wander

25|louisiana with romeo

Our flight was long but it was ok. It was only my second time on a plane but I think I could get used to it. Romeo and I spoke for hours and we laughed more than I have ever laughed.

I take my phone out and it doesn't stop getting notifications. All from instagram. I scroll through them and so many people have liked my post, followed me or messaged me.
"What's all that?" Romeo asks into my ear.
"I don't even know. Rose made me post on instagram and now everyone seems to want m around." I sigh.
"Oh shit. Well whats your account. I'll follow the trend and like the post!" He smiles.

I give him my username and he follows me and goes through my posts. He likes all of my posts including some from 9th grade. He even comments "Beautiful" on the one of me at the smoothie bar. I blush and hide my face. I don't think anyone has made me feel so loved before.

I grab my phone from my pocket and basically stalk his account. I follow him back and he 0 posts. I go to message him and type "well well well, I think we have an issue here. I have no posts to like ;(" I press send and he looks up at me. He smirks and looks back down to his phone.

I get a notification to say "romeob has tagged you in a post" I look to him but he doesn't seem to pay attention. I like the post and comment a red heart emoji. It's a photo of us at the airport doors that we got an old couple to take for us. It was sweet really. I swipe and then there's a photo of us in a shop that had some really weird things selling in there. I go back to my messages and Romeo replied with "better?" I respond with "Much better x" I don't really know why I sent a kiss, I guess it was just an in the moment thing.

We arrive at our hotel and of course it's a beautiful building. We are like 30 minutes away from my school, I didn't want to risk seeing anyone from school or my Mom. We get to our room and I jump straight to the bed. There's a double bed in the centre of the room and in the room behind there's two single beds. I look at him raising an eyebrow.

"I didn't know if you'd be comfortable sharing a bed." He answers my question I never asked.
"That's okay but I think I'd prefer the double bed but I don't know about you" I laugh
"It does look pretty comfy!" He snakes an arm around my waist and laughs in my ear. I struggle out of his grip because I need to use the bathroom. I lock the door and use the toilet. I stare in the mirror at myself. I never thought I would be here again, well I never expected to do anything this past month.

I grab some clothes from my suitcase to sleep in because of the time zones and I'm tired anyways. I pick up a cami top and a pair of shorts. Romeo walks in and picks the clothes out of my hand. I look up at him confused.
"Late night swim?" He questions. I would love to but I'm so tired.
"Romeo I'm so tired tomorrow?" I reply.
"Tomorrow. Sounds good."

He hands my clothes back and sits on the bed, scrolling through his phone. I turn around and he doesn't look up to me. I fake cough and he looks at me.
"Some privacy, please?" I wave the clothes in my hand.
"I'll close my eyes. Deal?"
"Hm sure but if I catch you peeking I'll be mad."

He closes his eyes and I place my hand over his eyes to make sure. I pick my top up that I drop and walk over to the bathroom. I just wanted to mess with him. Of course he would look. I change quickly and walk back and crawl into the bed. I tap his shoulder and he opens his eyes.

"Wow magic. Your clothes changed. You better teach me that one!" He winks.
"Romeo!" I gasp but laugh soon after.
"Saw the chance and took it." He replies.

I get my phone and start scrolling through all the notifications I haven't cared to look at until now. Everyone from high school has either started following me, commenting as if we've been friends for years or messaging me. I go through the comments of the post of me and Rose. It has 459 likes. I gasp and Romeo looks over to me.

"What's up?" he asks, curious.
"Um the post. It has 450 likes. I never get this much attention." I reply.
"Show me I'm interested"

I go through the comments and every now and then Romeo asks who this or who that is, mainly on the guys. A guy called Harry commented a fire emoji and "hot" and I tapped on his profile. I follow him, I don't know why he was quite rude to me at school.
"Why do you follow him?" Romeo asks, he sounds a bit annoyed.
"I don't know actually, he was so rude to me."
"You know him?"
"Mm I guess, not really. He would just make snarky comments about me at school. My moms friends with his Mom. That's it really. I don't like him, never have never will."
"Oh good." he replies with a smile.

I decide to go to my dm's. My only recent conversations are Rose and Romeo.
"Oh my god. Rose! I need to call her!" I get up and go to contacts. I decide to facetime instead. She answers right away and her face lights up.

"Heyy! How are you? I miss you already Chi"
"I'm great. It's late here and I'm tired though."
"Oh yeah, long trip wasn't it?"
"Yeah so long" Romeo cuts in.
"Hi Romeo" she says, not sounding very interested.

Our conversation continues and she brings up my boost in likes in followers. I'm still not over it. I can't believe it. It's crazy to me that a month ago I had maybe 200 followers and now I have over a thousand. I end the call because I can't stop yawning. I wrap myself in the duvet and Romeo pulls his t-shirt over. I stare as his muscles flex and his abs look amazing. He catches me staring and laughs. "Come on, let's go to sleep."

I close my eyes and feel his arms wrap over me. I feel a smile tug at my lips. I'm so happy.