Bestfriends- Ciaran McDonald

❄chapter 8❄

𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝐬𝐭, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟖
𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲
𝟏𝟏:𝟏𝟐𝐀𝐌

I stood in my bathroom as I brushed through my hair while music lowly played from my phone. I put my hair up into a simple ponytail and slipped into my yellow sunflower dress with a slit at the leg.

I grabbed my phone off of the sink and walked out of my room. I walked into the kitchen and filled two mugs up with coffee. I knocked on ciaran's bedroom door and slowly opened it.

He was asleep peacefully and I placed the mug on his nightstand before walking out of the room. We've been pretty weird since last week as you could only imagine. I put on my small white heels and grabbed my bag and my jean jacket off of the couch.

I slid my arms into my jacket and walked outside to my car. I shivered slightly at the cold gust of air that passed me and got into my car. I connected my phone to the Bluetooth and pressed shuffle on my playlist before pulling out of the driveway.

I hummed along to phoebe bridgers as I drove around the parking lot looking for a space. I finally found a nice spot and parked my car. I grabbed my tote bag and blanket from the passenger seat and got out of the car.

I took my heels off and felt my feet sink into the sand. I know, out of all places why the beach on a winter day in la? I don't know to be honest. I always feel so at peace when im at the beach.

I spread my blanket on the sand and sat with my knees against my chest. I took out a book form my bag and flipped through the pages. I looked into my bag and pulled out a map that had been in there for a while.

I got it when I first got here. It was listed with fun activities to do here in la. My phone rang in my bag and I pulled it out to see that Ciaran was calling me. "hello?" I answered. "Where'd you go?" he asked.

"The beach. Why?" I asked. "I woke up and you weren't here I just wanted to see if you're okay" he said. "Yeah im good. Is that it?" I asked. "Hey marcey" he said. "Yeah?" I said. "Im really sorry about...you know. I really don't want it to be weird between us, it sucks" he said.

"Oh thank god because I hate this" I said letting out a relived sigh. "Hey, wanna go to knotts?" I asked. "Ill meet you there" he said. "Great. see you then" I said and we hung up.

I gathered my things and walked back to my car. I slipped my heels back on and started my car.

I paid for parking and waited for ciaran to text me, letting me know he's here. My phone screen lit up with a text from ciaran telling me that he's here and I grabbed my bag and got out of the car.

I walked over to ciaran who was getting out of his car. "Hey" I said. "Hi" he said closing his car door. "You're wearing a dress" he said. "It felt like a dress kind of day" I said. "Even though its freezing" I added on.

We walked side by side as we entered the park. I admired the tall Christmas tree that stood high in the air. "They're so fast" I said. "That's definitely been there since November 1st" he said and I chuckled.

"Ferris wheel?" I asked and he nodded his head. I grabbed his wrist and walked quickly to the ride.

Some time had passed and we sat on a bench as ciaran lit a cigarette. He softly nudged my side to ask if I wanted to take a drag and I grabbed it from his hand and inhaled. "Hey cici" I said.

"Yeah?" he asked. "I'm sorry about freaking out, it was pretty shitty of me" I said. "No its okay marcey, I understand why" he said. "I just can't lose you ciaran. I don't want to do anything that puts our friendship on thin ice you know" I said and he nodded his head.

I leaned my head onto his shoulder and watched the lights on the Christmas tree flash different colours. "You ready to go?" he asked and I nodded my head. We walked back to the parking lot and parted ways as we went to our cars.

I pulled into the driveway and walked inside, ciaran following behind me. "Let's go to your room" I said walking to his room. "Why not yours?" he asked. "We're always in my room" I responded.

I sat down on his bed and he put 'small worlds' by mac miller on before sitting down next to me.