’ in school I suggest you’d better dress yourself up with the fanciest112Please respect copyright.PENANAJ0FKRRV3bC
outfit you could ever put together. I snapped a photo of my look and sent it to112Please respect copyright.PENANALlFq9wvzRd
Neely then headed for the elevator that runs from the fourth floor to the112Please respect copyright.PENANA724tCwl9G9
underground car park, I grabbed a bottle of champagne from the champagne shelf112Please respect copyright.PENANAK7UdJVFL32
as I left the underground lounge then headed towards the two seated icy blue112Please respect copyright.PENANAQWejN6yYxZ
Porsche 718. This car was originally pink, I took it to the garage just about112Please respect copyright.PENANAAW63cBlYsW
four days ago to change the colour so it would match my dress and everything. I112Please respect copyright.PENANAfTE2SNlWki
pulled open the door, placed my bag and the bottle of champagne on the seat,112Please respect copyright.PENANAO0ksaDCN0x
got into the driver’s seat, and started condition-checking, as usual, to ensure112Please respect copyright.PENANA9zipRrzgXU
the car was safe to drive.
As I drive out of the car park, I called112Please respect copyright.PENANAswnN0DINML
Neely so we could meet up at her house before we head to the party, we had an112Please respect copyright.PENANAEDblW4Vuxl
afterparty planned and I need to place the champagne in her champagne shelf112Please respect copyright.PENANAaqq7gnMiun
before going to the party as the champagne wouldn’t taste good if it leaves the112Please respect copyright.PENANAbyF388uaJ6
fridge for too long. About five minutes later I arrived at Neely’s house, I112Please respect copyright.PENANApr3FZ1N2s9
parked the car and got out with the bottle of champagne and handled it to112Please respect copyright.PENANA8QYfKJi9Zr
Neely’s personal assistant who helped with planning the afterparty today, then112Please respect copyright.PENANAuOKn6Hd2jc
Neely and I drove off towards the hall where summer-end is held.
“Elli, do you know anything about this year’s112Please respect copyright.PENANAex2njp8owb
new transfer students?” Neely asked,
“Not really, I just know that Jackson and112Please respect copyright.PENANANZKpUNtTxJ
Daniel are joining our school this year,” I said,
“Oh, the two guy-best friends of yours.112Please respect copyright.PENANAxPZDQSrCor
Well, that’s fun” she said,
“Yeah, and I think there are exchange112Please respect copyright.PENANAEyNEwlkPtj
students from East Asia as well, my mom got an email about it and the school112Please respect copyright.PENANAoSArpV1Ioi
hopes Charli has recovered so she could re-enrol and continue her studies as112Please respect copyright.PENANA40KnZVtRni
they say she is a very talented young lady”.
Charli is my older sister; we are Irish twins112Please respect copyright.PENANAcdL4pnpEwi
as she was born in November 2004 and I was born in August 2005. She used to be112Please respect copyright.PENANAhnKFuLrxDi
in the year above me until last year she had bad anxiety issues and had to drop112Please respect copyright.PENANAThrQMbDGMS
out of school to recover from anxiety and other issues. Its good news that112Please respect copyright.PENANAURvRNuSL7v
dropping out of school for a year helped her recover as she seems to be like112Please respect copyright.PENANAapMv5bLhaQ
who she used to be, that cheerful and encouraging older sister of mine. I truly112Please respect copyright.PENANApz018KOTv8
feel happy for her to be able to recover from anxiety and re-enrol in school to112Please respect copyright.PENANA6qIeqtzQhn
continue her studies in the areas that she likes and have a bright future,112Please respect copyright.PENANAeQH01OCeVX
that’s all I ever wish for her, to be happy and live a calm life with no downfalls.112Please respect copyright.PENANAU20MT1Hmnl
About twenty minutes later Neely and I had112Please respect copyright.PENANARyo0x6YjWf
arrived at the front of the hall I’d say it’s more like a hotel but instead of112Please respect copyright.PENANA06TB4UA6Id
one ball room for summer-end, the whole of the hotel lobby has been booked112Please respect copyright.PENANAz0VLfzJJbY
three months in advance for summer-end to make sure the decorations and service112Please respect copyright.PENANAcHKQ9Ty6Yy
is top standard. As I parked the car in front of the entrance, I see employees rushing112Please respect copyright.PENANAeQQErlgoIK
towards the car to open the door for us, I passed the keys to the guy who112Please respect copyright.PENANAmpmg8kHMbV
opened the door for me as I entered the hotel lobby with Neely.
“Elli, you look gorgeous today!” said112Please respect copyright.PENANA0H0p20vQz8
Jackson as he walked closer,
“Hehe thanks good looking guy in white, you112Please respect copyright.PENANAxKmB1YLbMx
sure will get a lot of girls attention tonight,” I said, laughing but also112Please respect copyright.PENANAxsjjoF8R4r
giving him a compliment,
“Hey, let’s find a seat in the hall first”112Please respect copyright.PENANA7ABszcccrV
Daniel joined to remind us of going into the hall and finding seats for112Please respect copyright.PENANAUvcQz8GByQ
tonight,
“I agree with Daniel,” Neely said,
“Right then, lets go in” I said as we all112Please respect copyright.PENANAl0YUfDRFrb
walked towards the door and scaring off some other high schoolers, which is112Please respect copyright.PENANAFAbHnLVNLc
reasonable as whenever the four of us walk around together it seems like we are112Please respect copyright.PENANAp0tyzmNjzR
gang members plus the fact that we all go to very expensive international high112Please respect copyright.PENANAXTeq1bKept
schools and drive around the neighborhood whenever we have time to do so.
