I Was Here All Along. (Lisa Cimorelli)

A Picnic with Matt

Lisa's POV

I woke up to my phone vibrating from my bed side table. I looked around the room. Lauren and Dani were already gone. I grabbed it, unlocked it and checked what it was. It was a text from Ty.

T- Are we cool? I mean, cause a lot of stuff happened last night. I hope you aren't angry at me and that we're still friends.

I stared at the text and re-read it about 10 times feeling like I was about to cry after every time.

L- Ty, I'm sorry. You've always been a great guy and right now I've been a horrible friend to you. I'm sorry, I just have too much happening right now..

T- That's ok. I think we need a break from each other for a while. I'm a bit all over the place as well..

L- If you think so. Sorry Ty..

Well that was definetely a great start to the day, not! That was not exactly how I had imagined the conversation with Ty. I wanted to apologise and I wanted him to accept it and be friends. I wanted to hang out with him, do whatever and just talk. I wanted him to know I was sorry and I really meant it. I saw the hurt on his face last night. I wanted him to know that I truly didn't know how much he valued our time.

But that's where the problem was. I wanted too much. I could apologise all I wanted but only Ty could say whether he would accept or not. I couldn't do anything beyond apologise. There was nothing else I could do, I had already done all I could.

But he wanted a break.

He was getting what he wanted whilst I sat here empty and sorrowful. How could I have been so blind to ditch him? I knew we were only best friends but I made the date with him first! How could I have done that?

I was mentally beating myself up and putting myself down over my mistake. I sat there on my bed not wanting to get up. Not wanting to have to face the world. Not wanting to have to participate with life. I just wanted to sit there and cry.

So that's what I did. I cried and cried and cried and cried.

I just sat there and cried my heart out. The situation wasn't even that bad, I knew we were still friends, but I just couldn't believe I would do something like that.

Finally, after hearing my sisters in the other room wake up, I decided to get up and stop crying. Crying would get me nowhere. I would have to get into life and make it the best I could. I would have to fix everything I stuffed up.

But not today, no. Ty wanted a break. The least I could do would be to give him what he wants. I would leave him for a week or so until I sorted myself out and then I would go to him. I decided to still text him as I didn't want to become total strangers.

L- We'll hang out in a week or so! You'll always be my best friend regardless of what happens. (: xx

I felt a little more satisfied after that. But only a little.

After I got dressed I decided that I had to do something with my life. I couldn't just sit around wasting the day. So I got out my phone and decided to text Matt to see if he was doing anything.

It took a lot of courage to text him first. Usually he would text me and ask me to hang, but what could I do? I was desperate!

L- Hey Matt! Watcha up to? Wanna do something?

I had to read it over about a million times before I eventually mustered up the courage to press the send button. And to my surprise, I got an immediate response.

M- Yeah of course! I'm always up for hanging with my favourite girl! ;) haha I'll come pick you up and we'll have a picnic.

L- Yeah sure! When are you gonna come by?

M- I'll come in about half an hour, I've got some stuff to arrange first..

L- Yeah ok, I'll be waiting

I smiled. For some reason, Matt would always make me feel better now. I knew him quite well now and I knew that he was quite a different person from Ty. His personality was different and he was full of courage and bravery.

I had fallen for Matt even more (if that was even possible) since I had begun hanging out with him. I wondered if he liked me as well.

In about exactly half an hour as he said, Matt came by with a picnic basket in his hand and a rug in the other.

"Let's go!" He said cheerfully

"Ok, but where are we going even?" I asked him

"The park, duhh!" he said playfully as he grabbed my arm and started dragging me.

When we got to the park we found a spot to spread out the rug. There weren't many people out in the park today, just a couple of kids with their parents or older siblings.

 "Well this is nice." I said awkwardly trying to start a conversation.

"It is," he said as he starting unpacking the food from the basket, "Just you, me and a beautiful day."

He stopped and looked at me. "Let's take pictures!!" he said suddenly

Well this was different. I'd never met a guy who WANTED to take pictures. I normally had to beg Ty to take photos with me. Ty. Stop Lisa, just stop. Stop comparing everything Matt does to Ty. They're two different people!

I took my phone out and we started taking all these random photos with each other. We took a bunch of really good ones and a couple crazy wacky ones.

I looked through the photos and decided to tweet one.

Lisa Cimorelli @LisaCim
Picnic with this guy! @MattKorby pic.twitter.com/Cynuif423

I smiled as the tweet got favourited and retweeted almost instantly.

Matt got out his phone to check his twitter too. He had retweeted my tweet and had gained 236 followers in only 5 minutes. He would have WAYY more after a day.

"Whoa, getting famous much!" I joked to him

He smiled when he realised what I meant.

"Yeah I know! People will think I'm famous because of all the followers I have!" he replied

"You should be! You're a great singer!" I told him, "I watched your videos the other day. I showed my sister, she thinks you're great!"

"Oh yeah? Which sister?" he laughed

"Christina." I told him

"Yeah, greenish eyes, dark brown hair. Oldest one yeah? he asked

I smiled. It was pretty obvious this guy watched our videos. "Yup!"

I was so full after our picnic. Matt had brought so much food. I tried hard to be ladylike and un-rude. I didn't want him to think I was a pig. Around Ty, it was alright, but Matt... Matt was gorgeous. I had to try to impress him.

After our picnic, I went home feeling so stuffed.

"Good day?" Amy asked as I walked through the door

"Yeah, it was great!" I said back

"Oh yeah. How's Ty?" she asked

I stood there frozen.. "Um, I wasn't with Ty.. I was with Matt..." I told her quickly and walked away

Why did everything have to link back to Ty in some way? It frustrated me so much! The sooner me and Ty are friends again, the better. Then I could stop feeling guilty everytime I was reminded of him..

(A/N Hello random person reading my story.

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