Time when on like nothing ever happened. Time slowly. Slowly. Went by. Schlatt birthday had passed and he never thought a single thing about that night. He seemed just like his normal self too. Sitting with Ted and sometimes letting me join in and me jumping to his 6'3 height like always in line. It all seemed normal. Until it happened.
"Hello students.
Starting today you will be on lockdown. Classes will be online from now until we know more.
Thank you!"
I look at my phone to text Schlatt. Him and Ted were supposed to graduate this year so if we're on lockdown? How do they graduate? How am I going to be able to-
Jmoney
Did you see that shit? HOW AM I
GOONG TO GRADUATE!! FUC
CKKKKKK!
Me
I have no idea maybe theyll
Still have One?
Delivered
I looked at my phone feeling weird that he left me on delivered like that. Normally he honestly didn't. He'd feel bad for not answering sooner. But, Life went on as normal as it could. I hung out with Lexie like always or tried too. Her mom got the sickness pretty early on so I wasn't allowed over for a while. But Schlatt slowly stopped talking to me though? It was like he was mad at me or something?
Did I do something wrong? Was he really being petty over me not knowing how they'll gradu-
I opened Instagram to see a post. A post that Schlatt made? It had this girl in it?
"I love you babe" @kalynn the picture looked like them standing in front of a mirror and his arms slightly around her. She was smiling big and he was doing his normal half smile.
He had a girlfriend this whole time? He was with someone and I didn't know? But Schlatt tells me everything? He tells me and Ted everything even the weird stupid things that literally don't make sense. Like how does someone hate pickles? They're amazing! I put my phone down and look back at my computer to get some work done. Honestly. It sucked. Work literally sucked and everything was super easy and basically a redo of everything because they could teach us new stuff for some reason over a computer. It only worked if it was "in person". I clicked out of the lesson and decided I wasn't going to do any of it til another time.
The school year went on and so did the summer. Once the post was out me and Schlatt talked maybe once a month. We didn't really say much more like a comment on his twitter that he'd like or he'd like a post on my story. After the post he didn't talk to no one it seemed but Ted. Everyone was dropped and everything girl on his account was taken away from the followers list. All of them but me?
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Me
Hey j. Just wanted to check on
You see if you're ok?
Failed to send
Jmoneyyyy!!!!! I saw the pics!
I'm so proud of you for graduating
I know you'd do it somehow!! Congrats!
Failed to send
Hey j ik this seems crazy but I
Think I saw you at the store! I
Was trying to tell you hi!
Failed to send
Miss you Schlatt! Hope high school
Grad life is going good :)
You message can not be sent to "Jmoney"
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Jmoney
Hey Stella Ik it's been a while but
are you free? Maybe we can go to
that trail you like?
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It had been months since the last time we talked, well more like 7 months when i saw the message. Any other message I had sent didn't get no where and I thought I was blocked for that whole time! I thought i had lost a friend and at some point I finally caught on and decided to stop trying to talk to him. It seemed that he was happy and I didn't want to ruin it. I'd see the pictures on his stories or tweets with her tagged honestly I thought he didn't mean to text me. I texted back telling him I was okay doing that and we decided on once I was out of school that day. I smiled when I realized this was our first time talking in forever and had high hopes for it going well.
School came and went and by the time I had gotten home and changed all I could hear was..
"Alright alright I'm coming! Let me just get the shoes on!!" I yelled like the idiot could. Even hear me. Schlatt was outside waiting for me in his car. I put my shoes on and grabbed my bag. I waved at my mom telling her bye. When I got to the car door I took a deep breath and got in.
When we got to the trail I noticed him pulling out something from the console. It was a pen. He hit it once. Tried not to cough then coughed it all out.
"Do you wanna?" He asked me as I stared at him. I had done it once before but I did it in front of the school in my ex's jacket to cover the smoke. Thankfully I was dumb and didn't hit it right so I never even got high. I took it from him. Looked at it. Then told him to count me down to a second and he did. When we got done with the one we got out and so started the walking.
No one ever tells you how walking high really feels. It was amazing and a different feeling than anything I ever thought could happen to you. Or maybe it was just the fact schlatt was here. I couldn't focus much on the actual words he was speaking but I could see his lips moving. I could see the way he was walking and trying to keep up with me. I could have kissed him rig-
"Hey look a tiny acorn! Wait is that a pine cone or an acorn?" I said as I picked up something small. He laughed at me and just shook his head. It was a pinecone but it was so tiny and small it looked like an acorn somehow. We kept walking and talking about random things in the world. The way it was hot outside kind of. How the leaves were going back. His favorite color and every once in a while he'd look at his phone and text someone. I guess she can't even leave him alone for a few minutes to walk.
When we got back to the car the sun was starting to go down and I guess miss princess needed him back to his own house so we decided after our second lap he'd take me back home. I looked around. Looked at him and thought about doing it. But I couldn't be that person. That wouldn't be right would it?
If I do then it's done. He'd hate me. So i put the thought in the back of my head, and decided that day id never think of schlatt in a crushing or liking him kind of way.
On the way back home he turned on music. Certain songs on his playlist I had never ever heard of before. Ones I didn't think could exist. Even thought it was just deftones. He played cherry hill first and I looked at the tree went by me. He looked happy to me but also looked so anxious just to get back home.
"Oh. Wait. I got someone else for you to hear!" And as he said it a new one came up. Bottom top by night lovell. I listened to the lyrics like I always did. For some reason all my life lyrics told me a lot. It told me things people didn't really want to say in my own opinion and as I heard the lyrics. I thought maybe that's what he was doing. But it couldn't be. Could it?
"Well ah. This is my house. Thanks schlatt. It meant a lot to be able to see you! Hopefully you can hang out sometime again?" I said getting my purse and opening the door.
"Yeah.. maybe sometime.." he said giving me a gentle smile. I closed the door and walked up the driveway and didn't see him move til I was in the door safe.
That was the last time I saw or talked to him for a while. Schlatt went away. Ted still stayed near and so did Lexie. But Schlatt... he disappeared. You'd see him post a new story every once in a while. But he never looked at anything. Until two years later. He started liking my photos again. Liking my stories. He was back but. Not in the way I wished.
Look look listen okay!!! I'm using real events on this basically and can't remember 100% half of the events I'm using during this time so yes there's a lot of time skip but!!!! Soon it won't be and I can tell in decent enough details but this is half made up right now okay!
-ya mama
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Wherefrombro? :// jschlatt
Casuale" oh come on Stella. It wasn't even that bad!" "If that's the way you think I don't see this continuing"
