Is it too Late?

Fourteen

Caspar

I abruptly woke up to the noise of the smoke alarms going off. Ugh, I was too tired to function for this.

'JOE!! TURN IT OFF!' I yelled, screwing my eyes shut.

The room soon became quiet but its no use now, i was awake. I slowly emerged from my duvet, wrapped my dressing gown around me and trudged up the stairs. I glanced over towards the kitchen where i saw clouds of smoke. Ughhhhh.

'What were you trying to do Joe? Set the house on fire?' I grumbled.

And funly enough Joe appeared through the cloud of smoke, where he was wafting a tea towel around to get rid of it.

'I was trying to make us pancakes..' He frowned.

'Why not just buy shop bought?' I asked, slouching onto the sofa still tired.

'They aren't as good as homemade!' He pouted.

I couldn't stay mad at him for long.. He was too cute. I wanted nothing more than to just kiss him in that moment. He made me weak.

'Ok ok, let me help you then' i said rolling my eyes and standing up.

'Let's face it Caspar, you aren't any better than I am at this cooking thing' he chuckled, sending chills down my spine.

'I can try!' I laughed.

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In the end we made burnt pancakes, but they still tasted too good. The lemon and sugar cancelled out the bland burnt spots.

I stood up to put my dishes in the sink, and left them for Joe to wash.

'Hey, you can wash them!' He exclaimed.

'I saved your fail of a breakfast, so no- you can wash them.' I smiled smugly.

'Ok ok, i guess that's fair..' He scowled, walking over towards the dirty dishes to clean.

I sat down on the stool where i watched him wash the dishes. I thought about how much i loved Joe, especially when it was just him and I. I feel like when he's with me he can be himself, he doesn't have to impress for me to fall deeply in love with him. Whereas when he was with Hailey he seemed to show off, like he had to try to impress her. And that's when i hated him. When he wasn't true to himself. But i loved him all to much to even care about that.

I didn't know whether I loved him enough to just forget about him and Hailey in moments like these, or whether i hated him enough to think about him and Hailey so i didn't fall harder in love with him.. I'm crazy about him and he doesn't know it.

Lost in the moment i forgot about the real world. I clicked in and heard a song playing.

'And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while. Cuz girl you're amazing..'

It was Joe's phone ringing.

'Pleeease don't pick it up' i thought to myself.

I just wanted to forget about the world for one day and imagine it being just me and Joe.. Is that too much to ask?

He went ahead and answered his phone, where i heard that one voice I didn't want to hear right now.

'Hi Joe! Do you want to go for a meal tonight?' Her voice echoed through the phone. It was Hailey.

I could slowly feel my heart already breaking.

'Hey babe! Sure, where to?' He replied smoothly.

He didn't even realize that he was slowly killing me...

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Hey! If you want to, whilst reading this, you can listen to the song that i added. It's 'crazy for you' an oldie from Adele! To be honest i forgot about this song. Oh, also credit to the owner who made the lyric video (:
I have major writers block atm but i think i have an idea how to end the story now, but I'm still open for suggestions!

All my love x