Him and Her||✔︎

Chapter 16

I wake up to my alarm blaring beside me. I check the time and it's 7:30 am. Oh shit I'm late. I get out of bed in a hurry, get dressed and everything in 5 minutes and then run downstairs grab a banana and run out the door.

As I'm rushing to school Dylan's car pulls up beside me.

"Hey princess want to ride?" He asks.

"Yes please", I say as I enter the passenger side. Once I enter Dylan's car we drive the rest of the way to school in silence and I eat my banana.

We get to school and walk to my locker hand in hand. I'm still not used to people watching us as we walk around and I think I will never be used to it since I'm used to everyone completely ignoring me when I walk around the school, and besides I'm sure it will go back to that once Dylan graduates.

I push the thought of being alone next year out of my head when we get to my locker. I grab my stuff then go with Dylan to his locker since we have a lot of time before first period starts. When Dylan gets his stuff we decide to go to the English stairwell and hang out there for a while until the bell rings.

*Time Laps to Lunch*

It's lunch time and I'm heading to my locker. When I go around the corner where my locker is located Dylan isn't there and I'm okay with that because I know he will be here soon. I open my locker and put my stuff in it then all of a sudden someone puts their hand in front of my eyes. I automatically tense up but then I hear the person say "Guess who" and I automatically recognize the voice as Dylan's.

"Hmmm", I say acting like I'm thinking.

"I know it's you Dylan", I say taking his hands away from my eyes.

"Awe how did you know?" He ask disappointed that I knew it was him.

"Well 1 who would do cover my eyes other than you cause no one likes me, and 2 I know the sound of your voice", I say smiling at him.

"Oh okay", He says looking away.

"Is everything okay?" I ask worried about him.

"Yeah everything is fine come on let's go to the stairwell", He says holding his hand out for me to take it. I take his hand and we walk to the stairwell.

We reach the stairwell and when we sit down I play with his hair in silence.

"Thalia?" He finally says.

"Yes Dylan", I respond.

"You know what today is?" He asks.

"Yeah the 16th", I say to him.

"Yeah and 1 month today we started dating", He says.

"Yes we did. Oh shit Dylan I'm so sorry I forgot. I did get you something and put it in my bag last night so I wouldn't forget and here I am forgetting today is our 1-month anniversary", I say.

"Princess it's okay, and here I got you this", Dylan says handing me a nicely wrapped box.

"Here's your gift", I say as I hand him a box wrapped in his favourite colour.

He takes the present and smiles at me. I really hope he likes it. He carefully unwraps the present like if he isn't careful it will explode or something. When he finally unwraps the present his smile grows even bigger.

"Princess I love it", He says kissing me. I had no idea what to get him so I decided to get a picture frame and put a picture of us in it. I decorated the frame with hearts and inside the hearts I wrote cheesy things.

"Okay your turn", He says to me.

I slowly open the box and when it's finally open I gasp. My hand immediately covers my mouth and tears well up in my eyes.

"Dylan it's beautiful", I say. Inside the box lay half of a heart necklace and it says forever and always on it. I turn the necklace over and see Dylan's name engraved on the back of it. I look at him and I can't hold back my tears anymore. I hug Dylan while crying.

"Stop crying princess your tiara is going to fall off", He says while hugging me.

"I can't help it no one has ever gotten me something like this", I say looking at him now.

"Well I have the 2nd half of the heart", He says and smiles.

"Do you now?" I say smiling.

"Yes and do you want to put on your new necklace?" He asks. I just nod my head yes and hand him the necklace. I turn around and try and move my hair out of his way while he puts the necklace around my neck.

I look down at the necklace and smile instantly. I knew from that moment that I will never take it off.

I can feel Dylan watching me and honestly I love it when he does. I find it cute that when I catch him staring at me he looks away like he didn't do anything.

"I love you Dylan Justin Lewis", I say to him before kissing his cheek.

"I love you Thalia Melissa Parker", He says and then he leans down to kiss me.

I instantly wrap my arms around his neck and kiss him back. This feels so natural. Dylan kissing me, my arms around his neck and in his hair, his hands on my waist.

We pull back and stare into each other's eyes.

"This has been the best month ever", I say still staring into his eyes.

"It certainly has", He says back smiling and still staring into my eyes.

I'm going to miss Dylan so much after he graduates next year. I try so hard not to think about it but I know that even though Dylan is graduating it doesn't mean it's the end of our relationship.