Out of My Dreams

Chapter 2

"So Amalia, what was that whole conversation with Charlie this morning?" Rowan asked Amalia. It was 4:00, aka closing time, so they were cleaning up tables. 

Amalia's face turned almost as red as her hair. "It was nothing." She said, and continued wiping the tables.

"Really? Because the look on your face says otherwise." Rowan said. Amalia whipped him with her rag. 

"You know, students get into all school games for free..." Rowan said. "Where are you going with this?" Amalia asked him. "Well, I'm just saying that we could go see the hockey game tonight. It starts at 6." Rowan said.

Amalia smiled a little, but quickly hid it. "Okay, fine. I'm only coming because I don't have anything going on. Not to see Charlie. Are we clear?" Amalia said. "Crystal." Rowan replied. "Oh! You're driving." Amalia said with a grin, and Rowan groaned.

***

After about 30 minutes of scrubbing down tables, Amalia went upstairs to change out of her work clothes and into something for the game. 

She looked for her oversized UCONN hoodie, but had no luck finding it. She grumbled in frustration. So instead of her UCONN hoodie, she found a dark blue cropped quarter zip. She paired the quarter zip with a pair of her brand new flared leggings and her mini uggs. She also brought a white puffball hat and a pair of white fluffy gloves.

Amalia walked into her bathroom to do her hair and makeup. She decided to curl it a little, nothing too crazy. She put on concealer, blush, highlighter, and mascara. 

She put her hat on, but decided to keep the gloves in her pocket until her and Rowan got to the rink. 

She texted Rowan,

lmk when you're here

k

Amalia rolled her eyes at the message. He knew that she absolutely hated when he said things like "k".

***

At exactly 5:24, Rowan pulled up to the curb in front of Anderson's Coffee. "Get in loser, we're going to a hockey game." Rowan called from the drivers seat. Amalia hopped in on the passengers side and said, "I just threw up in my mouth. Never say that again."

"Cry about it." Rowan said, and sped off.

"Can I have aux?" Amalia asked him, but before he could answer she unplugged his phone from the chord. "Hey!" Rowan said.

Amalia plugged her phone into the aux and played Betty by Taylor Swift. "Enough with this Taylor Swift crap." Rowan said, reaching to pause the music, but Amalia swatted his hand away. "No! Just listen." Amalia said.

At the chorus of the song, she began to sing along. Well not singing, more like yelling. 

"WHAT IF I JUST SHOWED UP AT YOUR PARTY, WOULD YOU HAVE ME WOULD YOU WANT ME, WOULD YOU TELL ME TO GO FUCK MYSELF OR LEAD ME TO THE GARDE-" She yelled, but Rowan paused it.

"You're making my goddamn ears bleed. Shut the fuck up." He said, and put on Beautiful Girls by Sean Kingston. 

Amalia laughed and said, "Okay, this is something I can get behind." and started singing along.