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"i still can't believe he kissed me," i told aanya while making hot pockets. "on your head," she reminded me. i smiled, "a kiss is a kiss." she smiled back as the microwave beeped.
i ate them while talking to aanya about what we should do for the day. we decided on going to the mall after we ate our lunch. i finished my hot pocket and did my makeup. we were now headed to the mall.
we arrived and immediately went into pacsun. we bought a few items and left to go to forever 21. as we were exiting the store, i saw two familiar boys followed by a camera man. "how are they every where?" aanya laughed.
the two boys sat at a table in the food court with lucas filming them while standing up. they were talking to the camera as we started to approach.
we walked over to them sneakily. "BOO!" i jumped out from behind the boys and they both yelled. "fuck bro, that scared me," baylen said, clutching his chest in fear.
"hey aanya," peej greeted the girl who was still giggling from their reactions. "look who's the prankster now," i looked into the camera. "it's still me," baylen pulled me away from the camera so he could get into frame.
"before we mess with anyone else, let's get food," he looked at peej. "chic-fil-a!" he pointed at the small restaurant in the food court.
"are you guys hungry?" baylen looked back to aanya and i. "we just ate," she responded. the boys walked away from the table to grab their food. "i can't get over peej's hair," my friend gushed as soon as they were out of earshot.
"he kinda looks like lil peep," i glanced over to him as they started telling the worker their order. "i know right!" she exclaimed.
soon enough, the boys got their food and came back to the table. lucas turned the camera off as they started eating. "it's funny bumping into you here," i said. "lucky we aren't banned yet," baylen bit into his chicken sandwich.
"it's be real time!" aanya shouted as the be real notification went off on our phones. i immediantly tapped on the notification and snapped the back picture of all of us. the front picture was baylen biting into his french fries.
"i never got that app," he dipped his fries into ketchup. "it's just to see what your friends are doing," i told him as i posed for aanya's be real.
some of my friends and mutuals started commenting on the be real: "is that baylen levine?" "baylen?!" some of the comments read. i hadn't told anyone me and baylen were hanging out.
mostly, because i forgot he was a influencer. some of it was also because it wasn't a big deal. we had been friends forever it's not like i could just randomly fam girl over him; that would be weird.
"let's go to spencer's," peej suggested. i smiled a bit as we all knew why he wanted to go to spencer's. in the back, there were innumerable sex toys. i had gone inside the store all the time for jokes, never actually buying anything.
"okay weirdo," aanya teased him. when the guys were finished eating, lucas turned the camera back on, and we headed to spencer's.
a short walk across the walk later, and we had arrived. we headed straight to the back. "look at this," baylen laughed, holding a big, pink dildo up to the camera. "ew," i pointed to a butt plug shaped like a dick on the end of it.
we messed around in the store for a while before peej and aanya walked off to get ice cream. baylen and i stayed in the store and lucas went to the bathroom. we were left in spencer's alone.
"you would look good in this," he jokingly pointed to a maroon lingerie set. "oh for sure," i grabbed it off the rack and modeled it for him. i put it back and he was still laughing.
"i forgot how funny you were," he sighed, "i cried for a week straight when you moved." he had a smile on his face. "really? i did too," we both shared a laugh. "you were like the only girl that liked me. you know, as a friend," he added the ending onto his comment.
"yeah and you were like my only friend because you scared all the girls away from me," i giggled. "that i did do," he said as if he was proud of himself.
growing up, baylen and i were always super close. in middle school, i didn't have many friends. considering the boys scared the girls off and i wasn't the best looking, i never had a chance at being popular.
the guys never seemed to care about my looks, though. it was only in freshman year i started to get better looking. the summer before my looks, peej started having a crush on me. i moved the following summer; me and peej weren't meant to be.
i snapped out of my thoughts as baylen pointed out a rick and morty blanket. "oh my gosh! i have to have that," i tried to reach the blanket but it was too high on the shelf. "i got it, shorty," he joked.
i rolled my eyes as he handed me the blanket. "cute!" i examined the blanket closely. "ready to check out?" he asked.
we walked up to the counter and bought the blanket. as we walked out, we spotted aanya and peej sitting on a bench, sharing an ice cream cone. i admired my friend's beauty, aanya was probably the prettiest girl i'd ever befriended.
"isn't she so pretty?" i asked while we walked over to them. "not as pretty as you," he said in a sarcastic tone. i giggled. even if he was just joking, it felt good to be called pretty.
"did you guys buy a dildo or something?" peej looked down the the bag from spencer's in my hand. "no! i got a blanket. look," i pulled the blanket out of the bag to show the two. "you're obsessed with rick and morty," aanya looked at the blanket.
"you don't say?" i folded the blanket back up into the bag. we joined the two on the bench, trying to figure out what to do next. "oh! we should go to a trampoline park," i suggested.
me and the guys practically grew up going to skyzone and other trampoline parks. in middle school especially, we went all the time. most fridays we would be jumping.
"like old times," peej grinned. i missed his smile and began to reminisce about our past memories together. "like old times," i leaned onto baylen.
