stardust|completed

seventeen|if i would've listened

"regrets collect like old friends."
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2 years ago /summer/

"Is my tongue blue yet?" I opened my mouth and questioned the boy sitting next to me.

"It's been blue the last 3 times you've asked me," Jasper scoffed, his bright red tongue flickering as he spoke.

Each of us held popsicles from the never ending supply stocked in his freezer. My feet were bare and a pair of cut off jean shorts paired with a band tee adorned my body. Jasper had on a pair of basketball shorts and insisted that it was too hot for a shirt, so his chest was exposed and his nipple ring glinted in the sun.

"Why did you get that again?" I drawled gesturing to the sliver piece of jewelry in his nipple.

"Thought it'd make me look more badass, besides you know all the girls go crazy for the whole "bad boy" thing. I mean you can't stop looking at it." He wriggled his eyebrows and gave me a snide smile.

"Oh trust me I'm only looking at it because of how big of a tragedy it is. You know how people can never seem to unglue their eyes from the misfortune of others? That's what is happening here."

He rolled his eyes and held out his cherry popsicle towards me, "Time to switch."

I gave him the bottom half of my blue raspberry ice pop and we quickly finished them off.

"Purple?" Jasper mumbled out with an open mouth.

"Absolutely grape colored, mine?"

He nodded his head and fidgeted a little, "Hey Nyx I've got something sort of important to tell y—"

The appearance of my parent's forest green station wagon stopped his sentence and my perfect summer day.

"Tell me tomorrow," I hopped off his front porch and raced across the street.

"But Nyx, it can't wait until tomorrow!"

"It's going to have to!" I yelled from my house and before he could say anything else I shut the front door.

And maybe if Jasper would've told me what was going to happen tomorrow things could've been different.

If I would've just sat with him in the sun for a few more seconds or if my parents hadn't run that red light we would still be friends.

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A/N
I know this is honestly short as hell but I felt like I needed to end it here. also I plan on updating more frequent and longer chapters once school ends. anyway feel free to comment! have a rocking day. (p.s. rosegoldchild  is to thank for my new cover and KeepDreamin1108 gave me the motivation to upload this)
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