Standing Close To The Edge(Finished) by Danielle Palmer (best summer reads txt) 📖

mine. It was probably a good thing because I had absolutely no money. Zayn has been buying everything for me. I felt bad but he insisted on it. We grabbed our bags after paying and started walking out the store. “Let's go get smoothies.” Danielle said pointing towards the food court. I nodded and followed her.
“Can I have a mango smoothie and she'll have a strawberry banana one.” The guy behind the counter typed in our order and took our money before disappearing into the back. It only took 10 minutes to make both our smoothies and the tasted amazing. We found a table and started talking. “Did Zayn sleep with you last night?” I shook my head and took a drink of my smoothie. “I wake up every night to nightmares so I rather not get questioned about them.” She looked confused so I continued. “I still haven't told him. I just don't want to lose him you know.” She nodded and took a drink of her smoothie. We were both about to say something when we got cut off.
“Ren! Stop!” I looked over where I heard it coming from and saw a girl about my height pushing a guy that was at least 6' away from her. He looked like he was drunk and kept trying to kiss her. I looked at Danielle and we both jumped up. We quickly walked over to them as the guy got rougher and held tight to her upper arms. “Dude she said stop!” I yelled. He stopped and looked at me. As he walked towards me Danielle went and made sure the girl was ok. I slowly backed up which made his grin grow winder. “Come here sexy.” He slurred his words and kept tripping over his own feet. When he got close enough I kicked him in the balls and punched him. He was so drunk he instantly pasted out. I sighed and shook my hand to relieve some pain.
“Are you ok?” I asked the girl. She nodded her head but still looked a little shaken up. “I'm fine.” Her hair was black but hand a blonde streak on the bottom. Her eyes were a milk chocolate brown and she had a couple freckles. Her nose pierced and she had braces. It surprised me she was with such a jerk when she was really beautiful. “Come with us. You don't need to be with that jerk.” She looked back at the guy on the ground and hesitated. “One more thing to do real quick.” She pulled back her combat boot and in one swift move kicked him right in the side. Damn. Even I could feel that. She turned to us with a smile on her face and told us she was ready.
“I'm Alexis by the way but you can call me Allie.” I smiled and shook her hand. “I'm Adrian but you can call me Moe and this is Danielle but you can call her Dani.” She looked like she was think and not even a second later her eyes light up like a light bulb. “Oh you're Liam's girlfriend and you're Zayn's girlfriend right?” I laughed and nodded. “I love them. Niall's my favorite. God his accent is fine.” We all busted out laughing as we sat back down at the food court. “How would you like to meet him?” Allie immediately blushed and covered her mouth. “Really?” She looked like she had just won a million dollars. I looked at Danielle who was nodding.
“Why not? You could come to the concert tonight.” She jumped and hugged us and quickly sat back down. “Sorry lost it there for a second.” I laughed and told her it was fine. “We should pick you out a new outfit. I'll pay.” Allie instantly went to protest but Danielle told her to stop. “So was the guy your boyfriend?” I asked as we walked towards the shop me and Danielle bought our clothes at. “Yeah. I've been thinking of how to break up with him but I live with him so I'll have no where to go.” I looked at Danielle who looked back at me with an equal expression. I felt bad for this girl. We had to help her. There was no way we could leave her with no where to go.
“What about your parents?” She looked away from us and towards a rack full of clothes. She started shuffling through them before turning back to us. “Never knew them. I've been in foster care most of my life and since I turned 18 a month ago I had to move so Ren let me live with him.” I nodded showing I understood. After that we all stayed quiet and shuffled through the clothes. I looked over and something pink caught my eye from a rack on the wall. It was strapless with a black belt around the middle. The top had little ruffles and the bottom hung loosely.
I ran and grabbed before running to Allie. “Look!” I did little jumps when her eyes light up and she squealed. “It's perfect Moe! Thank you!” We hugged before running over to where Danielle was. She was holding blue skinny jeans that had little rips up and down the legs. We held the shirt and jeans next to each other and Allie approved. She looked over at something before grabbing both our hands and pulling us towards the shoes. She ran over to a pair of heels and grabbed them before turning back to us. The heels she grabbed were black open toed and had a bow on the side.
