Frenemies

I yawned, stepping out on my balcony and instantly relaxing when feeling the sun hit my legs although my feet were burning as they touched the bamboo flooring. I leaned against the banister looking out to see an unfamiliar car in the drive way, visitors already?

I walked back to my room seeing my phone flash on and seeing the name 'Alex'.

'Hope I didn't keep you up last night, miss you already'

Me and Alex were literally on the phone basically all night. It was just like old times but the only difference was that we were no longer a couple.

I replied quickly before heading to my bathroom, having a very long shower; something I had a bad habit of doing. I brushed my teeth and threw on a pair of pyjama shorts and a random shirt.

I heard distant chatter of another women along side my mom.

Great. Now I have to be sociable.

I slowly entered the kitchen only to see the all too familiar face of Rachel and her daughter Roxy. I know, so cringe.

"Here she is! The face I've missed!" Rachel exclaimed pulling me in to the tightest hug ever.

"Hey Rachel" I said, out of breath from that suffocating hug.

Rachel was one of my moms close friends out here and was one of the reasons why we moved. After finding out my dad was having ideas about moving Rachel stepped in and persuaded them to move out as it would be 'the best thing to ever happen to them' as she said. As kind as she was, her daughter wasn't.

Roxy and I have known each other since we were children. She was literally my 'frenemy' - friend- enemy. You see Rachel and her family lived next door to us in our own house, that's how my mom and her became friends. Meaning I saw Roxy everyday. I went to kindergarten with her, elementary school and middle school before she packed up her things and moved to Calabasas. It was the best day of my life.

Roxy had a really bad habit of wanting to be the centre of attention. She literally took my shyness to her advantage and let herself dominate me,literally.

She was extremely jealous, once I had my first kiss she had hers straight away, forcing the poor boy to kiss her just to tell everyone at school she had kissed a boy. She copied a lot of the things I did, like how I used to do ballet when I was younger, surprise surprise, roxy joined ballet.

It was an extreme case of obsessiveness and was very unhealthy.

Other than that, she was okay because once she had left I hadn't heard from her until now. She stood in my kitchen with the most fake smile ever, when in reality it was the look girls give to other girls when judging them. I knew her all too well.

"Roxy, give your childhood friend a hug!" Rachel urged, oh no. Roxy pulled me in to a hug, was it possible for a hug to be fake? Well it was now.

"It's so nice to see you again Izzy! You're still so short!"

Of course, she'd call me my childhood name as if we were friends and then bring up my height, some things are just best to be left in the past, including her.

I laughed, forcefully obviously.

"I know" I smiled.

"And you're still so quiet, I wonder how you'll make friends" she laughed, of course.

"Oh don't be silly, she's a beautiful girl, she'll make friends in no time" Rachel complimented making me smile. Roxy did the opposite.

"And girl, you'll be a hit with the boys with that body" she winked making me instantly turn red. She had always been so forward.

"As you can see Roxy has remained a bit too skinny, she's in denial of it but oh well, you're beautiful too baby" she said squeezing Roxy's cheeks.

I didn't even try and look at Roxy because I knew she was giving me death glares.

"Well good news Bella, looks like you won't be alone after all because Roxy is at the same highschool you'll be going to!"

Instantly my smile dropped and my heart raced. I was going to be stuck with her? This was good news how?

I already could imagine the 100's of ways this girl could make my life hell, starting by embarrassing me on my very first day just like she did in elementary school when she made me cut my hair very very short and told everyone I was going through a phase of wanting to be a boy. Of course I had to laugh it off and pretend it was a joke when really I cried about it every night.

I did think of getting revenge on this girl but when she told me she was leaving I felt that was the best revenge without me even exerting any energy in to doing so. I wasn't a revengeful girl, I didn't have it in me but in this circumstance, it happened naturally.

"Don't worry honey, my girl is captain of the cheer squad and is city council of the school, she'll help you out with everything" Rachel winked. God did I hate people who unnecessarily boasted.

But yay, I was going to be besties with the captain of the cheer squad, so fun.

This was all going down hill and school hadn't even begun yet.