Dressing like a girl ((boyxboy)) ON PAUSE

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"Here we are!" She squeals. "We're gonna have so much fun, you'll never want to go home" she grins at me.

Her just saying that makes me want to go home all of a sudden. Like now.

"Yep" I smile back at her, not knowing what else to say.

Her house is actually pretty nice looking and something you would except from a popular girl but not one who's on the cheerleading team. If that makes any sense. What I'm trying to say is that it's big but not mini mansion big.

I grab my bag from the backseat and get out of the car, looking around at her neighbors houses. My brow furrows a little when I begin checking out the neighbors to the left of her house. I can't quite figure out why but something about it seemed familiar. It's giving me deja vu just looking at it but I can't tell where I know it from.

"You coming?" Haile waves to me from her porch.

I nod as I try and shake the feeling. I walk over to her, still glaring at the neighbors house, as she unlocks her door. As soon as we're in I push the thought to the back of my head and look around her house.

"Do you live with interior designers or something" I say in amazement as my eyes travel from her living room to the dining room, narrowly catching the kitchen.

"My sister" she answers proudly as she looks around with me. "She came home a while back and redecorated with my mom" She gives me a couple more seconds to take in the scenery before dragging me up the stairs.

"So what do you think of my room" she swings the door open letting me go in first.

It looks like a normal room to me, aside from it being unusually clean for my tastes. I've kinda gotten used to Danielle's room being a mess. Jasper got comfortable enough to start leaving his room a bit of a mess before a came over.

See one day they gon wake up and mouse gon be eatn' they nuts.

There's no theme in particular it's just kind of cluttered with things in different areas of the room. Her dresser is piled with games for Xbox and PS4. The two systems sitting on either side while the controllers are sat on stands nailed to the wall. Her bed has a variety of stuffed animals peaking out from under it, above the bed frame, and a few on the bed. A huge bookshelf littered with a few manga series and their respective merch next to them. The wall closet to the door was dedicated to mixology. Two shelves holding mixology books under that is a coloction of shot glasses and weird looking cups. Fake vines and fairy lights litter the ceiling, a couple hanging down in certain areas.

"In all honest it looks cool in here" I complement it. "It's like a bunch of different aesthetics clashing together"

"Thanks" she smiles, closing the door behind us then moving to her bed. "This one girl in middle school use to bully me because in her words I had to "stick with an aesthetic and stop witching it everyday." And then this older girl told me not to worry about her and if switching aesthetics is my aesthetic then that's whatever. She's my sister-in-law now" she says with a straight face, implying she's not joking.

Her and I sit here staring at each other in silence. Not a comfortable silence.. it's beyond awkward.

I'm not bashing on her for being an over sharer or anything but I don't really know how to bounce off that. I wasn't really bullied in middle school or at least I don't remember anyone teasing me.

Luckily the doorbell rings interrupting us. But for some reason she continues to stare into my soul. A smile slowly forms on her face as she gets up and basically glides past me out of the room. I peak out the door making sure she's out of sight before I sit up the top of the stairs.

I want to go home.

"Hey what brings you by" she says happily.

"My mom is gonna be out for the night and I'm leaving soon to hang out with some of my friends and she was wondering if you could watch Izzy for her again" a familiar voice rings out from the door.

Out of curiosity I creep down the stairs and peak around the corner to get a look at who's at the door. Ironically Haile's hair blocks the person on the other side, leaving me to try and look past her at weird angles.

"Of course" she bends down and starts petting someone. "Hey Izz what's up" she coos.

My eyes shoot up to the person she was blocking and my eyes lock with Henry's. His eyes widen as he watches me retreated behind the corner.

"Ohio is that you?" He calls out into the house. "Was that Ohio?" He asks Haile.

"No that's my friend Oberlin" she says matter of factly causing me to sink into the floor.

"Oberlin is a city in Ohio" a little girl's voice chimes in.

"Good job Izz, now get inside" Haile says while someone shuffles by the door. "Bye now Henry" she closes the door before he can get another word out. "Ohio?" She calls out for me.

"Henry lives next door, why" she comes around the corner with a preteen girl on her phone.

That's the final straw.

"Take me home" I say simply. "Take me home right now" I shoot up from my spot on the floor. "I refuse to be this close to him for a whole night"

"He won't even be home tho-"

"I don't want to be near his house either. I don't know if I said it clear enough the first two times but let me say it again" I take a deep breath. "Take. Me. Home. Now." I say slowly.

"Hey Izzy why don't you go upstairs and hang out in my room for a while I'm gonna talk to Ohio down here." She turns to the girl ignoring my request.

"If you didn't look so stressed right now I'd ask you about your name" Izzy says before walking up the stairs and entering Haile's room, all while looking down at her phone.

"At least tell me why you don't want to be near him before you jump into my car" she leads me over to her couch.