After trying it on Danielle paid and we decided to leave. The concert start in 3 hours so we had 2 to get ready. “Wait where are we getting ready?” It had totally skipped my mind we were leaving tonight and we did have a hotel anymore. “We could go to Ren's house. No one is there.” I hesitated but agreed and followed her down the street. I could tell Danielle knew this was a bad idea but we had no other option. Her house was only a couple blocks from the mall. It didn't take long cause we were getting to know Allie the whole way. She turned out to be a really sweet girl.
When we got to the house she was staying at it surprised me. It wasn't that small of a house actually pretty big. The inside looked bigger than I thought it would. Me and Danielle followed her up the stairs after grabbing a couple waters. “This is mine and Ren's room. You can take turns changing the bathrooms right there.” Danielle let me change first so I gratefully went to the bathroom. It only took my a couple minutes to change and I let Danielle have it. Alexis let us use her make up and hair stuff so we can touch up. I was finished before Danielle so after Alexis curled her hair I helped her do her makeup. Not long after we were all finished with and hour left to spare.
We were sitting in the living room when I heard 2 car doors shut. Alexis looked at me and I saw a hint of horror but as soon as it came it went. She put her wall up again and showed no emotion. There was something not right here. I heard the front door open and shuffling of foot before it slammed shut. A guy came around the corner supporting a still drunk Ren on his shoulder. I didn't know much about this guy, Ren, but I already knew I hated him. The guy threw Ren on the couch right next to Alexis. “Thank you Josh.” Alexis said standing up and hugging the guy. He hugged her back and told her it was fine before turning and walking out the door. I wonder if this happened often. Ren looked over at Alexis and grabbed her, pulling her towards him.
“Ren stop. We need to talk. Stop!” She pushed his face away when he tried to kiss her. Me and Danielle just stood back waiting to see if things got out of control. “Babe. Come on.” He leaned forward and tried to kiss her again but in one swift movement she punched him, making his jaw crack. It caught him completely off guard and sobered him right up. Before any of us could blink he backhanded Alexis so hard she fell to the floor. Her lip was split and there was a bruise but she kept it together and didn't back down. I liked this girl. She was stronger than I thought. “Don't you ever disrespect me in my house again you fucking bitch!” He roared and went to grab her again. She kicked him in the balls the same time I crashed a lamp over the back of his head. He fell to the floor uncontentious but still breathing.
For a few seconds the only sound you could hear was mine, Alexis, and Danielle's heavy breathing. It took my a minute to processes what happened and I smiled. We kicked some ass! “Get your stuff Alexis. I'm not letting you stay with that.” Danielle helped Alexis off the floor and I followed them both up the stairs. We helped Alexis as much as we could with packing her stuff. She didn't have a lot so when we were done I help her fix her makeup. I covered the bruise on her face but you could still her split lip. I told her it wouldn't take long to heal. She asked me how I knew and I told her my mom gave me one before. Of course that led to my whole life story witch had us in tears after. She found out about my cutting and told me she used to do it to. Until she found out it didn't solve anything and she quiet. I was proud I had even made it 2 weeks.
When we were done making sure all her stuff was out Danielle called a cab to come pick us up a few houses down. While we waited I started thinking. “So. How about you ride with us to the next place we have a concert. I could buy you a hotel for a couple weeks and help you find a job.” Alexis smiled and hugged me. I would probably have to ask Zayn to pay for it. God. I'm such a bad girlfriend using all his money. “Where is the next concert?” I looked over at Danielle cause I had no idea. I should probably get a schedule. “We're going to Toronto, Canada.” Alexis thought for a second before she squealed. “My friend Beau lives there. I don't think he would mind is I stayed with him.” Perfect. At least I knew she had someone to live with.
The cab pulled up to the side walk and we all jumped in. After telling him the place where the guys were performing the ride was quiet. It wasn't awkward but just like we did want to talk or needed to think. I didn't know what they were thinking about but I was think about leaving Alexis in Toronto. She had became one of my really good friends even though we had just met her today. Well her and Danielle were my only friends and I didn't want to loose either of them. Maybe one of the guys would like her and want to bring her on tour with us. I could only hope. What if her and Niall hit it off right away? Or her and Harry? Or even her and Louis? At least one of them had to like her. She's was the total package. Gorgeous, fun, and bad ass. Plus, me and Danielle need another partner in crime.