Every once in a while, everything comes270Please respect copyright.PENANA20eFXrtIJV
together everyone gathers up and for that one night your life is amazing. “Summer270Please respect copyright.PENANAp1b3ToMWlG
End” party has always been a tradition here at Beverly Hills, LA, it’s a party that’s270Please respect copyright.PENANAazPPG7unxg
thrown on the night before school, every single high schooler who lives here is270Please respect copyright.PENANAn1gLiRVzYc
invited and tonight is the night for the 15th Summer End party.
“Hey Elli, are you going to this year’s summer-end?”270Please respect copyright.PENANADdVSdMQpoM
Neely spoke on the phone.
“Yeah definitely, it’s the biggest party of270Please respect copyright.PENANA2ETNm6w56S
the year,” I replied while adjusting my summer-end dress that I’d pre-booked a270Please respect copyright.PENANAbgNzD9wAyS
month ago,
“Right then, I’ll see you tonight and don’t270Please respect copyright.PENANAshMUisYakE
forget to snap me a pic of you in that gorges dress you booked”
“All right, I’ll snap a pic before I leave270Please respect copyright.PENANA8LMLiuahwy
the house,” I said then hung the call as I walked towards my wardrobe again270Please respect copyright.PENANAKxFNKJ4CzJ
trying to find the perfect matching heels to go with my dress and the theme of270Please respect copyright.PENANAWMwEenXuGl
this year’s summer-end.
It took three270Please respect copyright.PENANAgpnagd5jrO
rounds in the wardrobe for me to finally decided on the heels and it will take270Please respect copyright.PENANAatDf5h6yLr
another two to three rounds before I find a delicate purse as summer-end isn’t270Please respect copyright.PENANAyQ4KBuEUJK
just a party before school but it also allows you to meet new people who’d just270Please respect copyright.PENANAJt6mX8fYKr
moved in and become friends with them, so if you want to be the new ‘popular270Please respect copyright.PENANAnWH2PwA50h
girl’ in school I suggest you’d better dress yourself up with the fanciest270Please respect copyright.PENANAbAtz40TRIx
outfit you could ever put together. I snapped a photo of my look and sent it to270Please respect copyright.PENANAGopxP6SZc8
Neely then headed for the elevator that runs from the fourth floor to the270Please respect copyright.PENANAVaWWIWPZKy
underground car park, I grabbed a bottle of champagne from the champagne shelf270Please respect copyright.PENANAZaZ2ngyaDc
as I left the underground lounge then headed towards the two seated icy blue270Please respect copyright.PENANAnlG6d9i5Pk
Porsche 718. This car was originally pink, I took it to the garage just about270Please respect copyright.PENANApr523u6G63
four days ago to change the colour so it would match my dress and everything. I270Please respect copyright.PENANAP7WV5m0UpY
pulled open the door, placed my bag and the bottle of champagne on the seat,270Please respect copyright.PENANAoerrS4aEX6
got into the driver’s seat, and started condition-checking, as usual, to ensure270Please respect copyright.PENANAoQWbbmdb48
the car was safe to drive.
As I drive out of the car park, I called270Please respect copyright.PENANAi9YzlU8Elt
Neely so we could meet up at her house before we head to the party, we had an270Please respect copyright.PENANA3Jb21eVhvu
afterparty planned and I need to place the champagne in her champagne shelf270Please respect copyright.PENANAJBjnRtkoNr
before going to the party as the champagne wouldn’t taste good if it leaves the270Please respect copyright.PENANArSrFzBTTla
fridge for too long. About five minutes later I arrived at Neely’s house, I270Please respect copyright.PENANAxNds05Upty
parked the car and got out with the bottle of champagne and handled it to270Please respect copyright.PENANAJUvtV3O5i6
Neely’s personal assistant who helped with planning the afterparty today, then270Please respect copyright.PENANAkMuEceUhZx
Neely and I drove off towards the hall where summer-end is held.
