What It's Like To Be In Love

May

Me and my friends all had a server together on Discord where we would do nothing but mess around and send random YouTube videos to each other.
Then, my one of my least closest friends, Michael introduced me to his youngest cousin.
Her name was Ella, and she was year a younger than us.
At first, I thought she was weird, mostly because she was a girl and most of the girls at our high school were weird I mean, one of them thinks she's a wolf.
After getting on a call with her and Micheal, I headed to bed and thought nothing about it, only to wake up and see that she had sent me over a hundred photos of someone named Jared.

I asked her who this Jared guy was and she responded with the hottest man on Earth.
I'm not gay, but he's not very bad-looking if you know what I mean.

I told her to stop sending so many images and she just responded with another picture of him, but with his shirt off this time.
I shut off my PC and started to get ready for school, making sure I didn't forget my portfolio for art class later that day.

I was brushing my hair when my younger brother, Liam, asked to play Fortnite on my PC before he headed off for school.
I shook my head and told him to go feed the dog, which he responded with a grunt and stomped loudly downstairs.

Walking to my bus stop everyday sucked, I had to walk a mile away from my own home just to hop on a bus and let it take me another mile to my own school, which didn't take very long especially since my bus driver liked to drive fast, which made it difficult to text my friends.

Eventually, I got there and walked from the back of the school, which is where the busses drop the kids off, to the front and walked rather quickly to my homeroom.

Again, I was late, but only about twenty minutes so I didn't get in much trouble as I usually would if I was later.

I fixed my mask so it wasn't only covering my mouth, but both my mouth and nose.
I sat in the very back of the room, as usual and took out my phone to check Twitter. I still had the same friends, followers, and life pretty much, nothing really changed. And that was fine, I always liked everything the same, change was hard and sometimes scary.

My school day was boring like usual, I did get my phone taken away during Chemistry because I was using it but I didn't care of course, and if they called my mom, she wouldn't care either.

I decided to walk home, it took a while but I didn't mind that, I wanted to go home and ride my bike to me and my friends band practice.

I arrived home and saw my red bike leaning against the garage door like it always was, I've always kept it there since I got into our band.

Riding my bike was fun, I enjoyed it and wish I could do it more, just listening to my Spotify playlist, filled with mostly The Neighbourhood, and having me and my brain alone all by ourselves.

It was only around four PM or so when I arrived so we had plenty of time to practice.
We never performed anywhere but we loved playing so we just practiced and had fun four times a week for fun.

I walked down from Alastor's open garage, to his home, and down to his basement to see
Jacob, Michael, Alastor, Grayson, and Caden were all there, in Alastor's basement, all in a circle with cokes in their hands, talking.

Alastor had his LED and fairy lights hung across the room to give the basement cool lighting.

"Hey.." I mumbled and Caden heard me and handed me a coke. I cracked open it and took a sip, it was a bit too bitter but it was fine for now.

The practice was fun like it usually is. We talked about life, our Discord server, and if Coke-a-cola should be sweeter.

I again rode my bike home and hopped on our Discord, getting on a call with our band and someone I didn't seem to recognize...