Shawn's POV
I ran to Adri's house ringing the doorbell so many times I could've broken it. I heard heavy footsteps following some profanities before the door swung open.
"Jesus Christ - this better be impor- oh .... hey shawn. Haven't been seeing much of you lately." Ryan greeted me, "Yeah.. I'm here for Adri." I said shaking with excitement, and anxiety. Holy shit, I had 4 hours to plan and buy a whole date.
"Yeah she's upstairs, help yourself" Ryan stepped aside and I rushed into the house and up the stairs.
"Adri! Adri! Adri!" I yelled bursting into her room and jumping on the bed that she was currently laying on - watching her TV.
"ADRI!!!!!" I yelled laying on top of her and bouncing. "Jesus, Shawn - what!?" Adri yelled rolling out from under me. "I need your help." I said finally. "It's on my desk" she rolled her eyes and unpaused New Girl.
"No - with planning a date."
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I don't really know what I expected Adri's reaction to be but I thought it was gonna be a little bit more positive since she's a girl and girls like stuff like that. Instead she threw a fit, she groaned, and threatened, and screamed, she threw target tantrums, and then finally gave out when i offered her $60 if the date ended in "success".
Ever since I put down that offer Adri gave the date absolutely everything.
"if this wallpaper doesn't make you wanna fvck someone I don't know what does" Adri shrugged throwing the package into the shopping cart.
"Adri we have 3 hours can we buy stuff that we actually need?" I asked impatiently staring deeply into the time on my phone screen.
"I love how you dragged me here and now your questioning my vagina logic, lets grab some flowers and then we can leave" she sighed rolling her deep brown eyes before turning the cart around, knocking my hip with it as well. We soon reached the flower section and Adri went and picked out 2 slim glass vases and a pack of single red roses.
"Adri?" I asked her looking up at her my face flushed with pure anxiety.
"What now?" she sighed looking up at me.
"It's six o'clock." and with that sentence we both sprinted to the checkout throwing everything on the self-checkout. Adri quickly scanned the items as i looked for my credit card, I swiped it quick and grabbed all the bags as we both ran to doors.
We ran threw the parking lot and to the car so fast I wonder what it must have looked like. The looks of 'let us into your lane before we crash into your fucking car' seemed to help alot as we drove home since we made every green light and arrived in 2 minutes. Adri messily parked in my driveway and bent over her seat grabbing all of the bags. I quickly unlocked the door and she ran to where the back door was.
A lot of stress and screams later, we put up the wallpaper which was new york or some big city at night in a corner, we set up a table and two chairs, put the flowers in vases, folded the matching red napkins, and turned on the fireplace. For whatever reason - Adri had white wine so she put it into the champagne glasses we got questioned buying and that was the last touch.
We collapsed tiredly onto the floor before she turned her head to me, "I better be getting payed for this."
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"We have a good hour left until I have to go and pick Lana up, what should we do?" I asked her breaking the silence between us sitting at the island, literally doing NOTHING.
"we can run a practice date?" Adri suggested.
"yeah, that's a good idea, lemme' grab some gourmet food real quick" I stood up and walked into the kitchen. I peeled two banana's and cut them up before spreading the slices across two separate paper plates. I shuffled back to where Adri was and slapped her plate infront of her.
"Really?" Adri asked looking down at her plate.
"What? it's the new trend. It's all over restaurants in Paris, only cool people know about it. Which explains why you don't." I held my chin up dramatically, moving my head side to side with expression.
"Shawn - I swear to god I will grab a baseball bat and destroy everything you own." Adri threatened and I giggled slightly, she smiled.
"Okay, practice date, activated." Adri swiped her hand infront of her face.
"You look nice tonight Lana" I looked up from my plate and at adri, "why thank you shawn" she smiled pressing her left hand against her chest dramatically.
I couldn't help but laugh, at the voice, at her actions, at our conversation and where we were having it.
"Shawn! You can't laugh! Lana's mad now! She left! You broke up! LEVEL FAILED!" Adri shouted suddenly in a ridiculously low voice.
"God, I'm sorry, Adr.... Lana. This is just too funny" I broke down in short fits of laughter.
"Who's Adrilana? Are you cheating on me!? ARE YOU EATING CUT UP BANANA'S WITH ADRILANA?! IM NOT THE FIRST HIPPO TO THE WATERING HOLE AM I SHAWN?!" she yelled again in the same low voice that kept cracking.
I laughed alot harder now, hitting the table with my fist. "Have fun with Adrilana!" Adri yelled beginning to fake cry. She stood up and ran in slow motion to the door and slammed it shut but then came back 3 seconds later.
"Okay well that was a prime example of how the date is not supposed to go" Adri sat back down, straightening her shirt. She took a slice of banana off her plate and ate it.
We carried on with the Adrilana jokes for a while before we finished our gourmet banana's and then just sat down with an episode of Family Guy.
"7:56, I should get going." I sighed switching off my phone and standing to my feet.
"Oh, okay" Adri did the same and followed me down the stairs and to the front door.
I locked the door and began walking towards Adri's moms minivan but stopped when I saw Adri walking to the sidewalk.
"You know I could drive you home right?" I said jogging up to her.
"No, should probably burn that gourmet banana off" Adri shrugged sarcastically causing a goofy smile to grow on my face.
"Right." I nodded behind a small laugh.
"See you at school?" she told me goodbye bringing her hand up, i attached mine to hers in the way that guys do before a bro-hug. "See you at school."
Adri turned on her heel and walked away. I'm so glad to have her by my side, i love her sense of humor, her little hands, her personality, the way her eyes sparkle, her smile - in a friend way ofcourse, just a friend way.
