Merediths POV
I wake up in the morning, remembering last night. Oh no. I can't date Derek.
Alex would probably be so mad and I need to focus on my studying. Besides im not ready for a relationship. I hope he doesn't except anything to happen between us.
I look at my phone to see a text from an unknown number.
Unknown: hey! Alex gave me your number I hope that's okay lol. I just wanted to say good morning and ask what are you doing today? We could hang out or something if you want to (this is Derek btw if you didn't realise)
What am I going to say to him? 'last night was amazing but I never want to see you again' yeah right. I try to think of something to say but can't come up with anything so I just decide to get my morning stuff done.
I save Dereks number first so I'll remember to text him back. Just out of politeness. I get up and take a quick shower washing my hair. I brush my hair and put on some light make up before putting on some sweatpants and a black camisole.
I go downstairs to see that I'm home alone. Alex hasn't come home from Jo's yet. I eat some breakfast before going back upstairs to get some studying done.
I can't focus though because I just keep thinking about Derek and how I should text him back. I need to tell him I'm not ready to be anything more than friends but I have to do it face to face.
Me: Hey Derek! I had so much fun last night. Yeah we can hang out today. I wanted to talk about something anyways. You wanna pick me up at my house in an hour? We can go somewhere
He texted me back almost immediately.
Derek: I'll be there in an hour❤️
He texted a red heart. A FREAKING RED HEART? What if he wants to be more than just friends? I can't think about this right now.
I need to get ready to meet with him. I can't wear sweatpants. God, why do I care so much about how I'll look? We're just friends, Who kissed.
I change into a mini denim skirt and a red long sleeve. I look at the clock and see that Derek is going to be here soon. I spray some perfume on and brush through my now dry hair. I'm just putting on some clear lip gloss when I hear his car pull up to my driveway.
I run downstairs and open the door. He's standing in front of his car. Why does he have to look so good? He's wearing blue jeans and a red t-shirt. "Are you stalking me" I laugh as I see we're matching. "great minds think alike" He says as I walk over to him.
"So where do you wanna go?" He asks me as he opens his passenger door for me and gets in to the drivers side. "Do you have a fake ID" I ask him. "Is that even a question?" He chuckles.
I know I shouldn't be getting drunk with him, my decision making isn't the best when I'm drunk, as we know from last night. But I just wanna have some fun after all that studying.
We drive to the booze store and I wait in his car as he goes inside. He comes back with a brown bag and pulls out a tequila bottle. "You remembered" I smile as he gets in the car. I told him last night about how much I love tequila. "Of course I did"
"So um... we need to talk about something" I said nervously. "sure" he said, I don't know what he was excepting me to say but whatever.
"Last night was amazing, really amazing. But I don't think I'm ready to be anything more than friends with you" I blurted out. He just sat there in silence. I didn't know what to say. I could see he was sad. God I hope he doesn't want to not see me ever again.
"That's fine by me, I'm not looking for anything either. I mean I really like you but I'm totally fine with being friends" He finally said after very awkward silence.
After that we just talked about everything. He drank just very little because he was driving but I drank much more. I was getting a little tipsy but not even close to drunk though. I didn't want to drink too much cuz we had school tomorrow.
"It's weird" I said after taking another swig from the bottle. "What" He chuckled. "I never drink alone with someone, I always just do it in parties and when I'm hanging out in bigger groups" I giggles.
"Well I guess I'm your first" He winked. "Oh that will be the only thing that you're going to be my first in" I laughed. He laughed too. "So not a virgin?" He teased, but I could feel he was asking it seriously. "actually yeah, I just don't think you'll be my first considering we're just friends" I giggled.
"Are you?" I asked him nervously. He just looked down and didn't say anything. "You can tell me, I won't judge" I said seriously, putting my hand on his shoulder.
"Yeah I am" He said quietly. "That's okay, most girls like a guy who doesn't sleep around anyways" I reassured him because he looked kind of embarrassed. I don't really know why though.
We continued talking in his car. I loved talking to him so much. In these past two days I had talked to him a lot and when I say a lot I mean A LOT. We just never ran out of things to say to each other. I didn't have that kind of friendship with many people.
We decided to go home as it was getting a little dark outside. He started the car and began driving to my house.
I got butterflies in my stomach as I felt him put his hand on my bare thigh, my skirt was really short. We arrived at my house and he got out of the car to open the door for me.
"Bye Derek" I smiled. "Bye Mer" He said. I got butterflies again as he called me Mer. We stood really close to each other looking in to each others eyes.
He looked at my lips and I could feel that he was going to lean in so I broke the eye contact. "Bye" I breathed and turned around walking to my door. "Goodbye" I heard him say quietly before I closed the door to go upstairs to my room.
This was just a filler chapter as I don't know what to write. I want to wait and write some drama before they get together but I really don't know what to write abt. Also I need some ideas please
