I wake up to my head being in pain. The familiar bed I'm on is not unoccupied. When I look down the bed, my legs are tangled with someone else's. Next to me, Ariel sleeps soundly with her lips parted slightly.
I'm in Ariel's bed, both of us half naked.
I don't remember how I got here, but I grin. I've slept in her bed before, but we were both fully clothed. I reach over and trace Ariel's collarbone with my index finger. Her eyes flutter open and I remove my hand.
"Hey Luke." She says sleepily. She shifts her body and her fingers trace patterns onto my shoulder. Then her eyes open wide in realization when she sees my shirtless torso. "Why don't you have clothes on?" Then she looks down. "Oh fuck, why don't I have clothes on?" She pulls the thin sheets over herself.
"I actually don't know." I reply simply, running my thumb across the side of her jaw. "I guess after the party we came here."
"Did we do it?" She asks.
"I don't know." I say again.
"Well get some clothes on!" She squeals, making a look of fake disgust.
Well, I think it was fake.
She gets up and takes a T-shirt off her bedside table and puts it on. It's my shirt, but she doesn't see that and then she puts on a pair of basketball shorts from the floor. "Why aren't you putting a shirt on?"
"Because you're wearing mine..." I say and her face turns dark pink. I let out a quiet laugh. I see her shirt across the room on the floor and I get up off the bed and pick it up. "Well I found your's."
"Thank God." She says and walks over to me and reaches for the shirt. I lift it into the air, and me being over six feet tall, she could not reach it. "Lukee!" She jumps up and grabs for it but fails. I stare into her dark blue eyes and she looks into my lighter ones. We lean in at the same time, her soft lips brush against mine. I grab her hips where the shirt wasn't pulled down all of the way and pull her closer to me. I slip my hands to her ribs and she gasps from my cold hands, our lips losing contact. She tries to pull away, but instead I start to tickle her sides. A loud laugh erupts from her open mouth and she tries to get away as I continue to torture her with my attack of tickles. I stop my hands and drop them to my sides and we continue to laugh together as she hugs my torso, her breathing still fast from the previous event. The bedroom door slowly opens with a quiet creak.
"I should have known." Calum says. Ariel breaks away from the hug and pushes my chest back. Calum walks back into the hall and his footsteps could be heard going down the hallway.
"Fuck you, Luke! I hate you! Get out of my house and never come back or I'll kill you!" She angrily yells in my face. "Calum! Nothing even happened! Come back, I love you!" She yells running out of the room and down the hall.
"Fuuuck." I yell and punch the wall. After multiple punches to the hard surface, there is a hand-sized hole in the wall. Blood runs down my knuckles and hits the carpeted floor. Tears run down my cheeks as I leave Ariel's house by climbing out of her window. My feet hit the hard dirt and cold air whips my wet cheeks.
I want my Ariel.
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Walking into school on Monday was definitely horrible. I felt that everyone was staring at me as I walked down the half empty halls, everyone is probably used to seeing a bubbly, best friended Ariel at my side. I kept tripping over my own feet and bumping into people. My insomnia taking over my body, one limb at a time.
The night before, I was tossing and turning in my sleep. Thinking about how stupid I was to go to that party on Friday night. I probably could have lost my bestfriend.
I finally get to my locker and put the combination in to open it. My friend, Michael, walks up to where I'm standing.
"It's a good thing that Kassidy didnt let me go to that party." He says after an awkward silence.
"Yeah well good for you." I say with a fake plastered-on smile. Kassidy and Michael had been together for a long time. They are already going to get married after high school, but thats a story for a different time. "I miss Ariel and now shes not going to ever speak to me again." I say, tears threatening to spill from my eyes.
"..Or maybe she will." He says looking at something, or should I say someone, behind me. I turn around to see Ariel saying something into Calum's ear with a smile and then walking in my direction, her smile fading a bit. "Well I'm gonna go. Hey Ella." Michael says. I laughed at his nickname for her. Michael saunters away from my locker. Ariel waves in his direction.
"Um hi." I say to her, my voice cracking at the end as if i just entered puberty. She giggles at my prepubescent tone.
"Howdy." She oddly says.
"I'm sorr-" I start to say but she interrupts. She puts her hand up silencing me.
"Um nothing happened, so I don't really know why you're apologizing." She replies and slowly puts her hand down. "We should have a movie night."
"And Calum would be okay with that?" I ask raising an eyebrow. Considering the awkward air between her boyfriend and I, I'm suprized she would ask.
"Well yeah, because you and I are just friends." She says. And now the friendzone bomb has been dropped. I don't like her more than as friends anyway.
"Okay. When is a good time?"
"I didn't mean today, dork." She states laughing. Not that it was even funny, but what she obviously thought was hilarious. She talks again when shes done laughing. "Maybe like-" She pauses, thinking. "next weekend?"
"Why not this weekend?" I question. How am I supposed to wait two weeks just to hang out with my best friend?
"Oh I'll be hanging out with Calum all weekend. He's sleeping over friday night, after he has dinner with me and my mom. Sunday we will be going to a movie, I think its called Fifty Shades of Grey." She says, trying to remember the title of the film she was going to see.
"Eww! Why are you seeing that? Its supposed to be nasty." I say and scrunch up my nose. I may sound a bit prude, but I'm surprised she would want to see such a movie.
"Who are you, and what have done with my best friend, Lucifer?" Ariel says followed by a little giggle.
"First of all, your best friend is right here." I say while pointing to myself with my middle finger. "And second of all, my name is Luke." I scrunch up my nose at the horrible name.
"Loo-ci-fur! Loo-ci-fur! Loo-ci-fur!" She chants, waving her middle finger in my face.
I roll my eyes as she links her arm around mine and we head in the direction of the class we have together, Zoology.
"I love you, Luke. Don't ever stop being my best friend or I might die." She exaggerates.
"I love you too, Ariel." I reply with a small smile.
"You're too cute for your own good."
"I know." I say as we walk into the classroom, her giggling as we sit.
"It's a good life, don't mess it up." Someone whispers in my ear from behind as they walk past.
I'll try not to.
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