What Broke Us

Chapter 9

"Welcome." I grunted, letting the two into my apartment. I give Garrett a stare and he mouths, "I'll explain." I fake smile as Mollee, turns around, "Hi Taylor. I just want to let you know that I have to leave about five minutes before 10, so she'll only be home alone for about 10 minutes. Speaking of the beauty, here she comes!" She says. Charlotte runs in wearing her pajamas, "Mollee? MOLLEEE!!" She cheers, jumping into her arms. "Taylor said that Chrissie was coming. I didn't know you were!" Charlotte laughs as she takes Mollee into her room. "Contact info is on the fridge!" I shout before the door slams. "Okay, what the hell Garrett?" I angrily whisper.

"Chrissie has plans already!"

"So you invite Mollee?"

"Mollee's just a friend, Taylor."

"And how am I suppose to know you're 'just friends'?"

"Can we just talk about this in the car?"

"No, I'm not leaving until I get an answer."

"I can't prove to you that Mollee is just a friend, but I can prove to you that I really like you," he takes a breath and takes a step closer to me. He begins to lean in, "Garrett I can't kiss you," I say, taking a step back. "Sorry," he apologizes,"....can we, uh, go to the car, we have a movie to catch." He takes my hand and leads me out the door. "Elevator or stairs?"

"I live on the sixth floor."

He chuckles, "I knew that," as we walked into the elevator. "Oh right, because you stalk me!"

"Hey! I thought it was sweet, and well I wanted to surprise you."

"It was sweet, thank you. "

"The pleasure is mine Taylor Jane."

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When we arrived at the movie theater, the place was crowded. "So what are we watching?" I ask as he pulls out the tickets. "Well the tickets say 'The Conjuring.' Unless you don't like scary movies." I start laughing, "Wait, you're taking me to a scary movie? Oh my god that's a classic!"

"I mean the guy always gets the girl after a scary movie...usually."

"Tough luck buddy boy, I don't get scared."

"Heard this one's like the best horror film this year."

"Mmmm, we'll see."

As we waited in line for our food, someone recognized Garrett, and when other people realized who he was, there was a whole line to take pictures with him. I let him take the pictures with fans as I went to get the popcorn, candy, and drinks. "Shit." I whisper. I didn't have enough hands for all this, but I didn't want to Garrett to disappoint any fans. "I could really use the 'Cup-O-Stuff Megan invented from Drake and Josh right now." I sighed. I ended up asking the counter to watch half my stuff. When I finished transporting the food to our seats, Garrett was still talking with fans, but the line was even longer, would it be rude of me to tell him? What am I suppose to say? What if they all look at me? So I ended up just waiting in the corner. It wasn't long until he noticed me. I heard him announce, "Sorry guys, I have to catch my movie!"

"Took you a while,"

"Hope you don't mind, some girls wanted my autograph and stuff. But don't worry, nothing happened between us!"

"Funny." I lightly chuckled.

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"I really want to kiss you right now," he whispered as he grabbed a handful of popcorn out of my bucket. Taking a sip out of my soda, I laughed and continued watching the movie. To be honest, I got kind of bored, it's like I've seen this movie already. Then he carefully placed his arm around me and pulled me closer to him, my head fitting perfectly onto his shoulder. I guess the movie bored me to sleep because the next thing I heard was Garret's laugh. "Taylor, as much as I love your cute snore, you should probably wake up." I realized we were still in the movie theatre and I was drooling. I immediately popped my head up and wiped my mouth, taking a quick glance at his shoulder, 'ok he's drooless whew,' I thought as I stood up and took his offering hand. "Pretty scary movie, huh?" He laughed as we walked through the crowded movie theater holding hands.

"Oh yeah definitely. My favorite part was when that demon did that thing with it's face and stuff."

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When we arrived in front of my apartment, I saw Charlotte peeking through the crack of the door. I had a little facepalm moment and glanced away. I smiled as we just stood awkwardly outside of the apartment. "It was great seeing you again Taylor." He smiles, breaking the awkward silence. "It was a great nap, thank you Garrett for lending me your shoulder." I laughed as I walked to the apartment. "Anytime!" He shouts across the hall. "Wait Taylor!" He says as he's jogging towards me. He grabs me by the waist and pulls me closer to him. His breath was warm against my nose, our faces nearly touching each other's. "Tell your sister I say goodnight," he smiled. He let go of me and walks back to the elevator. I'm standing outside the door, blushing, when Charlotte throws the door open. "DID YOU GUYS JUST KISSSSSS?" She asks, jumping up and down. "No, but he says goodnight."

I was dating an actor from my sister's favorite movie and I'm head over heels for him.