Once Upon A Starr

Chapter 18: Let's not relive the past

Starry's POV

I entered our home with a huge grin on my face and plopped down the couch beside Steffi with a sigh.

"Ooooh.. Someone's happy.." my sister teased and I just replied her with another dreamy sigh.

"Did he kiss you?" she continued while wiggling her eyebrows with a teasing smile.

I just shook my head but still with the same excitement plastered on my facial features, "nope. But he did ask me out."

Steffi squealed and grabbed my hand to pull me up. We jumped up and down the couch not containing both our excitement. But of course everything good thing comes to an end when I heard the all too familiar voice boom around the living room, "What's going on in here?"

Steffi and I turned to look at this annoying blue-eyed boy but loved him nonetheless.

"Joshie, what are you doing here? I thought you went home already," I asked my best friend.

He simply rolled his eyes at my question, "Glad to know I'm welcome here, Starr," he replied sarcastically and continued, "And yeah, after every one of you left, I went home but got a call from your dad to keep an eye of both of you so I'll be your housemate until they get back."

"Is that so?" I raised an eyebrow at him and he just shrugged and sat down beside me pulling both Steffi and I down to sit as well.

"So, what are you both so excited about?" he asked both of us pointedly and it was then that I remembered Tyler asking me out earlier so I let out an uncontrollable squeal.

He asked me out. He asked me out. HE asked ME out! OMG! I'm going to faint.

Steffi giggled at my reaction and answered Josh, "Tyler asked her out."

Now, it was Joshie's turn to give me a mischievous smile as he nudged me with his elbow. "So our Starry has a date with a hottie," it wasn't a question but a statement but still I nodded with a wistful sigh, "and when is this date taking place?" he continued teasingly.

Still being in my dreamy state, I answered him involuntarily, "tomorrow."

I heard a squeal on my right which obviously doesn't belong to my sister; it was an odd squeal knowing it belonged to my best guy friend whom I used to date before and whom I just found out was gay so basically, his squeal woke me up.

Who wouldn't though? This was all new to me. Can you imagine? My first love squealed! So yeah, they got my undivided attention now.

"Did you just squeal? Oh, nevermind. And yeah, he said he's picking me up at eight tomorrow and I'm sooo excited!" I said with a smile.

Joshie just gave me a side hug and a kiss on the cheek. I could also see in his eyes that he's happy for me so I just leaned into him and muttered a 'thank you'. Steffi, on the other hand, is probably more excited than I am with the huge grin on her face which somehow turned into a frown a few seconds later.

"Steffi, what's wrong" I asked panicked.

She looked at me and gave me an apologetic smile, "Nothing, really. It's just that, I forgot to tell you that Nate texted me yesterday."

I could sense Joshie tense beside me so I grabbed his hand and squeezed it letting him know that it's alright. I turned to look at Steffi, again, and told her that I bumped into him yesterday when Tyler and I were heading out of the pizza house. I also shared with both of them what happened and the conversations that occurred. I continued to talk about everything while walking our way to the dining table.