Ecie & Esme III: Forever and a Day

Five

Esme opened her eyes and rubbed them.

'Crap,' she jumped when she saw Dylan standing in the doorway staring at her. 'Where's Taylor?'

'He's in the front,' Dylan replied walking into the bedroom and looking around. He walked over to the window and looked out of it. 'He wanted me to check up on you.'

'Right,' Esme nodded calming down. She looked around her and pulled the sheets up to her neck. 'You can tell him that I'm fine.'

Dylan nodded then looked at Esme. 'So Taylor said you bumped into your ex,' he said. 'Must have been awkward.'

'I don't see why Taylor would have told you that,' Esme said beginning to feel a little uncomfortable. 'It's between us.'

'Well we're friends so you know,' Dylan replied. 'He's not sure what he should do about it.'

'I already told him,' Esme replied. 'Anyway, I need to get dressed, so could you leave for a second?'

'Sure,' Dylan nodded. 'I'll just leave you.'

He waited for a few moments looking at Esme before he walked out of the room, closing the door behind him.

Esme stared at the door for a moment before pulling the sheets back and opening Taylor's closet door. She took out a pair of sweatpants and a tee then pulled them on. She checked her reflection in the mirror then smoothed her hair.

Esme walked out onto the balcony where Taylor was sat with Alfie, Dylan, Chris, Ethan and Aaron, smoking.

'You're awake,' Taylor grinned at Esme. 'Did you sleep okay?'

'Yeah,' Esme nodded sitting down in his lap. 'You shouldn't have just left me there you know. You could have left a note or something.'

'The guys came over,' Taylor said. 'You were sleeping so I didn't think you'd mind.'

Esme shrugged. 'We need to talk later.'

'About what?'

'Don't worry about it,' Esme kissed Taylor on the lips then turned to face his friends.

'So how was your first day?' Alfie asked exhaling. 'Did you learn a lot?'

'Only the names of people sitting on either side of me,' Esme replied relaxing back into Taylor's chest. He kissed her head and played with her hair. 'Have you guys done anything other than smoke pot all day?'

'We went surfing this morning,' Aaron replied. 'Then we came here and started smoking pot.'

'So your day hasn't been a total waste then?'

'What's up with your girl Tay?' Chris laughed.

'She's just woken up,' Taylor replied from behind Esme. 'She's sometimes a little weird.'

'I'm sat right here,' Esme said. 'I'm not completely invisible.'

'Don't worry about that,' Dylan winked at her. 'I can still see you.'

'Why don't you take some,' Ethan said passing her his joint. 'This'll calm you down.'

'No thank you,' Esme said. 'Should you guys even be smoking here?'

'Who cares,' Ethan laughed shrugging. 'As long as the alarms don't go off, I should think we'll be okay.'

'Anyway,' Chris said. 'We're all going to hang out on Manhattan tonight; do you want to join us?'

'I'm hanging out with Ecie tonight,' Esme replied. 'Maybe another time.'

'Do you have any classes tomorrow?' Aaron asked. 'We could come and pick you up or something.'