Twenty minutes later Parker and I get to the equally freezing store. I was praying that it was going to be warm inside but of course not. I pull myself tighter to Parker as we walked around the store. I still feel a little bit high but not completely. That blunt didn't really do justice to me.
" I want snacks" I mumble. Parker looks down at me and smiles.
" Get whatever you want" he says pulling a few drinks out of the fridge. I damn near skip to the snack aisle. I pick up a few bags of chips and chocolates.
" Sir you can't smoke that in here!" A deep voice says in the direction of where I had left Parker.
" Oh fuck" I rush back over to where Parker was standing to see a average sized man pointing his finger at Parker.
"Put it out or leave!" He yells.
" Man shut the fuck up your ass don't even work here" Parker yells back
I run over to him. "Please Parker put it out and let's go" Parker looks at me as he drops his cigarette on the stores floor and smash it with his sneaker. leaving a weird mark of the floor.
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Parker and I decide instead to take the bus home because it was was way too cold to walk and it was starting to blizzard. We sit in the box for the bus, which was filled with three more peoples including the guy from the store.
"Please just ignore him" I say scooting closer to Parker. He nods as he pulls out his new pack. Parker lights the cigarette and holds it between his teeth.
"Sir, can you please put that out" the man from earlier says sternly to him. Parker rolls his eyes, and continues to inhale and exhale the warm smoke. He rubs his arms trying his hardest to warm himself up. Parker turns to me and smiles.
"Sir can you please put your cigarette out" he repeats himself. Parker turns to me as he gets up right in front of the man's face. "This is a no smoke zone" He continues. I stand up next to Parker and put my hand
on his chest.
"Well sir,I kindly don't give two fucks." Parker says giving him a kind sarcastic smile, as he inhales and exhale smoke into the guys face.
"Parker!!" I yell at him, pushing him a little with my one hand "stop it! What the hell?"
The man looks at Parker with fierce eyes. He's so mad steam begins to come out his ears. I look at parker who's looking at me who is still smoking the cigarette.
"What the hell is your problem!" The man shouts.
" Cigarette assholes like you who thinks they can tell me when and where to smoke." Parker shout back. I grab Parker by his shirt and pulls him away from man.
"Parker please" I say grabbing his hand. He looks me fiercely in the eyes before yanking his body away from me.
"Fuck you Julie your suppose to have my back!" He yells poking me in the shoulder. I close my eyes and I try to imagine this not happening. But when I open my eyes Parkers not there and I'm on the bus on my way to the campus. Of course he did it again. He stormed away from me and walked home.
When I get to campus. I start to feel like I'm going to breakdown I walk to the girls dorm slowly as it got colder.
I see someone sitting on the steps, smoking a cigarette the very last thing I want to see at the moment. Their back is turned toward me. The person gets up and I start to panic. Quickly I hide behind the staircase.
It's ben. I back up I don't want him to see me on the verge of braking down. My plan is to walk around the dorm and hopefully when I get back he won't be there. Slowly but surely I back up.
"whoa!!" I fall straight on my ass with the loud crunch of the half ice half snow. "Shit fuck" I whisper to myself. Because that helps me at the moment. I close my eyes and seconds later I can feel a presence near me. Finally I open my eyes to see Ben crouching next to me because who else?
" So did you die or...?" Ben laughs out as he sit criss cross on the ground. I smile. " Julie right?"
I nod. "Are you drunk?"
"A little high that's all" I say. He nods.
" why are you alone at this time outside" Ben says
" I could be asking the same thing" I laugh.
"Can I just say your boyfriend is very rude" I look at him confused, until I realize he's talking about Parker. My heart sinks to my stomached and I feel as If I I'm going to cry again.
"He's not my boyfriend, he's my asshole best friend" I frown. Ben smirks and looks out into the street. What is he thinking about? I sit up and scoot over toward Ben. He scoots closer and puts his arm around my and I rest my head on his shoulder. I feel chill. I haven't felt like this for a very long time and it feels nice as fuck. I could honestly sleep here. It's like two am and we're both very passed curfew. None of the security guard are going to see us because we're hidden beside the stairs.
"I'm sorry to hear that" Ben yawns out as he snuggled closer to me.
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When I wake up in the morning it was exactly what I expected. Ben in my bed. I don't think we did anything I still have my sweatshirt on but not my pants. I look on the ground to find my pants from last night on the floor next to Ben's. Geez what's wrong with me. I mean Ben is very very very cute but this is not the type of thing I'd do.
My phone buzzes on the floor. I groan loudly before reaching toward the ground for my phone.
Shit shit shit. Parker Parker Parker. Nope nope nope. I set my phone on the ground and wake Ben by shaking him. "It's Monday we have class" Ben groans as he gets out of bed and put his pants on.
"Fun night" he smiles. "We should do it again sometime"
" what was it exactly" I say.
"We drank alcohol at dani's and then you got so drunk I had to carry you here and I slept here" he says sitting next to me as he puts on his black vans. "You should probably stay home today just In case you get a headache." My phone buzzes and I don't even bother to look at it." Parker is calling" Ben smirks. "If you love him so much why are you ignoring him?"
"Who said I loved him" I said crossing my arms across my chest.
"You did last night" he nervously laughs out " remember when you called him?."
