One Thing
Chapter 1

"Boys are idiots." Charlotte complained while shoving her face with a freshly baked brownie. "Not all of them are, just most of them." Haley snapped. "I just give up, I'm going to grow old and end up with a million cats when I get older." Kelsie started to whine. We all sat in our colorful sleeping bags in a circle around Haley's room with a giant selection of food in the middle. "Maybe if we didn't eat like teenage boys, we'd actually be able to date a teenage boy." Lucy joked. Nobody laughed, clearly the topic was getting too serious. There was a long silence.

All of these girls have always had horrible luck with guys and love and we were just about to give up. The summer before senior year had just started and we were just at another one of their sleepovers complaining about the same old thing. Then it hit Lucy, "This summer could be different, you know." The rest of the girls all looked at her, waiting for more info. Did she know some kind of dating service that totally worked? Or a town full of perfect guys just waiting for a girlfrend? "How?" Charlotte finally asked, not being able to wait much longer. "Let's this interesting. I think the reason nothing's working is cause we're not trying hard enough. We're not giving ourselves a deadline. I say this summer we all try our best to find boyfriends." Lucy suggested with a smile. "Okay? And that will be different from any other day of our lives?" Kelsie sassed back. "Casue this time we have a prize. And not just a boyfriend. Whoever finds love by the end of the summer gets that One Direction ticket that girl Sarah tried to sell us. Remember, she only had one so none of us took it cause we felt bad for leaving our best friends? Well, now the winner gets the ticket paid by the losers." They all looked at Lucy like she had three heads or something. "Competiton, that just may work." Haley said with a sly smile. The rest of the girls seemed to agree. "This may just work, it's kind of like the Hunger Games... but not at all..." Charlotte added, shoving another brownie in her mouth. "Exactly." Lucy said, quite proud of herself for coming up with the idea. "You in Kelsie?" she asked. It took her a while but Kelsie finally nodded her head, her long blonde curls bobbing around with her. "Well we need some rules." Haley chimed in. It was totally like her to ruin the fun with rules. "Fine; no stealing each other's potential loves, deadline is the day before the first day of scchool, and the guy has to say I love you frist before the deadline and you win." Everyone smiled in agreement. "Those tickets are so mine." Charlotte joked. "Yeah, we'll see." Haley said, probably already making a plan in her head about how she was going to win. Lucy looked around at her competition and announced, "Let the games begin to find that one thing we all want despretely."



AUTHOR'S NOTE: I'm sooo sorry I haven't been writing in forever! I just needed a break, but hopefully I'm back now!!