The Exchange Student

Adrien

  It's about 10:00pm when Evangeline leaves my house. It was the most fun I ever had in my whole life, just because Italy seems like a great place and it looks like we have the best life sometimes we find other things fun and that was hanging out with Evangeline.

 I help clean up the living room and that's when I ask my host dad if we could sit down and talk about something that I needed advice on. We sit down and I say it's about Evangeline he tells me to say what I have to say, "Well I like Evangeline but I don't think it's right for me to like her, since I won't see her after may. I don't know how long distance would work if we have different time zones" he looks shocked when I say all that it takes him a minute before talking again "Adrien if you like the girl why don't you try it, it's not like it's gonna be may soon. I'm sure she sees you the same way". 

   After talking to my host dad I head back to my room I check Evangeline's stories on Instagram and it's picture of us. I see I have a message from Valetin asking to talk to me about something I ask him what's up, in that moment I get a call from him "Yo Adrien, You and Evangeline? y'all a thing now or what's going on?" I don't know how to respond what if my best friend thinks I'm playing his sister? 

 It takes me a moment to process what I'm going to say, After minutes of quietness I say "Valetin I don't know anymore, I don't wanna hurt her knowing I can't give her what she wants and knowing the fact I'm not here to stay is what's stopping me from actually knowing if I have feelings for her. Trust me bro I don't wanna hurt her". We talk for about 10 more minutes, he hangs up because Evangeline got home, it seemed like he didn't want her to know we were talking about us.

   I can't hurt her.. If I hurt her, I hurt myself.

  I post Evangeline back.. A week from now is homecoming I'm excited but my heart melts because what if I do end hurting Evangeline? She's an amazing friend I would absolutely not forgive myself if I ended up hurting her. I decided to stay up for a bit while I'm in bed writing in my journal I see Evangeline text me asking me what color we should wear to homecoming, I let her choose the color which she chose dark blue (it's her favorite color).

  It's about 3:00 am now I decided to facetime my real parents, they asked what I was doing up late at night I told them what was going on in my head. They seemed disappointed that they can't be here to give me the advice I need. I miss my family I mean it's not daily but when I need them the most they have to be far.

 I decided to finally go to bed because I know tomorrow will be a long day, I promised Evangeline I'd help her look for dresses and she'd help me pick out a suit which I plan on probably just wearing all black with the dark blue tie. She called me basic when I told her my outfit plan but I mean this is all new to me at the same time back in Italy parties were at houses and we would wear whatever we want. I mean every girl In Italy either dresses like a hooker or a basic Italian girl. 

 I mean it's not bad as I dress like a basic Italian too but there's my days I can dress like a grandpa would dress but I mean we have our styles. I happen to like the grandpa style I mean if I look sexy dressing like that right now, imagine me at an old age. Getting a head of myself I really need to get to bed.