“Elli, do you know anything about this year’s270Please respect copyright.PENANAk2gQ7uCa6j
new transfer students?” Neely asked,
“Not really, I just know that Jackson and270Please respect copyright.PENANAMzDYcGxq0C
Daniel are joining our school this year,” I said,
“Oh, the two guy-best friends of yours.270Please respect copyright.PENANA8yZYBjBB7y
Well, that’s fun” she said,
“Yeah, and I think there are exchange270Please respect copyright.PENANAlDJBLUWGBs
students from East Asia as well, my mom got an email about it and the school270Please respect copyright.PENANAxxSpbWpWbv
hopes Charli has recovered so she could re-enrol and continue her studies as270Please respect copyright.PENANAF66Rfsfj9t
they say she is a very talented young lady”.
Charli is my older sister; we are Irish twins270Please respect copyright.PENANAgFR5XGKA9l
as she was born in November 2004 and I was born in August 2005. She used to be270Please respect copyright.PENANAFD3Au25lnQ
in the year above me until last year she had bad anxiety issues and had to drop270Please respect copyright.PENANAFBybi1KrpD
out of school to recover from anxiety and other issues. Its good news that270Please respect copyright.PENANAkWgRZhU8bv
dropping out of school for a year helped her recover as she seems to be like270Please respect copyright.PENANAvMfh7Emt17
who she used to be, that cheerful and encouraging older sister of mine. I truly270Please respect copyright.PENANAOENfmz33Wm
feel happy for her to be able to recover from anxiety and re-enrol in school to270Please respect copyright.PENANAfwyI0XKknp
continue her studies in the areas that she likes and have a bright future,270Please respect copyright.PENANAw2KLm9frCv
that’s all I ever wish for her, to be happy and live a calm life with no downfalls.270Please respect copyright.PENANAvG6MJ5yq0p
About twenty minutes later Neely and I had270Please respect copyright.PENANAdkxGSmWuq7
arrived at the front of the hall I’d say it’s more like a hotel but instead of270Please respect copyright.PENANAtmqnsR1HqS
one ball room for summer-end, the whole of the hotel lobby has been booked270Please respect copyright.PENANApAI8i6dXn4
three months in advance for summer-end to make sure the decorations and service270Please respect copyright.PENANAvKZtNgy71J
is top standard. As I parked the car in front of the entrance, I see employees rushing270Please respect copyright.PENANAXHumbHYait
towards the car to open the door for us, I passed the keys to the guy who270Please respect copyright.PENANAt8wxvjwkrU
opened the door for me as I entered the hotel lobby with Neely.
“Elli, you look gorgeous today!” said270Please respect copyright.PENANAtv6s4t6AfJ
Jackson as he walked closer,
“Hehe thanks good looking guy in white, you270Please respect copyright.PENANAiDnScvbTgV
sure will get a lot of girls attention tonight,” I said, laughing but also270Please respect copyright.PENANA7BwUEBwS9X
giving him a compliment,
“Hey, let’s find a seat in the hall first”270Please respect copyright.PENANAbM2VfEEfPu
Daniel joined to remind us of going into the hall and finding seats for270Please respect copyright.PENANAsaetglMD1E
tonight,
“I agree with Daniel,” Neely said,
“Right then, lets go in” I said as we all270Please respect copyright.PENANAzuLzDE18Zq
walked towards the door and scaring off some other high schoolers, which is270Please respect copyright.PENANAAI5aTukwGP
reasonable as whenever the four of us walk around together it seems like we are270Please respect copyright.PENANAyj8nc8d2wU
gang members plus the fact that we all go to very expensive international high270Please respect copyright.PENANArrXlyfuIgX
schools and drive around the neighborhood whenever we have time to do so.
Surprisingly we weren’t the first ones to get270Please respect copyright.PENANAuGwXTpwynw
there as Anastasia and Victoria were already at a table with bags on the chairs270Please respect copyright.PENANAhr1BWXZtkv
around them,
“Looks like we have a booked table270Please respect copyright.PENANAR5STaQW9Bg
already,” I said while walking closer to the table,
“Elli! Come here let me give you a hug”270Please respect copyright.PENANAPSMYZ5SwPv
Victoria said as she approached to give me a hug,
“Hi Anna, I haven’t seen you in a long270Please respect copyright.PENANAmHm2gYzDLL
time,” I said after hugging Victoria,
“Hi Elli, how was summer?” Anastasia asked,
“Mine was okay, how was yours?” I replied270Please respect copyright.PENANAiwYUMzpW30
while throwing my bag on to one of the empty seats, “so where is everyone?”
