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are
shorter than the other three and have the same shade of blonde
hair, although Sam swept his up into a ridge along the centre of
his head with copious amounts of gel, whilst Micky left his hair
pretty well alone.
    Sam is like his
brother in many ways, but his jokes are not malicious and he
doesn't have a problem with women at all as far as I can see. He's
usually too busy talking about sport to notice who he's conversing
with, male or female. He's the captain of the uni football team
which is where he and his brother met Tom, Jack and Matt. I've
always thought that he and Simone would make a good couple, but
there have been so signs of anything like that emerging yet.
    Speaking of
Simone, as Matt and I re-entered the lounge room and settled
ourselves in front of the television which, for some unknown
reason, seemed to be playing an Italian movie without subtitles,
there was a soft knock on the door.
    "Come in," I
yelled wondering why Simone didn't just walk in like she usually
did. However, as a head of mousy brown hair poked through the open
door rather than Simone's strawberry blonde curls I realised it
wasn't my best friend. I suppressed a groan as I saw that, instead,
it was Haley who lived downstairs with her elderly aunt.
    When I'd first
moved in I'd tried so hard to like this girl, but it was too ruddy
difficult! She always completely ignores me and gravitates
immediately to the boys. If she ever comes over and they're not at
home she immediately leaves, but if they're present she pretends
that we're the best of friends as an excuse for her continued
visits. I can't believe that Jack and Matt can't see straight
through her superficiality, but she's caught them hook, line and
sinker.
    I personally
don't think she's much to look at, but she certainly has that wide
blue eyed, pink lips thing going for her although any girl could
tell at a glance that they were achieved by cleverly applied
make-up to make it seem like it was natural. Her light brown hair
was pulled back into a loose plait today and she wore a little
white pleated skirt with a loose, blue chiffony type top and white
sandals on her feet.
    "Hello," she
said, smiling shyly (completely fake, I'm sure) around at the
tumble of boys surrounding me.
    "Hiya, Haley,"
Matt grinned, pushing Tom off one of our squishy, patchy armchairs
with his foot to make room for her. Tom got up and promptly tipped
my brother's chair so he fell out and Tom settled himself in the
vacated spot. As you may have guessed, considering the amount of
people we have around, there are never enough chairs. I saw Matt
eyeing my bean bag and grabbed hold of it determinedly.
    "Don't even
think about it," I warned him and Haley laughed prettily as if I
had just said something incredibly witty. Man she's annoying.
    Just then the
door opened again and Simone bounced into the room, her grey eyes
sparkling. Seeing me she skipped over and threw herself down beside
me on the bean bag, making me rise up as the beans shifted.
    "Hi all," she
grinned and the boys grunted at her like they did with me.
    Jack finished
talking on the phone and, after bringing a kitchen chair over for
Haley, settled himself on the floor beside Matt, completing the
group. So there we were, the eight of us forming a sort of motley
friendship crew. In my opinion Haley didn't really belong, but the
boys had kind of adopted her so we were stuck with her.
    We fell into a
companionable silence as we all watched the foreign movie and I
soon figured out that we were watching it because the Italian women
in the film seemed to have something against clothes and threw them
off at every opportunity. Still, it was oddly absorbing, especially
after the twins started adding their own commentary and the plot
began to revolve around a woman called Hotchick and her love of two
hunky men called Sam and Michael.
    At one point in
the movie the love interest grabbed hold of Hotchick's hands and
gripped them tightly as the camera zoomed in. Unable to