The Boy Next Door KEATON STROMBERG

Chapter 10

The first thing I did after I texted Keats was put on some comfy sleepwear. I wore some hot pink shorts and a tank top that says' Pretty Girl'. Lindsay gave it to me last year in my birthday.

After about ten minutes of waiting I heard a knock on my front door. I went downstairs to get the door but my mom beat me to it. My mom opened the door smiling from ear to ear let me tell you she looked really creepy. But I forgot about my mom as soon as my eyes landed upon Keats. He was wearing some black skinny jeans and a' Fall Out Boy' shirt.

"Hey Keaton come in!" My mom greeted him.

"Hey Mrs.Brock and Kat" He says hugging my mom and waving at me.

I don't know what comes over me but I run towards him and hug him.

"Hey Keats love your shirt!" I tell him chuckling and pulling away from him.

"Yeah Fall Out Boy rules!" He says smiling and he puts his arm around my shoulder.

"Ok I'll leave you kids to it." My mom gives me the 'knowing' face as she goes back upstairs to her room.

"All Time Low is better but FOB is good too!" I shrugged and lead Keats towards my kitchen.

"Whatever you say" He shakes his head in amusement.

"Are you hungry cause I'm starving?" I ask him while taking out Flips the cereal not the pretzels.

"A little.... And Jack didn't take you to dinner? " Keats wondered while serving himself cereal.

"Don't even talk about Jack that was so embarrassing and no I didn't eat"

We were now in the dining table eating our cereal and talking about bands. Turns out we had a lot of bands in common.

"How about 1975?" He asks and then my phone rang and I got a text.

"I've only heard the song Sex by them but I love it!" I say smiling and opening the text that was from Lindsay.

She was wondering how it went with Jack. I told her that it went horrible but left it at that since I was too into the convo with Keats. However, Lindsay wouldn't stop texting me so I excuse myself to Keaton and went to the bathroom to call Lindsay.

"Hey Kat why did it go so bad?"

"Lindsay I'll tell you everything later But Keaton is here and I want to be with him so BYE!"

"Wait he's there omg use protection"

I couldn't help but laugh at her immaturity and shake my head.

"Bye Lind" I said and hung up the phone on her. I went back to the dining room to find Keaton staring up in space.

"I'm back I was just talking to Lindsay she drives me nuts. she's so annoying but love her anyway."

"I thought you hated her...?" He looked so confuse. Do I really talk so bad about her.

"Well... I love her, she's a mean whore but she's been there for me when no one else has. She's the only actual friend I have. The other ones are just her followers and they only like me after I changed." Oh crap I said too much. He's not supposed to know this side of me. No one knows my past except Lindsay and well my family.

"What are you talking about? I'm your friend I'll stick with you through whatever as corny and cheesy that sounds it's true. I care for you Kat so please tell me what happened." I was on the verge of tears. I had to tell him sooner or later so why not tell him now.

"You see when I was in eight grade I used to be the loner in every class. The awkward weird girl that nobody liked. Technically no one hated me but that's besides the point, I had no friends. Well depression took the best of me and I started self harming. Anyways that's when I met Lindsay and she was the only one who treated me nice. She was my only friend. With her support she helped me get better. However, I felt the need to change so I stopped listening to rock for a while and went to pop. I stopped using my normal clothes and started using girlier clothes. Now I'm over it I use whatever I want but I feel like if I ever change to punk again everyone would leave and I would be a loner again." I didn't notice I was crying until I see him wiping my tears.

"I would never leave you Kat. I love you too much." He hugged me and I hug him back just as tight.

After our heart-to-heart conversation Keats and I went to sleep. He slept with me in my bed but don't worry nothing happened.

"Goodnight Kat."

"G'night Keats" He kisses the top of my head and pulls me closer to him.