"an early night" part 8

Gen had a new boyfriend every month or two since she was sixteen, and the occasional girlfriend. They never lasted very long but Gen would always act besotted until she actually started to fall in love, then she would get scared and run away. She was a self-proclaimed commitment-phobe.
'So what are we doing tonight, anyway?' I asked, to break the topic off Adam.
'Well, there's not much to do on a Thursday night except put your feet up and watch telly. We could get Ally over, maybe. I don't think she has work in the morning.' So we called Ally and arranged for her to drive over.
Allison Viktor was our closest friend. It had always just been Edith and Genevieve, the two weird girls who did stupid things and kept to themselves, but then we met Ally at a party and kind of adopted her. She was tiny - skinny and a petite height of just four foot five - with long black hair and olive skin. She'd been with her boyfriend, Isaac, for two and a half years now. They lived together in a tiny house with some of Isaac's friends and Ally liked to escape whenever she could.
She'd finished high school at seventeen, excelling at most subjects, and was at university now where she found the work 'too easy'. Of course Ally was smart. She was quite and peaceful, she listened and picked up more than she let on. Sometimes she was so quiet that it seemed as though she didn't care what you were saying. People often thought that she was unfeeling. But that was just Ally, when you got to know her she would open up to you.



photo credit - caroline bonarde ucci