System Shock

Fading

I love you but I'm fading; I've been waiting here so patiently-- B2K

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SKYLAR's POV

I woke up Saturday morning feeling brilliant. I felt 100% better than I have the past few days.

I rolled out of bed and got ready for my day. I showered and blow dried my hair. I put on dark blue skinny jeans, a red tank top with a black fitted hoodie and my red Tom's.

I decided I'm leaving this damn house. I grabbed my cell phone and called Natalie but I didn't get an answer. I rolled my eyes and tried calling her again. Still no answer.

Oh, I know, I'll call Dreux and hang out with him. The phone only rang twice before he answered.

"Hey Skylison" Dreux greeted through the phone. He's always called me that, combining my first name, Skylar, and my middle name Madison.

"Hey Dreux" I said back. "I'm bored, let's do something"

"what do you wanna do?"he asked.

"I don't have a clue. Movie?" I suggested.

"alright. I'll be over in 10"

"ok, bye kid"

"Bye Sky"

We hung up with each other. Hearing his voice always puts a smile on my face. He's always had that affect on me.

Honestly, when I'm upset about something, I'd rather talk to him than anyone, including Natalie. The thing about her is she gets worked up with me, but Dreux actually helps me somehow.

I went to the kitchen and got some froot loops and orange juice. Looks like I'm home alone. Nice.

Not even 10 minutes, more like 5, there was a knock at the door. I got up and answered the door. It was Dreux of course.

"hey" Dreux said while pulling me into a tight hug and kissing me on the cheek.

"hey" I said, walking back into the kitchen and sitting back at the table to continue eating my froot loops. Dreux sat next to me and watched.

"need something?" I asked. He shook his head no and walked over to a drawer and pulled out a spoon. He walked back over to me and sat down, pulling the bowl in between us, helping himself. I just laughed. He's always been like this.

"I know you're not about to sit here and eat all the green ones." I said pulling the bowl away from him.

"shut up, you know that's my favorite color." Dreux said.

"no, that's my favorite color."

"well , I was born first, so I call dibs" he pulled the bowl back in between us and I laughed.

"wait a second. This is my damn cereal"

"but sharing is caring." He said throwing me a puppy dog face.

"fine" I said pouting.

He laughed and poked my lip with his spoon. "put that away. It doesn't work on me."

We laughed and finished up, stuck the bowl in the dishwasher, and then we headed to his car.

In his car we fought with the radio station like we always do, of course he won because it's his car and he just had to throw me that damn puppy dog face again.

"so what's Nat up to?" I asked

"she's out with her new boyfriend Drake." He answered while rolling his eyes and gripping the steering wheel tighter.

That heifer didn't even tell me. That's alright I'll get her later.

"I'm guessing you don't like him" I implied.

"nah, he's alright, I guess. It's just that he's Marques's age and in college and I don't want my sister taken advantage of"

Dreux has always looked out for her like that. Always the overprotective brother.

I just nodded not knowing what to really say.

"so Dreux bear, can I ask you something?" I said looking at the side of his face.

"you just did" he said smirking.

"you know what I meant" I said as I rolled my eyes.

"go ahead Skylison"

"why aren't you dating anyone? I know there has to be someone you like."

He paused for a moment looking at the road ahead of him as his cheeks slowly began to turn red.

"awwwww Dreux. Who is she?" I asked.

He smiled then looked at me then back at the road. "I'm not telling you" that's what he always says when I ask him that. It's so aggravating.

"come one Dreux" I pleaded. "I tell you everything"

He sighed. "fine. Do you really wanna know?"

"yes!" I semi yelled causing him to jump a little.

"it's.. HALLE BERRY, HALLE BERRY!" he sang just like Hurricane Chris.

I mushed the side of his head. "you're so dumb"

"yeah, but you love it"

I rolled my eyes as we pulled up to the movies.

"so what are we gonna see?" I asked

"I don't know." He answered. "you chose to come here, so I figured you'd choose"

We walked up to the list of movies and times and stared at it. He wrapped his arm around my shoulder and leaned on it as we looked.

After about 10 minutes we gave up on looking for a movie and just decided to play at the arcade they had there.

"Dreux, before we do anything we are taking a picture in the photo both." I ordered.

"but I don't wanna." He whined.

"pleaseeeeee!" I begged tugging on his arm.

He rolled his eyes. "fine, but I get to keep whichever one of the pictures I want"

"Deal" I said towing him into the booth behind me.

He fed the machine the coins.

For the first picture we just smiled and I gave him bunny ears. For the second picture Dreux wanted us to act tough, which was difficult because I kept laughing. For the the third picture we just made funny faces.

"what do you wanna do for this picture?" he asked. "it's gotta be good."

"I don't know" I answered. "let's just smile again."

He nodded. Right before the camera took a picture, I kissed him on the cheek.

We got out of the both and he kept smiling. The machine spit the photos out but he snatched them from me before I could look at them. He glanced at them, then tore one off.

He gave me the rest. He had taken the final photo of us.

"why did you take that one?" I asked. "I didn't even get to see it"

His cheeks turned bright red. "it's my favorite."

"why are you blushing?" I asked because the longer we stood there, the redder his cheeks got.

"I'm not" he said. "it's just really warm in here."

"yeah, I guess it is kinda hot in here" I agreed. "let's just grab some ice cream from Baskin Robbins down the street"

I looked at our photos again then stuck them in my pocket. We headed back to his car and drove down the street to Baskin Robbins and got two large cups filled with different flavors of ice cream and went back to my house.

After we finished our ice cream, Dreux put a movie in and I popped some popcorn and grabbed two 2 liter bottles of sprite. Our favorite soda.

"ready?" he asked plopping down on the sofa.

"yup. What are we watching first?"

"Pitch Perfect"

"alright" I said while grabbing the blanket off the top of the sofa and wrapping it around me. Dreux pulled me against his chest and took the blanket away from me and re-wrapped it around both of us.

I laughed. "comfy now?" I asked.

He chuckled and started the movie. "very."