Taking It

2.8

2.8

The space next to me is empty, that isn't  a surprise to me. Taylor never stays long enough for the sun to peek above the horizon. While a part of me says that I am okay with this, deep down another part of me wants him to stay for longer.

However as my phone continues to ring against my nightstand I take note of how it wasn't even the beginning of dusk yet. Groaning I bury my face into my pillow.

Why is my alarm going off so early?

My body relaxes and I melt into my bed once my phone stops making noise. I nearly fall back to sleep before it starts to ring again, it somehow seems louder. It only takes me a second to realize that it wasn't my alarm going off but instead someone id calling me.

Groaning again I lean over and slide my phone off the nightstand. It falls to the carpet and I have to lean over the edge of my bed. Through my sleepy haze I can just barely read Calvin's name before I slide over the screen. I press the picture of a megaphone before my eyes fall close and I rest my head against my bed.

"Why are you calling me so early?" I grumble irritably. I'm not a happy camper when rudely awaken from my sleep, especially when it's so early.

"Because I can't wait until tomorrow." Calvin's velvety voice fills the air, sending a chill down my spine.

"For what?"

It takes me a minute to realize that he had responded to my question, sadly I had tuned him out─not completely on purpose─and I hadn't heard his reply.

"What?" My face scrunches distastefully as I lift my head up and try to at least look at my phone. It fails as my head falls back down at the sound of Calvin's chuckle.

"I want you to come to homecoming with me Char."

His words wake me right up, my eyes snapping open.

"T-to homecoming?" The last time I had been it ended awfully and I wasn't prepared to have a repeat. My nerves only settle when I realize that no one knows what I had done the night before my freshmen homecoming and there's no way this year would turn out the same.

"Yes, at first I wasn't going to ask you because I just assumed that we would be going together." He confesses and my heart sinks.

He wasn't going to ask me?

"What made you change your mind?"

"I just got done helping Austin set up to ask Cassidy and I figured I'd make sure you were down to go with me."

"Well no other guy is lining up to ask me to homecoming." I roll my eyes. "It's not like I was planning on going with anyone besides you anyway."

"Sweet." Silence. "I have to go, but I can pick you up tomorrow morning and we can go buy tickets?"

I nod my head, temporarily forgetting that he couldn't see me. "That works." I let out a yawn, covering my mouth only after the fact.

Calvin chuckles again. "Good night sleepy head."

"Night."

• ─ • ─ •

The scream that echoes through the halls the next morning is enough to make even Brooke jump, who was used to loud noises. If it wasn't for the fact I could see what was happening from my locker I would've thought someone was being murdered. However it was only Cassidy finally making it to her locker after being pulled around the school by Austin on some romantic scavenger hunt.

I had saw Cassidy's locker before her and my heart swooned at the collage of pictures that covered the front of it. Somehow, someway Austin had managed to print out every single photo they had taken together, which is a lot because Cassidy is a selfie queen, and spelled out the word homecoming down the door of her locker. I could only imagine that the rest of the scavenger hunt was actually asking her to go. If not the gesture was still cute and it made my heart melt.