Chapter 17

And just like that the week came to an end. Jessie had somehow managed to carve out a space for herself in their little gang earning her envious eyes everywhere she turned.

She could now proudly call Olive and Chelsea her friends without feeling awkward. They had made her feel so welcome it was like they had grown up together.

They had scheduled a group outing at the arcade wanting the group to be complete and have a fun time celebrating the upcoming weekend.

They had played all sorts of games before finally agreeing to play a game of laser tag.

Huddling down together in the dimly lit lobby of the laser tag arena, Olive, Jackson, Jessie, Ashton, and Chelsea kept grinning at each other. Their adrenaline was pumping as they prepared to enter the neon-colored battlefield.

"I call the blue team!" Chelsea declared, snatching a matching blue laser tag vest from the pile.

"No way, I'm captain of the blue team," Jackson countered, trying to grab the vest out of Chelsea's hands.

The two sibli