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#9 start

—— AVANI HOLLISTER

I was outside the school and was sitting on one of the benches, I was waiting for my brother to come pick me up, sadly he was sleeping until I called him.

Willow and Tabitha went home already so I'm kind of alone.

My attention averted to the main entrance to my school, Morgan closed the door harshly and walked out in anger, he looked at me and quickly looked away before making his way to his car and driving off.

Oh.

I shrugged my shoulders but couldn't help but to be curious and concerned, I already cheered him up this morning?

My brothers car pulled up in front of me and I got up and opened the door before sitting down in the passenger seat.

-

After getting home, I remembered that I had to do my project with him today at around 4-5 pm, I'm scared that he'll cancel on me.

Which isn't really a problem but we're really late and almost everyone in our class finished except us. In fact, we didn't even start.

I shook my head and walked to my closet to pick out something comfortable to wear, I decided to just keep it low key considering we're only going to the café to study.

If freshman me knew I would be going to a café with Morgan Adkins I would burst out laughing.

Mostly because I wouldn't believe myself.

I wore a light sage sweater with grey shorts, I then wore my white socks and slipped into my white Adidas sneakers.

I'm a sneakers girl, if my family ever told me to wear high heels I would have a mental breakdown and argue with them until they would just let me wear sneakers.

They would always pull the "You're a girl! You have to wear high heels!" nonsense on me.

I decided to leave my hair out today and brought a hair tie with me just in case, I grabbed my backpack and put all my important supplies in there.

Such as, paint, canvas, brushes, and literally everything we need for the project.

Then I got a notification, my eyes widened at my phone as my mouth was held agape.

'Can you just come over to my house instead? Don't feel like going out rn'

He's acting as if I wanna go out, but if its Morgan I'm down for anything.

I agreed and he sent me the location shortly after I left my home, his house was only a few houses away from me which wasn't far.

The music blasted in my ears as I bopped my head around while smiling, I was listening to 'pop star' by Coco and Clair Clair, definitely one of my favorite songs of all time.

—— MORGAN ADKINS

I'm sitting on my couch right now and I was just scrolling on my phone waiting for Avani to arrive, she said she wouldn't take long so I prepared some quick snacks. Chips and coke.

I was interrupted by the sound of knocking on the door, must be her. I got up and opened the door for her, being greeted by a cute smile on her face.

I meant normal smile, her smile is normal.

"Hey" She greeted me.

"Sup," I shut the door and lead her upstairs to my room.

While I was preparing our supplies, I caught her admiring my room. "Like my room?" I smirked.

She nodded and continued to look around, especially my retro themed posters, she looked totally mesmerized She then pointed at my most prized possession, my moms favourite drawing.

It was a drawing she drew when she was younger, she drew it when she was in love with my dad. It was a sunflower with a background of a sunset, the sunset represented her comfort when she's around him, the sunflower would represent her passion whenever he's around her.

I was never a fan of romance but when it comes to my parents story I'll sit there for hours, their stories are very interesting.

Maybe that's the reason I'm so gloomy and depressing.

 "This one is nice, what does it mean?" She asked, I don't think it would be the right time to tell her this right now, I haven't even told my closest friends.

"Its nothing.." I chuckled lowly.

I cleared my throat and patted the empty space next to me on my bed and we both began to do our project.

If you think I'm weird for painting on my bed, I already put Saran Wrap so I wouldn't get my bed dirty.

I let her give out a few ideas, "I don't know much about you but I'm thinking about drawing a rose and you-"

"Can make the rest of the canvas black to represent my emptiness?" I cut her off while tilting my head.

She furrowed her eyebrows, "I was thinking about you drawing the moonlight but I guess that works too..?" I laughed, her eyes slightly widening.

"Thats the first time I heard you laugh" She smiled.

She has a point, I don't laugh a lot in front of people other than a few friends, "yeah.." I replied quietly.

I guess she felt like she was making me uncomfortable, which obviously wasn't true, her company was nice, it felt like there's somebody who finally doesn't judge me by my personality.

We continued to do our project and surprisingly finished in under a few hours, there are just a few more finishing touches.

Sadly she has to leave now.

What? I don't like her. At all.

What are you doing to me Avani?

-

Is Morgan finally falling in love with her?

~ Sofi