Surprisingly we weren’t the first ones to get112Please respect copyright.PENANAE4pED5uccJ
there as Anastasia and Victoria were already at a table with bags on the chairs112Please respect copyright.PENANABFsBCBu1L2
around them,
“Looks like we have a booked table112Please respect copyright.PENANAHe4HbjiVJm
already,” I said while walking closer to the table,
“Elli! Come here let me give you a hug”112Please respect copyright.PENANAII58amHENR
Victoria said as she approached to give me a hug,
“Hi Anna, I haven’t seen you in a long112Please respect copyright.PENANA8ukaGTKvYt
time,” I said after hugging Victoria,
“Hi Elli, how was summer?” Anastasia asked,
“Mine was okay, how was yours?” I replied112Please respect copyright.PENANAUO9Teh8uft
while throwing my bag on to one of the empty seats, “so where is everyone?”
“Oh, they went on walks around the lobby”112Please respect copyright.PENANAxQjjPxLua1
said Vicki, that’s short for Victoria,
“I called Ann, he said he’ll be here within112Please respect copyright.PENANAVjYtBmEkv4
ten minutes,” I said,
Ann is another male member of our group, he’s112Please respect copyright.PENANANMdvxQNflD
IBC which stands for Italian-born-Chinese which is quite different to Daniel,112Please respect copyright.PENANAbxhuq1DeMR
Jackson and I as the three of us are ABCs which stands for112Please respect copyright.PENANAYR5kUFlD3o
American-born-Chinese so yeah, I guess its somehow self-explanatory why Ann’s112Please respect copyright.PENANAsnkiRcflV1
full name is Antonio Piazollo as apart from being an IBC he also is a quarter112Please respect copyright.PENANAM2NQId1knm
Italian.
After about twenty minutes or so we finally112Please respect copyright.PENANAZ5qa7rDEMY
gathered everyone up at the same table for a group reunion and gossip sessions112Please respect copyright.PENANAyRrfe7hEU6
as the host started the opening speech of summer-end like what they did112Please respect copyright.PENANArSAYAoLERp
previously every year with a,
“Good evening ladies and gentlemen, thankyou112Please respect copyright.PENANA6OuHyL25bM
for attending this years summer-end I whish you all have a wonderful night and see112Please respect copyright.PENANAUhCUtP8Sik
you next year.”
The lights went off after the opening112Please respect copyright.PENANABenTVCPJ3f
speech, well not exactly off but just a bit dimmer so the LEDs and the disco ball112Please respect copyright.PENANAr1OMXN3ogg
could do it’s job. We felt so insecure for a moment as everyone got up from112Please respect copyright.PENANAgcY9b7IOfW
their seats as soon as the lights went off to dance but we just wanted to sit112Please respect copyright.PENANAAgIsKPOrjo
and chat, well I’m not sure about Ann and the others but as far as I know the112Please respect copyright.PENANANNHbGLf5SJ
girls and I wasn’t really in the mood of dancing until later that night.
“Cheers to summer-end, Cheers to a new school112Please respect copyright.PENANA3o1IvUljA1
year” we say as we raised our glass and drank the champagne.
I could tell that Daniel only came to112Please respect copyright.PENANALP7y7oiWpX
summer-end to party and dance as he left the group to dance as soon as he put112Please respect copyright.PENANAWMKpCcwbUB
down his glass, I was actually shocked that Jackson followed Daniel to the112Please respect copyright.PENANAifNNfqGHtS
dance floor as all these years I’ve known him for I’d never saw him dance.
“I thought Jackson would invite you to112Please respect copyright.PENANAp1TLGVzliA
dance,” said Marianna,
“He’s not the type to invite others to112Please respect copyright.PENANAqi7oSI33zA
dance, plus we’re only close friends” I replied,
“Yeah Anna, they’re just ‘friends’” Neely giggled,
We sat and talked about how summer has been112Please respect copyright.PENANAoj0o1Ju4Zn
while the boys danced, the host came into the room after an hour or two to112Please respect copyright.PENANA0CU4FIz0DA
announce that the buffet next door was ready, so we moved next door to have dinner112Please respect copyright.PENANAoblhbByoXg
then came back and danced till about 11pm.
Neely and I waved goodbye to the others as112Please respect copyright.PENANAkcQUtZJlJV
we drove off to her house after summer-end, we both contacted our assistants to112Please respect copyright.PENANATyghUGq0Wv
make sure that one the guest room at Neely’s house was set up and two, the112Please respect copyright.PENANASM69QDXgCr
things that I need for tomorrow has been delivered to Neely’s house so Neely112Please respect copyright.PENANAJPfz0X2zsO
and I could go to school together in the morning. By the time we got to Neely’s112Please respect copyright.PENANA7pCq4X54hK
house it was already pass midnight so all that we did was skincare routines and112Please respect copyright.PENANAddE3Um1Muy
watching Netflix while we had some champagne, the so called afterparty wasn’t really112Please respect copyright.PENANA6ByuM068qQ
a party as we didn’t do much, but it was relaxing and good for the night before112Please respect copyright.PENANAPkWaOnFEuh
school.