My Crush's Roommate

Chapter 17

We sped around, looking at all the streets.

The lights glowed brightly, especially during the night time, as it shines in Taylor's eyes.

It filled her brown-grey eyes into the neon mint and pink colors of the nightlights from the stores.

The wind breezed us, lifting her dark curly hair.
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"So... you like cats?"

She teetered her hand, her bracelets jingling. "Eh... I'm more of a dog person, hehe... Julia is more of the cat person." I smiled. She looks at me with her beautiful brown-grey eyes. "...And you?"

I shrugged. "Dogs. They're more playful."

She smiles and placed her hands into the pockets of her light pink coat. "Same." Taylor twirls her dark brown loose-curly hair.

I thought of Taylor earlier in her pajamas of cats and macaroons, her hair tied in a messy bun with a scrunchie wrapped around.

I stop her in her tracks.

"Uh... quick question!"

She sits there. "I'm listening." It makes me even more flushed.

"...Why cat pajamas instead of dogs?"

She makes a 'Pfft' sound. "I said I prefer dogs over cats- I never say I hated cats."

I snort. "Of course, of course..."

Taylor starts to laugh at me.

I shoved my hands inside the pockets of my light brown leather jacket, embarrassed. "So... what else do you do other than dance?"

"Well... I also swim too."

"You like swimming better or dance?"

She thought about it for a bit. "...Dance." I nodded, facing her.

I loved her bright smile.

Suddenly, my head ran into something metal. I felt myself fell to the ground.
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Justin? ...Justin?

My blurred vision starts to clear. Now, my hearing seems to improve along five minutes.

"Justin? ...Justin, can you hear me?"

Taylor's face was more clearer. Her long dark loose curls frame my face. She waved her pale hand back and forth in front of me, her pink extended nails showing in a fan-like wave.

I clasped her hand within my fingers.

"Ugh... I can see, Taylor."

I moved her hand away from my face.

"How am I supposed to know that? You've just been knocked out from a pole!"

"Wait- was I?"

She nods and points sternly towards a pole that held up a small streetlight.

"Oh wow, where did my luck go?"

Taylor snorts. "When you act dumb, then your luck vanishes! POOF! It's gone!!" She exaggerates with her hands in a floating motion.

I frowned. "That's nice, Taylor... real nice."

Suddenly, my phone buzzed. "Oh, I'll get that."

"Do you want me to pick you up ice cream from that little shop over there?" She asks, pointing towards a Ruby-colored shop.

I nodded. "Yeah. Find me... cookies and cream!"

Taylor winks. "You got it!"

I smiled at her, then I was about to tap the 'answer' button, that is, until my screen went blank.

I gasped. "No!"

On my screen, I realized that Julia tried to call me.

"No-no-no- hey, Julia... hehe."

"Why didn't you pick up earlier?" She asks in a confused, but a little stern tone.

I looked down on the ground, searching for an answer. "Uh... I went to the bathroom. And I just got out now, so- what's up?"

"Have you seen Taylor?"

Oh my- what am I supposed to say? "Oh, she's with me, she wanted to go out with me, sucks to be you not to join us"- NO!

"I haven't really seen her..." I lied.

Julia sighs. "Okay, well, if you find her, let me know, okay? I'm freaking worried about this girl. Talk to you later, babe."

I hung up. "Jeez, her pitchy voice is annoying-"

I widened my eyes. "Oh gosh, why did I say that?! I never talk about Julia like that- ugh!!"

"Something wrong?"

"GAH!!" Now, I realized that I screamed like a girl.

Taylor snickers. "You scream like a girl."

"Ugh," I rolled my eyes. "You think I don't know that by now?"

"Okay..." She puts her hands on my shoulders. "Tell me what's wrong."

Here we go.