Sunburn 🌞 Dominic Fike

2.

Once he had paid I followed him out of the gas station into the dark of the night.

"So what's your name" he asked as he followed me to my house

"Eileen, yours?" i asked

"Dominic"

"dominic... dominic" I said to feel it on my tongue. he laughed at me.

We walked to the door of my place.

"so dominic you new here?" I asked as I opened the door

"actually just moved in down the street"

"Oh awesome" I thought of the guy Matt told me about and how dom was probably him.

When we got to my house I put the pizza in the oven and told dominic he could go upstairs as I waited for it to quickly cook. When it had finished and I had gone upstairs to my room I saw dominic sitting on the floor in front of my tv searching through movies.

"look at this mouthwatering baby" i said putting the pizza on a stack of books

"which one" he said smiling up at me and i punched him in the shoulder. I already felt immensely comfortable around him, like we had been friends for years, and I kind of hoped that's what it would turn out to be. I was comforted by the warm lamp and string lights I had on and the cozy blanket I layed out on the floor for us to sit on.

"Ok so I'm thinking Scream to warm up, it's a classic"

"of course, i cant get enough of the franchise" i said as I grabbed a piece of pizza.

The movie came on and me and dom were both propped against the back of the bottom of my bed on the floor.

"So about smoking a blunt..." dominic said as he looked down at me where I had resulted to curling up on the blanket after I had finished eating pizza. i got up and pulled my bag of rolled blunts over to us. We spent the last of the movie smoking. And it was euphoric. This stranger filled a void for me. When the movie had finished and we were both laying down tired as the room swirled with smoke dom got up "holy shit do you play guitar"

"yep" i said

"can i" he asked as he reached for my guitar

"of course " i spoke

positioning myself the opposite way as he sat in my chair playing guitar. I smiled as he played. it was beautiful. but honestly what did I expect from such a beautiful human.

"Woah your incredible" i said smiling

"sometime i'll have to show you what I got" I said as he sat it down.

"why not right now" he asked

"cause i don't condone myself playing guitar high, who knows what could happen"

he laughed at me and came to sit back down beside me smiling down at me.

"so dominic tell me about yourself because as far as I know you could be a serial killer"

"not much to know about me, i grew up in a rough household got out and am barely surviving"

"but you had enough money to buy my pizza" i said smiling, to high to get deep and acknowledge and bond over his struggles

"yup" he said

"how do you make your money" i asked curiously

"music stems that i sell online, and the the few songs that i have and play"

he acted like it was no big deal

"woah so your like for real" i asked

"no" he responded

"yeah you are, i like that your modest though. When you become the biggest artist in the world you'll have to make sure you remember me"

"i won't forget you, after tonight i don't think i can" he said leaning his head back onto my bed as smoke left his throat

"what's that supposed to mean" i said bluntly it was the high me talking

" i don't know it's just that sense i moved out i haven't really found many friends and i was hoping moving here i would meet an amazing person like you"

i nodded and thought to myself, if only he knew how I felt, so much loneliness in my mind

" i dunno, that's deep shit bro and i can't think like that or it's gonna make my head hurt"

he said as he looked down at me.

"come on" i said as i stood up taking his hand in mine and trying to pull him with me running down the stairs.

"woahh eileen where are we going"

"shut up and trust me" is all i said as i ran with him under the street lights.

i ran to the house beyond my neighborhood.

"jump over the fence quick" I said as I pulled dom with me. He followed, and i was happy that made me happy. he trusted me and did it.

we found ourselves in this familiar back yard a beautiful pool that rich kids probably enjoyed in the summer, but for right now it was just us. I stoped quickly "they get home at 11 so..." i said before I pushed us into the beautiful pool that I had enjoyed pleasurly escaping to.

I felt the cool water hit my face and my body go deep, the numbness was unimaginable, but i still felt his hand in mine and i loved it.

I swam back to the surface with dominic

"so you condone swimming while high but not playing guitar" he asked laughing

"exactly" i said smiling

"so what's this" he said motioning to the place

"this is my place it's euphoria and you felt like and extension of that euphoria so it only felt right to bring you here"

"damn" he said not looking at me but instead at the stars. I swam to the side of the pool that he was on, looking where he was

"they're really bright tonight" i said smiling and laying my head on his shoulder

"sometimes I feel like when I'm happy the stars are happy, i think they're shining extra bright for me" he said looking down to his shoulder at me.

"Shit" i whispered impressed

"SHIT" i yelled again as I saw the lights turn on inside the house.

"you said we had till 11 dumbfuck" dominic harshly said, still laughing from his high.

"uh oh, RUN" I yelled trying to get out of the pool. Dom was already out and grabbed my hand as I jumped out of the pool, we continued to run hand in hand as we ran towards the fence. We heard distant yells from the homeowner but continued laughing as we jumped the fence.

"I think this is beginning of a beautiful friendship" I said as we continued to run under the street lights.