“Oh, they went on walks around the lobby”270Please respect copyright.PENANAkP2M5EkTeu
said Vicki, that’s short for Victoria,
“I called Ann, he said he’ll be here within270Please respect copyright.PENANAEonQQdLcUX
ten minutes,” I said,
Ann is another male member of our group, he’s270Please respect copyright.PENANAImDIOwQ31L
IBC which stands for Italian-born-Chinese which is quite different to Daniel,270Please respect copyright.PENANASDMCbuzkgM
Jackson and I as the three of us are ABCs which stands for270Please respect copyright.PENANASccU0aP87D
American-born-Chinese so yeah, I guess its somehow self-explanatory why Ann’s270Please respect copyright.PENANAvQzFQBI98c
full name is Antonio Piazollo as apart from being an IBC he also is a quarter270Please respect copyright.PENANAKf0IvMealr
Italian.
After about twenty minutes or so we finally270Please respect copyright.PENANArjy9mAuWIF
gathered everyone up at the same table for a group reunion and gossip sessions270Please respect copyright.PENANAxqgIdWwMVr
as the host started the opening speech of summer-end like what they did270Please respect copyright.PENANAcCAGSKlsMo
previously every year with a,
“Good evening ladies and gentlemen, thankyou270Please respect copyright.PENANAARwOVam0A0
for attending this years summer-end I whish you all have a wonderful night and see270Please respect copyright.PENANAuRb3WpI5sa
you next year.”
The lights went off after the opening270Please respect copyright.PENANA0CH60cZWDB
speech, well not exactly off but just a bit dimmer so the LEDs and the disco ball270Please respect copyright.PENANAyqbZgamZNr
could do it’s job. We felt so insecure for a moment as everyone got up from270Please respect copyright.PENANAWrc5KoPmEe
their seats as soon as the lights went off to dance but we just wanted to sit270Please respect copyright.PENANAf96FfyiO3y
and chat, well I’m not sure about Ann and the others but as far as I know the270Please respect copyright.PENANAjghWJTeN95
girls and I wasn’t really in the mood of dancing until later that night.
“Cheers to summer-end, Cheers to a new school270Please respect copyright.PENANAyxSAPI3Uua
year” we say as we raised our glass and drank the champagne.
I could tell that Daniel only came to270Please respect copyright.PENANAtrrbuGVeEr
summer-end to party and dance as he left the group to dance as soon as he put270Please respect copyright.PENANArnkMhP76Q9
down his glass, I was actually shocked that Jackson followed Daniel to the270Please respect copyright.PENANAPmuxHSOK6s
dance floor as all these years I’ve known him for I’d never saw him dance.
“I thought Jackson would invite you to270Please respect copyright.PENANA2YE38bP3Q3
dance,” said Marianna,
“He’s not the type to invite others to270Please respect copyright.PENANAbNPSO5V5Th
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 been270Please respect copyright.PENANAdzgsOFLvJU
while the boys danced, the host came into the room after an hour or two to270Please respect copyright.PENANAukbsUUO28N
announce that the buffet next door was ready, so we moved next door to have dinner270Please respect copyright.PENANAZiWLsMQvZU
then came back and danced till about 11pm.
Neely and I waved goodbye to the others as270Please respect copyright.PENANAyDI6DF6r3Q
we drove off to her house after summer-end, we both contacted our assistants to270Please respect copyright.PENANAAvZ5dCmnCn
make sure that one the guest room at Neely’s house was set up and two, the270Please respect copyright.PENANAFbZJYSTDMf
things that I need for tomorrow has been delivered to Neely’s house so Neely270Please respect copyright.PENANAyn7km3dH0k
and I could go to school together in the morning. By the time we got to Neely’s270Please respect copyright.PENANAQnR1bV7lTp
house it was already pass midnight so all that we did was skincare routines and270Please respect copyright.PENANA1CatnZzKnh
watching Netflix while we had some champagne, the so called afterparty wasn’t really270Please respect copyright.PENANARYt0mNYyeA
a party as we didn’t do much, but it was relaxing and good for the night before270Please respect copyright.PENANAJdmZJCDcaf
school.